After dinner they have the church service. ibid.
Five years ago not far from here a man randomly walked into an Amish school house and shot ten little girls, before turning the gun on himself. ibid.
‘One of the biggest spiritual questions we deal with is – Am I going to Hell for leaving the Amish?’ ibid.
‘Having a tattoo or any kind of ink injected into your body is like a sign of the devil … that’s going to cut me off from my family completely.’ Amish: Out of Order VII: Living Fast
‘English stores are using the Amish name to sell their goods.’ Amish: Out of Order VIII: Amish in Public, Mose
Amish are abandoning their traditions and peddling to the tastes of English tourists. ibid.
‘When we left, we lost everything.’ ibid.
Pennsylvania 1984: First time to the big city: you’ll see so many things. Witness 1985 starring Harrison Ford & Kelly McGillis & Josef Sommer & Lukas Haas & Jan Rubes & Alexander Godunov & Danny Glover & Brent Jennings & Patti LuPone & Angus MacInnes et al, director Peter Weir, Amish bloke to boy
We want nothing to do with your laws. ibid. mother to Ford
Is the English dead? He looks dead. ibid. Eli
Ed Gingerich: The caller that had got them [rozzers] there said, He’s killing his wife up there. True Crime Recaps: 3 Terrifying Amish Murders, Youtube 37.28, 2021
The assistant fire chief will never forget what he saw when he pushed open the front door on March 18th 1993. Katie Gingerich was on the floor lying on her back. He clothes were stacked in a neat pile beside her body. It looked like she’d been gutted. ibid.
In 1994 he was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter by reason of mental illness and sentenced to only five years. ibid.
According to his friend and lawyer he was Amish to the end. ibid.
Eli Stutzman: The strange story of a nine-year-old boy abandoned in a ditch next to a cornfield in the tiny town of Chester, Nebraska, on Christmas Eve 1985. His frozen little boy was dressed only in thin blue sleeper pyjamas. He was partially covered in snow. Despite several autopsies, no-one could figure out how he might have lost his life, or who might have taken it. ibid.
Reader’s Digest ran the story of Little Boy Blue … Suddenly, he had a name: Danny Stutzman, the Amish son of Eli and Ida Stutzman from Dalton, Ohio. ibid.
Ida was 26 years old and 8 months pregnant in July 1977 when their barn mysteriously caught on fire in the middle of the night. Her body was found hours later.
Also wanted for questioning in Texas in connection with another body found there, that of 24-year-old Glenn Pritchard, his former roommate from Austin. ibid.
Eli Weaver & Barbara Raber: In early June of 2009 Eli’s wife, Barbara Weaver, was shot in the heart while she slept, but no-one in the house heard a thing. Eli had left at 3.30 a.m. to go fishing. True Crime Recaps: 3 Terrifying Amish Murders, Youtube 37.28, 2021
Eli and Barbara were married for ten years and they had five children. ibid.
His history with other women was not so much a secret as he thought. ibid.