There's a theory that these stories are pushed by the national media to displace embarrassing stories about Democrats. (Murders of this sort happen weekly across the country. We just don't hear about them.) In this case, the Lori Hacking murder is displacing the Sandy Berger story. Following this theory, can anyone tell me what stories the Chandra Levy and Laci Petersen murders were supposed to displace?
Here you go. Answer your own question.
I can't say, really, but sometimes I think we wear our tinfoil hats a little to tight. While 'rats are devious, I doubt they go around committing murders so as to knock other stories off the news.
If you mean Utah, I was in the Security field for many years and attended a seminar in Salt Lake regarding fraud. One speaker, from the Salt Lake P.D., said that Utah has an extremely high number of fraud crimes. He also went into the theory that some Mormon young men have a hard time keeping up with their successful dads, brothers, friends, etc, so they get caught up in living a secret life. I didn't think too much of it then, but the investigator's talk sure makes some sense now..