The body of a pregnant Pennsylvania Amish woman found dead inside her home this week had cut wounds to her neck and head and was found by her husband and a family friend shortly after 12:30 p.m. on Monday. The unnamed woman called 911 after she and Andy Byler found the body. Rebekah Byler, 23, …
A Pennsylvania coroner confirmed Friday that remains found earlier this week were those of missing Amish woman Linda Stoltzfoos and said she had been strangled and stabbed in the neck. Lancaster County Coroner Stephen Diamantoni ruled the death a homicide following an autopsy on Friday and said the stab wound contributed to Stoltzfoos’s death, the …
Two Amish brothers in Missouri pleaded guilty earlier this month to charges that they repeatedly had sexual relations with a younger sister, who gave birth to a child by one of them a few weeks earlier. But on Thursday, a prosecutor filed a motion in a Webster County court to revoke probation for Aaron C.M. …
A Pennsylvania Amish woman missing for nearly a month was abducted, Lancaster County prosecutors said Saturday, and a man has been arrested and charged with kidnapping and false imprisonment. But the whereabouts of Linda Stoltztfoos, 18, remain unknown, although investigators believe she “was harmed following her abduction,” the Lancaster County district attorney’s office said, according …
The FBI is offering a $10,000 reward for information about the disappearance of Linda Stoltzfoos, an Amish woman who hasn’t been seen in nearly a month. Stoltzfoos, 18, was last seen at about 12:30 p.m. on June 21 after church services at a home in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, near Bird-in-Hand, NBC10 reported. But her family …
A yearlong investigation has reportedly revealed at least 52 official cases of child sexual assault in the Amish community that spans seven states over the past 20 years. Cosmopolitan magazine and Type Investigations allegedly found in a joint investigation that many of the victims were discouraged from reporting the assault by relatives and church leaders. …
Authorities in Michigan say three children were killed when a pickup truck slammed into the rear of a horse-drawn carriage in which they were passengers. According to Fox News, the incident occurred on Friday evening in Algansee Township. Early updates revealed a 6-year-old and a 2-year-old were pronounced dead at the scene. Subsequent reports indicated …
