![]() Now, state forensics experts believe Hofmann forged the document and the notary seal on it. In the affidavit, Edwards claims the emigrants were not dead yet when he arrived and that John D. Latter-day Saints, members of southern Utah militias and a few Pauite Indians killed them. The Deseret News reports Hofmann forged an affidavit that was purported to be a 1924 statement from William Edwards, saying he was at the massacre back on September 11, 1857.Įdwards was 15 years old when 120 men, women and children - members of an Arkansas wagon train headed to California - were brutally murdered in Mountain Meadows, Utah. SALT LAKE CITY - State forensics investigators say a document at the center of much research into the Mountain Meadows Massacre is a fake created by convicted forger Mark Hofmann. Reading or replaying the story in itsĪrchived form does not constitute a republication of the story. ![]() Only for your personal, non-commercial use. ![]()
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