A Killing in Amish Country: Sex, Betrayal, and a Cold-blooded Murder Audiobook By Gregg Olsen, Rebecca Morris, Linda Castillo - foreward cover art

A Killing in Amish Country: Sex, Betrayal, and a Cold-blooded Murder

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A Killing in Amish Country: Sex, Betrayal, and a Cold-blooded Murder

By: Gregg Olsen, Rebecca Morris, Linda Castillo - foreward
Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
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Thirty-year-old Barbara Weaver was content to live as the Amish have for centuries - without modern convenience - but her husband, Eli, wanted a life beyond horses and buggies. Soon he gave in to the temptation of technology and found ways to go Online and meet women. When Barbara was found dead, shot in the chest at close range, all eyes were on Eli... and his mistress, a conservative Mennonite named Barb Raber.

Barb drove Eli to appointments in her car. She gave him everything he asked for: a laptop, rides to his favorite fishing and hunting spots, and sex. Above all, she gave him the cell phone he would use to plan a murder. The Weaver case marked only the third time an Amish man was suspected of killing his wife in more than 200 years in America. But the investigation raised almost as many questions as it answered: Was Barb Raber the one who fired the fatal shot? Or was Barbara Weaver dead before someone entered the house? What did Eli's friends, family, and church really know about him? And will life among the "Plain People" ever be the same?

©2016 Gregg Olsen and Rebecca Morris (P)2018 Tantor Audio Crime Murder True Crime Marriage Amish Amish True Crime
Compelling Story • Intriguing Mystery • Excellent Narrator • Detailed Amish Insights • Gripping Suspense
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A very mundane telling of a murder, and what you know from the beginning is all you know at the end.

You Know the End from the Beginning

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Tedious. Needs editing. TMI. It stoned on and on and on. Couldn’t finish listening to it

Boring

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Although the narrator has a lovely voice, I felt that it was a poor choice for a true crime story

Soft narration

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Very interesting look at a crime in an Amish community. Good read if you enjoy true crime or are interested in the Amish communities.

Fantastic true crime

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It was a decent book, parts were drug out much longer than necessary, but it gives you a great understanding of the Amish Community. I would recommend if you are curios and love true crime.

It was ok

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this is a good book because of the given insights to the Amish community. it really helped to make this account interesting. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in such accounts.

insights to Amish community

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I liked the way the facts were presented. it did not try to sway me in any direction but provided the facts and let me draw my own conclusions.

facts

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It’s a sad story. The writing is just meh. I kinda felt like I was listening to a middle school kid project. You know when you had to write a 2 page paper and you don’t have enough info so you repeat yourself and fluff it up. Like I don’t need a whole rundown of Rubbermaids business model, that’s not why we are here.
This is my second Gregg Olsen book and they were both written exactly the same way. I’ll be steering clear of this author, others do nonfiction better.

Unnecessarily Long

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In a very unusually closed community it is amazing how these authors are able to gather such intimate details.
great job!

Gregg Olsen and co -author Morris are amazing.

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I learned more about the history and beliefs of the Amish. Sadly, nothing in the culture prevents sexual sadists and narcissistic psychopaths from walking among them, but like too many religions, there is plenty to protect pedophiles and domestic abusers from accountability. Well written and told, but the cut and dried story from news media left out a fair number of questions.

Way more interesting than I expected

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