How One Photograph Unraveled the Disappearance of an Entire Amish Family

worked at a quilt shop, lived alone, and attended church regularly under the name Rebecca Stoltzfus.

When Martinez knocked on her door and gently explained that she knew Ruth’s true identity, Ruth’s response was immediate: she broke down crying.

“She’d been carrying this secret for over twenty years,” Martinez says. “She’d fled her home, lived under continue reading …