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
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“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 irrepressible do-gooders in short sleeve shirts with Listerine-ad grins, peddling their unique take on Christianity. They wear special underwear to resist the temptations of the flesh. They believe caffeine is a sin. And, yes, young Mormons are not allowed to go swimming.
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.)
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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 Mormons takes. Greater context is provided for even those who followed along with (or, decades later, just ended up down a digital rabbit hole one night) the years-long coverage of the series of mail bombings that took place in 1985. But the show is a solid primer for those unversed in the late-20th-century collision between the Church Of Jesus Christ Of The Latter-day Saints (also known as the Mor
Latter-day Saint Charities, the humanitarian arm of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has made the single largest donation to date to UNICEF in the effort to provide global vaccinations for COVID-19.
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