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Crimson Stain

On a cold, gray March evening near Mill Village, Pennsylvania, Edward Gingerich brutally murdered and mutilated his wife as their two children looked on in horror. It was an act of madness that would shock his small Amish community...and the nation.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 354 pages

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