Posted on 08/01/2004 7:25:22 AM PDT by JockoManning
Search now 'unnecessary,' say families of Lori Hacking By Jennifer Dobner Deseret Morning News
Mark Hacking told his family something important Saturday — and whatever it is, it apparently makes any further volunteer searches for his missing 27-year-old wife unnecessary.
That news came late Saturday, not from Salt Lake City police but by way of a statement faxed to the Deseret Morning News and other media by Mark and Lori Hackings' families. "The families understand that Mark Hacking has provided information that makes it unnecessary for individuals or groups to continue the volunteer search," the statement reads. "At this time, the families ask that all efforts from volunteers cease and that anyone with information that they feel might be helpful contact the Salt Lake City Police Department directly." Salt Lake City police were to meet with family members late Saturday, and the family was expected to share with investigators details of their conversation with Mark Hacking, detective Phil Eslinger said. "To my knowledge we are going to work through the night with the family to determine what that information is," Eslinger said. "All I know is that it was a legitimate fax from the family. This is not another one of those cruel jokes or rumors." Police are expected to hold a news conference sometime today.
No further statements are likely from the Hacking or Soares families in the near future. Their statement included a plea that their privacy be respected in what was described in the families' statement as "this difficult time" and indicated they plan to make no further statements about the case. Contacted at his home Saturday night, attorney D. Gilbert Athay, who has been hired to represent Mark Hacking, said he had no comment. Lori Hacking disappeared July 19, allegedly while jogging in Memory Grove just before 6 a.m. Volunteers' search efforts in the park and nearby canyons, which over a week drew more than 4,000 people, were unsuccessful.
Police now say they believe Lori, who had just learned she was five-weeks pregnant, was never in the park. Mark Hacking has been hospitalized since the day after he reported his wife missing. He has also been named a "person of interest" in the case by police but as of Saturday had never officially been called a suspect. However, investigators took numerous pieces of evidence from the couple's apartment at 127 S. Lincoln St. (945 East), including box springs and computers. Also among the evidence being evaluated by forensic experts is a knife said to have blood and hair samples. Before Lori Hacking disappeared, the couple was supposedly moving to Chapel Hill, N.C., where Mark was to attend medical school. But three days into the case, it was learned that Mark Hacking had lied about his acceptance to medical school, as well as his recent graduation from the University of Utah. Over the past two weeks, more and more information has trickled out indicating that Mark may have been lying to his friends and family for as long as 18 months about his present and future life. The details and the time line of events Hacking shared with police also quickly crumbled. Mark Hacking said on July 19 that he had learned Lori had failed to arrive at work about 10 a.m., but a mattress store clerk said Mark was shopping for a mattress at the time. A credit card receipt showed he had indeed purchased one, just 26 minutes before he called police at 10:49 a.m. Until Saturday, it appeared that Mark had also maintained he knew nothing about his wife's disappearance. In a conversation with his father, Douglas Hacking, Mark said he had lied about his life because he felt pressure to be successful like his father and siblings. But he said he didn't know what had happened to his wife.
"He looked me in the eye and said, 'No,' " Douglas Hacking said when recounting his conversation with his son to reporters July 23. No one is certain what Lori Hacking knew of her husband's deception or when she knew it. However, co-workers at Wells Fargo Bank have said that the Friday before she disappeared, Lori received an upsetting phone call and left in tears. Police have focused most of their search efforts on the Salt Lake Valley Solid Waste Facility, sifting through piles of refuse on four separate occasions with investigators and four cadaver dogs. That search was temporarily suspended on Friday, with police saying the dogs needed a day or two of rest. So far, the only comment from police about the landfill searches has been that "nothing of consequence" had yet been found. Landfill searches are expected to resume, but police have not been specific about when. The task of finding what is presumably Lori Hacking's body in the landfill could be seen as nearly impossible. More than 2,500 tons of refuse is deposited there daily by more than 600 dump trucks. Police have focused their efforts on a one- to two-acre segment of the facility. Police apparently believed the landfill held significant clues as to Lori Hacking's whereabouts as early as one day after she went missing. Landfill executive director Romney Stewart told the Deseret Morning News last week that police asked him on July 20 to suspend dumping in a certain area so that it could be searched.
E-mail: jdobner@desnews.com
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,595081258,00.html
I just heard yesterday, Lori hadn't had the pregnancy
confirmed by a doctor. Lori used one of those home
test kits and told one of her friends the results
were positive.
Could be in one of the many canyons surrounding SLC.
Published 8/2/2004 11:22 AM
SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 2 (UPI) -- A Utah sheriff's official says his cadaver-seeking dogs are ready to resume their search of a landfill for signs of a missing Salt Lake City woman.
Salt Lake City police had said they would resume the search for Lori Hacking at a landfill on Friday; however Duschene County Chief Deputy Wally Hendricks told the Salt Lake Tribune Monday that his department's five specially trained canines were ready to go before the end of the week.
The fruitless search effort appeared to get a boost over the weekend when Hacking's family issued a statement to the effect that Hacking's husband, Mark, had said something that made large-scale searches by volunteers no longer necessary.
Police have been conducting their search for the missing expectant mother on the theory she was murdered and disposed of in a trash dumpster that was subsequently unloaded at the landfill.
Yes, a lot of people who serve on juries are sharp individuals but when you have an important case that is supposed to last 6-8 months, the jury selection is widdled down to the lowest common denominator...because no one can afford to be out of work for almost a year at 10 measley bucks a day. The side that wins is the one with the best attorney...and that's all there is to it.
What's really scary after the Laci Peterson and the Lori Hacking cases is the number of sociapaths in sheep's clothing that must be walking around in our midst.
Why don't we just settle for Trial by Media. T'would be more expeditious and cost effective. /so
Fox is saying there's going to be a press conference that's going to cover "something important" in awhile. Sorry I didn't catch the time it will be held; I think (but I might be wrong) it will be at noon Mountain time?
What's surprising about that? One was elected to the highest office in this country. Twice.
And let's face it--another one is running right now. There are a lot of people out there who believe him, as they believed Clinton, and as they believe all the lies in Michael Moore's "documentary." I wonder if they'll call this decade "The Decade of the LIE"?
My kiddo last night taught me a sociopath-litmus-test question they are supposed to ask (he's going into the medical field).
"A woman goes to her mother's funeral. At the funeral, she sees a man she's never seen before and it's love at first sight. The next day, the woman kills her own sister. Why?" The patient is supposed answer the first thing that comes to mind.
Fox is reporting Mark is under arrest! No details yet.
Thank you, MIz. I've been busy this morning and each
time I had a sec to click on FOX, all talk was on
terrorism.
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I am NOT trashing Mormons, but maybe Lori's mom has some kind of attitude of idolizing Mark as the "head of household" that comes from the teachings of their church?
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One. I haven't even heard they are Mormon.
Two. Head of the Household doesn't mean what you obviously think it does.
Three. Go to the LDS church website (wwww.lds.org), navigate to Gospel Library, Publications (HTML), Curriculum, Melchezedick Priesthood and look through the books Duties and Blessings of the Priesthood, vol. A and B to get a clearer picture of what Head of Household really means.
News conference on Fox now.
Local radio just reported the arrest here. (ATL 2:00 pm.)
Ping!
Sounds like an episode of the practice.
The sheriff seems to know how to handle media--he's not taking any you know what!
Just said Mark was under suspicion from the first--maybe the law wasn't buying all those lies??
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