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10.15.1985

Mark Hofmann orchestrates two bombings in Salt Lake City

Portrait Of Mark Hofmann
Photo: The LIFE Images Collection/Getty

10.15.1985

In the early 1980s, Mark Hofmann created a series of forged documents and artifacts, most related to the history of the Mormon Church, that duped multiple experts. But when his counterfeit operation began to unravel, he constructed bombs to murder two people connected to his sale of “historic” documents in Salt Lake City. He was apprehended after a third bomb blew up in his own car.

Photo: The LIFE Images Collection/Getty
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