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Netflix's Murder Among the Mormons explores a rash of bombings in Salt Lake City.

Shannon Flynn was originally a suspect for the bombings perpetrated by his friend and associate Mark Hofmann, as depicted in Murder Among The Mormons.

Welp, Murder Among the Mormons has arrived on Netflix right in time for your midweek spiral, so let’s settle in. The three-part documentary is about bombings in 1985 that—as Netflix put it—“shocked the Salt Lake City Mormon community and threatened the historical foundations of the church altogether.” The bombings killed two people and severely injured Mark Hofmann, “a renowned collector of rare documents, including the infamous White Salamander Letter—an artifact whose contents ...

. Shortly after 8 a.m. on October 15, 1985, a package sent to rare Mormon document collector and stockbroker Steve Christensen exploded at his workplace in Salt Lake City. Christensen, 31, was killed instantly, and as the news spread, Utah’s Latter-day Saints community was shocked and fearful about the unprecedented and inexplicable act of violence. Only three hours later a second bomb exploded and killed 50-year-old Kathy Sheets, the wife of Christensen’s former employer, at her home. The...

Fooling people at a young age with card tricks and magic laid the groundwork for one of Utah’s most infamous criminals to take on a life of forgeries and murder in Salt Lake City. "Murder Among the Mormons," a three-part series about Mark Hofmann, airs on Netflix starting March 3.

The docuseries chronicles a series of bombings in Salt Lake City in 1985.

The Bomber and Master Forger Who Tried to Destroy the Mormon Church Nick Schager There’s no weirder twist in Murder Among the Mormons than the initial disclosure that this Netflix true crime series (premiering March 3) is co-directed by Jared Hess, the idiosyncratic filmmaker behind Napoleon Dynamite, Nacho Libre, and Gentleman Broncos. That Hess is a Mormon goes some way toward explaining this unlikely marriage of artist and material, which he helms with Tyler Measom. Yet...

“Murder Among the Mormons” plays out, for the most part, like a straightforward whodunnit, The Salt Lake Tribune's Scott D. Pierce writes.

Deseret News Share this story Ravell Call, Deseret News . Sign up to receive the newsletter in your inbox weekly. Netflix is about to release a new, three-part true crime documentary about the 1985 Mark Hofmann forgeries and murders provocatively titled “Murder Among the Mormons.” The series about the chaos created in Salt Lake City by Hofmann’s fake documents and packaged bombs will begin streaming March 3, according to The Hollywood Reporter. A master forger, Hofmann is serving a life s...