Posted on 09/18/2004 9:01:27 AM PDT by MizSterious
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Sep. 16, 2004 SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- As police search the county landfill for the body of Lori Hacking, her husband, charged with her murder, is working on a book.
Mark Hacking said in a letter to a tv station that any proceeds from the book would go to the Lori Hacking memorial scholarship fund, which was established by the woman's mother.
The Salt Lake television station said Wednesday night that jail officials had confirmed that the letter had come from there, and Mark Hacking's father, Douglas Hacking, said it was his son's handwriting.
Douglas Hacking also confirmed that his son was working on a book, and said he had started it over, this time working from an outline.
It was reported that the book begins with the day Mark and Lori met.
Mark Hacking allegedly confessed to his brothers that he shot her while she slept and disposed of her body in a trash bin, later dumped at the landfill.
Tbe area of the landfill where that day's compressed garbage was left was marked off and the search, using cadaver dogs, began the day after Hacking reported his wife missing.
Trash was buried about 35 to 40 feet deep in a pit about the length of two football fields. Cadaver dogs spent the last seven weeks sifting through the pile at night for her body.
Police, firefighters and Urban Search and Rescue Team members began going back over the garbage by hand on Tuesday.
Lori Hacking was reported missing on Monday, July 19. Her husband said she had failed to return after going for an early morning jog at Memory Grove Park.
Thousands of volunteers helped search for the missing woman for a week, though police suspected Hacking from the beginning. Just minutes before he called them, reporting them missing, he was buying a mattress to replace the bloodstained one found in a nearby trash bin.
The couple had been preparing to move to North Carolina, where Hacking claimed to have been accepted in medical school. In reality, he never applied, and, contrary to his stories, had not even finished college. The Friday before her disappearance, Lori Hacking called the medical school to inquire about financial aid and learned they had no record of him.
Hacking allegedly told two brothers that the night before he reported her missing, he and Lori had argued, she had gone to bed, he "came across" his .22 caliber rifle and he shot her.
He is charged with first-degree felony murder, punishable by five years to life in prison, and with three counts of obstructing justice, which carries a maximum penalty of one to 15 years in prison.
His preliminary hearing is set for Sept. 23.
Defense attorney Gil Athay did not return a call from The Associated Press Wednesday.
I certainly hope so, maybe that way it will stay off the news.
Exactly. And what's the title going to be; "My wife Married an Axe Murderer: How to murder your wife in her sleep and hack her into tiny bits so that no one will ever find her"
It'll sit right in my library next to Bill Bennett's "The Book of Virtues", NOT!
Maybe the title of his book will be "Ten Reasons Not to Fall for the 'Soap on the Floor Ploy' in Prison."
There was an article a while back about sentences and time served in Utah. It's really not as bad as it sounds because the parole board has the ability to be arbitrary and capricious. So if they don't feel like letting him out they don't, full, stop, period, do not pass go. Unlike other states with their mandatory release programs.
I'm sure someone else can articulate it better....
Thanks. I did not know that.
Let's not buy the book.
I hear he's co-authoring the book with himself.
I would have thought Kitty Kelly might be his co-auther. ;)
Trial transcript:
Judge: Got anything to say for yourself before we sentence you to death? No? Good. Hang him.
I think his time would be better spent either in prayer, asking God and Lori for forgiveness, or in serious therapy, which is obviously needed. Again, Mark just can't figure out the RIGHT thing to do.
His parents need to withdraw their financial support and refuse to pay his legal fees.
A public defender is all this creep deserves.
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Let him write it.
Then throw it at him.
Yes, and Babwa Wa-wa will whine because she retired before she could do the interview!
I agree about financing this high-dollar lawyer. (Who, I'm willing to bet, is groaning about this letter.)
What's the title of his book going to be? "I Want To Tell You"?
Hah! Good one. Only thing is, anything he'd write would be so thin it wouldn't do the job.
To borrow an old Clinton joke, he could title it, "Memoirs of the Lyin' King."
Here's how I think it will go:
"It was a dark and stormy night..."
"Actually, it was a sunny afternoon..."
"And so I hacked her to death with a hunting knife..."
"Or I shot her."
"Or I strangled her."
"By the way, did you know I'm going to med school?"
Indeed. If I wanted to give money to Lori's fund, I would just send a check. I sure wouldn't send it through her murderer and wouldn't be the least bit interested in reading his book. If he's interviewed after his conviction, I'll read that with much the same interest I had in Ted Bundy's prison interviews. That was fascinating.
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