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To: Bonaparte
"If you can recall or, better yet, find the news account that gave that info, would you buzz me, Spunky?

Bonaparte, I haven't yet been able to find the article I read where the Hackings were at the party on Sunday night until 8:30-9:30. I know I read that and some Freepers were talking about the fact that he had to work the night shift.

According to the second article below the clerk says Mark and Lori came into the store between six and nine p.m. Sunday. I would say it was more like 9 p.m. if what I remember about the time they left the party is correct.

But I am really confused with these two stories. One says Mark came in alone the other said they both came in.

Portion of article from My posting at #166
From Deseret News • An employee at a Maverik store near the Hackings' apartment said Mark Hacking entered the store by himself the night of July 18, the day before Lori was reported missing. That's the night the Hackings attended a housewarming party in Bountiful, the last time anyone confirmed seeing Lori alive."

Now according to this article.
According to reports in the Deseret Morning News and from KSL NewsRadio, a clerk at a convenience store near Mark and Lori Hacking's apartment says the couple came in between six and nine p.m. Sunday night, the day before she was reported missing.

Convenience Clerk May Have Been Last to See Lori Hacking

194 posted on 07/28/2004 1:34:49 PM PDT by Spunky ("Everyone has a freedom of choice, but not of consequences.")
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To: Spunky
Nice work, Spunky!

Short as it is, the link you provided has some terrific new info.

So if the Maverick clerk's recollection as to time frame is correct, their 8:30 PM departure from the housewarming party would probably be more accurate than 9:00 or 9:30.

Not surprising that he would deceive her about his smoking habit (another thing he was doing during his days of non-attendance at school while she was slaving away for Wells Fargo). Did he really think she wouldn't smell the smoke on his clothes? In my experience, women have hellacious sense of smell. You just can't get anything by them in that department. If we didn't have bloodhounds, we'd use women to track down our prison farm escapees. I suppose he had a plausible excuse prepared for her re the smoky-smelling clothes.

Clerk remembers she appeared "unhappy," so maybe something was already brewing between them that night. Maybe the re-assuring story he gave her on Friday broke down when somebody else at the housewarming clued her in and stirred up her doubts again. Or perhaps he made a conversational slip in her presence, possibly under the influence of libations, and that re-kindled her suspicions. The police have probably interviewed everybody at that party.

Re your understandable confusion between the two accounts of the Maverick visit -- the simplest explanation is that after parking in the lot, MH was the first to exit the car and enter the store, while Lori was maybe fussing with something in her purse, exiting the car and entering the store a little after he did. Again, given the clerk's description of her as not-so-happy, she may have delayed getting out of the car because she was upset and, for the moment, lost in her thoughts. I can well imagine her sitting there watching her husband ruefully or pensively as he walked into the store ahead of her, then thinking of some little item she needed and going in there herself.

If this were the case, it's easy to see how the discrepant accounts could both be accurate enough.

197 posted on 07/28/2004 2:15:11 PM PDT by Bonaparte
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