Bradley Whitford has joined the cast of "An American Crime," a gritty true-crime drama being directed by Tommy O'Haver reports RTE Interactive.

The film, written by O'Haver and Irene Turner, tells the story of Sylvia Likens, a 16-year-old who died in 1965 while under the care of a woman named Gertrude Baniszewski.

Whitford plays the prosecuting attorney in the trial of Baniszewski v. the state of Indiana.