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If you have to watch one Hulu show this May, stream this gripping true crime thriller starring a former Spider-Man and a Normal People star.

Is Under the Banner of Heaven based on a true story? All you need to know about the origins of this intense drama as it lands on ITVX

Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Reuters/Rexburg Police DepartmentOn the warm summer day when Lori Vallow learned she would spend the rest of her life behind bars for killing her children, it was one kind of conclusion to her years-long saga, but hardly the true ending of the story.By then, Vallow’s story had been tumbling forward in the public eye for more than three years. It was a tale of a wild and salacious affair that instantly had true crime junkies and onli...

The conspiratorial world that produced Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell may be extreme but it is anything but fringe.

“It’s Mormon fanfic,” one expert raised within the church said. “That’s what they’re doing.”

The 1984 murders of Brenda Lafferty and her 15-month-old daughter Erica by two of her husband's brothers shook their insular community—and put a spotlight on the dark side of Mormon fundamentalism.

“Under The Banner Of Heaven is not just an examination of Mormonism but an examination of faith in general,” says Dustin Lance Black

The frontier religion that began with a young man’s vision in New York has birthed more than 400 offshoots of fundamentalist faith in Utah.

What do we really know about Mormon Fundamentalists? Consider this complete FLDS church timeline as an initiation.

New Disney+ series Under the Banner of Heaven has a gruesome real-life story behind it.