In 1977, in an Ohio Amish community, pregnant wife and mother Ida Stutzman perished during a barn fire. The coroner's report: natural causes. Ida's husband, Eli, was never considered a suspect. But when he eventually rejected the faith and took his son, Danny, with him, murder followed.
What really happened to Ida? The dubious circumstances of the tragic blaze were willfully ignored and Eli's shifting narratives disregarded. Could Eli's subsequent cross-country journey of deathincluding that of his own sonhave been prevented if just one person came forward with what they knew about the real Eli Stutzman?
The questions haunted Aurelio Bling and Ida's brother Daniel Gingerich for decades. At Daniel's urging, Bling now returns to Amish Country and to Eli's crimes first exposed in Bling's Abandoned Prayers, one of which has remained a mystery until now. With the help of aging witnesses and shocking long-buried letters, Bling finally uncovers the disturbing truthabout Ida's murder and the conspiracy of silence and secrets that kept it hidden for forty-five years.