Screenshot: Law & Order: Criminal Intent
If you’ve already made your way through Netflix’s latest true-crime series,
Murder Among The Mormons, then you’ve also probably been doing some internet sleuthing about Mark Hofmann, the murderous master forger at the center of Jared Hess and Tyler Measom’s documentary. Hofmann refused to be interviewed for the production, but there’s a lot of information readily available about the 36-year-old case that goes beyond the scope of the series. Hell, there’s even a
Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode based on Hofmann’s crimes and it stars Stephen Colbert.
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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