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Guilty plea by Hacking likely today
Salt Lake Tribune ^ | 4/15/2005 | Matthew D. LaPlante

Posted on 04/15/2005 8:57:05 AM PDT by MizSterious

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1 posted on 04/15/2005 8:57:07 AM PDT by MizSterious
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To: MizSterious

How about him and Scott Peterson in a cell with 20 pit bulls ?

2 posted on 04/15/2005 9:00:29 AM PDT by kingattax
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To: MizSterious

Well, good. I was hoping that his family wouldn't allow him to bleed the family dry with lawyer's fees. It's just too bad he won't get the death penalty.


3 posted on 04/15/2005 9:00:57 AM PDT by lady lawyer
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To: MizSterious

This would be the best outcome and would save the family the gut wrenching trial. There is so much evidence against him, he would be wise to plea.


4 posted on 04/15/2005 9:01:03 AM PDT by Sleeping Freeper
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To: lady lawyer

Ditto, ll.


5 posted on 04/15/2005 9:02:26 AM PDT by uvular
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To: Bonaparte; the Deejay; spectre; Jaded; Grig; lady lawyer; Utah Girl; pinz-n-needlez; ...
Lori Hacking pinglist--if you want on or off, please let me know via freepmail. It looks like Mark is going to take a plea.

From an earlier article:






Plea Deal Could Be in Works for Mark Hacking


Mar. 22, 2005 SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Less than a month before Mark Hacking stands trial in the shooting death of his wife, sources say a plea agreement may be in the works.

But no deal is currently on the table.

The 28-year old faces one count of first-degree murder and three counts of second-degree felony obstruction of justice for allegedly shooting his 27-year-old wife Lori in the head and disposing of her body in a trash bin.

Lori Hacking's body was found more than a month later amid more than six thousand tons of garbage in a Salt Lake landfill.

Trial is set for April 18th in Third District Court.

No legal motions from either the defense or the prosecution have been filed since October last year, prompting speculation about a plea bargain.

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6 posted on 04/15/2005 9:03:03 AM PDT by MizSterious (First, the journalists, THEN the lawyers.)
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To: lady lawyer

I agree. Very glad to have heard this, although like you, I think he should have gotten the dp for what he did. Both these families seem quite decent--unusual in these cases.


7 posted on 04/15/2005 9:04:39 AM PDT by MizSterious (First, the journalists, THEN the lawyers.)
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To: Sleeping Freeper

Plus, he already confessed to his brother. I don't think his brother would lie for him, either.


8 posted on 04/15/2005 9:05:36 AM PDT by MizSterious (First, the journalists, THEN the lawyers.)
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To: kingattax

They even look alike. Shave Peterson's head, and he'd be Mark.


9 posted on 04/15/2005 9:06:23 AM PDT by MizSterious (First, the journalists, THEN the lawyers.)
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To: MizSterious
Names Wot Work:

Sally Ride, first female astronaut.

Princess Di, formerly-alive Princess of England.

Mark Hacking, admitted wife murderer.

10 posted on 04/15/2005 9:08:33 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Time Ebbs No Rankle)
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To: kingattax
How about him and Scott Peterson in a cell with 20 pit bulls ?

Come on. We all know pit bulls are kind, loving, caring, and gentle dogs. It is only a few bad owners who do not properly socialize their pit bulls that give the breed a bad name.


that was sarcasm for you who are thick skulled, but you will find many a poster on here who agree with the above statement

11 posted on 04/15/2005 9:08:41 AM PDT by Phantom Lord (Advantages are taken, not handed out)
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To: MizSterious

I was wondering what was going on with this, thanks for posting the article.


12 posted on 04/15/2005 9:09:40 AM PDT by TheSpottedOwl (Free Mexico!)
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How about him and Scott Peterson in a cell with 20 pit bulls ?

...Why subject the dogs to such cruelty...why not put them in a cell instead with 20 gay members of the Ayran Brotherhood, Black Panters, Latino Muchachos, or any of the meanest prison gangs known...

13 posted on 04/15/2005 9:11:01 AM PDT by meandog (bellum nec timendum nec provacandum)
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To: SJackson; little jeremiah

SJ-this is the case I mentioned in my reply to you on one of your recent threads.

LJ-thought you might be interested.


14 posted on 04/15/2005 9:11:47 AM PDT by TheSpottedOwl (Free Mexico!)
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To: kingattax

...posted to remember the beautiful person he took away!

15 posted on 04/15/2005 9:13:07 AM PDT by meandog (bellum nec timendum nec provacandum)
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To: MizSterious; Diogenesis
They even look alike. Shave Peterson's head, and he'd be Mark.

Omg, Shave Michael Schiavo's head, and guess who he'd look like?? They all have the same eyes.

Diogenesis, got a few minutes to come up with something?

16 posted on 04/15/2005 9:14:52 AM PDT by TheSpottedOwl (Free Mexico!)
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To: meandog

very nice post......may she rest in peace and he get ALL he deserves


17 posted on 04/15/2005 9:15:53 AM PDT by kingattax
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To: MizSterious
After speaking to his jailed son in September, Douglas Hacking said Mark was "determined to do what is right - even if it costs him his life."

Golly gee - warm, fuzzy family moment, here.

But, Doug, why couldn't your slug of a son "do what is right" BEFORE he murdered his wife?




(sound of crickets chirping)
18 posted on 04/15/2005 9:37:33 AM PDT by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: MizSterious

Thanks for the update.


19 posted on 04/15/2005 10:07:03 AM PDT by Jaded (My sheeple, my sheeple....)
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To: Bonaparte; the Deejay; spectre; Jaded; Grig; lady lawyer; Utah Girl; pinz-n-needlez; ...
Lori Hacking pinglist--this is probably one of the last few times I'll be using this pinglist. Sentencing is in June, so unless something major occurs before then, I'll see you all in June!

More from today's hearing--




Mark Hacking Pleads Guilty
Apr. 15, 2005

SALT LAKE CITY (AP/KSL News) -- Mark Hacking is set to be sentenced June 6 in the murder of his 27-year-old wife Lori.

Hacking pleaded guilty just this afternoon, nearly closing the door on a case that captivated Utah this summer.

In a dramatic moment, Mark Hacking told those gathered in the courtroom, “I intentionally shot Lori in the head.”

When he's sentenced in a few months, he faces six years to life.

Lori's mother, Thelma Soares, heads to the courtroom.

Lori Hacking's decomposed remains were found in a landfill in October. Prosecutors were unable to determine if she was five weeks' pregnant, as she had told friends.

That means Hacking couldn't be charged with a capital crime, so he won't get the death penalty in this case.

Authorities believe Lori was killed after confronting her husband over deceptions about his education and plans to become a doctor. The couple was packing for a move to a North Carolina medical school where, it turned out, Mark Hacking wasn't enrolled and never applied.




Lori's disappearance in July was at first a missing person report, and set off a massive volunteer search effort around Salt Lake.

But the investigation soon began to focus on her husband, who exhibited some bizarre behavior after Lori went missing.

Mark Hacking had pleaded innocent to the charges in October.

(Copyright 2005 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

 

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Breaking: Mark Hacking pleads guilty to murdering wife
The Salt Lake Tribune

   Mark Hacking-- who a year ago was preparing to move to North Carolina with his wife to attend medical school -- admitted publicly on Thursday to murdering her as she lay sleeping in their Salt Lake City apartment.

   With murder victim Lori Hacking's mother weeping in the courtroom, Hacking said he intentionally shot Lori Hacking in the head in the early morning hours of July 19 at 127 S. Lincoln St. (945 East).

   Though a murder weapon was never recovered,
police found Lori Hacking's remains at the Salt Lake County landfill on Oct. 1 after a tedious search through hundreds of tons of garbage. Her body had been disposed of in a plastic trash bag.

   Originally charged with first-degree felony murder and three second-degree felony counts of obstruction of justice, Mark Hacking pleaded guilty to the murder charge in exchange for prosecutors' dismissing the obstruction charges.

   Third District Judge Denise Lindberg scheduled sentencing for June
  6. Hacking faces six years to life in prison, with a possibility of parole.

   Today's guilty plea came in a courtroom packed with news reporters, the general public and relatives of the killer and the victim.

   Among those in attendance were Lori Hacking's parents, Thelma Soares and Eraldo Soares, who are divorced; and Mark Hacking's parents, Douglas and Janet Hacking.

   Hacking reported his wife missing the morning of July 19, saying she had failed to return from 
a jog in City Creek Canyon. Later that morning, Hacking purchased a new mattress.

   Police, meanwhile, almost immediately began focusing on Hacking after they found trace amounts of blood in the Hackings' apartment and in his wife's car, which was found in Memory Grove.

   Detectives also recovered a mattress, which had its pillow top cut off, from a Dumpster at an LDS church near the Hackings' apartment.

   In the early morning hours of July 20, Hacking reportedly
  was observed naked outside the Chase Suite Hotel, 765 E. 400 South. Police took him to the University Hospital's psychiatric unit.
 
   Later that day, police learned that Mark Hacking had been living a lie with his wife and family. Contrary to what he had told them, he had not graduated from the University of Utah and he had not been accepted to medical school at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

   In his hospital room on July 24, Hacking confessed to his brothers,
  Lance and Scott Hacking, that he killed his wife and disposed of her body and murder weapon.

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20 posted on 04/15/2005 1:55:03 PM PDT by MizSterious (First, the journalists, THEN the lawyers.)
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