Posted on 09/26/2010 6:12:55 AM PDT by Utah Binger
SALT LAKE CITY -- The former wife of Mark Hofmann, convicted forger, bomber and murderer, will tell her side of the story Wednesday night on the Investigation Discovery Network.
Dorie Olds, of Salt Lake City, who divorced Hofmann in the late 1980s, will be featured on "Who the (Bleep) Did I Marry?," which will air at 8 p.m. Wednesday on Investigation Discovery Network, seen by local cable subscribers on Channel 271.
Olds, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, reportedly considered herself a devout member of the faith and assumed her returned-missionary groom was as well.
Hofmann collected historic documents, and soon claimed to have found several pieces that drew into question the origins of the church.
Nearly six years after his first "discovery," a few people began to suspect that Hofmann had forged the controversial documents.
Hofmann made bombs, intended to attack those who suspected him.
Two people died in two explosions, and Hofmann was injured in a third blast in his car.
He is now serving a life sentence in Utah State Prison.
I am familiar with numerous experts regarding fine art and the ways that one can detect forgeries. This Hoffman thing should never have gotten to first base. My only conclusion was that the Mormons wanted to cover-up any and all possibilities just in case they (the documents) might be real.Salamander Letter
Interesting show coming up next week.
Hoffman was brilliant in his forgeries and game plan. So brilliant that I suspect he was always hovering on the brink of some form of madness.
Perhaps the upcoming program will shed some light from the ex-wife's perspective. I'll watch with interest.
If folks can lay aside the distracting religious infighting, the tale of Hoffman is fascinating indeed.
Leni
My reason for posting has to do with the business of forgery and trickery and the fact that the very elect can be deceived due to their greed and sometimes their desperate wishes to make something real that is not.
As a fine art dealer, I see this all the time. When values escalate, the tricksters come out of the woodwork. For instance, in the world of fine art, I can point to several fake pieces of art being offered on eBay every day.
In Chicago that will be at 9 PM
Hoffman's scam was complex and riveting in its execution. It'll be worth watching the interview with his former wife on Wednesday.
The series "American Greed" running on CNBC for, lo, these many months, is also fascinating. It's produced by Bill Kurtis which means it's high quality and well-done. It focuses on corporate and white collar crimes, including insurance fraud, embezzlements, art theft, ponzi schemes, credit card and medical frauds, bank robbery, money laundering, identity theft and related murders....all the skin games you love to touch, LOL.
It's an eye-opening series.
Leni
It seems you are pretty good at detecting "fakes" of all kinds. There are tricksters posing as "oh, so good consevatives" here on FR too.
Thanks for posting the thread.
Hofmann has always been of interest to me. Back in the day we had partners in the business whose gallery was on South Main Street. At the time, they were next door to one of the rare documents dealers including Hofmann.
I read with great interest Lindsay’s book and had met or was acquainted with a few of the players.
In San Francisco there was an art dealer named Mark Hoffman. We had great fun discussing the irony of names over a dry martini. Hoffman was a very honest dealer however.
BTW, all the really strong “art dealers” are conservative business people.
I don’t think it is very difficult to figure out why Hoffman was so successful. All of the experts believed his documents were genuine.
As for the Prophet thing ... you seem to believe that Prophets are perfect. Adam wasn’t, Moses wasn’t ... nor were James or Paul. Why should a modern Prophet be any better than these?
Experts? LOL, A perfect self canceling phrase.
Jesus. The guy sounds like a Muslim.
Hmmmm
that is the big reveal of the book...
Hofmann was nothing more than an opportunist and a sociopath....he passed a lie dectector test...
I guess this is what my own Catholic church did in the face of negative findings.....try to buy off people to keep quiet instead of facing things head on and ending them...
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