When family secrets meet frontier justice: A murder that shattered a Mormon community
Join Lindsay Hansen Park and journalist Daniel H. Neal for a conversation about his new book No Forgiveness—a true crime story that’s part family reckoning, part historical excavation.
On a summer morning in 1911, two polygamous Mormon neighbors stood in an Idaho field. One was irrigating. The other climbed the fence with a Winchester rifle. What happened next exposed the fault lines of an entire community—and remained buried in family silence for over a century.
Neal didn’t just research this story. He inherited it. As the great-grandson of the murdered man, he’s unearthed what his family couldn’t speak about: the tangled loyalties of Mormon theocracy, plural families under pressure, a performance of insanity, and the powerful men who chose sides while justice hung in the balance.
Mormon history as you’ve never heard it—raw, complicated, and haunting.
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Contact Daniel Neal @ dannealcpr@gmail.com