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Meet the neighbors: a pair of muggers named Visa and MasterCharge, a misplaced Mormon, an abandoned rabbi, an African dictator, a welfare mother in double- digit pregnancies, a sniper, a man assembling a Chevy Nova in his living room, a 400-lb. dope dealer with an M.B.A., a family of Cambodians trying to farm their floorboards, mythic creatures known as the Nordic Ice Queen and the Madonna of Heat, and two ex-dancers who sell Tupperware...
...rumor mill in Salt Lake City was abuzz about another, more exotic, possibility. Christensen and Gary Sheets, both Mormon bishops (local church leaders), were involved in publication of a controversial historical document that challenges the authorized version of the origins of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 1983 Christensen paid a reported $40,000 to Mark Hofmann, 30, a shadowy, highly successful dealer in Mormon documents, for an 1830 manuscript known as the "White Salamander Letter." Written by a disciple of Mormon Founder Joseph Smith, it says Smith's finding of the Book of Mormon came...
Because it implies that folk magic led Smith to his scriptural discovery, the letter has caused considerable consternation among Mormons, leading some to question their faith. Christensen and Sheets helped finance efforts to determine the document's authenticity, and Christensen ultimately donated the letter to the church. Many in Salt Lake thought the bombings were tied to the church controversy. "Most of us were scared to death," said Ronald Walker, an expert on Mormon documents. "It looked like screwball vendetta against anyone who had dealt with that letter...
...pipe bomb critically injured Hofmann as he was climbing into his parked car half a block from Salt Lake City's Temple Square. In the Toyota's blackened interior, investigators found pipes and other equipment for bomb manufacture, as well as rare books and valuable documents relating to the Mormon Church. Hofmann, it seemed, had accidentally set off a bomb of his own making. After eight hours of surgery, Hofmann, who was expected to survive, maintained from his hospital bed that he was a target, not an assailant. But police say he is the primary suspect in the deaths...
...seven babies were pressing against her diaphragm) and her blood pressure shot up, doctors decided to deliver the infants. Later, the father for several minutes held his stillborn 15.5-oz. daughter, who doctors think died several days before the birth. Said Sam Frustaci, who like Patti is a devout Mormon: "The Heavenly Father had alternative plans for her. She gave up her life for the sake of others...