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The ‘unfathomable’ scandal behind Netflix’s Murder Among the Mormons Car bombings, necromancy and fraud – a new true crime series sheds new light on a case that almost blew up the secretive religion Hofmann pictured after his arrest in 1985 Credit: third hour  “Welcome to Salt Lake City,” runs an old airline pilot joke. “Remember to set your watches back 10 years.”  It’s a tired gag. But it neatly captures the air of fusty eccentricity that most people – if they think about it – associate with Mormonism and their wholesome hometown. Mormons, as everyone knows, are irr...

comments Netflix's "Murder Among the Mormons" co-directors Jared Hess and Tyler Measom were both young — six and 14, respectively — when a series of Salt Lake City bombings killed several high-profile members of the Mormon church in 1985. The murders drew national attention to the church, which, after a century of being viewed as a sort of "outsider religion" plagued by 19th-century extermination orders and persecution campaigns, had become and remains one of the fastest-growing denominations in the United States.  The violent nature of the crimes was a juxtaposition against a religious...

fame) and Tyler Measom ( An Honest Liar) detail—one replete with greed and different flavors of deception—could easily fill another handful of installments. (This being the era of competing docuseries on the same compelling subject, though, means we could very well see another streamer or network’s exploration of the same unsettling, sometimes impenetrable, events that gripped Salt Lake City, Utah in the mid-1980s.) Advertisement If the name Mark Hofmann or the term “the Salamander letter” immediately ring bells, then you have a road map for the twists and turns Murder Among The Mo...

Netflix In the mid-1980s, as investigators were scrambling to make sense of the string of explosive packages being delivered across the U.S. by the Unabomber, a series of package bombs detonated in Salt Lake City, killing two and injuring two more. The crimes weren't the work of Ted Kaczynski, but one of the injured bomb victims, Mark Hofmann. Hofmann's scandalous story is the subject of new Netflix docuseries Murder Among the Mormons, which devotes its three episodes to exploring Hofmann's trajectory from lauded collector of rare Mormon church documents to murderous bomber and criminal fra...

Murder Among the Mormons details the Salt Lake City pipe bombing in 1985, which killed two people, Steven Christensen and Kathleen Sheets, and injured another—victim-turned-suspect Mark Hofmann. He was convicted of murder for building and setting off the two bombs that killed the two innocent victims, as well as multiple counts of fraud. But why did Hofmann set off those bombs in the first place? It all has to do with a set of mysterious documents called the McLellin Collection. Okay, so... what is the McLellin Collection? According to Brigham Young University, the McLellin Collection cam...