I Have a Theory: Who Killed Joseph Smith?

Updated to include part 2. Hoping to avoid a part 3. // Re: retrial -- per Prof. Douglas Lender via [Famous-Trials.com](https://www.famous-trials.com/carthrage/1262-home): * Joseph & Hyrum self-surrendered at Carthage to stand trial for INCITING A RIOT that ended with the destruction of the printing press, bc they thought they would get out on bail/technicalities. There had not yet been a trial. * while being held, treason charges were brought, and bail denied, foiling their escape plan * the IL governor arranged for Joseph & Hyrum to be specially guarded until trial * approx a month after the killings, Mormons swept local elections including sheriff who was to oversee the investigation * the defense attorney for those accused of the killings had previously helped Joseph escape extradition to MO * the prosecution's star witness' credibility was destroyed when an objectively ridiculous tell-all was published in his name before the trial * John Taylor, who survived the assassination att