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Hacking May Have Learned Of Husband's Lies
Salt Lake Tribune ^ | July 27, 2004 | Ashley Broughton & Matthew D. LaPlante

Posted on 07/27/2004 10:15:01 AM PDT by Bonaparte

Hacking may have learned of husband's lies



Missing: The family hires a criminal defense attorney to represent Mark Hacking, who remains hospitalized

By Ashley Broughton
and Matthew D. LaPlante
The Salt Lake Tribune

Salt Lake Tribune

2004-07-27 00:39:09.532

Three days before she disappeared, Lori Hacking may have uncovered her husband's deceptions.
   She received a phone call at her work, started crying and went home early, said a colleague at Wells Fargo Institutional Brokerage and Sales.
   
"I could hear her say things such as, 'But he's already been accepted. He's already applied. This can't be correct,' said Darren Openshaw, a Wells Fargo employee who overheard the phone call about 2:15 p.m. on July 16.
   Openshaw said he believes the caller was from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
   "I don't know for sure it was the school," he said. "I can only assume."
   Lori Hacking and her husband, Mark Hacking, were preparing to move to Chapel Hill, where he said he had been accepted to medical school.
   But last week, shortly after Mark Hacking reported his wife missing, police learned he had never applied at North Carolina and had lied to his family about graduating from the University of Utah.
   His family members, meanwhile, said Monday that they have retained Salt Lake City criminal defense attorney Gilbert Athay to represent him. Family spokesman Scott Dunaway said the move was necessary because of news media reports regarding Mark Hacking.
   Monday marked one week since Lori Hacking, 27, dis- appeared.
   The Salt Lake City woman, who reportedly was five weeks pregnant, failed to return from an early-morning jog in City Creek Canyon, according to her husband.
   Friends have said that Mark Hacking contacted them about his wife's disappearance about 10 a.m., claiming he had twice run his wife's usual jogging route three miles each way, looking for her before he called police.
   But police said last week that before Mark Hacking reported his wife missing, he was purchasing a new queen-sized mattress at a South Salt Lake furniture store.
   Authorities have been unable to confirm Lori Hacking was in the canyon that morning and consider her husband, Mark Hacking, the only "person of interest" in the case.
   Dunaway said relatives were not aware of the phone call Lori Hacking apparently received at work July 16.
   The last time Lori Hacking contacted her mother was by e-mail July 14 or 15, he said, making arrangements for her to take care of the couple's cat while they were preparing for their move to North Carolina.
   Before Lori Hacking received the phone call on Friday, Openshaw said, he had seen her looking at UNC-Chapel Hill's Web site.
   Afterward, "she hung up the phone and sort of sat there crying," he said. "We asked her if she was OK and if she wanted to leave a little early."
   She did. But by the time she arrived at her going-away party held that evening, she seemed fine, Openshaw said. Co-workers were so relieved at her elevated mood that they didn't bother to inquire about the phone call.
   "We didn't think of it," he said. "We assumed everything had been worked out, that there may have been a misunderstanding. Whatever it was that upset her seemed to have been resolved."
   Pictures from the party, held at a supervisor's cabin in the Uinta Mountains, show Lori Hacking in a baggy gray University of Utah sweatshirt, smiling widely with her husband's arm wrapped around her shoulder.
   Another shot depicts her standing next to her supervisor, Randy Church, and a cake that reads: "We'll miss you, Lori."
   But those present didn't intend the party to be the last time they saw Lori Hacking. Her last day at Wells Fargo was to be Aug. 5, according to a company spokesman.
   Those at the party said the guest of honor didn't speak in detail about her future plans, but seemed optimistic about the impending move.
   Openshaw said he asked Mark Hacking at the party whether he was planning on rooting for UNC or rival Duke. "He said he didn't really get into stuff like that."
   A close friend of Lori Hacking, who saw the couple at a housewarming party the night before she disappeared, said she made no mention of an upsetting phone call.
   "Lori was just acting totally normal," said Erin Galbraith, a former college roommate of Lori Hacking. "I would have sensed something weird. I was in their apartment. I was looking at boxes."
   Mark Hacking remained hospitalized Monday, Dunaway said, after suffering what relatives have called a "breakdown" the evening of June 19.
   Police last questioned Mark Hacking on Wednesday. "To go back and re-question him on the same issues when we don't feel he's been truthful the first time - I don't think that would do us any good," said Detective Dwayne Baird, a police spokesman.
   Baird said Mark Hacking has been cooperative with authorities, however.
   Police are still awaiting test results from the state crime lab. "They have a lot of material," he said.
   Athay said he was retained to represent Mark Hacking late Thursday and has met with him several times. He would not describe the meetings or discuss his conversations with his client.
   Asked why Mark Hacking needs an attorney, Athay said, "Everybody needs a lawyer when they're under investigation or suspicion."
   He said he was returning calls to reporters Monday because of curiosity regarding his role in the case, but said he will not be saying much in the future.
   "You know me," he said. "I'm pretty closed-mouthed and tight-lipped."
   Mark Hacking called his wife's office about 10 a.m. on July 19, speaking first to Brandon Hodge, another trading assistant she was training. He didn't ask where his wife was, but instead how she was doing, Hodge told The Associated Press.
   ''By the way, how is Lori?'' Hacking reportedly asked. Hodge said he replied, ''Well, she's not made it into work yet.''
   Church then took the phone and recalls Hacking saying she hadn't returned from a sunrise jog at Memory Grove, a downtown park near the office. Hacking made it seem he was calling from his apartment, Church told the AP.
   ''Oh, my God, her [work] clothes are still here,'' Hacking reportedly said to Church, who had been expecting Lori Hacking at 7 a.m. and says she was never late to work.
   ''I said, 'You need to call police immediately. Just get off the phone,' Church said.
   Police said Mark Hacking's call came in at 10:49 a.m. Monday - about 25 minutes after he used his credit card to buy the mattress at Bradley's Sleep Etc.
   In other developments Monday:
   l Salt Lake City Police officers used dogs to search the city landfill Monday night. Baird said they were finishing up a search of the area that had started last week. High temperatures and the availability of the dogs were the reason for the night search, he said.
   l Police said they are looking into a lead that Mark Hacking may have visited an R.C. Willey Home Furnishings store nearby before going into Bradley's.
   l Authorities have asked anyone who was in Memory Grove Park or City Creek Canyon between 5 a.m. and 11 a.m. on July 19 to call 799-3000 or 799-INFO (4636).
   l Police continued to decline comment on reports of blood and a bloody knife found at the Hackings' apartment, saying the information is evidentiary in value.
   l Police rejected a Salt lake Tribune open-records request for initial police reports in the Lori Hacking case, as is routine in most disappearance cases. In a letter to the newspaper, Capt. Mark Peck said releasing the information might interfere with a law-enforcement investigation, disclose investigative techniques or deprive a person of a right to a fair trial.
   l A BFI Waste Services driver who picked up the Hackings' garbage at about 3:30 p.m. on July 19 said he saw nothing unusual and wasn't asked by police to inspect his collections, as is often the case in drug investigations and other crimes.
   l The Salt Lake City office of the FBI said it has not been involved in Lori Hacking's case. The FBI has offered its help through agents and profilers but police have so far has not accepted, said spokesman Bob Wright.
    aebroughton@sltrib.com
   mlaplante@sltrib.com
   
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    Tribune reporters Stephen Hunt and Michael Westley contributed to this story.
   
   


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: avoidingalimony; avoidingchildsupport; getarope; guilty; hacking; lori; lyingliar; missingjogger; murder; patholiar; pregnantjogger; utah; wifekiller
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To: sonserae

"Apparently, the original mattress is MIA..."

That's also interesting.....why hasn't anyone asked him Where's your old mattress?"


241 posted on 07/28/2004 7:21:48 PM PDT by mupcat
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To: Bonaparte

They may be able to imply...but if he pleads guilty but insane, he can be examined by the prosecution chosen psychiatrist..Narcissism isn't insanity in that they know what they are doing is wrong...

He will know all the tricks and talk about"voices", I fear!


242 posted on 07/28/2004 7:36:26 PM PDT by MEG33 (John Kerry has been AWOL for two decades on issues of National Security)
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To: uvular

'Fox News has learned from sources...' about it being a rage killing in the apt."

I heard one of the reporters on "Court TV" say that when police were asked about the report of a rage killing they denied it. Said they never reported it as a rage killing scene. So either FOX got it wrong or police are trying to cover up their statements.


243 posted on 07/28/2004 7:37:00 PM PDT by mupcat
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To: mupcat

The one statement the police made on TV was a plea not to call in mattress tips..they have had so many...

"We have all we need" was the telling remark...Could mean they have all the evidence they need without the mattress, have pieces of the mattress or have the mattress.


244 posted on 07/28/2004 7:39:37 PM PDT by MEG33 (John Kerry has been AWOL for two decades on issues of National Security)
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To: mupcat

Instead of "no national interest" I should have said,

NO NATIONAL IMPORTANCE!

The fact that some was murdered by her hubbie in Utah has no real effect whatsoever anywhere else in the world.


245 posted on 07/28/2004 7:41:05 PM PDT by steplock ( www.spadata.com)
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To: Spunky

"may be hard for them to match up the DNA on Lori Hacking since she was adopted."

Match what up to her DNA? I would assume there'd be plenty of DNA around that apartment with perhaps a hairbrush, comb, toothbrushe, and any number of other items. If they're worried about matching the blood (if there is any) with Lori seems to me they'd have much to choose from.


246 posted on 07/28/2004 7:43:19 PM PDT by mupcat
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To: MEG33
What very often happens in trials using psychiatric testimony is that both sides put their respective shrinks on the stand saying opposite things. After all that expense, the jury disregards all that testimony. But if one side can argue their case for sanity or insanity more convincingly, that side very often wins.

Back to the case before us.

Refer to post 164 and scroll down to (3)(b)(i-ii). Hacking killed two persons [see post 164, (1)(b)] and, as the statute is written and as I construe it, it wouldn't matter legally if he didn't know she was with child. Unless I'm misconstruing the statute and case law says otherwise, defense is carrying a large burden here.

247 posted on 07/28/2004 7:45:15 PM PDT by Bonaparte
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To: steplock

Steplock, there is news of great national importance out there on the other threads and every second you spend here you are not attending to it. That's irresponsible. We depend on you to keep a close eye on news of real importance. Now go to those other threads and make us proud of you instead of frittering away your time on threads of no consequence.


248 posted on 07/28/2004 7:48:07 PM PDT by Bonaparte
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To: Bonaparte

hehehe !

;>)


249 posted on 07/28/2004 7:51:15 PM PDT by steplock ( www.spadata.com)
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To: Bonaparte

What WAS this thread about anyway?


250 posted on 07/28/2004 7:51:43 PM PDT by steplock ( www.spadata.com)
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To: steplock
Beats the snot out of me, steplock!

Hey, buddy, check your "my comments" link. I just clowned you on a couple of other threads. I wouldn't take that if I were you! ;-)

251 posted on 07/28/2004 8:07:52 PM PDT by Bonaparte
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To: mupcat
If they're worried about matching the blood (if there is any) with Lori seems to me they'd have much to choose from.

What do you mean if there is any? Apparently you haven't read this article.

"It's inside the apartment - the former residence of Mark and Lori Hacking... where 2News has learned that something went horribly wrong.

According to sources police found blood splattered inside, including on the walls, ceiling and box spring.

It was found only after investigators came in with this high tech crime scene equipment.

It's called an alternative light source, once they turned it on that's when they found the blood.
Blood Splattered

Yes they have plenty of blood splattered all over and hairs in hair brushes, but without her body or a relative to match the DNA to, they cannot absolutely say the blood on the walls or the hairs in brushes belonged to Lori.

Common sense tells us it does but you need more than common sense when it comes to trying someone in court.

252 posted on 07/28/2004 8:23:05 PM PDT by Spunky ("Everyone has a freedom of choice, but not of consequences.")
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To: mupcat
why hasn't anyone asked him Where's your old mattress?"

The police are not releasing details like that. Doesn't mean they haven't asked him. I'd be shocked if they hadn't. What they have said, repeatedly, is that Hacking has been lying to them. A lot.

By the end of next week, I expect some major activity in this case. Most of the forensics testing will be done and they may even charge and arrest him at that time. Remember, this murder occured during the week of Pioneer Day, which is a big deal in Utah. Everybody takes off for a long weekend and the state forensics labs, which have lots of other cases they're working on, are short of both time and staff. Things should pick up soon.

253 posted on 07/28/2004 8:28:08 PM PDT by Bonaparte
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To: Bonaparte; TheSpottedOwl
I agree the perp doe not have to know of the pregnancy.

Read at the last parts of this article about the police statement(psychology aspect)The LIES and their repercussions.


http://kutv.com/topstories/local_story_210184959.html
254 posted on 07/28/2004 8:30:12 PM PDT by MEG33 (John Kerry has been AWOL for two decades on issues of National Security)
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To: MEG33
Yeah, I read that. Even commented in one of my last few posts that the police pressers are getting better.

Can you just imagine what an experienced crosser could do to Hacking on the witness stand? Ain't gonna happen but I can dream...

255 posted on 07/28/2004 9:22:02 PM PDT by Bonaparte
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To: Bonaparte

It is a fatal error made by some defendants that they can convince the jury. I have seen two just make it worse...

A lawyer usually wants his client to stay in his seat and keep his mouth shut....They usually convince the client to do so...I hate it!...;)


256 posted on 07/28/2004 9:54:35 PM PDT by MEG33 (John Kerry has been AWOL for two decades on issues of National Security)
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To: MEG33

I'm digging up that Norton software. I went to bed very early last night, so I'm an early bird this AM. When I click on my DSL icon, I am taken to my yahoo page. I click on my latest email and it's switching to that damn search page. The address for it on top is "about blank".

I clicked the email icon on top of my browser window, and the same thing happened. Plus for the last 2 weeks, every single action I take while I'm in my email results in a window popping up telling me I have a virus. If I don't click it off fast, my taskbar fills up, then disappears.

I don't open any email that I didn't ask for either. This might be a good time to install that Norton software and find out what's going on.


257 posted on 07/29/2004 3:15:46 AM PDT by TheSpottedOwl ("In the Kingdom of the Deluded, the Most Outrageous Liar is King".)
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To: TheSpottedOwl

Good luck!


258 posted on 07/29/2004 3:23:14 AM PDT by MEG33 (John Kerry has been AWOL for two decades on issues of National Security)
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To: MEG33
Read at the last parts of this article about the police statement(psychology aspect)The LIES and their repercussions.

We're going to be hearing some disturbing things in the months to come regarding this man's lies. It's going to be really ugly for both families. First they lose Lori, now they're going to hear how they were mislead all these years.

259 posted on 07/29/2004 4:15:32 AM PDT by TheSpottedOwl ("In the Kingdom of the Deluded, the Most Outrageous Liar is King".)
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To: TheSpottedOwl

True..There are many victims in this crime...


260 posted on 07/29/2004 4:38:09 AM PDT by MEG33 (John Kerry has been AWOL for two decades on issues of National Security)
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