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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 fraudster.
To recap: After being raised in a staunchly Mormon household, Hofmann became disillusioned with the religion and began using forgery skills developed in his youth to create documents that seemingly revealed previously unknown information about the formation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, much of which was embarrassing and potentially damaging to the church s reputa