Columbus Metropolitan Library and our Local History & Genealogy division are hosting this free virtual event.

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Join us as authors David Meyers and Elise Meyers Walker discuss their new book, Murder in Amish Ohio.

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 Coblentz was Amish. A committed pacifist, Coblentz 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 enigmatic today as it was more than half a century ago.

A Murder in Amish Ohio