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Hacking's Perfect Past Keeps Crumbling
Salt Lake Tribune ^
| July 29, 2004
| Matt Canham
Posted on 07/29/2004 11:09:00 AM PDT by Bonaparte
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posted on
07/29/2004 11:09:01 AM PDT
by
Bonaparte
To: Bonaparte
Paragraphs are your friends.
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posted on
07/29/2004 11:10:08 AM PDT
by
cinFLA
To: Bonaparte
Paragraph, paragraph, paragraph
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posted on
07/29/2004 11:11:30 AM PDT
by
JennysCool
(The Clinton Legacy: Sandy Berger's Pants)
To: Petronski; Sunshine55; Unknown Freeper; asgardshill; cripplecreek; the Deejay; dandelion; ...
Oops! It appears the formatting dropped out on me. Sorry.
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posted on
07/29/2004 11:11:35 AM PDT
by
Bonaparte
To: cinFLA; JennysCool
The formatting showed up in the text preview window, then vanished when article when posted.
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posted on
07/29/2004 11:13:55 AM PDT
by
Bonaparte
To: Bonaparte
You know what they say...if it sounds too good to be true.......
To: Bonaparte
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posted on
07/29/2004 11:15:03 AM PDT
by
TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig
(You can turn your head away from the Berg video and still hear Al Queda's calls to prayer.)
To: cinFLA; JennysCool
Husband's 'perfect' past keeps crumbling
Suspicions: As blood is reported found in the Hackings' apartment, an ex-missionary says Mark was booted from a mission in Canada
By Matt Canham
The Salt Lake Tribune
Salt Lake Tribune
2004-07-29 02:34:31.886
Small amounts of blood are among the evidence taken last week from the apartment of Lori Hacking, according to a source familiar with the investigation.
But detectives won't have a definitive answer on whose blood it is anytime soon.
State forensic experts assisted Salt Lake City police last week in searching the missing woman's apartment, seizing bags of evidence and a box spring. Some of the evidence was sent to the state crime laboratory, but test results may take "weeks, if not months," said Detective Phil Eslinger.
Meanwhile, police late Wednesday and early today were continuing the arduous task of sifting through thousands of tons of garbage at the Salt Lake County landfill, ostensibly in search of a body - although they acknowledge the difficulty of the effort.
"You could hide a car in there and never find it," said Detective Dwayne Baird. "They literally have a mountain of stuff to go through. It could take months to go through."
Meanwhile, attention continues to focus on Mark Hacking, who first reported his wife missing at 10:49 a.m. on July 19, claiming she never returned from a jog in City Creek Canyon. Police now question whether Lori was ever at the canyon, even though her car was found nearby.
"We are not certain she was ever up there," Baird said. "We have found nothing that would indicate she was." Police have no information about Lori Hacking's whereabouts on July 19, and say, though she remains a missing person case, her disappearance has "very, very suspicious circumstances," Baird said.
Mark Hacking's comments, including those he made in his initial call, are now being questioned by police, who no longer consider him cooperative.
"When you don't get anything from what he is saying, do you call it cooperative? Probably not," Baird said. "We have had to make sure we double and triple check. He has a history of failing to tell the truth. It takes so much time to sift through."
Mark Hacking told family and friends that he had graduated from the University of Utah and had been accepted to the medical school at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Police informed the family that Hacking had been lying. He never graduated from the U. and never applied to medical school.
Police say Hacking's story has other holes, and his misrepresentations could go back for years.
"Medical school was the pinnacle of that deception," Baird said.
The son of a respected Orem doctor and fifth of seven children, Hacking was known in the Winnipeg, Canada, district where he served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the mid-1990s as a person with extremely bright prospects who also talked often of his girlfriend Lori, whom he had met while in high school, according to some fellow missionaries.
But at least one former missionary said Hacking was also prone to breaking the rules - and claims that resulted in a "worthiness hearing" and a premature trip back to Utah.
"My companion and myself steered clear when females would come over to the apartment so that we would not be caught up in that specific area of disobedience," said Michael Turner, who joined the Winnipeg mission in 1996 and claims Hacking was having a relationship with a recent convert.
"It was a bit more than just holding hands and passionate kissing on the lips," Turner said. "That is what got him sent home."
Turner said Hacking also tried to convince his fellow missionaries to "live it up" before he was sent home.
"I wrote it off as crazy talk, but he was all of the sudden on the other side of the spectrum," Turner said. "He was wanting to get some alcohol and get plowed, go gambling."
Meanwhile, police say Hacking remains a patient in the University Neuropsychiatric Institute, where he was admitted the night after he reported his wife missing.
"When they are done with him, he is free to leave," Eslinger said.
This is despite the fact that he remains a "person of interest" in his wife's disappearance, which in the lexicon of the Salt Lake City Police Department is less than a "suspect."
"A person of interest is someone that is looked at closely in regards to the case," said Eslinger. "It's someone that you need to look at a lot closer than just an interview, but there's not enough to actually say, 'You know what? We feel this person did it.' ''
Police say the last time they spoke with Mark Hacking was a week ago, the same day Hacking hired attorney Gilbert Athay.
Athay says he regularly visits Hacking.
"Everyday. And I will continue to do so." He declined to discuss Hacking's demeanor but said his client was coherent.
Earlier this week, Lori Hacking's family called off their request for the public's help in searching for Lori, as they tried to regroup and determine where to send specialized groups to comb more rugged terrain.
The family has declined to comment on the search or any other aspect of Lori's disappearance for the time being according to a woman who answered the search center phone number. All correspondence between the center and the family is now via e-mail, she said.
mcanham@sltrib.com
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Tribune reporters Ashley Broughton, Kirsten Stewart and Brent Israelsen contributed to this article.
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posted on
07/29/2004 11:15:16 AM PDT
by
Bonaparte
To: TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig
LOL! I'll put a digital forensic team on it rfn.
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posted on
07/29/2004 11:16:48 AM PDT
by
Bonaparte
To: Bonaparte
I've had the same formatting problem lately. Since then, I've quite jumping on posters who's posts aren't formatted. There's something internally wrong that changes the formatting sometimes. Especially when doing an auto-excerpt.
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posted on
07/29/2004 11:16:52 AM PDT
by
EggsAckley
(.....John Edwards: The political equivalent of breast implants.....)
To: Bonaparte
While you're at it, keep us up to date on OJ, Kobe and Laci. Yawn. More soap-opera waste of airwave bandwidth. These stories are SO tiresome.
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posted on
07/29/2004 11:18:33 AM PDT
by
Cobra64
(Babes should wear Bullet Bras - www.BulletBras.net)
To: Bonaparte
Police now question whether Lori was ever at the canyon, even though her car was found nearby. "We are not certain she was ever up there," Baird said. "We have found nothing that would indicate she was." I'm just being picky: I'm not saying that she WAS at the canyon -- but, to say there you found her car at the canyon, but have found nothing to indicate that she was at the canyon, seems like something Chief Wiggum would say.
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posted on
07/29/2004 11:22:47 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(The Fourth Estate is a Fifth Column)
To: Bonaparte
Oops! It appears the formatting dropped out on me. Sorry.Don't feel bad, it's not your fault.
There are NO paragraph tags in the Salt Lake Tribune HTML source code. The text is separated only by break tags.
The newspaper's webmaster is obviously an idiot.
To: EggsAckley
""My companion and myself steered clear when females would come over to the apartment so that we would not be caught up in that specific area of disobedience," said Michael Turner, who joined the Winnipeg mission in 1996 and claims Hacking was having a relationship with a recent convert. "It was a bit more than just holding hands and passionate kissing on the lips," Turner said. "That is what got him sent home."
Turner said Hacking also tried to convince his fellow missionaries to "live it up" before he was sent home.
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Hmmm. I've asked this before, but a repeat can't hurt. What was MH doing with all that time when he wasn't in school and Lori was busy working all day?
"I've had the same formatting problem lately."
EggsAckley -- prove it! LOL!
To: Cobra64
Almost as tiresome as your constant whining about topics you don't like? Howzabout clicking on a thread you like, instead of one you don't. There are hundreds of other threads you can choose. Think of the bandwidth you're wasting with all this whining!
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posted on
07/29/2004 11:27:00 AM PDT
by
MizSterious
(First, the journalists, THEN the lawyers.)
To: vox humana
"Don't feel bad, it's not your fault."Prove it! I demand proof! LOL!
(Thanks, vh. Does the millionth poster who says "paragraphs are our friends" win something?)
To: ClearCase_guy
but, to say there you found her car at the canyon, but have found nothing to indicate that she was at the canyon, seems like something Chief Wiggum would say. Not necessarily. For example, suppose they found her car keys at home.... It would mean that Mark Hacking used his own keys, and came back home.
In fact, that actually makes a lot of sense -- the most natural thing in the world is to grab your own keys. If he was already under extreme stress, this is the sort of detail he might well have overlooked.
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posted on
07/29/2004 11:30:06 AM PDT
by
r9etb
To: Cobra64
Please continue, Cobra64. I'm fascinated. Can you tell us a bit more about your feelings this morning when you saw yet another Hacking article posted? It must be very hard for you and I'm sure our viewers can relate to your agony.
To: Bonaparte
Hmmm. I've asked this before, but a repeat can't hurt. What was MH doing with all that time when he wasn't in school and Lori was busy working all day? Some friends had this kid that would drop out right after he enrolled and get the refund check (fees paid by parents) and then use his refund and book money to party all term. Lasted for about two terms.
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posted on
07/29/2004 11:35:05 AM PDT
by
cinFLA
To: Bonaparte
I really wish the media would quit harping on these basically inconsequential cases when there are far, FAR more important news to report.
This week, a Mohammed islamist copy-cat sniper was caught near Omaha. Did anyone hear anything on the national news about this? Nope. Nada.
AlQaeda terrorists are sneaking across the border with SouthAfrican passports and assuming Hispanic names. News? Nope, we're too busy telling you all the latest details about Peterson, Hacking, Kobe and Jackson.
FoxNews just had an alert saying the FBI/DOJ issued a warning about "unspecified" dangers with no clue about targets or timing.
No mention about the terrorists slipping across the borders with SA passports and assuming Hispanic names.
I swear that the MWDP [Media Wing of the Democrat Party] along with the DNC and GOP (and even FNC) seem perfectly content to allow tens of thousands of terrorists to roam unnoticed among us so that then, when they do strike and kill hundreds of thousands of us; because all they will truly care about are their skyrocketing RATINGS!!!
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posted on
07/29/2004 11:39:57 AM PDT
by
auzerais
(C*ANSWER: a fatally wasting brain disease afflicting the pro-jihadist Left!)
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