How One Photograph Unraveled the Disappearance of an Entire Amish Family

end after dead end,” Lawson says, shaking his head at the memory. “Every lead went nowhere. Every theory collapsed under scrutiny.”

Theories abounded in the wider community:

The religious persecution theory: Some speculated that the family had been targeted by outsiders with anti-Amish bias. Holmes County had experienced occasional tensions between Amish continue reading …