Lighthouse by Ronald V. Huggins

Author:Ronald V. Huggins
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Signature Books
Published: 2022-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

Jerald was also suspicious. The kind of questions “Stan Fields” asked and the materials he sought from the Tanners didn’t seem to match the person Fields presented himself to be. Sandra, on the other hand, took Fields’s account of himself more at face value. At one point before Mayfield’s exposure, Jerald expressed his doubts about him to Brent Metcalfe, who in turn warned Mayfield to drop the charade.116 Mayfield didn’t.

The phony persona unraveled when someone who knew Mayfield ran into him as he was pretending to be Stan Fields around Jerald and Sandra. When a man named Michael George Marquart crashed his truck through the gates at Temple Square, insisting to police that God made him do it, Mayfield insinuated to a number of people that it was historian H. Michael Marquardt who had been arrested. Even after he was corrected, Mayfield reportedly continued to implicate the wrong Marquardt.117

H. Michael Marquardt already knew Mayfield before the Temple Square incident. After they were introduced, Mayfield—as Mayfield, not as “Stan Fields”—visited H. Michael Marquardt in Marquardt’s home on March 18, 1980, spending five hours with him.118 Because Marquardt knew the Tanners, and also knew who Mayfield was, time was running out for Stan Fields.

On the morning of Thursday, July 10, 1980, Edward H. Ashment, who worked at the LDS Church Translation Department, visited the Tanners.119 Stan Fields had arrived just before Ashment, but when Ashment walked in, Fields turned away and looked at books until Ashment left. According to Mayfield, Ashment knew him by his real name and he was trying to avoid being caught.120 After Ashment left and Fields turned back around, Jerald noticed he seemed uneasy. He wondered whether Fields was there to spy on Ashment.121 But now with Ashment gone, Fields continued to converse with Jerald, who was more than a little suspicious of him. They spoke for some time until around 2:00 p.m., when H. Michael Marquardt approached the house. Fields, panicking because he knew that if Marquardt came in, he would be recognized as Steve Mayfield, rushed to the door and literally ran away from the store.122 Marquardt watched in amazement.

“What’s Steve Mayfield in such a hurry about?” he asked.

“No, that was Stan Fields, not Steve Mayfield,” Jerald replied.

“No it wasn’t” Michael answered back, “that was Steve Mayfield, his name is Steve Mayfield, not Stan Fields.” Mayfield’s career as Stan Fields was over.

Six days later Jerald and Ed Decker went to the Church Office Building, confronted Mayfield, and taped an interview with him. Mayfield admitted he had worked for the FBI from July 1973 to July 1977, but that even though he took on his alias while still working for the agency, his Stan Fields persona had nothing to do with them.123 Nor, he claimed, was he spying on behalf of the LDS Church or was otherwise funded by them.124 In another interview with historian Scott Faulring, Mayfield admitted he had concocted the Stan Fields alias and that people fell for it “hook, line and sinker.”125 And for the most part they did.

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