Welp,
Murder Among the Mormons has arrived on Netflix right in time for your midweek spiral, so let’s settle in. The three-part documentary is about bombings in 1985 that as Netflix put it “shocked the Salt Lake City Mormon community and threatened the historical foundations of the church altogether.”
The bombings killed two people and severely injured Mark Hofmann, “a renowned collector of rare documents, including the infamous White Salamander Letter an artifact whose contents threatened to shake the very foundations of Mormonism.”
Except…plot twist…Hofmann turned out to be the bomber. Let’s get into it: This content is imported from YouTube. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.
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
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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 Mark Hofmann’s car, a 31-year-old rare Mormon document dealer. Before Steve Christensen’s death the previous day, Hofmann had been scheduled to meet with him about the sale of a new rare collection to the Mormon church. Netflix’s
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