Looking over the news items, I've started to put together a timeline and the following is the first such "timeline" problem I encountered. Any insights and commentary you can offer are appreciated.
It's been established that, after failing to obtain a mattress right away at the first store, Hacking arrived at the second one at ~9:45 AM on Monday, July 19. He settled on a mattress to buy and gave them his credit card, then went outside to make some cel calls while his card was cleared and the mattress was prepared for transport. This was at ~10:00 AM.
One of the places he called was Lori's place of work, the Wells Fargo office. At that time he spoke to two people in her office. The first was Brandon Hodge, an employee Lori had been training. During that conversation, he asked him, "By the way, how is Lori doing?" Hodge replied that she had not come to work that day. Then Lori's boss, a guy named Church, got on the line. During that conversation, Hacking said, "Oh, my God, her [work] clothes are still here," at which point Church told him to get off the phone and call the police immediately.
Hold that thought.
While Hacking was outside the store waiting for the transaction to go through, he also called some friends, telling them he didn't know where she was and had jogged her route in Memory Grove going both ways, a total of 6 miles, in an effort to find her.
Question #1: If Hacking had been so concerned about Lori's whereabouts that he went on an exploratory jog that morning, then why didn't he call her office on his cel right after he failed to find her? Why did he wait under 10 AM to do so? He wouldn't have bothered looking for her if she had returned home at her usual time. And after completing the search jog, it would have been well past the 7 AM time she always got to her office (co-workers and boss said she was "never late"). If he was so concerned about her whereabouts, why would he go shopping for a mattress instead making a simple cel call first? Are we to believe the man would be worried enough to drive downtown to a park and run for miles in search of his wife but not be worried enough to spend 30 seconds calling her office to see if she was there?
Question #2: Why did he not call the police right after his phone conversation with Church? Why did he wait for 30 or 40 minutes to do that, electing instead to keep fooling with the mattress people, then drive home with the mattress, then meet his friends at Memory Grove to continue looking for Lori? When he got there, his friends told him that they had already reported her missing to the police. Only then did he call them himself. That call was logged at 10:49 AM.
Question #3: Why would he have said to Church, "Oh, my God, her [work] clothes are still here," if he was not at home, but sitting outside a mattress store -- a store he was about to calmly walk back into and spend another ~20 minutes fooling with a mattress purchase? Lisa Downs, co-owner of Bradley's Sleep Etc, said he was still there at 10:35 AM. Church later stated he was put off to discover from news accounts that Hacking had apparently misrepresented his whereabouts during their conversation.
Your thoughts, please?
(And there are other timeline problems here, involving such things as how long it would have taken Hacking to do all the things he said he did and still get to the first mattress store at the time he did. I still need to estimate the times and distances involved there and any assistance would be most appreciated.)
Forgot to ping you with the rest to post 143.
I want to know why he wasn't able to obtain a mattress at the first store. From what I understand he never even tried the mattress out at the second store where he bought it so why didn't he get one at the first store? Was it a hardware store he went into? :-)
regarding your post #143, question #2:
Seems apparent to me that Hacking needed to acquire that new mattress to replace the one which he disposed of to remove crime scene evidence. That scenerio really make me suspicious of the husband.
Do I correctly understand that the box spring was not replaced and it was just the mattress? I think I read, or heard that bedding was removed by police and blood stains could be seen on the bedding - perhaps that was the original box spring?
Calling from the mattress store, telling Lori's coworker her clothes are still here, was really stupid. But Mark is a stupid person. He's lived his life (or most of it) on bald faced lies.
There's not point in trying to make the timeline work. He was obviously running around trying to cover things up, telling inconsistent stories in the process.
He probably killed her late at night, and spent the rest of the night cleaning the apartment. It was clean when the police got there the next morning, but Luminol showed blood.
It's interesting that his lawyer is not asserting his innocence. I just hope he doesn't expect his father to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for a phoney defense. I hope the lawyer is just there to negotiate a plea bargain, or something.
Works for me. The case this guy will be so tight, it will probably only take fifteen or twenty years to execute him.
Thanks for the ping! This is excellent. If Lori had actually disappeared while jogging, and her husband had gotten up and realized that her clothes etc were still there, he would have first called work, then the police. Then he would have driven over to the park and started looking for her with the police, calling friends on the way over there.
But, he bought a mattress, called her work, then friends. Only then did he call the cops....after he disposed of the old mattress and replaced it with the new one.
Questions 1, 2, and 3 have the same answer. He murdered her. It's just a matter of finding where he disposed of her body.
one thing I have wondered ... the last person who saw Lori besides her husband, was Mark's sister, and she said that was late Sunday evening.
It occurs to me that maybe Lori was hurt/gone by then, and Mark got his sister to lie about having seen her. If so, Lori may have been hurt even earlier?