Get to Know the Story Behind Netflix's 'Murder Among the Mormons'
The docuseries chronicles a series of bombings in Salt Lake City in 1985.
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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 it remains an unexpected venture for the former big-screen comedy wunderkind, who largely neuters h...
“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 sentence for killing Steve Christensen and Kathy Sheets with homemade bombs in 1985 as he tried to co...