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Faith, Doubt, and Murder in ‘Under the Banner of Heaven’

By Sergio Lopez
FX, Hulu: 'Under the Banner of Heaven'
May 4, 2022
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The show is based on Jon Krakauer’s 2003 book of the same title, detailing the brutal 1984 murder of a woman and her infant baby by two brothers from the Lafferty clan, a prominent family in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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FX, Hulu: 'Under the Banner of Heaven'