Under the Banner of Heaven Review: A Violent Interpretation of Faith

In 1984, Brenda Lafferty and her infant daughter were found dead in their home in a suburb of Salt Lake City, Utah. Lafferty was twenty-four years old at the time of her death and a devout Mormon, leading to shock at the cause of her death: religion. Her brothers-in-law gruesomely killed their former relative over what they called a divine revelation. They were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS Church), but the Lafferty brothers were excommunicated due to their beliefs. This, a divorce one of the brothers had, and a supposed communication from God, saying to remove Brenda, led to the tragic events that would take the state by storm.

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