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The day after the killings, before police had even found him, Ron-a onetime city councilman who'd grown increasingly extreme in his beliefs and was ex-communicated from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints-was charged with first-degree murder, as was his brother Dan Lafferty on July 27. It was different from a lot of crime scenes in a lot of ways.'įox also had an 18-month-old daughter at the time, a connection that wasn't lost on him. And I just don't throw those out lightly because this was a really, really brutal murder.

'This one was different in the case, that it was religiously motivated. 'I've seen a lot of death in my career,' former American Fork Police Department Chief Terry Fox, who in 1984 was a detective on his city's then-10-man force, reflected to Salt Lake City's KSLTV in 2019. With the Under the Banner of Heaven series injecting more of a true-crime-style investigation into the action than is featured in the book, Garfield's Detective Jeb Pyre is inspired by the real-life authorities who worked the haunting case. The character incorporates a bit of Krakauer too, the writer having uncovered a seriously disturbing story beyond the crime itself.

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This emotional adaptation earned Garfield a 2022 Emmys nod for Outstanding Lead Actor In A Limited Or Anthology Series Or Movie.

Jon Krakauer detailed what Brenda struggled against-the killers she fought on the day she and her child died, and the destructive forces coming from within the Lafferty family-in his 2003 book Under the Banner of Heaven, the basis for the FX on Hulu limited series, starring Daisy Edgar-Jones as Brenda and Andrew Garfield as the lead detective whose own faith is shaken to the core as he uncovers the truth. 'And then as I stood,' he testified in court years later, 'I surveyed the situation a little more, and realized that there had been a grim struggle.' The bedroom phone not working, either, Allen had to go to a neighbor's place to call the police, then he returned to Brenda's side and prayed. The phone cord had been ripped out of the wall, so he headed to the bedroom to call 911 from there. Passing their 15-month-old daughter Erica's room, he saw that the toddler and the blankets in her crib were also covered in red.

Walking into the kitchen of the apartment he shared with his young family in American Fork, Utah, at 8 p.m., he found his 24-year-old wife, Brenda Lafferty, lying in a pool of blood. Allen Lafferty came home to a nightmare on July 24, 1984.