Abandoned prayers : an incredible true story of murder, obsession, and Amish secrets
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"On Christmas Eve, 1985, a hunter found a young boy's body along an icy cornfield 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. 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 facade was a man involved with pornography, sadomasochism, and drugs. After the suspicious death of his pregnant wife, Stutsman took his preschool-age son, Danny, 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. The story was just beginning..."--Page [4] of cover.