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COKEVILLE, Wyo. — Filmmaker T.C. Christensen released a trailer for his latest film, "The Cokeville Miracle," set to open April 8, 2015.
It's been nearly 30 years since David and Doris Young terrorized a small Wyoming town, taking 154 students hostage at Cokeville Elementary and then setting off a bomb.
Miraculously, the explosion only killed the perpetrators, while sparing the children. Ron Hartley was an investigator for the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office at the time. Earlier this year he told KSL about a conversation with the bomb investigator after the traumatic events on May 16, 1986.
"When I walked up towards him, he just said, 'Hartley, I'm not a religious man,' but he said this is a miracle," Hartley said. "If this had gone off the way it was intended to go off, it would have leveled this school and there would be a lot of dead children."
It's not the violence and mayhem that Christensen is focusing on, but the miracles surrounding the event. According to Christensen, the major theme of the film is that people realized through this incident that they were not alone, that God was involved and watching out for them.
Contributing: Angie Denison
