Abandoned Prayers: The Shocking True Story of Obsession, Murder and
1 journaler for this copy...
"On a cold Christmas Eve in 1985, a Nebraskan hunter discovered a 9-year-old boy's frozen corpse, clad in blue pajamas, in a dark, wooded area. Local investigators concluded that the boy had been left to die, and once the body proved unidentifiable, it was buried by the local Methodist Church.
Two years later the story of unknown "Little Boy Blue" was printed in a national magazine and an Ohio couple asked themselves if this might be the child for whome they used to babysit. This tip lead the police right to the boy's father...Eli Stutzman.
Born and raised in a strict Amish community, Stutzman was always seeking the excitement of the "outside" world. And after the highly suspicious death of his pregnant young wife in a fire, Stutzman took the opportunity to sever his ties with the Amish forever. Taking their first son, Danny, with him, he embarked on a cross-country spree of compulsive male pickups, violent orgies, drug abuse...and untold murders."
Two years later the story of unknown "Little Boy Blue" was printed in a national magazine and an Ohio couple asked themselves if this might be the child for whome they used to babysit. This tip lead the police right to the boy's father...Eli Stutzman.
Born and raised in a strict Amish community, Stutzman was always seeking the excitement of the "outside" world. And after the highly suspicious death of his pregnant young wife in a fire, Stutzman took the opportunity to sever his ties with the Amish forever. Taking their first son, Danny, with him, he embarked on a cross-country spree of compulsive male pickups, violent orgies, drug abuse...and untold murders."
Interesting true-crime read...
This book was given away as part of my book give away during my garage sale on 5/14/05.