The price had risen because the document had a pedigree. Hofmann would sell a forgery to Person A, then buy it back and sell it to Person B, saying he bought it from person A.
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Hofmann spent two years studying the “linguistic syntax” of the Book of Mormon, numbering each word in a code to document speech patterns of every speaker in the Scripture. Throckmorton and his contemporaries are still incredulous at Hofmann’s abilities, his diversity, his attention to detail: But twenty years later no one has passed him.” I don’t like to use the word greatest because he’s a murderer. “He changed the entire profession of forgery,” said George Throckmorton, a Salt Lake forensic document detective who helped bring Hofmann to justice. He is serving a life sentence in the Utah State Prison, and narrowly avoided the death penalty. 16, critically injuring Hofmann before he could deliver it. 15 marks the 20th anniversary of Hofmann’s bombs. “If he had come up with the lost 116 pages it would have sent shock waves through the church.” “Hofmann decided as a young man he was going to destroy Mormonism,” said Gene Sessions, chairman of the Weber State University history department. Three exploded in total, set by Hofmann to thwart whistle-blowers about to cut him off before he could make his biggest score of all - forging the lost 116 pages of the LDS Church’s Book of Mormon. He still went on a church mission, during which he spent some time playing at bomb-making.īut it all ended in 1985 when his bombs started going off in Salt Lake City. His motives were twofold: money, and chipping away at the LDS Church he had lost faith in during his early teens. In seven years, Hofmann went from a struggling Utah State University pre-med student in 1978 to a 30-year-old document dealer making millions of dollars traveling all over the country, meeting with renowned historians, even the leadership of the LDS Church - and selling them fakes. The 81 ornately inscribed signatures he forged ranged from Abraham Lincoln to Billy the Kid, Emily Dickinson to George Washington.īut for Mark Hofmann, the real money was in Joseph Smith, Martin Harris and other figures from the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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