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Series · Documentary, Crime · 2021 · TV-14

Murder Among the Mormons: parents' guide

14+our pick

Best for ages 14 and up. Rated TV-14.

A gripping, low-gore true-crime docuseries that suits teens interested in history or mysteries. It covers the 1985 Salt Lake City pipe bombings that killed two people and the forger of historic Mormon documents behind them. Archival news footage shows bloody blast scenes, a brief glimpse of a body and hand injuries, and suicide comes up in every episode, including a suicide attempt. Language is almost entirely clean, there is no sexual content, and drinking appears in a few reenactments. The real killings, the suicide material and the dark subject are why we suggest 14.

What's in it

Violence

Moderate

Two people are killed by pipe bombs and a third is badly hurt. Archival police and news footage shows bloody blast scenes, a brief glimpse of at least one body, and fingers partly blown off. Reenactments show how the bombs were built.

Language

Mild

Nearly clean. Common Sense found no profanity, and a Catholic News Service review noted just one crude term across the three episodes.

Sex and nudity

None

No sexual content, romance scenes or nudity of any kind.

Drinking, drugs and smoking

Mild

Reenactments show the forger out drinking with friends, which clashes with his faith, and a prosecutor says more than once that he drank heavily. No drug use.

Scary or intense scenes

Moderate

The bombings and their aftermath are tense and sad, with relatives and colleagues recalling the shock. Suicide is referenced in every episode, according to the UK classifier, and a suicide attempt is part of the story. The calculated murders are unsettling.

Sensitive topics

  • Suicide

Worth talking about

The forger fooled experts and church leaders for years. Ask why people trusted him, and how historians test whether an old document is genuine.

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Checked October 13th, 2026 against Common Sense Media, bbfc.co.uk, Rotten Tomatoes, justwatch.com, Wikipedia, trentonmonitor.com. The age is our judgment, not an official rating, and every family draws its lines differently: read the notes, not just the number. Spotted something we missed? Tell us. How we rate.