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A man who calls himself Amish Stud plots with his mistress to murder his wife, to the horror of his conservative Amish community.

While he's out fishing with his Mennonite friend Jeremiah Peters on the morning of 2 June, Amish Eli Weaver receives a message via a call to Jeremiah's cell phone that Eli's wife, 29-year-old Barbara Weaver, has been found shot dead in their bed. While the Amish elders want to deal with the issue solely within their community, the Wayne County Sheriff's Department is forced to investigate in the murder having taken place in their jurisdiction, the two investigators being Detectives Bruce London and Mike Maxwell. What is subsequently shown is the current investigation interspersed with flashbacks of Eli and Barbara's life, which Eli admits to the investigators was not always perfect. Those flashbacks show that prior to their marriage, Barbara wanted to marry for romantic love, which is not the Amish way. Eli seemingly wanted the same; he was the black sheep of his family in not always adhering to Amish strictures. London and Maxwell have their theories of who the murderer is; they suspect Eli, who isn't reacting like a typical grieving husband and father, but they know they'll have problems finding evidence because the Amish Eli will have no digital footprint; and the community's sole telephone is a public one for emergencies, usable by anyone. They hope that the unofficial traditional Amish communication network, rampant gossip, will provide some clues. They find that some talk emerges in the form of a collection of women not in the community who were a part of Eli's secret life as the Amish Stud.—Huggo

The Amish Stud (Luke Macfarlane) fishes is his normie buddy, Jeremiah, who has a cell phone and wears fashionable clothes. Jeremiah gets a phone call because Eli, the Amish stud's wife, is dead!

Detectives investigate the murder and plan to work with the Bishop, who only worries about God's Jurisdiction. The Amish are not welcoming to the officers except to Barbara's sister, Abigail.

Flash to 1999, where a teen Barbara prepares for the Rumspringa with her sister Abigail, where they see what the outside world is like before committing fully to the Amish lifestyle. Eli encourages the teens to break the rules. He flirts with Barbara while talking about pie as a double entendre! They begin a courtship, much to the dismay of sister Abigail. Eli is breaking the Amish rules from the get-go when he takes a picture of her, and she threatens to break his camera.

In modern times, the detectives question Eli since he is Barbara's husband. He conveniently owns the gun shop, and Barbara was shot in the chest. The detectives don't rule Eli out as a suspect, but they will have to rely on town gossip without evidence. Abigail tells them about a woman Eli was having an affair with, Barb Raber. The detectives find more women that Eli had affairs with. Laura Kelley tells them that he was the love of her life. She moved in with him after a bar hookup and he lived with her for two months. She broke up with him after seeing his dating app... with the name AMISH STUD

Eli continues to date multiple women online, but he has to return to his Amish family without a place to live and any money. He tries to live the family life but has snuck in one of those slidey uppy phones. He thinks he is sneaky, but Barbara is onto him, and when she asks for help, the Bishop tells her to "Be a better wife so he can be a better man."

Barb shows up at Barbara's funeral, and the women of the town are shocked she would show her face. It is an open secret that Eli and Barb are having an affair. Detectives go to question her next. Barb is married to a man named Eddie. Barb is cagey and claims to just drive Eli around. She deflects them to a woman named Tamara Jones.

Tamara encourages Eli to divorce his wife and won't sleep with him until he does. He helps cover her bills and spends time with her as friends. He is in love with her and wants what he can't have. Eli uses Barb to do favors for him in exchange for sex. Barb doesn't feel worthy of being with a stud like Eli and willingly helps him keep in contact with Tamara with a secret phone.

Eli spends more and more time with Tamara and even asks her to kill his wife so he can be with her. Tamara thinks he is joking. Next, he works on Barb after Barbara catches them while they do it in the gun shop. Barb is more than willing to do whatever she has to to continue to be with The Amish Stud, including murder. They research on an old desk top computer for ways to kill somebody, FAST. They plan to poison Barbara, and Barb is excited to let their love out into the open.

Abigail finds a diary that Barbara kept that includes all the indiscretions and sins Eli did against her. It is the evidence they need to produce a timeline. Then they talk to Jeremiah, who tells them that Eli was texting with someone during the fishing trip on Barb's secret phone account. The detectives search her phone records and arrest Barb. Eli is also arrested.

Back in the pre-murder times, Barbara threatens to take her journal to the Bishop and expose Eli for the trash that he REALLY is, which only ups the urgency of the murder. Eli calls Barb and tells her to kill his wife by whatever means. Eli even suggests Blowing up the house with kids inside. His reasoning is they will go to heaven, so that it will be fine.

Barb calls her husband and asks him to lie and be her alibi. He doesn't help her because he feels deeply betrayed. Barb is brought in for questioning, and the text evidence against her is damming. The internet searches don't help, either. She cracks under the pressure and admits to shooing Barbara Weaver.

In court, Eli testifies against Barb and she is horrified. Eli pleas to conspiring to his wife's murder, but claims that he seduced Barb into doing anything for him because she was in love with him. When asked why he didn't get a divorce, he says that murder seemed easier.

Abigail also testifies that she feels Eli killed Barbara long before she was shot. He beat her down and degraded her spirit. The jury finds Barb guilty of aggravated murder. Eli gets 15 years jail time, but continues to flirt with with ladies working in the prison to get what he wants. He is up for parole in 2024. (thanks to lifetimeuncorked)