Radio Interview with Allen Dale Roberts, Co-author of Book on Mark Hofmann, Salamander.
Channel: Steven Rinehart
Date: 2021-03-03

December 2005 interview with Allen Dale Roberts, co-author of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated book Salamander: The Story of the Mormon Forgery Murders, covering the Mark Hofmann murders. Mr. Roberts discusses the forgeries, balanced reporting on the murders, as well as other books on the subject, such as Richard Turley's book Victims: The LDS Church and the Mark Hofmann Case. Brent Ferrin Ashworth, an attorney and the intended victim of Hofmann's third bomb, was also interviewed in September of 2006 and this interview posted on YouTube. The Hofmann forgeries and murders are among the most bizarre crimes in Utah and American history. Hofmann forged not just countless Mormon historical documents, but also Emily Dickinson poems  (sold to a museum and included in her anthologies), the Oath of the Freeman (nearly sold to the Library of Congress for $1.5 million), Egyptian Papyrus, coins, and currency. He is believed to have forged 1,200 documents within ten years. He was in process of forging other lost documents when caught, including the lost 116 pages of the Book of Mormon. A follow up interview with Trevor Bruford on specifics of the forgeries comes afterward, including the forensic minutiae which ultimately exposed Hofmann and speculation about other prospective murder victims.

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