Ex Mormon Crackpot Bomber Hofmann Jailed 25 yrs, but…
This crackpot has been in jail for 25 years after the nail bombs, but … you have to wonder if someone like Hofmann were to start in this day and age, would they have a website? Would people be their followers? Would someone even put them on TV?
During the first half of the 1980s, Hofmann gained notoriety for discovering, one after another, documents purported to reflect early Mormon history. The forger later conceded he created material that could be embarrassing to the LDS Church in hope that Mormon leaders would spend large sums of money to keep them private. He also produced items attributed to Abraham Lincoln, Daniel Boone and Emily Dickinson, among many others.
Hofmann had a dual personality — a friend compared him with Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. But he never confided in anyone. That helps explain why his wife, family and friends defended him so vehemently when police began to suspect he was a forger and the cold-blooded bomber who killed businessman and documents collector Steven Christensen, as well as Kathleen Sheets, the wife of Christensen’s business associate, Gary Sheets.