Talk:Mark Hofmann/@comment-39162073-20190416212932

While Joseph Smith Jr. obviously had a wild imagination (or delusions), THIS dude's imagination takes the cake! An eerily similar case to this was on Law and Order years ago. Whichever show had Det. Goren. In that show, it was a master forger who made and sold alleged defamatory documents against a "Brother Jerome" and the causes for his canonization. Rather than a "salamander," it was a "goat." Also, instead of using a rocket igniter (something children use), this TV forger used an electroplating kit he had received as a child to change mint marks on coins. He was angry with his target, the "Brother Jerome Foundation," which is why he wanted to get even--and with his mother, who kept donating his things to the "Brother Jerome thrift store." Of course, no such person as a "Brother Jerome" but there IS a SAINT JEROME, credited with translating Hebrew (aramaic?) into Latin. I know that the TV show's writers had to change the original target from the Mormon church. I guess they just simply made the target the USUAL one---something Catholic.