People line the pond in Memory Grove Park during the candlelight vigil Sunday night to express concern for Lori Hacking.
Chris Bergin, Deseret Morning News
Posted on 07/25/2004 12:48:57 AM PDT by blondee123
Bloodied knife is found at Hackings'
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Bloodied knife is found at Hackings'
Police mum on reports of a blade with blood, hair Copyright 2004 Deseret Morning News
By Jennifer Dobner and Pat Reavy Deseret Morning News
A bloodstained knife with strands of hair attached is among the evidence Salt Lake police seized from the apartment of Mark and Lori Hacking, sources told the Deseret Morning News Saturday. The knife is among numerous items taken — including a set of box springs, some bedding and computers — from the couple's home in the six days since the newly pregnant Lori Hacking reportedly went missing while taking a sunrise jog Monday in Memory Grove. The knife may or may not be a key piece of evidence for Salt Lake police trying to solve the mystery of Lori Hacking's disappearance. But police weren't confirming, denying or even talking about the evidence on Satur- day. "We're not going to talk about anything of evidentiary value," police detective Dwayne Baird said. After learning about the knife late Saturday, Mark Hacking's brother, Lance Hacking, had this to say:
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Didn't the guy Mark have a brother that was a doctor? And the family is very proud of the brother?
This starts to make me think that it all came down to that imaginary acceptance to med school. This guy couldn't face the fact that he would not (in his mind) measure up to the brother?
And because of his weird, pathetic, unreasonable insecurity... someone has to DIE??
This dumb sh*t knew the day of reckoning was coming. I think he even planned to kill himself, not Lori, but he didn't have the guts.
He could have died a college graduate and an almost med student...very few people would have known about the deception.
Yes, one of his brothers was a doctor as well as his father. I believe I heard that another brother was a lawyer. All very high achievers except for Mark.
Maybe this time to get out of going to medical school was to kill his wife, then declare his is too distraught to even consider going. Why, soon after his wife went missing, he was hospitalized with "stress" instead of helping to search for Lori. A great way to avoid answering questions from the media and others.
Thanks for the correction. I knew they were all high achievers but couldn't remember for sure the profession.
It is so hard to believe that anyone could do this kind of thing.
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bastard....all about him..why could he and scott just divorce these women....why is it always men hacking up women?? Like no man deserves hacking up lol or maybe women are more civilized
Anything to get Berger out of the spotlight.
This apparent murder is terrible. However, people go missing all the time, and are killed all the time. In my opinion, the media were looking for something to bump Berger from the headlines....
Ping.
Appreciate the ping, grizzfan !
Chris Bergin, Deseret Morning News
Chill out!
Sheesh, you've already come to a conclusion that no one else has, so if you have proof of any of this, I suggest you call the authorities and let them know.
There's nothing to indicate, as of yet, that she's dead, and if the police actually had all this evidence as reported, he'd already have been arrested.
Why don't you wait and actually see what happens before getting your blood pressure up and calling someone a monster. Ever consider that you might be wrong and things aren't what is reported? Even if they are, there will be plenty of time for all this and you won't come across looking like a fool.
Kinda like my comment to my husband when he talked about buying a shotgun for home defense. "If we have to blast some goblin, who's gonna clean up the mess?" Not that I think it's a bad idea to get a shotgun, mind you.
This case sure looks like it's not a hoodunit. The big mystery is "Where is the body?"
"The knife is among numerous items taken — including a set of box springs, some bedding and computers...."
Doesnt look good for the hubby. I think his running around naked stunt was just to set up a future insanity defense.
The Hackings have lawyered up. Mark is expected to be arrested as soon as the blood tests are completed. Even as early as today.
Any questions?
The father is a doctor, too. A pediatrician.
He must have relied on Dr. Spock and other "no-spank" doctors while raising Mark.
Lori got upsetting phone call days before she dissapeared.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,126983,00.html
I wonder if Mark Geragos is going to touch this case. He seems to get off on this kind of brutality.
If MG gets this case we know there is also something wrong with MH's family
SALT LAKE CITY — The focus on Mark Hacking's (search) possible involvement in the disappearance of his wife tightened Monday in light of several disturbing reports, including one that Lori Hacking got an upsetting phone call at work three days before she vanished.
Lori's co-workers at Wells Fargo Brokerage Service said she received a phone call at the office that prompted her to leave work early, sobbing and visibly upset.
Lori's supervisor said she received the call on July 16, believed to be from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. That's where her husband had supposedly been enrolled for medical school.
Lori Hacking (search), 27, had been trying to arrange for housing at the campus, but her co-workers said the call from the school was to tell her that her husband had not registered at the school.
Several workers gave their accounts of the call to homicide detectives after she was reported missing the following Monday, July 19.
Also troubling were press accounts that police found a bloody knife with brown hair on it in the couple's apartment and took it away for testing.
There were additional rumors that authorities, using blood-detection techniques, had found a significant amount of blood inside the Hackings' home and unearthed a clump of brown hair in a Dumpster only two blocks from where Mark Hacking purchased a new mattress just before he told police his wife was missing. They didn't yet know whether the hair found in the trash was Lori's.
Mark Hacking, 28, has been in hospitalized in the psychiatric unit where he worked as an orderly since early Tuesday, a day after he said his wife disappeared.
Detective Dwayne Baird, a police spokesman, wouldn't confirm or deny a Deseret Morning News (search) report citing unnamed sources that a bloody knife with strands of brown hair stuck on it was among the evidence removed from the Hackings' apartment for testing.
"We took a lot of things out of that apartment," Baird said. He said police were still waiting on test results from a search of the apartment and surrounding area.
Baird said Mark Hacking was still a "person of interest" in the case, but he would not elaborate.
Lori Hacking vanished — seemingly into thin air — one week ago, just days after she learned she was five weeks pregnant and days before she and her husband were to move to North Carolina. Mark Hacking reported her disappearance to authorities, saying she'd gone out jogging while he was sleeping and never showed up for work that morning.
But since then, inconsistencies in his story and his bizarre behavior have intensified suspicion that he might have been involved. The couple was moving to North Carolina, where Mark had said he was going to attend medical school.
As it turned out, he had lied to his wife and family — he had not been accepted to any medical school and never even graduated from college.
He also had initially said his wife did not wake him up after coming home from an early morning jog, as she usually did, and never showed up to work. But police confirmed Friday that Mark Hacking was at a furniture store buying a new mattress just before reporting to police that Lori was missing.
Footage from a surveillance camera shows Mark Hacking looking for a mattress in one store but then leaving, apparently when he found out he couldn't take his purchase with him that day, FOX News has learned.
Instead, he wound up buying the mattress he came home with from a store across the street.
He has been under psychiatric care since police found him early Tuesday running naked around a motel not far from his home.
Lori Hacking's family and her in-laws have said they want to keep the focus on finding Lori, not Mark's inconsistent statements.
"We continue to entertain all possibilities and we are prepared for whatever the outcome may be," Douglas Hacking, Mark's father, said in a written statement given to The Associated Press. "We would like to think Mark had no part in it. Our love for him has not changed and our ultimate goal is still to bring Lori home."
The family has been holding as many as two news conferences a day since Lori was reported missing. But they have been more reluctant to face reporters since questions arose about the credibility of Hacking's husband.
"We are all exhausted and we feel we need to concentrate our efforts and our energies on finding Lori," said Thelma Soares (search), Hacking's mother.
They hired a new spokesman, Scott Dunaway — a leader in Soares' church — who said that though the family was distressed by the news reports, they were waiting for official confirmation from police before they commented publicly.
Mark Hacking's family said they'd visited him in the hospital as recently as Sunday and he was doing well, asking for video games to pass the time and inquiring frequently about the investigation. They also said they have been careful about what they've been telling him.
About 200 people attended a candlelight vigil for Lori Sunday night at Memory Grove Park, where her husband said she went jogging the day she disappeared. Lori Hacking routinely ran in that park.
FOX News' Alicia Acuna, Catherine Donaldson-Evans and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Thanks for the info...Praying for Lori's soul, and her grieving loved ones....
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