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There are many people who wondered how Mark Hofmann hid his secret life of forgeries from his own wife Dorie. Brent Ashworth was among those. In our final conversation with Brent, he tells how he came to realize Dorie was duped like everyone else, and how he apologized to Dorie for his beliefs about her.
Brent: I always thought Mark was using his wife, that she was in on some of this, because she was so near to it. I was kind of taking it out mentally on his wife, on Dorie for those years. Finally, it dawned on me. It takes me a little while. But finally, it dawned on me that she was just as much in the dark as the rest of us were, even though she was right next to him, and that I’d been kind of blaming her or I shouldn’t have blamed her for any part in it. I felt guilty. I thought, “I need to go apologize to Dorie.” So, it was 1990, it was 3 years after Hofmann’s gone to the slammer. I went up to her house and it was the same door. She was behind the screen [door,] and I think she was a little surprised to see me.
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509: Catching More Hofmann Forgeries
508: Brent Called Salamander Letter Fake
507: Hofmann’s Motive Against Church
506: Why 3rd Bomb wasn’t Suicide Attempt
505: McLellin Collection Offers
503: Mark’s Unknown Half Million$ Deal
502: Hiding from Hofmann