User Reviews

It was good to see Luke MacFarlane playing against type and doing a great job at it. He also did another film in a similar vein.

Eli Weaver is unhappy in his marriage to his wife Barb, and so is she. However, they can't get out of the marriage without being shunned. So, if Eli is a widower that makes it a lot easier to keep the life he's always known

Eli is played as very charismatic and charming as the real life Weaver must have been. With the help of a secret phone, he is able to run his store in the Amish community and play house with other women. One such woman is Barbara Raber who works as a taxi lady for the community.

Barbara Weaver knows he is being unfaithful and tries to find a way out with her religious community but they fail her too. She must submit to her terrible husband

Raber and Weaver are caught being intimate in his hunting store and later Eli convinces Raber to murder his wife while he's out fishing. She does so and later both are charged with Mrs. Weaver's murder. Weaver and Raber are sentenced 15 and 23 years to life respectively, and eligible for parole in 2024 and 2032.

The film is well done, and you get at sense of how life in this community is even if you haven't watched other docs on closed communities like this one. This one makes me feel like a fly on the wall.

Eli and Barbara Weaver were an Amish couple with 2 children. Unfortunately, Barbara, ends up getting murdered but it will be hard to find the killer when 2 detectives, Chuhi and Maxwell, run into roadblocks with the Amish, who settle their own problems without ANY interference from the English (i.e. Those who aren't Amish)! Barbara's sister, Fannie, who goes by Abigail, suspects Eli because of the stories Barbara confided in her after they were married but Eli was off fishing with his friend, Jeremiah, so he couldn't have done it. Did he have help? Barbara finds clues before her death that Eli was unfaithful to her. Could one of those women done it for him but why? This was a good plot with Luke Macfarlane and Kirsten Vangsness as the leads supported by a good Canadian cast! Definitely recommend.....

The guy from the Hallmark Christmas movies playing a real life Amish murderer? Just incredible!

Luke McFarlane plays Eli, the Amish Stud. And yes, it's a BOATS. Based on a true story. Because, frankly, you couldn't make this up.

And the best part? Penelope from Criminal Minds is the killer! Didn't Kristen make enough from CM? Or is she doing this just for fun? Enquiring minds want to know. No matter, she is absolutely incredible here.

And to see Luke butching it up with all the ladies here is so much fun.

Find this movie and watch it. This is an all time great Lifetime mivie. Just don't tell Hallmark that's he's moonlighting.