Abandoned Prayers: The Incredible True Story of Murder, Obsession and Amish Secrets
On Christmas Eve in 1985, a hunter found a young boy's body along an icy corn field in Nebraska. The residents of Chester, Nebraska buried him as "Little Boy Blue," unclaimed and unidentified-- until a phone call from Ohio two years later led authorities to Eli Stutzman, the boy's father.Eli...
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On Christmas Eve in 1985, a hunter found a young boy's body along an icy corn field in Nebraska. The residents of Chester, Nebraska buried him as "Little Boy Blue," unclaimed and unidentified-- until a phone call from Ohio two years later led authorities to Eli Stutzman, the boy's father.Eli Stutzman, the son of an Amish bishop, was by all appearances a dedicated farmer and family man in the country's strictest religious sect. But behind his quiet façade was a man involved with pornography, sadomasochism, and drugs. After the suspicious death of his pregnant wife, Stutzman took his preschool-age son, Danny, and hit the road on a sexual odyssey ending with his conviction for murder. But the mystery of Eli Stutzman and the fate of his son didn't end on the barren Nebraska plains. It was just beginning. . . Gregg Olsen's Abandoned Prayers is an incredible true story of murder and Amish secrets.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780312982010 (0312982011)
Publish date: April 1st 2002
Publisher: St. Martin's True Crime
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
One of the more disturbing tales of murder that I've read about, it tells the story of Eli Stutzman and his son, Danny. Eli was a drifter, having once been married and a member of an Amish community in Ohio. Eli was quiet and soft-spoken but on the inside he was quite a different person. He could ex...