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.
Maybe Hacking can get John Edwards to "channel" Lori and interview her for a sequel.
"Well, Barbara, I've given that some thought and I think I'd be green. It makes blood red look more festive, more... Christmasy."
"You don't think that might look a bit garish?"
"Hmm, good point. Maybe a subdued gun metal grey with just a hint of silver, glistening here and there. That way it would have a little sparkle without being too showy."
"Yes, I think that would be best."
Stay Safe.......Y
I think there is something called The Son of Sam law that will prevent Mark Hacking from collecting any profits IF he is convicted.
"When his wife found out what a fraud he was, he didn't commit suicide, she had to die."
The true sign of a narcissis tyrant. The world is wrong they are the only enlightened ones.
Mark Hacking = Dispicable waste of carbon.
"And the market for this book would be .... ?"
other immature males who suffer from arrested developement, who still live with mommy and are addicted to computer games. You get the picture. Misery loves company.
He doesn't really have a choice.
I hope to heck his brothers (as it sounds like his dad doesn't have much influence on him) talk Mark out of this insane idea.
I don't think Lori's mom would do it, but maybe her dad will file a wrongful death suit against Mark, where he indeed cannot profit from this.
This book would be as one-sided on full of lies as a Michael Moore pretend documentary.
Does Utah have a Son of Sam law? Some states require all profits from such books to go to the victims' families.
I saw this headline the other day. Yuk. I for one will not buy the book.
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