Utah Murderer-Forger Coming Out of Coma After Overdosing in Prison
The condition of admitted pipe-bomb killer and forger Mark Hofmann was upgraded Friday from critical to serious and stable after a drug overdose, but police officers still could not interview him.
“He has improved considerably overnight. His pulse, blood pressure and heart rate are all stable,” University of Utah Health Sciences Center spokesman John Dwan said. “He’s waking up, coming out of the coma.”
Officers were called to Hofmann’s prison cell Thursday by his cellmate, who could not wake him for lunch. Hofmann initially was reported to be in critical and unstable condition after what Dwan said was an overdose of an undetermined anti-depressant drug.
Hofmann, 33, was sentenced to five years to life in prison after pleading guilty in January, 1987, to having planted pipe bombs that killed Steven Christensen, a documents collector, and Kathleen Sheets, wife of Christensen associate Gary Sheets, on Oct. 15, 1985.
Hofmann confessed that he killed the two to cover up his career as a forger of historical documents, many of which he sold to the Mormon Church.
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