Mark Hoffmann is a murderer and forger, currently serving two life sentences in Utah. He was a rare documents dealer and collector as a student at Utah State. Among other things, he claimed to have found a Lucy Mack Smith letter, the Charles Anthon Transcript, E.B. Grandin contract, two pages of the original Book of Mormon transcript, the Salamander Letter, a blessing that designated Joseph Smith III to be prophet (as opposed to Brigham Young), the Book of Lehi, and copies of the McEllin collection as well. During his heyday, he also forged documents of letters of Emily Dickinson, Abraham Lincoln and the pilgrims.