Posted on 08/12/2004 6:38:29 AM PDT by MizSterious
Were her fingerprints on the note?
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A typewritten note to someone you live with? Huh?
Good question. I wondered on another thread if this could be something Mark wrote to explain her "disappearance." Wonder if he's a good forger?
Thank you for the ping :) Was waitin. Doesn't this just beat all. You know with the english that is used in this letter I would almost think it was him. She strikes me as a person whose english would be a little better than that.
Thanks for encouraging me to reread this one and some of the other articles on the topic--I thought it said "handwritten" but that was in the Deseret News article--and the only thing they are saying was handwritten was on the envelope. Hmmm.
Explain something about our criminal justice system...
I can understand continuing to look for her body.
But since he confessed, why can't the police simply wrap this up and help the family (families) put this behind them?
Why the ongoing investigation and evidence gathering?
Friends and family had described the Hackings' marriage as a loving one, but the folded letter with the word "Mark" handwritten on the cover may tell a different story.
This brings me back to: how do we know she wrote this letter? Wouldn't it have been just as easy for him to have found an old greeting card envelope, type this thing up with really bad grammar, and try to use it to explain her "disappearance?"
He could always plead not guilty and his lawyer could seek to have the confession thrown out. Never know what might happen in the crapshoot that is our judicial process.
He's confessed, but apparently his lawyer is going to try to get the confession thrown out. Right now, this looks like it's going to go to trial, even though there were rumors that the families would work out a deal. I hope his family realizes that his lawyer will drain them of all their worldly goods before this is over, and he'll probably be convicted anyway.
Or he can change the method with which he killed her in a follow up confession, confusing the matter. The body will provide lots of definitive evidence, at least we hope.
Trials become the playground of lawyers (like Kerry and Edwards). It's not about the accused. It's about the legal gymnastics of the liars...I mean lawyers.
I'm assuming because you can NEVER have enough evidence when dealing with a sociopathic murderer. He could recant his confession. I'm glad to hear LE is covering all the bases to ensure this monster never walks the streets as a free man again.
Type written or computer generated? It's possible. People spend so much time on the computer. My kid IM's her friends and calls it talking. Besides, I know someone going through a divorce that documents things in a word doc and has recently been using it to express feelings. An electronic diary as it were, takes less time than long hand plus there is spell check.
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Opps, "trial"..:~)
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