Murder in Amish Ohio, A: The Martyrdom of Paul Coblentz

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 Goblentz was Amish. A committed pacifist, Cablentz 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 ...