Steven F. Christensen, a Mormon bishop, picked up a box in front of his office in the Judge Building located in downtown Salt Lake City. It turned out to be a motion activated "booby-trapped shrapnel bomb" and he was killed immediately.

Later that morning another package exploded killing Kathleen Sheets, across town in exclusive Olympus Cove. The package was addressed to her husband, J. Gary Sheets who was also a bishop in the Mormon Church, and who had been in a business partnership with Steven Christensen.

 
 
Kathleen Sheets In Life, In Death and The Bombing Scene

Christensen had basically acted as middleman for the Mormon church in purchasing The Salamander Letter and other documents from Mark Hofmann.  Sheets was a partner in raising some of the money.  The church apparently didn't want to purchase the documents outright, so to avoid the appearance of impropriety Christensen was enlisted, and he, in turn enlisted the help of sheets.

The very next day, yet another blast. This time, in a car, by the old Deseret Gym, and the victim is Mark Hofmann. He loses some fingers and gets injured very badly, but survives.

 
 
The Scene of Hofmann's Carbombing, and The Wounded Hofmann Being Carted Away

By the next day the police are already considering Hofmann a suspect.

Hofmann was eventually charged with stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from Mormon Church leaders and other unsuspecting individuals through the sale of forged or nonexistent documents, and of course with two counts of first-degree murder.

Eventually he was sentenced to one prison term of 5 years to life and three other prison terms of 1-to-15 years for his role in the bombing deaths of two people and the forgeries and frauds that led to those murders.

   
 The Police Search The Hofmann Home, The Story Breaks...and The Prison Where Hofmann Now Resides