Former Amishman Eli Stutzman‘s death has been ruled a suicide.
The father of Little Boy Blue, suspected in three other deaths in addition to that of his son, killed himself in a Fort Worth, Texas apartment last week.
Gregg Olsen, who chronicled the case in Abandoned Prayers, says the story might not be over.
“I think it would be a pretty big thing to take to your grave, don’t you think?”, said the author.
A link to a haunting letter from a friend of Stutzman’s at crimerant.com.
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