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These 2021 True-Crime Documentaries Are Going to Send You Down an Internet Rabbit Hole Time to fire up ye olde Google. Apr 29, 2021 After more than a year of bingeing practically every TV show from the couch, you’ve probably noticed a recurring trend: True-crime documentaries are becoming more and more popular. Maybe we can blame last year’s wildly successful Tiger King for this recent revelation. The streaming giants of the modern era clearly are noticing this trend, as they keep on producing tons of content for viewers to continuously sink their teeth into. It’s reminding...

45:43 Besides being important figures in American history and letters, what do Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Abraham Lincoln and many others have in common? All had documents forged in their name by Utah’s Mark Hofmann. There’s a moment in the Netflix docuseries Murder Among the Mormons when co-director Tyler Measom asks Shannon Flynn if Hofmann really was the best forger of all times. Flynn, a long-time associate of Hofmann’s, replies, “Don’t ask me that. I don’t want to make a hero out of him, because he was fantastic. No one has come close to doing what he has done.” We’ll ...

Top 10 Audacious Forgeries From History At its heart, forgery is the misrepresentation of one item for something of higher value. Although many people are impressed by great artwork and other treasures, most laymen probably can’t distinguish a true masterpiece from the latest creation by their neighbor’s little kid without some guidance. You may have a painting that is worth nothing if it is by your hand, but the same artwork may be valued in the millions of dollars with the right signature brushed in the corner. Nevertheless, even the supposed experts can be fooled by imitations. Paintin...

Ready for some fun? The Salt Lake Tribune recently published a readers' quiz called "Think You Know Utah?" asking questions such as: "Why did Mark Hofmann ruin reporter Peggy Stack's first day at the Tribune?"; and "What does A.G. Sean Reyes do under his desk every morning?" Well, it got the staff here at Smart Bomb to thinking that maybe we, too, should have a quiz. We'll call it, "Do You Get Zion?" 1. Where did the Utah Democratic Party get those Klingon cloaking devices? 2. Why did Rep. Burgess Owens bet his COVID Relief $$ that Nancy Pelosi is a lesbian?

Murder Among The Mormons is a Netflix docu-series in the true-crime subgenre that probes the viciousness of the criminal mind. In this case, it looks at the unassuming family man, Mark Hofmann, who led a double life.