Biographical History

Steven L. Mayfield (born 1952) is a law enforcement officer and document collector in Utah.

Mayfield was born in 1952 and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. He served as a Latter-day Saint missionary in Colorado and Nebraska. He worked as a file clerk for the Federal Bureau of Investigation in San Francisco between 1973 and 1977. He then attended college at Weber State College in Ogden, Utah, graduating with a bachelor's degree in police science in 1980. Mayfield worked as a deputy sheriff in Jefferson County, Colorado for nearly ten years before taking a position as a crime scene investigator with the Salt Lake City Police Department, as well as a crime scene photographer, crime lab technician, and self-described "documentation collector." While there, he worked under George Throckmorton, and assisted with a number of cases involving historical documents. He has also been involved with the Mormon History Association, Sunstone, and the Utah State Historical Society.

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Steven Mayfield collection of anti-Mormon media, 1974-2004

Brigham Young University, L. Tom Perry Special Collections worksheet, Mar. 7, 2007 (Steven L. Mayfield; collector of anti-Mormon literature)

Deseret News, via WWW, Feb. 8, 2017 (work as crime scene photographer, crime scene investigator, crime lab techinician, self-described "documentation collector")

fairlatterdaysaints.org, February 19, 2022 (Steve Mayfield; born in the San Francisco carea; served Latter-day Saint mission in Colorado and Nebraska; worked as an FBI file clerk (1973-1977); Deputy Jefferson County Colorado (1981-1990) and crime scene investigator for Salt Lake City Police Department(1994- ); worked with George Throckmorton in historical/questioned document cases; involved with Mormon History Association, Sunstone, Utah Historical Society; producer of radio program on KTKK; self-described "documentation collector")

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