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Experts Meeting to Study Mark Hofmann's Forgery Schemes
October 9th, 2005 @ 10:00pm
KSL-TV - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
John Hollenhorst reporting
It's not often that a 20-year-old murder case lives on, and forces
experts to keep studying the criminal's techniques. But there are no
other criminals quite like Mark Hofmann.
His notorious saga of forgery, bombs and murder began to unfold in Salt
Lake 20 years ago this week.
Experts from 31 states will meet later this week to study the methods
of Mark Hofmann. It's not his two bombing murders that remain of
interest. It's his amazing forgeries. Even today they are apparently
defrauding collectors and bamboozling the experts.
20 years ago this week, Utahns were shocked when two parcel bombs
exploded. One killed a woman at her home. Another killed a businessman
at his downtown office.
The mystery deepened when a third bomb, in a car, injured do***ents
broker Mark Hofmann. He later pled guilty to being the bomber himself.
During his years in prison, his motives have remained murky. But the
bombs evidently had something to do with the crumbling of his forgery
schemes.
Steven Mayfield, Crime Scene Investigator: "He really did a good job of
fooling everybody."
Crime lab experts Steve Mayfield and George Throckmorton have been
fascinated with Hofmann do***ents for 20 years.
George Throckmorton, Forensic Do***ent Examiner: "Because of the
extensiveness of his forgeries, it's the biggest forgery fraud case in
history."
Hofmann made hundreds of phony do***ents, supposedly linked to major
figures in Mormon and American history. They purport to be writings by,
or about, famous people like Daniel Boone, Emily ****enson, Joseph
Smith and Abe Lincoln.
Throckmorton is helping organize a conference of forensic do***ent
examiners to study the master forger's methods.
George Throckmorton, Forensic Do***ent Examiner: "The various do***ents
he forged fooled most of the experts at that time because of new
techniques that he used."
Throckmorton believes Hofmann's phony work is still in the marketplace,
being bought and sold as if it's authentic.
George Throckmorton, Forensic Do***ent Examiner: "I know it is. I've
dealt with auction houses in the past that have sent me do***ents. And
I've told them they're forged. And they sell them anyway."
John Hollenhorst: "Does that bother you?"
George Throckmorton, Forensic Do***ent Examiner: "Yes, it bothers me
because it's not ethical. It may be legal. But it's not ethical. "
Hofmann seemed to have a knack for creating do***ents that excited
collectors. That's because they challenged... or distorted... accepted
history.
Steven Mayfield, Crime Scene Investigator: "Mark played off of that. He
knew enough of the psychology of people to know that if I'm giving
you something you really want... you want to believe it. And he played
off that."
George Throckmorton, Forensic Do***ent Examiner: "We believe there are
still over a hundred Hofmann forgeries still out there. And again,
I'm finding new ones. As recent as this year. I've found three new
forgeries, four new forgeries, five new forgeries, excuse me, that we
never knew existed."
This week Throckmorton will finally publish his book on the case,
joining seven others previously in bookstores. He says his book will
reveal a new theory about the motive for the bombings.

woody brison

Took some hunting, but I couldn't believe that Lance would be able
to make this up, so many big words! It really is there.
<http://www.ksl.com/index.php?sid=116786&nid=148>

I wonder why they are carrying a fuzzy picture of the Anthon Transcript

merged into the text of the article? It is not a Hofmann forgery.
Do some of your relatives work at KSL-TV, Lance?

Wood

christian

Hi good burning wood,

Just setup a simple alert through google and you will receive daily all
the news about mormonism. Also, you can go to ebay and start biding on
all the old newspapers from Brigham's era. I recently won a NY Times
newspaper from 1870 with an article about Brigham's quack laws in the
Utah terrority. Another newspaper from Harper's Weekly has pictures of
the estates of mormon polygamists including Brigham's. I'm really
having fun rattling all those skeltons in your mormon closets!

http://www.truthandgrace.com/Mormon.htm

christian

Experts Meeting to Study Mark Hofmann's Forgery Schemes
October 9th, 2005 @ 10:00pm
KSL-TV - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
John Hollenhorst reporting
It's not often that a 20-year-old murder case lives on, and forces
experts to keep studying the criminal's techniques. But there are no
other criminals quite like Mark Hofmann.
His notorious saga of forgery, bombs and murder began to unfold in Salt
Lake 20 years ago this week.
Experts from 31 states will meet later this week to study the methods
of Mark Hofmann. It's not his two bombing murders that remain of
interest. It's his amazing forgeries. Even today they are apparently
defrauding collectors and bamboozling the experts.
20 years ago this week, Utahns were shocked when two parcel bombs
exploded. One killed a woman at her home. Another killed a businessman
at his downtown office.
The mystery deepened when a third bomb, in a car, injured do***ents
broker Mark Hofmann. He later pled guilty to being the bomber himself.
During his years in prison, his motives have remained murky. But the
bombs evidently had something to do with the crumbling of his forgery
schemes.
Steven Mayfield, Crime Scene Investigator: "He really did a good job of
fooling everybody."
Crime lab experts Steve Mayfield and George Throckmorton have been
fascinated with Hofmann do***ents for 20 years.
George Throckmorton, Forensic Do***ent Examiner: "Because of the
extensiveness of his forgeries, it's the biggest forgery fraud case in
history."
Hofmann made hundreds of phony do***ents, supposedly linked to major
figures in Mormon and American history. They purport to be writings by,
or about, famous people like Daniel Boone, Emily ****enson, Joseph
Smith and Abe Lincoln.
Throckmorton is helping organize a conference of forensic do***ent
examiners to study the master forger's methods.
George Throckmorton, Forensic Do***ent Examiner: "The various do***ents
he forged fooled most of the experts at that time because of new
techniques that he used."
Throckmorton believes Hofmann's phony work is still in the marketplace,
being bought and sold as if it's authentic.
George Throckmorton, Forensic Do***ent Examiner: "I know it is. I've
dealt with auction houses in the past that have sent me do***ents. And
I've told them they're forged. And they sell them anyway."
John Hollenhorst: "Does that bother you?"
George Throckmorton, Forensic Do***ent Examiner: "Yes, it bothers me
because it's not ethical. It may be legal. But it's not ethical. "
Hofmann seemed to have a knack for creating do***ents that excited
collectors. That's because they challenged... or distorted... accepted
history.
Steven Mayfield, Crime Scene Investigator: "Mark played off of that. He
knew enough of the psychology of people to know that if I'm giving
you something you really want... you want to believe it. And he played
off that."
George Throckmorton, Forensic Do***ent Examiner: "We believe there are
still over a hundred Hofmann forgeries still out there. And again,
I'm finding new ones. As recent as this year. I've found three new
forgeries, four new forgeries, five new forgeries, excuse me, that we
never knew existed."
This week Throckmorton will finally publish his book on the case,
joining seven others previously in bookstores. He says his book will
reveal a new theory about the motive for the bombings.

woody brison

Took some hunting, but I couldn't believe that Lance would be able
to make this up, so many big words! It really is there.
<http://www.ksl.com/index.php?sid=116786&nid=148>

I wonder why they are carrying a fuzzy picture of the Anthon Transcript

merged into the text of the article? It is not a Hofmann forgery.
Do some of your relatives work at KSL-TV, Lance?

Wood

christian

Hi good burning wood,

Just setup a simple alert through google and you will receive daily all
the news about mormonism. Also, you can go to ebay and start biding on
all the old newspapers from Brigham's era. I recently won a NY Times
newspaper from 1870 with an article about Brigham's quack laws in the
Utah terrority. Another newspaper from Harper's Weekly has pictures of
the estates of mormon polygamists including Brigham's. I'm really
having fun rattling all those skeltons in your mormon closets!

http://www.truthandgrace.com/Mormon.htm