Now, 30 years of tortuous living later, Olds is finally at peace with herself and all that happened. [5]:21, During the bombing investigation, police discovered evidence of the forgeries in Hofmann's basement. Slowly, though, Olds developed a few close friendships, a deep mysticism and a knack for analysis and therapy. By age 14, he developed a forgery technique he believed was undetectable. Over the years, he writes articles on cinema - his second passion - as well as self-taught scripts. Across the aisle was a pregnant Dorie Olds, then-wife of Mark Hofmann, the LDS forger who was accused of the heinous act. One was discovered by a Salt Lake City reporter shortly after Hofmann was injured by his own bomb. She believes that her mother didn't really want her. He promised investors high returns on their investments in rare documents but took their money to repay earlier investors. Mark Hofmann: The true story of bomber from Murder Among the Mormons She continued to visit him twice a week in prison, once alone and once with her children. Dr. Mark C. Hoffman is a Family Medicine Doctor in Poulsbo, WA. Furthermore, to use Fs argument, that if a black person alleges a white person is racist it must be so (because only black people are entitled to make that claim), is itself nonsense cos profoundly racist and a caricature of black rights. "[9]:514. Mark Hoffman told himself what he was about to do was for their good. [5]:8081, During the race by the Utah and Missouri churches to acquire the blessing document, Hofmann discovered "a lever to exercise enormous power over his church", a power to "menace and manipulate its leaders with nothing more sinister than a sheet of paper". In 1985, Mark Hofmann became one of Utah's most prolific killers after spending years committing fraud that might have landed him a jail sentence, but wouldn't have put him in prison for the rest of his life. Who is Mark Hofmann? [s], Hofmann, Utah Department of Corrections offender number 41235, was originally incarcerated at Utah State Prison in Draper. As Mark Hofmann serves out the remainder of his life in a Utah prison, his ex-wife, Dorie Olds, has moved on. 1988 letter to the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole. As the news unfolded on the nation's television screens, reporters camped out on her lawn in Millcreek, peering in the windows at the distraught woman, trying desperately to care for her young children. Mark Hofmann. But actually it was because I knew from the news reports that I was a suspect and anticipated the police knocking on the door at any minute, he wrote. Two Mormon wives sat on opposite sides of the Salt Lake City courtroom, staring intently at images on a screen as a witness described Steve Christensen's body after a pipe bomb shredded it. He soon fabricated other historically significant documents and became noted among LDS Church history buffs for his "discoveries" of previously unknown materials pertaining to the Latter Day Saint movement. False assumptions inspired by Hofmann documents or citations that eventually lead back to his fabricated evidence still distort some depictions of Latter-day Saint history, according to the church. Throckmorton also discovered that some documents, supposedly written by different people, had similar writing styles and that they had been written with homemade iron gall ink that looked cracked like alligator skin under a microscope, although authentic period ink did not. [h][5]:8081 Nevertheless, he also ensured that the document would be made public. He delighted in traveling around the world to collect rare copies of children's books, but he made a living as a seller of historical documents. In 1988, Olds filed for and was granted a divorce. Four siblings. [5]:298 Salt Lake County District Attorney's investigator Michael George believed that, after Hofmann had successfully forged the blessing, his ultimate goal was to create the lost 116 pages of the Book of Mormon, which he could have filled with inconsistencies and errors, sell them "to the church to be hidden away" and then as he had done often with embarrassing documents "make sure its contents were made public. Joseph Smith was victimized again and again. A 2003 BBC documentary about Hofmann is entitled "The Man Who Forged America".[45]. And there, in the science aisle, was a chemistry set. Mark Hofmann was the mastermind behind deadly bombings that served as the focal point of the new Netflix docuseries, Murder Among the Mormons. For a while, Dorie did feel like her children no longer respected or listened to her, which is why she had to separate and ship them away. The first two bombs killed two people on October 15, 1985. [And in a blog about deadly crime in the USA, a proportion of the perps of which are black, it could get very silly]. "During our nine-year marriage, he created historical documents and signatures, coins, antique Mormon money and much more selling them for millions of dollars.". For example, for the first time in my life I took an interest in reading the obituaries.