Benda Lafferty, little Erica and her husband Allen, the wedding that starred in one of the most horrific crimes in U.S. history, whose story is told by the series “Under the flag of heaven”.
Andrew Garfield’s return to television after more than ten years of his last project, this time with his first leading role in the new miniseries “Under the Banner of Heaven”which will premiere it Thursday, April 28 on Hulufollowed by its confirmed premiere on STAR+ for Latin America, makes people around the world speak out because of the brutality of the history of murder of Brenda Lafferty and her baby in 1984 at the hands of her two brothers -in -law.
The series is based on the book’s homonymous Jon Krakauertelling a true-life story, introducing detective Jeb Pyre (Garfield) who begins to investigate events that took place within the Lafferty family, where he discovers entrenched truths about the origins of religion. Church of the Latter -day Saints, and the violent fruitage of strong faith. This event will cause Pyre, that is a devout Mormon, ask your own faith.
Created by Dustin Lance Black, Daisy Edgar-Jones is the co-star of the series, playing Brenda Wright Lafferty, who becomes a victim of crime with her little daughter, Erica Lane, in a suburb of Salt Lake Valley, Utah. The other cast includes Sam Worthington, Denise Gough, Wyatt Russell, Billy Howle, Gil Birmingham, Adelaide Clemens, Rory Culkin, Seth Numrich, Chloe Pirrie, and Sandra Seacat.
Daisy Edgar Jones will play Benda Lafferty, the Mormon woman murdered by her two brothers -in -law in 1984 in the series “Under the banner of heaven.”
The crime took place on July 24, 1984 in Utah, the quintessential Mormon state in the United States. Religious brothers Dan and Ron Lafferty, accompanied by two other accomplices they cut the throat of his sister -in -law Brendaa charming former TV host, Mormon, and wife of Lafferty’s third brother, Allenas well as your baby. The crime has caused shock across the country.
The reason for the massacre was because Brenda was opposed to submitting to the plural marriage demanded by fundamentalists and to having sex with them. Murder is a “divine commandment”said the criminals. But the series goes beyond being a simple separate criminal action, but also exposes American political and religious fabric such as the Mormons, a religious group that bans alcohol, tobacco, illegal drugs, coffee and tea, and is based on what church members believe to be a revelation from God to the founder Joseph Smith, in 1833.
On the day of the murders, Allen Lafferty came home to find his wife, Brenda, then 24, lying in the kitchen with a deep cut in the neck and hundreds of hits. The phone cord was disconnected from the wall, so he went to the bedroom to call 911 from there. Passing the room of his 15-month-old daughter Erica, he saw another horrible: the dead girl in her cradle.
Brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty, authors of the brutal crimes that inspired the “Under the banner of heaven” series, have been in the news for decades in the United States.
“I’ve seen a lot of deaths in my career,” the former American Fork County Police Department chief reflects in 2019, TerryFox, who in 1984 oversaw the investigation into the massacre. “This was a different case that was religiously motivated. You can use the word brutal, horrible. And I just don’t dismiss them lightly because it was a really brutal murder. It’s different from many other crimes, starting at the crime scene. “
Dan Lafferty and his brother Ron. The first was sentenced to life imprisonment; the other, until death. He was supposed to be shot but died in 2019 of natural causes.
Both brothers were arrested. Dan was sentenced to life imprisonment and Ron, to death for having control of the killings in the area. After a long legal battle, he chose to die under the bullets of a firing squad. But when he was on “death row” waiting to be shot, He passed away of natural causes in 2019.
“Under the Flag of Heaven”: Andrew Garfield’s break
Andrew Garfield, who was nominated for best actor at the last edition of the Oscars, is temporarily leaving acting after the miniseries “Under the Banner of Heaven” to “rest a bit and recalibrate the future,” the actor himself announced in an interview with miscellaneous.
“I have to rethink what I want to do next, who I want to be and like a normal person for a while “explained the interpreter.
Andrew Garfield at the Oscars in Los Angeles. The actor will temporarily leave acting after the “Under the Banner of Heaven” miniseries to “relax and re-calibrate the future.” photo: EFE
Last year was particularly intense for Garfield, who received his second Hollywood Academy Award nomination as well “Tik, Tik … Boom!” and participate in other recognized production such as “The Eyes of Tammy Faye”.
In 2022, the American actress will be 39 years old and wants to rest after the “ruined period of awards”, although he doesn’t want to interpret it as a complaint about recognition.
Prior to his temporary retirement, the actor will be seen in miniseries “Under the Banner of Heaven” for the Hulu platform, an adaptation of the homonymous book of the genre ‘true crime’ published by writer Jon Krakauer in 2003.
Source: Clarin