Abandoned Prayers: An Incredible True Story of Murder, Obsession, and Amish Secrets - Gregg Olsen

Written by Gregg Olsen
Read by Kevin Pierce
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
Publisher: 2021 Gregg Olen

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.

A major criticism goodreads readers had with this book was…” the lengthy exploration of Eli Stutzman’s sexual exploits–names, places, preferred sexual acts and positions–becomes tedious after the first dozen or so.”

“There is a sense of promise unfulfilled in the book. Was Danny murdered? Was he critically ill? Did he die of suffocation? Did he die from carbon monoxide poisoning? Was he sexually abused? And there are questions about Eli’s wife that also remain unanswered.”

There is an upload about Eli’s wife (The Amish Wife Unraveling the lies…)