Wolves Among Sheep Summary

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I was drawn to the book “Wolves among Sheep: The True Story of Murder in a Jehovah's Witness Community” because growing up my family attended a church that was extremely strict. In some ways, it had a very negative impact on our lives. Having the general knowledge of how strict Jehovah’s Witness groups are, I was curious about the role it played in this story. Through James Kostelniuk’s relaying of the tragic events surrounding the murders of his ex-wife, and their two children, learned what he had to go through in order to come to terms with what had happened to him and the impact the Jehovah’s Witnesses had on his life. In the first part of the book, Kostelniuk gives us a glimpse of his childhood and the events that led up to his first marriage to Kim Evans. At a young age, Kostelniuk became very intrigued with the concept of God. By the time he had reached twelve he had read through his entire bible and as he got older he started attending a local United Church. However, by the time he reached high school, his parents made the decision to return to the Jehovah’s Witness group and he followed them fearing that if he did not, his parents would eventually abandon him. When Kostelniuk was…show more content…
Although things were going well he missed his children terribly and tried to convince Kim to let them see him whenever possible. He succeeded a few times but as the children reached seven and ten their mother used the excuse that they were committed to Jehovah and did not want to see their father because they wanted to live by Jehovah. In reality, we learn that Kim was really trying to hide her situation in fear that if James learned all the troubles surrounding Jeff Anderson then he would take the children away. On August 29th, 1985, James received a visit from a local RCMP officer informing him that Jeff Anderson had murdered Kim and the two children with a

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