Andrew Garfield
Detective Jeb Pyre
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- 1. When God Was Love Apr 28, 2022
- Detectives Jeb Pyre and Bill Taba investigate the murders of Brenda Lafferty and her baby daughter.
- 2. Rightful Place Apr 28, 2022
- With a lead suspect in custody, the investigation uncovers more ominous questions than answers.
- 3. Surrender May 5, 2022
- The ongoing investigation leads Pyre and Taba into the woods where they unearth information.
With Andrew Garfield, Sam Worthington, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Denise Gough. A devout detective's faith is tested as he investigates a brutal murder seemingly connected to an esteemed Utah family's spiral into LDS fundamentalism and their distrust in the government.
- (36K)
- 2022-04-28
- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- 67
A true crime drama based on Jon Krakauer's book, starring Andrew Garfield as a Mormon detective investigating a murder. The series explores the conflict between faith and violence in the LDS Church and its history.
- Who Is Brenda Wright Lafferty?
- What Happened to Brenda Wright Lafferty?
- Why Did Ron and Dan Lafferty Kill Brenda Wright Lafferty?
- What Happened to Ron and Dan Lafferty?
Brenda Wright Lafferty was a former beauty queen who grew up in a devout, but rather liberal Mormon family in Idaho. “She was quite a scrapbooker,” her father, Jim Wright, told Salt Lake City’s KUTV in 2019. She was also a talented singer and actress who majored in broadcast journalism at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. In the early 1980s,...
On the night of July 24, 1984, 24-year-old Brenda Wright Lafferty was found dead by her husband on the floor of their suburban Utah home. Her throat had been slashed after having been choked by the cord of a vacuum, according to a 2004 report from the Deseret News, a subsidiary of the Deseret Management Corporation, which is owned by the LDS Church...
Ron Lafferty claimed that he had received a divine revelation from God to kill Brenda Wright Lafferty and her infant daughter. He believed Brenda was the reason his wife, Diana Lafferty, left him after he suggested he take a second wife. After Diana left him, he reportedly descended into madness, spending his time writing what he believed would one...
The brothers were initially set to go on trial together for the murders of Brenda Wright Lafferty and her daughter, Erica. But, in December 1984, Ron Lafferty attempted to kill his brother and hang himself in jail. The following year, both men went to trial separately and each were convicted. Ron was sentenced to death in 1985 for killing Brenda an...
Based on Jon Krakauer's true crime book, the series follows Detective Jeb Pyre's investigation of a 1984 murder in Utah and its connection to the LDS religion. Watch the full season on Hulu and see the cast, crew, episodes and reviews.
Under the Banner of Heaven. Starring Andrew Garfield, FX’s Under the Banner of Heaven, the limited series inspired by the bestseller by Jon Krakauer, follows the murder of Brenda Wright Lafferty and her baby daughter in a suburb in the Salt Lake Valley.
- Andrew Garfield
- April 28, 2022
As Detective Jeb Pyre investigates the murder of Brenda Wright Lafferty and her baby daughter in a Salt Lake Valley, Utah, suburb, he uncovers buried truths...
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With evidence now pointing squarely toward fundamentalist Mormonism, Pyre turns to LDS Church leaders for guidance but is met with roadblocks. Undeterred, he discovers a list of names Brenda's killers plan to murder next. 7.9/10. Rate.
