It was a normal morning in Apocryco, Ohio.

In an Amish household, six small children stirred as the sun shone through the window.

Then a shriek rang out from the master bedroom.

The god, Barbara Weaver lay under the sheets, blood soaking through her white comforter.

Hi, my name is Charlie Spicer and welcome to Case Closed, the show where the bad guy doesn't get away with it, from Macmillan podcast.

We're back today with our newest season. It's about the murder of Barbara Weaver, an Amish woman who was shot while she slept in her own bed.

This season we're going to do things a bit differently. I'm going to have a co-host, Christy Westgard, my producer.

She'll help take us through the story and dive into the nitty gritty details.

Thanks, Charlie. I'm really happy to be here for what's going to be a truly wild season.

We'll also have a lot of input from author Greg Olson, who co-wrote a killing an Amish country about this case with Rebecca Morris.

I've been writing True Crime since 1990 by very first book, which was called Abandoned Prayers.

And this book, a killing an Amish country, both feature terrible things that happened in the Amish community.

We wanted to do this case because it takes place in a community that's often misunderstood in pop culture.

In our tech-centric world, the Amish can be the exception. And because of that, their community has a special hold on our imaginations.

But we also wanted to do this case because it's a human story. It's a story about what betrayal can do to a person, a family, and a community.

I think that when you look at the Amish community and you see how beautiful it appears to us, we look at the quilts that are hanging on the line.

We look at the little farms that our needs could be. And of course, the horse and buggy that kind of calls back to a simpler time for sure.

But it's going on right now. And the appeal to me has always been what evil lurks behind the pretty.

One important housekeeping note is that this story involves a lot of people who were small children at the time of the murder.

We're going to use the same pseudonyms for them that Greg uses in his book out of respect for their privacy.

Now let's get back to the story. Christy, can you set the scene for us? Bring us back to the day of the murder.

Sure, so we're in Apple Creek, Ohio, and Wayne County. And the unique thing about Wayne County is that it and the county right next to it called Holmes County together housed the most Amish people in the world.

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