Murder Among the Mormons

I canceled Netflix but still have time left on it. Oprah's two hour interview with "Prince" Harry and Meghan Markle was on, but I didn't think I could stand it, so I watched this instead. I had read a book about it called Salamander, so I knew about the case. There weren't any surprises except that the cops weren't nearly as on-the-ball as I thought.

Utah police suspected a somewhat innocent Mormon guy of the murders because they found a copy of The Anarchist Cookbook when they searched his basement. And a submachine gun. So they had very good reason to suspect him.

I had a copy of The Anarchist Cookbook when I was in high school. I bought it strictly as a novelty. I had zero interest in drugs and explosives would have terrified me. My guess was that the author had come up with a pretty good title and decided his work was done because there was nothing in the book that should have alarmed or been of any use to anyone. I had read a couple books from the school library advocating gun control that provided far more troubling information, like how to make a zip gun. 

So, the documentary was about a case in the '80's. A Mormon who had secretly become an atheist makes a lot of money as a documents forger while undermining the church with what he claimed were early Mormon documents. 

Oh, and then he uses bombs to murder three people when his enterprise starts falling apart.