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How an accidental historian won over critics and shed light on two of Mormonism's darkest hours


How an accidental historian won over critics and shed light on two of Mormonism’s darkest hours
(Leah Hogsten | Tribune file photo) Richard Turley holds one of Joseph Smith s personal documents during a news conference to announce a release in the Joseph Smith Papers project in 2013. Turley recently retired.
| Updated: March 4, 2021, 3:33 p.m.
It was 1986, a dark time for Mormon historians.
Just months earlier, infamous document collector Mark Hofmann had forged his way into the market for historical pieces relating to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — even fooling church President Spencer W. Kimball and future President Gordon B. Hinckley, with his supposedly fabulous finds — and then killing two innocent members to cover his double-dealing and deceit. ....

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Stream Jared Hess' series 'Murder Among the Mormons' on Netflix March 3


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Netflix is about to release a new, three-part true crime documentary about the 1985 Mark Hofmann forgeries and murders provocatively titled “Murder Among the Mormons.”
The series about the chaos created in Salt Lake City by Hofmann’s fake documents and packaged bombs will begin streaming March 3, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
A master forger, Hofmann is serving a life sentence for killing Steve Christensen and Kathy Sheets with homemade bombs in 1985 as he tried to cover up the unraveling trail of documents he had faked about Latter-day Saint history. ....

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