Here is the author's own true story, in riveting detail and with poignant sensitivity, about the senseless brutal murder of his children and former wife, Kim, by her estranged second husband, all Jehovah's Witnesses. Kostelniuk, himself a second-generation Witness, had been banned from visitation with his children for leaving their religion.
From the inside flap of the book jacket, we quote:
"Wolves Among Sheep is unlike any book you have read--or are likely to read again. It is written by the person most affected by the deathes of these two innocent children and their mother--their father and Kim's first husband, James Kostelniuk.
Compelled to write the book as an expression of sorrow and love for the family so cruelly taken from him, Kostelniuk also had a deep need to arrive at some understanding of why these senseless murders took place. This question led him to expose the influence of the Jehovah's Witness organization that wielded total control over Kim's life, as it had over himself until he found the resolve to break with the organization. In making that break, Kostelniuk knew he would be forever shunned by the Witness community and, according to its laws, forbidden contact whith his own wife and children.
The convicted killer, Jeff Anderson, was also a member of the Jehovah's Witnesses. In a bizarre turn of events, Anderson began to correspond with Kostelniuk from prison, and his correspondence provides a chilling look into the mind of a murderer who held back a terrible secret from the world.
The Canadian criminal justice system will offer Jeff Anderson the opportunity of a faint-hope hearing for early parole from his 25-year prison sentence. Where, James Kostelniuk asks, is the justice for Juri, Lindsay and Kim?
Wolves Among Sheep is a riveting read that explodes the darkest parts of the human heart and mind, and surprises us with the depth of its love and compassion."
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Wolves among Sheep
by James Kostelniuk