Posted on 07/26/2004 2:28:19 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
SALT LAKE CITY July 26, 2004 — Three days before her husband reported her missing, Lori Hacking took a phone call at work that left her stunned and sobbing, her colleagues at a brokerage house told The Associated Press.
Several colleagues said that Hacking had been arranging for on-campus housing at the University of North Carolina medical school and that they believe the school was returning a call to say her husband, Mark Hacking, was not enrolled there, as he had told her.
Lori Hacking left work early after receiving the call the afternoon of Friday, July 16. Mark Hacking reported his wife's disappearance the following Monday. She is now feared dead, and her husband has become the focus of the police investigation.
At the time of her disappearance, the couple were packing to move to North Carolina within weeks. But after she vanished, police and family members learned that in addition to lying about being accepted to medical school, Mark Hacking had not even graduated from college.
Mark Hacking, a 28-year-old nightshift hospital orderly, has been at a psychiatric hospital since police found him running around naked in sandals the night after the search for his wife began.
Lori Hacking, a 27-year-old trading assistant who just learned she was five weeks pregnant, was a private woman who did not share personal troubles, making her breakdown in the office all the more unusual, said colleagues at Wells Fargo Securities Services.
"She was visibly upset. She started to cry and got up to walk away," her supervisor, Randy Church, told the AP on Monday. He said that when co-workers asked her what was wrong, she replied, "It's no big deal; I'm OK. But I think I will go home."
Lori Hacking's co-workers gave accounts of the phone call to homicide detectives after she was reported missing. Officials at the University of North Carolina were trying to determine whether one of their administrators made the call.
"We wouldn't have any reason to doubt" the Wells Fargo employee accounts, Detective Dwayne Baird said Monday. He would not comment further.
Church said detectives showed up the day after Hacking's disappearance and inspected her e-mail and computer files.
Lori Hacking's mother, Thelma Soares, was unaware her daughter had received the upsetting phone call, but did not get a chance to speak to her the weekend before she vanished, family spokesman Scott Dunaway said.
Results on some of the evidence collected by police, including a mattress recovered from a trash bin and a box spring taken from the couple's apartment, could come back from a laboratory this week.
Brandon Hodge, another trading assistant, said that at about 10 a.m. on Monday, July 19, Mark Hacking placed a call to his wife's office, speaking first to Hodge.
"By the way, how is Lori?" Hodge quoted Hacking as asking. Hodge said he replied, "Well, she's not made it into work yet."
Church, who had been expecting Lori Hacking at 7 a.m. and says she was never late to work, then took the phone. He recalled Mark Hacking saying his wife had not returned from a sunrise jog at Memory Grove, a downtown park near the office. Hacking made it seem as if he was calling from his apartment, Church said.
"Oh, my God, her (work) clothes are still here," Hacking reportedly said to Church.
"I said, `You need to call police immediately. Just get off the phone,'" Church said.
But Hacking did not immediately call police, and police say he was at a store buying a new mattress shortly before reporting his wife missing.
Three of her co-workers who spoke to the AP said they showed up at Memory Grove before Mark Hacking joined them. When he arrived in his Dodge Durango, they told him his wife already had been reported missing. He then placed a call of his own to police dispatchers.
Hacking began an aimless search, walking and pondering before taking off on his own and abandoning Lori's co-workers. But first, he sat in his sport utility vehicle with an address book on his lap, making calls, apparently to relatives.
"Weird scenes inside the gold mine."
So she disappeared Monday morning...but she found out Friday? Didn't anyone who saw them on the weekend notice anything. Were they distant...did she seem upset...scared...?
I find it amusing to see all the wild-a** guessing that goes on here about what Hackings thought or did, especially the guesses that are passed off as established fact. Your claim to know what God Himself told this poor woman is the best one yet. Thanks for the good laugh.
firm, round butts? ROFL! I thought it was the great kissing. But I could be wrong.
1)They are about to pick up their lives and move to a new area of the country.
2) She's just found out she's pregnant
3) She has no job and it's hard to get a job in a new area, especially when pregnant
4)He has no job, no scholarship, no school, no future career -- everything i s alie
5)She confronts her husband about all these things
6)The argue
7)It get's out of hand
8)He kills her.
"By the way, how is Lori?" Hodge quoted Hacking as asking. Hodge said he replied, "Well, she's not made it into work yet."
At 10 am he was supposed to be at the furniture store buying that mattress. From the second article we know that he went to a second store.
An earlier article in another thread stated that he called friends at 10 am to let them know she was missing. (sounds like these 'friends' are actually her co-workers and that he was not telling them of her disappearance.
Looks like he then went to the second store to make the purchase.
Ok..... from another thread link at end.
The owners of Bradley's Furniture, Etc. told The Salt Lake Tribune on Thursday that Mark Hacking came into their South Salt Lake store at about 9:45 Monday morning shopping for a mattress."He just came in like any normal customer, just like his wife sent him to buy a mattress - nothing out of the ordinary," said Lisa Downs, who is the wife of store owner Chad Downs.
Lisa Downs said Mark Hacking's credit card purchase of a queen-sized mattress went through at 10:23 a.m. on Monday. Baird confirmed that purchase on Thursday evening.
Friends said on Wednesday that Mark Hacking contacted them about Lori Hacking's disappearance at about 10 a.m. Monday. They also said Hacking had told them he had run his wife's usual jogging route twice, 3 miles each way, looking for her before he called them.
Mark Hacking called police to report his wife missing at 10:49 a.m., according to police records. Lisa Downs said she figures he was still in her store's parking lot at 10:35. Because store staffers were unable to fully secure the mattress to Mark Hacking's car, he was asked to drive home slowly.
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Both Hawkes and Galbraith said they had volunteered in the search. "It's hard to stay focused, especially with this business with Mark," Galbraith said. "That's not the important thing right now . . . it's disheartening to see so few people show up, and the numbers dropping every day."
Hawkes said that as the Hackings were leaving Sunday night, "I gave her a hug goodbye," she said. "It dawned on me they were going to be moving, and I asked her if this would be the last time I would see her."
Lori Hacking told her it might be the last time she would see Mark, but not her. Mark Hacking was planning to drive to North Carolina before his wife, who was planning to fly there the first week in August. Lori Hacking promised her she was still planning to attend a girlfriend's birthday party Aug. 1.
"It just freaks me out that she was at my house, and less than 12 hours later, this whole thing goes down," Hawkes said. "It's just a shock."
Darn shame that no one else knew Hacking had a mental problem. Actually, seems as though his family should have known.
It'd be a pretty big shock to find out that you are moving within weeks, probably had given notice on the apartment, you are pregnant, now there is no school, ho housimng, no job, no scholarship, or grant. She's thinking, "I've got to confront him and find out what is going on." Now she finds out that his previous college graduation was faked. She's been married to this jerk for 5 years and now she wants to kmnow what else he's been lying about...
Marie Osmond comes from a very, very strongly religious Mormon family. I remember hearing about how excited she was to be married in the Mormon Temple in Salt Lake to her first husband (for eternity). Eternity turned out to be about, what, five years? He cheated, they divorced, she remarried. There are no guarantees and we all fail occasionally, but often times due to our OWN choices.
It's a scientific fact that women are attracted to men with firm, round butts. Do Peterson and Hacking have firm, round butts?
Well, I'm not self-absorbed, not a monster, and running over 25 miles a week has made the butt pretty firm.
How come I'm still single? LOL...
Do you find it odd that he calls her work and asks.. 'How's Lori?'.. instead of 'Is Lori there?', or 'Is Lori busy?' or 'Can I speak to Lori?'.
Do you think those extra hours would have changed anything? I'd guess she took those hours to go think somewhere. Being at work and upset, she probably wouldn't have been able to think and would have been asked questions. The article states that she was a private person that didn't talk about personal things.
I surmise she wanted to be alone to consider her options. I think she may have confronted him at home. If she had driven, she could have done her thinking after work, but I gather from previous articles that he drove her to work. Why he felt he needed the car more than her is beyond me. Unless it was another means of controlling her. They may have agrued and he may have said he'd go ahead of her and find a place, look for a job and or enroll in some college to pick up where he left off. He may have reassured her. Temporarily.
Notice in the snips from the other thread that she told her friend that he was going and she would follow later.
Its possible that he didn't trust her to not speak about the lies to her and his parents.... or that they got into a renewed arguement and it got out of hand.
Because there is something in it for them. Nothing in this world as complex as human behavior is ever as simple as it seems, eh?
Man if you think that dude is good looking, you should be dating Dennis Kuchinich.
He is a fat bald creep.
By the way, where is the focus on the victim. She's dead Jim.
Oh no, I didn't mean that you did imply anything! In any religion, this kind of thinking can pop up. I'm RC.
There are shall we say, subsets in a religion, where things are taken too far. Early marriage stems from the fear that the offspring might "sin" and therefore burn in hell. It's not unlike what happens in Islam.
She would have been better off going to his parents and asking them how best to approach this with her husband. (That way she could get their input, and show that she didn't want to belittle him. She just might be alive if she had somehow involved his family.)
So, it's her fault she got killed.
Well, given that both he and he co-workers would have known that she had left work very upset on Friday afternoon after receiving a disturbing phone call, not as odd as it might be. A husband who saw his wife leave for work still upset about something which had caused her to leave work early the previous work day, might well ask her co-worker how she's doing. But still odd, given what we know.
You obviously didn't grow up around hardline religion, did you? You are supposed to pray to God for wisdom in every situation. I mean EVERY situation, no matter how some might think it to be a trivial one.
Some of us here can see how this could be a reasonable scenario.
I've got a rope and a tree. send Me that POS of a "man".
What a piece of c&ap he is!
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