Posted on 07/29/2004 11:09:00 AM PDT by Bonaparte
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 --- Tribune reporters Ashley Broughton, Kirsten Stewart and Brent Israelsen contributed to this article.
Hmmm. It wouldn't be too hard to quantify the waste of bandwidth in dollars. Cost of monthly overhead divided by number of threads. I bet this thread didn't cost a buck. If that comes out of my buck a day donation, I'd consider it well spent.
BTW, we donated shopping bags of munchies and babysat for searchers last week. Looks like us fools in Salt Lake "wasted" lots more than bandwidth.
Also, on the My Comments page, it's spread waaayyyy across the screen. Causes sentences to run into outer space. LOL
How disgusting for Mark to allow searchers to spend countless hours seaching when he knows where Lori is (I thought about this by mid-week). I'll bet my last dollar on it.
If JimRob discovered I posted this article, he'd be seething about all the server space this is costing him. I think it's my duty to report this. Yeah, he'll probably yank the crime/corruption topic altogether, round up all my co-conspirators and suspend our posting privileges for good measure. I sure hope this doesn't go on my permanent record. That could really dim my prospects in life. I knew it was wrong when I did it, but I just wasn't thinking. Goes to show how one careless moment can destroy a reputation and shame a family forever.
Say, why haven't you reported this obvious abuse to Admin Mod? I really think it's your duty as a responsible, civic-minded poster, don't you?
Further, I would venture to say that if one added up ALL of the media's broadcast hours of these soap-operas; it would exceed the amount of air time of 9/11 coverage. The OJ coverage is still going on. One tries to watch the "news" and we hear the same story/interview played by a gazillion networks over, and over, and over again.
There is an expression I use in business seminars. It's the 'puke factor;' which says say it once and continue on. This is what the media is doing to us. If I want to get sick, I could watch Rosie, Springer, and the rest of the afternoon mindless dolts. Nevermind. Stay tuned for another lifetime coverage of more of this sensationalism.
I know he didn't walk around with nothing but lint in his pockets.
Yawn to your post which is a waste of bandwidth in and of itself. Why don't you just move on to a thread that interests you instead of post and complain....
That being said there is no yawn to those bullet bras. I might be in the market for one of those!
Do you think your "expression of opinion" is going to convince any of us to stop posting about the Hacking murder?
If not, what do you hope to accomplish?
I'm asking this in all sincerity.
But it's so much more fun to make himself and his dissatisfaction the new topic of this thread. It's almost as good as changing the title to "Cobra's Unhappiness With Crime News Postings."
He was probably sponging of her and his parents and expecting the same in NC but with her pregnant he could not count on her income. It was their plan to have kids AFTER med school.
Who knows. Maybe he was taking her money and also working a little on the side while he was supposed to be in class.
But it's so much more fun to make himself and his dissatisfaction the new topic of this thread. It's almost as good as changing the title to "Cobra's Unhappiness With Crime News Postings."
This is the case exactly so just ignore ignore ignore posts
But then again, he may have actually been going to class. Just no making the grade.
Any link on that?
"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!"
BINGO!!!!
Moving on....I do find this case very interesting and sad. I suspect the worst. I wonder how someone can lead a double life for YEARS and not be found out.
Could be but there's some question about whether he even knew she was with child. I think his sister, Sarah, said Lori was going to save telling him for a special surprise or something like that.
We know he worked as an orderly, so that gave him at least some income. But everything I'm hearing about him tells me he was not content to just do his job and build a life with Lori. He has always been up to something.
The Mormon Church almost certainly footed the bill for him during his mission days in Canada. And how did he use the time that gave him? He used it to corrupt a new convert, to attempt the corruption of his fellow missionaries, to indulge in substance abuse, sexual license and partying. I think this has been his lifestyle all along. He just learned to hide it better after he was sent home from Canada.
Practice, practice, practice.
Of course, I'm sure it helps to be a born psychopath. Then you've got native ability going for you, too.
Hmmm. As they were arguing about his not being in medical school, she let it slip that she was pregnant and expected him to get a real job and he flipped?
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