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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 group that is often caricatured for its unrelenting optimism (as David Foster Wallace once wrote, There s always a Mormon around when you don t want one, trying your patience with unsolicited kindness ), and as such, the bombings captured tabloid attention, which quickly gave way to conspiracy theories. 

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