Murder Among the Mormons (2021)

[Greg]

tQ has a big tie into the Mormons at this point because one  of the podcasts she listens to is hosted by a former member of the LDS. And the podcast host is friends of the directors of this documentary. 

In October 1985 two pipe bombs exploded killing two people. The next day another bomb went off severely wounding a third person. Murder Among the Mormons tells the story of what led up to the murders and the investigation that ensued. It's a multi-parter and we saw two episodes already. 

At the center of the mystery are documents being sold to the church that call into question the origins of the founding of the church. There is a letter that talks about the white salamander. There is a copy of the first printed document in the new world. And finally there is a whole new cache of books and papers that are in the middle of being sold when the bombs go off.

You get to meet all the players in the world of rare document sales in Salt Lake City. I was amazed by how many there were. But I guess it's big business in that neck of the woods. From the way the story was presented, it was immediately clear who was going to be a problem in the story. tQ knew already because of the podcasts. The documentary is a mix of current interviews and news footage of the time. The disturbing thing for me was they showed the victims in situ in the bomb blasts. They showed another victim in the operating room. A bit too graphic for me.

I'll enjoy seeing how this all plays out.

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

tQ has a big tie into the Mormons at this point because one  of the podcasts she listens to is hosted by a former member of the LDS. And the podcast host is friends of the directors of this documentary. 

In October 1985 two pipe bombs exploded killing two people. The next day another bomb went off severely wounding a third person. Murder Among the Mormons tells the story of what led up to the murders and the investigation that ensued. It's a multi-parter and we saw two episodes already. 

At the center of the mystery are documents being sold to the church that call into question the origins of the founding of the church. There is a letter that talks about the white salamander. There is a copy of the first printed document in the new world. And finally there is a whole new cache of books and papers that are in the middle of being sold when the bombs go off.

You get to meet all the players in the world of rare document sales in Salt Lake City. I was amazed by how many there were. But I guess it's big business in that neck of the woods. From the way the story was presented, it was immediately clear who was going to be a problem in the story. tQ knew already because of the podcasts. The documentary is a mix of current interviews and news footage of the time. The disturbing thing for me was they showed the victims in situ in the bomb blasts. They showed another victim in the operating room. A bit too graphic for me.

I'll enjoy seeing how this all plays out.

I read a book about all of that skullduggery and it is a good True Crime ride. If you pair it with “Under the Banner of Heaven” by Krakauer, you get a real desire to drop several bombs on the LDS.

[King Bob]

One of the directors is the guy who did Napoleon Dynamite.

And to keep it juvenile, a big joke in Boy Scouts was that LDS stood for Long Dong Silver.

[Greg]

It turned out to be 3 episodes long. The first two episodes were the crime and it's resolution. The third episode told of how he did it.

It was well done. An enjoyable foray into a story i wasn't familiar. tQ's biggest complaint was it didn't talk enough about the church's coverup and document buying.