Lori's outraged father lashes out

Salt Lake Tribune ^ | 2004-08-07 | Matthew D. LaPlante and Matt Canham

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Lori's outraged father lashes out


''Monstrous act'': In a statement, Hareld Soares decries the tragic death of his daughter, his son-in-law's lies and cowardice, says he seeks justice, not vengeance
By Matthew D. LaPlante and Matt Canham
The Salt Lake Tribune
Salt Lake Tribune

2004-08-07 01:10:22.092

Four days after his wife vanished, Mark Hacking wrapped his large arms around his father-in-law's small frame and promised he wasn't responsible.

    Now, believing his daughter's body is among thousands of tons of waste paper, plastics and rotting food, Hareld Soares is lashing out at his son-in-law.

   "As the facts about my little girl's death emerge, I am outraged," Soares said in a statement Friday. "The innumerable lies she was told by her husband for years on end were selfish and shameful. The cowardly way in which she and her baby were brutally murdered in cold blood while she slept is despicable."

   Police allege Mark Hacking, 28, killed his wife, Lori, in the early morning hours of July 19 and threw her body into a Dumpster, the contents of which were discarded at the Salt Lake County landfill that afternoon.

   For the seventh night in two weeks, detectives on Friday scoured a two-acre plot of the landfill, searching with cadaver dogs for any sign of her body.

   "The gutless attempt at covering up this monstrous act is appalling. It is difficult to imagine a more disrespectful way of disposing of her remains. No family should have to lose a daughter and sister this way," said Soares, a teacher from Fullerton, Calif.

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More of his statement:

"Our criminal justice system . . . was created to punish perpetrators of such odious acts," Soares said. "I am hopeful and confident that the authorities in Salt Lake will seek and accomplish appropriate justice.

   "I do not seek vengeance, simply justice and a proper burial for my little girl."

Mr. Soares has been just incredible throughout this ordeal. I don't know how he's managed it.

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Lori Hacking pinglist--if you want on or off, send me a freepmail.

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And this from CBS News 48 Hours--looks like they might be doing a show on this case.

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Hidden Truth: Lori Hacking Case
Aug. 6, 2004


On July 24, while sitting in a psychiatric hospital, Mark Hacking's brothers say he told them that he killed his wife, Lori, and then put her body in the trash. It is believed her body is buried under more than 2,000 tons of garbage.

By all accounts, Mark Hacking worshipped his wife of five years, and he wasn’t afraid to show it. Correspondent Maureen Maher has this 48 Hours update.

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“He adored her. And she adored him,” recalls Lori’s mother, Thelma Soares. “I couldn’t have asked for a better son-in-law. Lori used to call him ‘My big, old teddy bear.’”

Mark, 28, was outgoing and romantic, while Lori, 27, was private and practical. But according to Lori’s only sibling, Paul Soares, the combination worked.

“They were different. They say opposites attract. And that -- I think that was the situation,” says Soares.

“And we would always joke around with him. Like, how did he get such a cute woman? Everyone kidded him about that. Because, you know, he was just like this goofy dude that-- you know, goofy guy,” says Brian Hamilton, who became friends with Mark when they worked together in the children’s psychiatric unit of a Salt Lake City hospital. He said Hacking loved to entertain the kids at the hospital.

The couple had just learned Lori was five weeks pregnant, friends say. And they were about to embark on a cross-country move to North Carolina, where Hacking said he would be starting medical school.

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I wonder if there are some lawsuits in the future for his old employers?

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Accused wife-killer Mark Hacking counseled psychiatric patients

Paul Foy

Associated Press

Published  August 7, 2004

SALT LAKE CITY - Former patients at a psychiatric hospital where Mark Hacking worked as an orderly said Hacking, who is accused of killing his wife, insisted patients call him ``Franz'' although they knew his real name.

The two former patients, one speaking on condition of anonymity, also told The Associated Press that Hacking once ran unauthorized group therapy sessions.

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The University of Utah said Friday that Hacking ran group ``activities,'' not therapy sessions, although the former patients recalled Hacking relishing a role as therapist - asking about their concerns and taking notes on their behavior.

They said he acted ``like a person in authority'' and rewarded them with cigarette breaks.

Former patient Nedzad ``Ned'' Rosic said Hacking was known as a ``psych tech'' but acted as a therapist while ``shaving his head and pretending to be Franz.''

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Administrators at the University Neuropsychiatric Institute refused to take calls from the AP on Hacking's conduct on the job he resigned July 23. Brillinger said Friday she was providing answers she obtained from institute staffers she didn't identify.

Hacking was licensed by Utah as a health care assistant, a position equivalent to his job title at the institute, which was psychiatric technician, Brillinger said.

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I'm a profiler,
The shape of Mark Hacking's head pegged him as guilty, in my estimation, when I first saw his picture.

[dwilli]

Art Bell would go along with that.

[Rakkasan1]

stone cold steve austin wannabe's-can't trust them

[Ditter]

I truly feel his pain. May God take care of him thru this terrible ordeal.

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>The shape of Mark Hacking's head pegged him as guilty

Well, doesn't that mean that Stone Cold Steve Austin is some how guilty, too?

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"The shape of Mark Hacking's head pegged him as guilty..."

So that's how Sherlock did it!

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Not a profiler, but the shape of his head hit me too. This creepy, creepy man loved her right up to throwing her body out with the garbage.

I have a theory that Lori knew he was a liar, he had been caught in lie after lie but not enough for her to leave him and this was the last straw.

My advice to young people getting married is that one lie is as bad as 100 lies. There are no lies between husband and wife. If there are, don't stay or don't marry.

That said, men should always lie when wives ask if their butt looks big in an outfit. It is hubby's job to lie.

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THAT is freaky!

Could be twins.

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Four days after his wife vanished, Mark Hacking wrapped his large arms around his father-in-law's small frame and promised he wasn't responsible.

A real big.......T.V. (public school).....Sit-Com........Psycho-hug.

(Support Darwinism in the public schools and T.V. movies

....is your livingroom really 'Room # 101'...?)

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Yes, when I read that, all I could think of were those "large arms" stabbing the petit Lori. If there's such things a ghosts, I hope she haunts him for the rest of his life.

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?Elaborate?

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Thanks to Harrycarey for finding this one--

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KUTV | kutv.com

Claim of Early Pregnancy Adds Legal Twist to Hacking Saga

Aug 6, 2004 1:01 pm US/Mountain


When prosecutors file expected charges against the husband who reportedly confessed to killing his missing pregnant wife, they will signal whether they intend to accuse Mark Hacking of double or aggravated murder - a crime that would warrant the death penalty.

But without a body, legal experts say, the district attorney will find it difficult to prove the elements of aggravated murder. Whether Lori Hacking was five weeks' pregnant, as she reportedly told friends before being reported missing July 19, is one element of that charge.

His lawyer, D. Gilbert Athay, has said he will raise the defense of mental illness and challenge the credibility of his client's admission to relatives that he killed his wife and dumped her body in a garbage bin.

Police are searching a municipal landfill for her remains.

Doctors say it would be difficult but not impossible to determine if Lori Hacking was pregnant without her body. They'd need more than a few drops of blood and serum to run a test. If the body is found, they can examine the contents of her uterus, using a microscope to look for cells of a nascent fetus.

Yocom has declined to say whether he would seek the death penalty, but did say he gives the wishes of the victim's family great weight in such decisions. Lori Hacking's family hasn't asked for capital punishment, even as the husband's family appears resigned to that possibility. Both Mormon families have shown an unusual bond during the ordeal, holding hands at news conferences and professing their love for both Mark and Lori Hacking no matter what the outcome of the case.

District Attorney David Yocom has until 5 p.m. Monday to file charges against Mark Hacking, who was jailed a week before on suspicion of killing his wife. Yocom was supposed to file the charges three days after Hacking's arrest, but a judge granted an extension as prosecutors prepare their case.

``District Attorney Yocom is a fine prosecutor, and there's no reason to jump the gun. He's going to evaluate all the evidence, and I'm sure he recognizes that without a body, it may be difficult to prove the aggravating circumstances allowing for the death penalty,'' University of Utah criminal law professor Erik Luna said.

Luna said the defense can try to raise one issue he called more scholarly than legal: Whether double-murder charges can apply to a victim who would have been able to legally abort an early-term fetus. But he doubts the defense would get far with an argument that ``for the most part comes down to a woman's constitutional right to choose versus an act of violence against her will.''

The Hacking case has drawn inevitable comparisons to the Scott Peterson trial - a lying husband, a pregnant missing wife and a fishy alibi.

Scott Peterson faces double murder charges under California's unborn victims law, which critics see as a backdoor attack on abortion rights. But Laci Peterson was nearly ready to deliver when she turned up missing in December 2002. Her body and that of a fetus washed ashore in San Francisco Bay months later.

Utah is among the 30 states that treat the unlawful killing of an unborn child as homicide. State laws differ, especially on how many weeks old a fetus must be to become party to a homicide. But in Utah, an ``unborn child'' at any stage of development can be a victim of foul play.

Four days before she vanished, Lori Hacking told friends she was five weeks' pregnant, based on a home pregnancy test unconfirmed by doctors.

Elements other than pregnancy can shore up the foundation for aggravated murder, but they're harder to prove, Luna said.

One element is a murder wrought in ``especially heinous, atrocious, cruel or exceptionally depraved manner.'' But that usually can be proven only by showing that death followed torture or abuse. Even a ``gruesome killing'' isn't sufficient on its own for aggravated murder, he said.

Another element is murder for personal gain. Prosecutors could allege Mark Hacking killed his wife to conceal his lack of academic credentials or failure to get in medical school, ``but that's a stretch,'' Luna said.

For years Mark Hacking lied to his wife, family and friends about his education and career plans - deceptions that began to unravel after he reported his wife missing. Not only wasn't he enrolled at medical school, he hadn't even graduated from the University of Utah. Yet, he and his wife were packing for the move to Chapel Hill, N.C., where she had presumed he was to begin medical school.

Police and family members believe that three days before she vanished, Lori Hacking discovered her husband's academic deceptions.

She took a phone call at work that left her stunned and sobbing, and she left the Wells Fargo brokerage house early for the day. Her colleagues say she had been making some arrangements at the North Carolina school and that they believe an administrator called back to say he was not enrolled there.

One of Mark's brothers and father are doctors, and another brother is an electronics engineer. The father, Douglas Hacking, has said Mark probably felt pressure by the achievements of his relatives.

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put me on your ping list please

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Former patient Nedzad ``Ned'' Rosic said Hacking was known as a ``psych tech'' but acted as a therapist while ``shaving his head and pretending to be Franz.''

ewwwww he was role playing. Who the heck is his made up Franz character? Hacking sounds like a schizo to me.

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What does the shape of his head have to do with it? I'm just curious to know the info behind that...