![]() ![]() Hofmann became a master forger, duping experts with his faked “early church documents” that struck at the very tenets of Mormon beliefs. ![]() Hofmann, it was later discovered, had become deeply disillusioned with Mormonism as a teen-ager, but was unable to express his doubts to his Mormon fundamentalist father or his church community. Sheets’ husband had helped Christensen finance such inquiries all three men were devout Mormons. Both Christensen and Hofmann had contacts in the “Mormon Underground,” a group that investigated and questioned church history. Two days later, Mark Hofmann, a church member noted for tracing long-lost writings of church founders, was seriously injured in a similar explosion. The bomb blasts in 1985 killed Kathy Sheets, wife of one of the Mormon community’s most successful businessmen, and his partner, financial whiz Steve Christensen. Most sources within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints interviewed by Calendar acknowledged that their hierarchy is bristling over the very existence of the projects. ![]()
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