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Abandoned Prayers: The Shocking True Story of Obsession, Murder, and 'Little Boy Blue'
Abandoned Prayers The Shocking True Story of Obsession Murder and 'Little Boy Blue'
Author: 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 app...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780312982010
ISBN-10: 0312982011
Publication Date: 4/1/2002
Pages: 416
Rating:
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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3.5 stars, based on 72 ratings
Publisher: St. Martin's True Crime
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 1
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reviewed Abandoned Prayers: The Shocking True Story of Obsession, Murder, and 'Little Boy Blue' on + 11 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 4
Graphic sexual content.
reviewed Abandoned Prayers: The Shocking True Story of Obsession, Murder, and 'Little Boy Blue' on + 7 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 4
I read this book many years ago loved it then. Reread it when I read of Eli Stutzman's suspicous suicide death recently in Florida. A very good read. Be sure you have time to devote to it as there are many charactors involved.
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Helpful Score: 4
There were a lot of different people put in to this book that made it hard to follow along all the time. It was mesmorizing however, I couldn't stop thinking about the book even when I wasn't reading it. Not as good as Ann Rule books, but a good true crime story.
reviewed Abandoned Prayers: The Shocking True Story of Obsession, Murder, and 'Little Boy Blue' on + 32 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
an incredible true store of murder, obsession, and Amish secrets
RoyalCatwoman avatar reviewed Abandoned Prayers: The Shocking True Story of Obsession, Murder, and 'Little Boy Blue' on + 278 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
The author, Gregg Olsen delivers with this one! Well written, researched and crafted, Olsen weaves a tale that will pull the reader into a world (thank God) most of us will never see. I don't want to give away any surprises but I will say that in the end I began to wonder if its possible that some people are born without a soul much less a conscience. Go ahead, buy it and read it, I highly recommend it, but be prepared this Amish tale aint about quilts and growing corn.
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reviewed Abandoned Prayers: The Shocking True Story of Obsession, Murder, and 'Little Boy Blue' on + 16 more book reviews
Really enjoyed it! Easy read. The story of life of a little boy and his perverted father, of who killed him and left him on the side of the road to die.
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I was really engrossed with the book. I read it 2 days.
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Very graphic, would recommend for any true crime lover.
progressiveedna avatar reviewed Abandoned Prayers: The Shocking True Story of Obsession, Murder, and 'Little Boy Blue' on + 2 more book reviews
This is a very sad story, but one I would recommend to anyone who has thought about child abuse and what could have been done to revent it.


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