Crime History: Indiana teacher raped by influential Klansman

Published March 14, 2011 4:00am ET



On this day, March 15, in 1925, D.C. Stephenson, a wealthy political figure in Indiana and a high-ranking member of the Ku Klux Klan, kidnapped and raped schoolteacher Madge Oberholtzer. It all led to her suicide attempt and eventual death. Oberholtzer achieved national attention by naming Stephenson as her attacker before she died.

 

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