Word: mormon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...severity of the sentence was in part a measure of the social harm Hofmann had caused. Salt Lake City had been thrown into a panic by the seemingly random nature of the bombings, and the Mormon Church had been rocked to its foundations by Hofmann's faked documents. Hofmann's most notorious forgery had been the so-called White Salamander letter, which he sold to Christensen and Gary Sheets in 1984 for $40,000. It alleged that Church Founder Joseph Smith had been led to the Mormon scriptures not by an angel, as Smith had maintained, but by a white...
...weapons were brutal: pipe bombs set inside harmless-looking packages that exploded when moved. The first victim, Steven Christensen, 31, a Salt Lake City businessman and Mormon bishop, was killed outside his office on Oct. 15, 1985. A few hours later in a nearby suburb, a second bomb took the life of Kathleen Sheets, 50, the wife of J. Gary Sheets, a former partner of Christensen...
...next day a third pipe bomb exploded in downtown Salt Lake City. This time, however, the victim survived -- and eventually became the prime suspect in the two murders. Authorities believed Mark Hofmann, a dealer in rare documents, many on early Mormon history, had been injured while setting a bomb in his own car, possibly to direct suspicion away from himself. Last week the 15-month investigation against Hofmann came to a close when he pleaded guilty to reduced charges of second-degree murder in the bombings and to two counts of theft by deception for selling forged or nonexistent documents...
...difficulty of evading trolley cars in the famous borough, are now the Los Angeles Dodgers, where evading mayhem on the freeways is equally hard. The name Los Angeles Lakers, however, makes no sense at all, though it did when the team was in Minnesota. Utah, with its Mormon tradition, could easily have accepted the New Orleans football team (the Saints, as in Latter-Day Saints and saints who go marching in). Instead it got the New Orleans basketball team, now known as the Utah Jazz, which makes about as much sense as the New Orleans Tabernacle Choir...
...lifelong Mormon, Schloer worked as amissionary in Rosario, Argentina for two years,and graduated magna cum laude from Brigham YoungUniversity in 1983. He is survived by his wife,Diana, and two daughters, Lindsey, 1, andJacquelin...