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10 Famous Cold Cases That Could Be Solved In 2021 In the late 70s, the Golden State Killer launched a reign of terror that terrified residents in California. The serial killer committed at least 12 murders and 120 residential burglaries—then he disappeared without a trace. That was until 2018 when Joseph James DeAngelo was arrested and identified as the serial killer. DeAngelo was caught when his third cousin uploaded their genetic profile to 23andMe and using familial DNA, police were able to strike off every family member as a potential suspect until they got down to DeAngelo. Now that la...

. Sign up to receive the newsletter in your inbox weekly. Unlike most talks given at BYU by church leaders, the landmark response of a Latter-day Saint apostle to the murderous spree of forgings and bombings by Mark Hofmann recently featured in “Murder Among the Mormons” can’t be found on speeches.byu.edu. There’s a simple reason for that, and it has nothing to do covering up church history. In fact in his talk at BYU, then-Elder Dallin H. Oaks issued a scathing reprimand to a major news organization that spent a year insisting the church was covering up a document — until it was pr...

50:08 For the second part of our Mark Hofmann coverage, we take a closer look at one aspect of Hofmann’s strange story: his dealings with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  When Hofmann “found” what became known as the Salamander Letter in 1984, it sent shockwaves through the LDS church. The letter, which was supposedly written by early church figure Martin Harris, talked of church founder Joseph Smith, Jr. getting the golden plates from a white, talking salamander. As researcher and critic of Mormon history Sandra Tanner said in the Netflix docuseries  Murder Among the...

How 'Murder Among the Mormons' gets away with promoting stereotypes about our faith Daryl Austin © Provided by NBC News One of the most audacious and devious forgers in U.S. history, Mark Hofmann spent the early 1980s deceiving (and ripping off) individuals and organizations with never-before-seen documents and letters. His victims included the Library of Congress, other parts of the U.S. government, scores of private collectors, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and his own business partners — who lost everything because of him. And yet, the title of Netflix...

REVIEW: This three-part series unwinds the so-strange-it-can-only-be-true story of master forger Mark Hofmann.