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Richard Turley was brought in to supervise the Church History Department in 1986. At the time, the Church was heavily involved in the investigation of a forger by the name of Mark Hofmann. Turley had graduated from Brigham Young University’s J. Reuben Clark Law School and his legal training proved to be effective in guiding the department through that period of the Church’s history.  In 1992, Turley wrote a book, Victims: The LDS Church and the Mark Hofmann Case, and he was recently inter...

What happened to Mark Hofmann, subject of Netflix documentary Murder Among the Mormons. What did he do and where is the document dealer now?

October 15, 1985 was one of those idyllic Salt Lake City fall days: deep blue skies, trees covered in red and gold leaves. And then, two pipe bombs

Screenshot: Law & Order: Criminal Intent If you’ve already made your way through Netflix’s latest true-crime series, Murder Among The Mormons, then you’ve also probably been doing some internet sleuthing about Mark Hofmann, the murderous master forger at the center of Jared Hess and Tyler Measom’s documentary. Hofmann refused to be interviewed for the production, but there’s a lot of information readily available about the 36-year-old case that goes beyond the scope of the series. He...

If you saw this twist coming, you’ve officially watched too many true-crime shows.

The ‘unfathomable’ scandal behind Netflix’s Murder Among the Mormons Car bombings, necromancy and fraud – a new true crime series sheds new light on a case that almost blew up the secretive religion Hofmann pictured after his arrest in 1985 Credit: third hour  “Welcome to Salt Lake City,” runs an old airline pilot joke. “Remember to set your watches back 10 years.”  It’s a tired gag. But it neatly captures the air of fusty eccentricity that most people – if they think abou...

comments Netflixs "Murder Among the Mormons" co-directors Jared Hess and Tyler Measom were both young — six and 14, respectively — when a series of Salt Lake City bombings killed several high-profile members of the Mormon church in 1985. The murders drew national attention to the church, which, after a century of being viewed as a sort of "outsider religion" plagued by 19th-century extermination orders and persecution campaigns, had become and remains one of the fastest-growing denomination...

fame) and Tyler Measom ( An Honest Liar) detail—one replete with greed and different flavors of deception—could easily fill another handful of installments. (This being the era of competing docuseries on the same compelling subject, though, means we could very well see another streamer or network’s exploration of the same unsettling, sometimes impenetrable, events that gripped Salt Lake City, Utah in the mid-1980s.) Advertisement If the name Mark Hofmann or the term “the Salamander lett...

Netflix In the mid-1980s, as investigators were scrambling to make sense of the string of explosive packages being delivered across the U.S. by the Unabomber, a series of package bombs detonated in Salt Lake City, killing two and injuring two more. The crimes werent the work of Ted Kaczynski, but one of the injured bomb victims, Mark Hofmann. Hofmanns scandalous story is the subject of new Netflix docuseries Murder Among the Mormons, which devotes its three episodes to exploring Hofmanns traj...

Murder Among the Mormons details the Salt Lake City pipe bombing in 1985, which killed two people, Steven Christensen and Kathleen Sheets, and injured another—victim-turned-suspect Mark Hofmann. He was convicted of murder for building and setting off the two bombs that killed the two innocent victims, as well as multiple counts of fraud. But why did Hofmann set off those bombs in the first place? It all has to do with a set of mysterious documents called the McLellin Collection. Okay, so......