In the summer of 1957, a young Holmes County farmer was gunned down in
cold blood. There was little to distinguish this slaying from hundreds
of others throughout the United States that year except for one detail:
Paul Coblentz was Amish. A committed pacifist, Coblentz would not raise
a hand against his killers. As sensational crimes often do, the "Amish
murder" opened a window into the private lives of the young man, his
family and his community--a community that in some respects remains as
enigmatic today as it was more than half a century ago. Authors of
Wicked Columbus, Ohio's Black Hand Syndicate and others, David Meyers
and Elise Meyers Walker unravel the intricacies surrounding one of
Ohio's most intriguing murder cases.