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Utah Jogger: Man Bought Mattress Just Before Reporting Wife Missing
WFTV ^ | 7/23/04

Posted on 07/23/2004 3:00:34 PM PDT by 11th Earl of Mar

Man Bought Mattress Just Before Reporting Wife Missing

Mark Hacking 'Person Of Interest' -- Not Suspect -- In Wife's Disappearance

SALT LAKE CITY -- Around the time Mark Hacking called police to report that his pregnant wife never returned from her morning jog, he was at a furniture store buying a new mattress, police confirmed Friday.

Hacking, 28, has not appeared publicly since Monday, the day he said his 27-year-old wife, Lori, vanished. Family members say he has since been hospitalized for stress.

The Deseret Morning News and television station KSTU reported Thursday that police found Hacking at a hotel about a half-mile from the couple's apartment early Tuesday. The station said he was running around naked outside the motel and was hospitalized.

Police said only that they were called to a disturbance involving Hacking and that the matter was turned over to medical personnel. Detective Dwayne Baird said police considered Hacking a person of interest in the case but not a suspect, and that he had been interviewed as recently as Wednesday.

Lori Hacking was five weeks pregnant when she disappeared just days before the couple was to move to North Carolina, where Mark Hacking said he was going to attend medical school. But he had lied to his wife and family - he never graduated from college, nor was he accepted to any medical school, authorities said Thursday.

Meanwhile, The Salt Lake Tribune and KSL-TV reported that Monday morning, in the minutes before he called police to report his wife missing, Mark Hacking was buying a new mattress.

The owners of a Salt Lake furniture store told police that Hacking came in about 9:45 a.m. MDT. Lisa Downs, the wife of store owner Chad Downs, said the credit-card purchase went through at 10:23 a.m.

Police have said Hacking called them and reported his wife missing at 10:49 a.m.

Friends told the Tribune that he had called them about 10 a.m. about his wife's disappearance and said he had twice run his wife's usual jogging route, three miles each way.

Police removed a number of items from the couple's apartment Monday. They would not say what they have taken from the apartment, but television news footage showed paper bags, boxes and a box spring being removed. Police impounded a large trash bin from behind the apartment complex.

Mark Hacking's family and in-laws said they were stunned to learn Wednesday that he had not graduated from college or been accepted at a medical school, as he had claimed.

Thelma Soares, Lori Hacking's mother, said that she was certain her daughter had not known about the discrepancies. "Up to the time when I spoke with her last, she was deceived also," she told KUTV-TV.

Douglas Hacking said even though his son is incapacitated by grief, they spoke of the deception Wednesday night at the hospital.

"He has two older brothers who are high achievers, a physician and the other is an electrical engineer," he said. "He felt under some pressure to excel as well.

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TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: avoidingalimony; childsupportand; getagoodnightssleep; hacker; hacking; killerhusbands; killyerpregnantwife; liar; lori; mark; mattressdiscounters; patholiar; sleeponusmattress; wifekiller
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1 posted on 07/23/2004 3:00:36 PM PDT by 11th Earl of Mar
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To: 11th Earl of Mar

I'm missing the relevance of the mattress... Is the old one missing (i.e., bloodied up) or something?


2 posted on 07/23/2004 3:04:21 PM PDT by dangus
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To: dangus

I would surmise.

Kind of like renting a carpet cleaner before calling the police over your "missing" spouse.

Stupid is as stupid does.


3 posted on 07/23/2004 3:06:48 PM PDT by XEHRpa
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To: 11th Earl of Mar

Are the Hackings Mormons?


4 posted on 07/23/2004 3:07:45 PM PDT by PeoplesRepublicOfWashington
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To: 11th Earl of Mar
Police said only that they were called to a disturbance involving Hacking and that the matter was turned over to medical personnel.

I just heard on the news that he was caught running around naked and taken to a psycho ward.

5 posted on 07/23/2004 3:10:14 PM PDT by VoiceOfBruck (I eat my roadkill - with fava beans and a nice chianti)
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To: PeoplesRepublicOfWashington

Why is that important? Do you know what religion Scott Peterson is?


6 posted on 07/23/2004 3:10:31 PM PDT by UnsinkableMollyBrown
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To: 11th Earl of Mar

I heard on the radio today, WJR, that the police have taken their "BOX SPRING", nothing else taken, nothing here.

Move on it's in Chat!!


7 posted on 07/23/2004 3:12:55 PM PDT by Springman (The left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing, and I'm one of the middle fingers..)
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To: Springman
Move on it's in Chat!!

Yeah, the Modzis are back in control. Zeig heil!

8 posted on 07/23/2004 3:17:22 PM PDT by 11th Earl of Mar
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To: 11th Earl of Mar
That's why I made the comment. WJR had the guy interviewing someone, can't remember her name, and it sounds like a real story.

Just a box spring, yell right, and she is/was 5 weeks pregnant!
9 posted on 07/23/2004 3:24:16 PM PDT by Springman (The left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing, and I'm one of the middle fingers..)
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To: dangus

The husband's incapacitated by...grief? Why grief? Why not dread or anxiety?


10 posted on 07/23/2004 3:28:30 PM PDT by Graymatter (Kerry medical records are none of our business---and his veep pick is, who???)
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To: Springman

The police only found and confiscated "PIECES" from the mattress. (Did Hacking try hacking it up?)


11 posted on 07/23/2004 3:34:19 PM PDT by the Deejay
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To: the Deejay
Thanks, didn't hear that, traffic was bad. Someone else killed his wife because she was pregnant.

What is this would coming to?
12 posted on 07/23/2004 3:39:19 PM PDT by Springman (The left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing, and I'm one of the middle fingers..)
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To: UnsinkableMollyBrown
Given his behavior, I'm inclined to guess that religion is not a big part of Peterson's life. Given the behavior of the Hackings family and that of their inlaws, I'm inclined to guess that they may be Mormons. Geography has something to do with my guess, too.

It's not an important matter. I'm just interested.

13 posted on 07/23/2004 3:53:27 PM PDT by PeoplesRepublicOfWashington
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To: 11th Earl of Mar
This dude did it, and the pressure is making him come unglued at the seams. This won't be some Laci Peterson charade - he'll be cuffed, stuffed, and sporting an 8'x10' cell by the end of the month.


14 posted on 07/23/2004 4:32:23 PM PDT by Viking2002 (Liberals cannot lead, if we refuse to follow..........)
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To: glock rocks

Any ideas on what happened?


15 posted on 07/23/2004 7:11:12 PM PDT by B4Ranch (http://www.firearmsid.com/)
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To: B4Ranch
No. Here's a thread with today's Salt Lake news. I posted three articles that should give good background info.

BTW, wonder why 11th Earl of Mar was banned ??

16 posted on 07/23/2004 7:41:39 PM PDT by glock rocks (will you tell me a story?)
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To: the Deejay

Hi Deejay

you said, '(Did Hacking try hacking it up?)'

Now, that's good.


17 posted on 07/23/2004 7:43:36 PM PDT by JockoManning
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To: B4Ranch

on another thread, I put it like this:

'She was probably just a good little wife who found out a few hours before she "disappeared" that hubby's been telling a few fibs here lately. SO. She goes to pick up the phone and call her folks cuz none of hubby's plans are based in reality. He stops her. She grabs her purse and heads for the door. He stops her. He overpowers her. Even if she just found out the truth, he expects her to now help him with his lies, help him deceive everyone. She says NO WAY. He wrestles her down onto the bed, she struggles, he does something (?) she gets hurt / dies ... I doubt that little gal did anything worse than stop believing the lies / figured out the truth / confronted her husband / ended up dead.'


18 posted on 07/23/2004 7:45:48 PM PDT by JockoManning
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To: All

if anyone's interested, we hashed this out a bit on another thread,

Jogger's Husband Ran Around Hotel Naked
foxnews.com ^ | 7-23-04 |


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1177080/posts


19 posted on 07/23/2004 7:48:37 PM PDT by JockoManning
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To: JockoManning

Why are these idiots forgetting we have divorce courts?


20 posted on 07/23/2004 9:05:08 PM PDT by B4Ranch (http://www.firearmsid.com/)
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