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Netflix's Murder Among the Mormons explores a rash of bombings in Salt Lake City.
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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 threatened to shake the very foundations of Mormonism.” Except…plot twist…Hofmann turned out t...
. 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 sense of panic in the community deepened. The third bomb went off the following day in the car of ...
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.