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Evidence Locker True Crime

169: Amish Stud, Eli Weaver | USA

Evidence Locker True Crime

Evidence Locker True Crime

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

When Eli Weaver left his wife and children for a life outside of their Amish community, he didn’t realise that his livelihood was at stake. Because the community shunned him, his fishing-goods store was struggling. He reconciled with his wife and weaseled his way back into the community. All the while, he was still meeting women from the outside world online. Then he convinced one of his lovers to help him to get rid of his wife.
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0:00.0

You are listening to The Abidance Locker.

0:09.2

Archesis have been researched using open source and archive materials.

0:12.9

It deals with true crimes in real people.

0:15.6

Some parts are graphic in nature and listener discretion is advised.

0:19.6

Each episode is produced with the utmost respect to the victims, their families, and loved

0:24.0

ones.

0:27.0

Love is two people promising to be there for each other, for better or for worse.

0:33.3

When a relationship develops into a lifelong bond, there was nearly nothing one partner

0:37.4

won't do for the other.

0:39.6

Eli Weaver was an Amish man, devoted to his culture and his wife, or so it seemed.

0:46.8

This shiver-sending story shares the tales of a love gone awry.

0:52.0

It happens when infidelity penetrates a community built so strongly on trust and monogamy.

0:57.8

This case spreads emotions of grief and jealousy, and most importantly, the disillusionment

1:03.6

of true love.

1:22.0

The Amish migrated as whole communities to the United States as early as the mid-1700s.

1:44.3

Their traditional Christians, with origins in Germany, who have continued to maintain

1:48.1

the same values, pretty much since their arrival.

1:51.7

The Amish are closely related to the Menonite Churches, who believe in similar principles

1:55.9

and ways of living.

1:57.9

The Amish strongly believe in plain living, including ordinary clothing, minimal distractions

2:02.3

during family time, slow incorporation of technology, and a core view of self-sufficiency.

2:08.4

What is not needed is not wanted, and they truly believe the key to a happy life is to

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