
Abandoned Prayers
An Incredible True Story of Murder, Obsession, and Amish Secrets (St. Martin's True Crime Library)
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Narrated by:
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Kevin Pierce
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By:
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Gregg Olsen
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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it's a shame
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Gratuitous
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Had High Hopes
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Very good
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Without any spoilers, an important element of the story is the main character’s deceptive nature including deception about his sexual orientation. To some extent, the attitudes of the day were different. That is something that could be expected. Still, I didn’t like the depiction of the gay characters. I have found those characters to be portrayed as flat, one dimensional people. The sexual detail and tone didn’t serve the story. There is no doubt the main character was deviant but it wasn’t because of his same sex interests or insatiable appetite for casual sex. Rather than revealing much about the murderer I found the authors approach to gay characters reductive, disrespectful, stereotypical, and disappointing.
Disappointed
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too many Omish (Long names) .
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If you like true crime, I would add this book to your list.
Sad because I was expecting a different ending.
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PHENOMENALLY WRITTEN AMAZINGLY NARRATED
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Not His finest work
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Besides that (or including it) it’s very well done.
Really interesting and well told
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