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It's a super quick binge and the perfect heartbreaking true-crime docuseries for those fascinated with the genre. In this twisted story, there are so many layers that unravel everything from forgeries to bombings, murder, conspiracy theories, and faith. There's a little bit of everything in this docuseries, and as with any true crime series (and Netflix has plenty of great ones!), the ending only provides a surface update on where some of the main players are today.

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Naturally, inquiring minds want to know what happened to everyone involved, from the convicted murdered Mark Hofmann, to friends, family members, business associates, and the authorities involved in the case.

[Editor’s Note: The following interview contains spoilers for the Netflix series “Murder Among the Mormons.”]

There’s an overwhelming sense of unease right from the start of “Murder Among the Mormons.” Shannon Flynn, sitting in a chair and speaking to interviewers just off-camera, very politely asks that he not answer a particular question. It takes until the end of the three-part documentary series to find out what led to that reaction, but directors Tyler Measom and Jared Hess explained that feeling was in many ways a microcosm of how many people in the Salt Lake City area still live with the consequences of a series of deadly bombings over 35 years later.

“The first scene is usually one of the last things you put in a movie. In today’s world, in some aspects of streaming, the opening part of the documentary is so important. We want to hook the audience, but you also don’t want to give too much away,...

Murder Among the Mormons, Netflix's latest true-crime offering, dives into not only the 1985 Salt Lake City bombings but also the Mormon church's dealings with scandalous papers. The perpetrator of the lethal bombings was a document dealer named Mark Hofmann. Outwardly unassuming, Hofmann maintained an intricate web of lies: he was a master forger, a scammer who penned the works of figures such as George Washington, Betsy Ross, and Emily Dickinson. His specialties were controversial works that concerned the Mormon church. Leading up to the bombings, Hofmann was best known as the person who revealed the controversial "white salamander" letter, which challenged the foundation of the Mormon church.

Before people found out that Hofmann was a scammer, the white salamander letter shocked everyone in the Mormon community. As Hofmann presented it in the early '80s, the document was written in 1830 by Joseph Smith's scribe Martin Harris to early Lds convert William Phelps.

If you aren't familiar with the 1985 Salt Lake City bombings, Netflix's Murder Among the Mormons might unfold like a strange murder mystery. At first, the true-crime miniseries takes a close look at interview subject Shannon Flynn, a document dealer who was originally arrested when police believed he was connected to the explosions that killed two people. The real culprit behind the bombings shocked everyone: Flynn's colleague Mark Hofmann, a quiet family man who built a reputation in the Mormon community as a reliable curator and seller of historical papers, especially those concerning the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Hofmann turned out to be a fraud who forged most of the documents he sold. When he promised the controversial McLellin collection and couldn't deliver, he stalled for time by sending homemade bombs.

On Oct. 15, 1985, businessman Steven Christensen died in his office in Salt Lake City after opening a parcel that contained a bomb.

A bizarre combination of Netflix's true-crime scam and murder documentaries, Murder Among the Mormons takes on the bizarre and tragic case of the 1985 Salt Lake City bombings. Before he confessed to planting homemade explosive devices and forging historic papers, Mark Hofmann was a respected figure in the Mormon community. His specialty was discovering religious documents - or so the world believed. The master forger took extreme measures to conceal his crimes when his web of lies caught up to him. In the process of his cover-up, Hofmann killed two people with bombs and severely injured himself when a bomb went off in his own car. Not long after the explosions, he pleaded guilty, and he remains incarcerated to this day.

At the height of his scamming career in the '80s, Hofmann used elaborate methods to make his forged documents appear authentic. He was especially interested in creating controversial...