The Amish wife : unraveling the lies, secrets, and conspiracy that let a killer go free /
Olsen, Gregg
The Amish wife : unraveling the lies, secrets, and conspiracy that let a killer go free / Gregg Olsen. - First edition. - 377 pages ; 23 cm
"In 1977, in an Ohio Amish community, pregnant wife and mother Ida Stutzman perished during a barn fire. The coroner's report: natural causes. Ida's husband, Eli, was never considered a suspect. But when he eventually rejected the faith and took his son, Danny, with him, murder followed. What really happened to Ida? The dubious circumstances of the tragic blaze were willfully ignored and Eli's shifting narratives disregarded. Could Eli's subsequent cross-country journey of death-including that of his own son-have been prevented if just one person came forward with what they knew about the real Eli Stutzman? The questions haunted Gregg Olsen and Ida's brother Daniel Gingerich for decades. At Daniel's urging, Olsen now returns to Amish Country and to Eli's crimes first exposed in Olsen's Abandoned Prayers, one of which has remained a mystery until now. With the help of aging witnesses and shocking long-buried letters, Olsen finally uncovers the disturbing truth-about Ida's murder and the conspiracy of silence and secrets that kept it hidden for forty-five years"--
9781662514180 1662514182 9781542016506 1542016509
bl2023178197
Stutzman, Eli E., 1950-2007
Stutzman, Ida--Death.
Murder--United States--Case studies
Amish
True crime stories
Case studies
HV6529 / .O58 2024
364.152/30973
The Amish wife : unraveling the lies, secrets, and conspiracy that let a killer go free / Gregg Olsen. - First edition. - 377 pages ; 23 cm
"In 1977, in an Ohio Amish community, pregnant wife and mother Ida Stutzman perished during a barn fire. The coroner's report: natural causes. Ida's husband, Eli, was never considered a suspect. But when he eventually rejected the faith and took his son, Danny, with him, murder followed. What really happened to Ida? The dubious circumstances of the tragic blaze were willfully ignored and Eli's shifting narratives disregarded. Could Eli's subsequent cross-country journey of death-including that of his own son-have been prevented if just one person came forward with what they knew about the real Eli Stutzman? The questions haunted Gregg Olsen and Ida's brother Daniel Gingerich for decades. At Daniel's urging, Olsen now returns to Amish Country and to Eli's crimes first exposed in Olsen's Abandoned Prayers, one of which has remained a mystery until now. With the help of aging witnesses and shocking long-buried letters, Olsen finally uncovers the disturbing truth-about Ida's murder and the conspiracy of silence and secrets that kept it hidden for forty-five years"--
9781662514180 1662514182 9781542016506 1542016509
bl2023178197
Stutzman, Eli E., 1950-2007
Stutzman, Ida--Death.
Murder--United States--Case studies
Amish
True crime stories
Case studies
HV6529 / .O58 2024
364.152/30973