The Epstein Suicide

Joseph Smith kept very intense diaries, which you'll find out decades and decades later that all of this was transcribed. And it is interesting because if you do it like that, then everyone can kind of interpret it in their own mind and make it fit whatever they believe as opposed to having a solidified belief system that they could argue against. Now on and on it went until finally Mormon leaders bribed a guard with whiskey to facilitate their escape. While he was asleep, Joseph Smith and the other leaders skittered away and left Missouri forever. They along with 8,000 other Mormons fled to a settlement in Illinois named Nauvoo.