Posted on 08/01/2004 7:25:22 AM PDT by JockoManning
Search now 'unnecessary,' say families of Lori Hacking By Jennifer Dobner Deseret Morning News
Mark Hacking told his family something important Saturday — and whatever it is, it apparently makes any further volunteer searches for his missing 27-year-old wife unnecessary.
That news came late Saturday, not from Salt Lake City police but by way of a statement faxed to the Deseret Morning News and other media by Mark and Lori Hackings' families. "The families understand that Mark Hacking has provided information that makes it unnecessary for individuals or groups to continue the volunteer search," the statement reads. "At this time, the families ask that all efforts from volunteers cease and that anyone with information that they feel might be helpful contact the Salt Lake City Police Department directly." Salt Lake City police were to meet with family members late Saturday, and the family was expected to share with investigators details of their conversation with Mark Hacking, detective Phil Eslinger said. "To my knowledge we are going to work through the night with the family to determine what that information is," Eslinger said. "All I know is that it was a legitimate fax from the family. This is not another one of those cruel jokes or rumors." Police are expected to hold a news conference sometime today.
No further statements are likely from the Hacking or Soares families in the near future. Their statement included a plea that their privacy be respected in what was described in the families' statement as "this difficult time" and indicated they plan to make no further statements about the case. Contacted at his home Saturday night, attorney D. Gilbert Athay, who has been hired to represent Mark Hacking, said he had no comment. Lori Hacking disappeared July 19, allegedly while jogging in Memory Grove just before 6 a.m. Volunteers' search efforts in the park and nearby canyons, which over a week drew more than 4,000 people, were unsuccessful.
Police now say they believe Lori, who had just learned she was five-weeks pregnant, was never in the park. Mark Hacking has been hospitalized since the day after he reported his wife missing. He has also been named a "person of interest" in the case by police but as of Saturday had never officially been called a suspect. However, investigators took numerous pieces of evidence from the couple's apartment at 127 S. Lincoln St. (945 East), including box springs and computers. Also among the evidence being evaluated by forensic experts is a knife said to have blood and hair samples. Before Lori Hacking disappeared, the couple was supposedly moving to Chapel Hill, N.C., where Mark was to attend medical school. But three days into the case, it was learned that Mark Hacking had lied about his acceptance to medical school, as well as his recent graduation from the University of Utah. Over the past two weeks, more and more information has trickled out indicating that Mark may have been lying to his friends and family for as long as 18 months about his present and future life. The details and the time line of events Hacking shared with police also quickly crumbled. Mark Hacking said on July 19 that he had learned Lori had failed to arrive at work about 10 a.m., but a mattress store clerk said Mark was shopping for a mattress at the time. A credit card receipt showed he had indeed purchased one, just 26 minutes before he called police at 10:49 a.m. Until Saturday, it appeared that Mark had also maintained he knew nothing about his wife's disappearance. In a conversation with his father, Douglas Hacking, Mark said he had lied about his life because he felt pressure to be successful like his father and siblings. But he said he didn't know what had happened to his wife.
"He looked me in the eye and said, 'No,' " Douglas Hacking said when recounting his conversation with his son to reporters July 23. No one is certain what Lori Hacking knew of her husband's deception or when she knew it. However, co-workers at Wells Fargo Bank have said that the Friday before she disappeared, Lori received an upsetting phone call and left in tears. Police have focused most of their search efforts on the Salt Lake Valley Solid Waste Facility, sifting through piles of refuse on four separate occasions with investigators and four cadaver dogs. That search was temporarily suspended on Friday, with police saying the dogs needed a day or two of rest. So far, the only comment from police about the landfill searches has been that "nothing of consequence" had yet been found. Landfill searches are expected to resume, but police have not been specific about when. The task of finding what is presumably Lori Hacking's body in the landfill could be seen as nearly impossible. More than 2,500 tons of refuse is deposited there daily by more than 600 dump trucks. Police have focused their efforts on a one- to two-acre segment of the facility. Police apparently believed the landfill held significant clues as to Lori Hacking's whereabouts as early as one day after she went missing. Landfill executive director Romney Stewart told the Deseret Morning News last week that police asked him on July 20 to suspend dumping in a certain area so that it could be searched.
E-mail: jdobner@desnews.com
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,595081258,00.html
Actually, I always thought that the doctor-patient relationship could be violated if the person wants to do himself or another bodily harm, or has already done so.
Also, the doctor has to be in a patient/doctor relationship with you. If you go tell some random doctor you meet on the street something, it is admissible. Therefore, telling his Doctor Mom would be admissible.
from the foxnews article,
Police are more certain missing pregnant woman Lori Hacking was killed after recovering a mattress belonging to her and her husband, FOX News has learned.
The mattress had marks on it, sources close to the investigation said, but no blood was found. Investigators believe a tarp or some other type of liquid-proof covering may have been placed on the mattress, indicating premeditation.
"Something was done to the mattress which indicates to authorities she was killed there," a source told FOX News.
Police have begun to suspect the body of Lori Hacking, 27, was placed in some kind of tarp and disposed of.
To be fair, JockoManning said to 'try and act like a decent human being'.
Of course not, LOL.
Doesn't read like it was LE who called for the search to be discontinued. Just the families.
sw
The donut shop doesn't open until six?
Seriously, though, these two families are going through an ordeal that is nearly unbearable, and this news must be the worst.
After re-reading his post, I agree. Sorry Jocko!
My cousin's daughter was brutally murdered, so this hits home for me, and I tend to get a little overzealous.
Well of course your're right, the families believed him. After all, why would they suspect him of more lies. *cough* *cough*
more from the foxnews article,
Sources also told FOX News that police believe Lori Hacking's husband Mark used a knife to kill her in their apartment. There was evidence of a struggle, which police purposely have not released.
Testing on a bloody knife taken from the apartment could take several weeks. The delay is due to a backlog at the medical examiner's apartment as well as the fact that Lori Hacking was adopted, a crime lab official has said.
Police believe Lori Hacking confronted her husband after discovering he had lied about graduating from college and being accepted to medical school. The Hackings had located an apartment in Chapel Hill near the University of North Carolina (search), where Mark Hacking said he was enrolled, and were set to move there the week after Lori disappeared.
That scenario may fit with an earlier theory that Lori Hacking died in a "rage killing." Mark Hacking, 28, had actively deceived his wife and family for years, going as far as leaving textbooks lying around the apartment to keep them convinced of his scholarly ambitions.
A veteran liar like Mark? I think it went something like this:
"...Yes, I know where Lori is: she was abducted by aliens. I saw it happen. She was 5 weeks pregnant, but not with my child. An alien child. The Mother Ship took her to Beta Alpha Zebulon to give birth to the new king and left me with an anal probe which gave me an irresistible desire to buy household bedding and prance around in the buff. I know it's hard to believe, but what other explanation is there?"
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i don't understand why he would get rid of the body and the mattress, but not the knife...
I'm thinking the same thing. He "confesses", hoping the police call off their search of the dump and allow dumping to continue in the suspect area. Months down the road he recants, claiming he was under duress, meds, whatever and his >$$ lawyer spins it into a case of temp insanity.
Let's hope the cops are still looking for Lori.
Fox is now reporting that the only search that has been called off is the volunteer search--the police are continuing. Makes ya go "hmmmm...."
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Re: the comment of 'Mark providing information', I wonder if it's not so much Mark saying anything to LE, but the compilation of his lies and proof of said lies LE now have?
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His parents offered that bit of info. My first thought was, 'oh, they are fueling his defence. Seizures = blackouts = justifying lies, deceit, murder.' However, according to friends, no one ever witnessed Mark having "seizures".
Probably due to the fact that mental illness can be preceded by a head injury.
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