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SPOILER ALERT: Ready to be freaked out? Make way for the chilling new Netflix show Murder Among the Mormons. The true crime documentary series looks set to become our next hiding-behind-the-cushion small screen obsession. The community is left devastated after pipe bombs kill two people back in Salt Lake City in 1985 and are left frightened when old Mormon letters and diaries
SALT LAKE CITY — "Nobody is immune to deception. And we're all vulnerable to it, we're all susceptible to it." Those are words from director Jared Hess that ring more true than ever before after watching his latest project, "Murder Among the Mormons." Hess co-directed the three-part Netflix documentary with Tyler Measom. The series retells the story of Mark Hofmann and three bombings that killed two people, rocked Salt Lake City and ultimately ruined multiple lives in 1985. The true crime documentary series premieres today on the streaming service. This story will discuss some minor spoiler...
. 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 ...
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...