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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,...

More Evidence Points to Mark Hacking; Families Issue Statement Sunday, August 01, 2004 PHOTOS PHOTO ESSAYS Click image to enlarge Photo Essays:•The Search for Lori Hacking STORIES •Lab: Evidence May Help Solve Hacking Case •Timeline: Lori Hacking Disappearance•Police: Lori May Have Never Gone Jogging•Source: 'Rage Killing' in Hacking Home•Co-Workers: Lori Got Upsetting Phone Call•Lori's Father Suspicious of Son-in-Law•Jogger's Family Says She Was Deceived•Jogger's Husband Lied to Family, Police SALT LAKE CITY — The families of Mark and Lori Hacking (search) issued a statement late Saturday saying Mark Hacking (search) had provided information that makes a volunteer search for his missing...

Deceits Follow Husband in Hacking Case Fri Jul 30, 7:34 PM ET By PAUL FOY, Associated Press Writer SALT LAKE CITY - By all accounts, Mark Hacking was fun to be around and loving to his wife. He wanted to be liked and respected and, like his father, to become a doctor. AP Photo   But years of deceptions are catching up to Hacking, a 28-year-old former nightshift hospital orderly who has become the focus of police in the disappearance of his wife, who vanished as they were packing to move to a medical school where, it turns out, he...

Deseret Morning News, Saturday, July 31, 2004 Police reject Hacking rumors Heat and smells make landfill search toughBy Jennifer Dobner, Pat Reavy and Wendy LeonardDeseret Morning News Rumors overtook truth in the Lori Hacking case Friday after police suspended, at least temporarily, the search of a west-side landfill that has been a focal point in the search for the missing jogger. Using cadaver dogs, searchers look through trash at the Salt Lake Valley landfill. To be effective, the dogs are used at night and can search only 20 minutes at a time.Chris Bergin, Deseret Morning News From e-mails to...

Husband's fate after hospital in question "Person of interest": The police and prosecutors consider their possible actions when Mark Hacking is released By Matt Canham The Salt Lake Tribune Salt Lake Tribune 2004-07-31 01:05:00.791 Tucked away on the fifth floor of University Hospital, Mark Hacking has received psychiatric care since the morning after he reported his wife, Lori, missing 12 days ago.   That hospital stay is expected to end soon, according to a hospital official.   The question is: Will police let Hacking, the only "person of interest" in his wife's disappearance, go home?   The University of Utah has an all-hours security force...

Salt Lake landfill search began immediately By Pat Reavy and Jennifer Dobner Deseret Morning News A search of a Salt Lake Valley landfill for clues to the whereabouts of Lori Hacking may have begun — or was at least planned by city police — as early as one day after the Salt Lake woman was reported missing by her husband last week.Continued...

Husband's 'perfect' past keeps crumbling Suspicions: As blood is reported found in the Hackings' apartment, an ex-missionary says Mark was booted from a mission in Canada By Matt Canham The Salt Lake Tribune Salt Lake Tribune 2004-07-29 02:34:31.886 Small amounts of blood are among the evidence taken last week from the apartment of Lori Hacking, according to a source familiar with the investigation. But detectives won't have a definitive answer on whose blood it is anytime soon. State forensic experts assisted Salt Lake City police last week in searching the missing woman's apartment, seizing bags of evidence and a box...

(CBS/AP) Sources say police did find blood inside Lori Hacking's apartment consistent with a stabbing, and it appeared as if someone had tried to wash that evidence away. A mattress removed from the Salt Lake City apartment by police last week had either a red stain on it or on its cover. The Deseret News reported that a knife with blood and hair was also one of the items seized, but the results of forensic tests on any evidence collected could be "weeks to months" away, a detective said. Police have not called the apartment a crime scene, and they...

SALT LAKE CITY — Police believe that a "rage killing" took place inside Lori and Mark Hacking's apartment hours before Lori was reported missing, FOX News has learned. Authorities also said they believe 27-year-old Lori Hacking (search) was attacked and killed inside the apartment, sometime between Sunday night and Monday morning. Investigators said there was some evidence of a struggle, but there is no indication that it was a chaotic situation. Though there were drops of blood found inside the apartment, there was no evidence that any blood had been cleaned up, according to authorities. No one has been named...

A 'new phase' in search Hacking apartment turned back over to the family By Pat Reavy and Jennifer Dobner Deseret Morning News The apartment where Mark and Lori Hacking lived is no longer a crime scene and has been turned back over to the family. Mark Hacking Lori Hacking Tuesday, friends and family of the Hackings removed tables, chairs, a dresser, a headboard and other items that were not seized as potential evidence by Salt Lake City police. Scott Hacking, Mark's brother, said cleaning out the apartment was a difficult and somber process. "It's where she lived. It's sacred to...

DEFCON is the self-described "largest underground hacking event in the world". Official events include numerous speakers, panels, hacking and trivia contests, and the DC Shoot (geeks with guns in the desert sun). Unofficial events include parties, all-you-can-eat sushi, and a visit to the Gun & Knife show at Cashman Center. Some people think it's worth the $80 price of admission just to see the circus, to observe the hacker hangers-on baking in their de-facto uniform of black T-shirts and jeans.

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...

Deseret Morning News, Tuesday, July 27, 2004 Hacking retains lawyer Co-workers say Lori Hacking left work early in tearsBy Pat Reavy and Jennifer DobnerDeseret Morning News The husband of missing jogger Lori Hacking has retained a prominent local criminal defense attorney, and reports surfaced Monday of co-workers seeing a tearful Lori Hacking leave work early three days before she disappeared. Journalists surround Salt Lake police detective Dwayne Baird Monday in Salt Lake City. He had few details to release about evidence collected in the Hacking case.Michael Brandy, Deseret Morning News Mark Hacking has hired D. Gilbert Athay, who has...

SALT LAKE CITY July 26, 2004 — Three days before her husband reported her missing, Lori Hacking took a phone call at work that left her stunned and sobbing, her colleagues at a brokerage house told The Associated Press. Several colleagues said that Hacking had been arranging for on-campus housing at the University of North Carolina medical school and that they believe the school was returning a call to say her husband, Mark Hacking, was not enrolled there, as he had told her. Lori Hacking left work early after receiving the call the afternoon of Friday, July 16. Mark Hacking...

Local news just announced that the families of Lori Hacking have called off the volunteer search. They said they were not taking cues from the police, but were concerned that the volunteers were being sent into some dangerous areas. According to the family spokesman, the families don't know anything more about the police investigation than what is broadcast on the news. The report this morning was that the police spent last night searching the county landfill with cadaver dogs.

Search at Landfill Resumes, Lori Hacking’s Husband Hires an Attorney Jul 26, 2004 9:50 pm US/Mountain Salt Lake City police investigating the disappearance of 27-year-old Lori Hacking were back Monday night at the landfill they searched last week. They are using cadaver dogs as they did last week. Police Detective Dwayne Baird says the search last week had not been completed when the dogs had to be taken to another assignment. Asked by why they were searching at night, Baird told 2News that the dogs had just become available again and they also worked better at night. Meanwhile, the husband...

SALT LAKE CITY — The focus on Mark Hacking's possible role in the disappearance of his wife tightened Monday with reports that police found a bloody knife in the couple's apartment and Lori Hacking got an upsetting phone call at work three days before she vanished.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- The search for 27-year-old Lori Hacking has made an unlikely connection between Salt Lake City and Chapel Hill.Lori Hacking reportedly left her Salt Lake home around daybreak Monday to go jogging and has not been seen since. Mark Hacking, Lori's husband, told family, investigators and the media that he and his wife had planned to move to Chapel Hill to attend medical school, but on Wednesday, WRAL learned that the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has no record of Mark Hacking and that he is not registered to be a student at the medical...

Pregnant Woman Disappears While Jogging Tuesday, July 20, 2004 SALT LAKE CITY — In a case reminiscent of the disappearance of Laci Peterson, a 27-year-old pregnant woman vanished during her daily morning jog, and distraught family and friends turned out Tuesday to search for her. Lori Kay Hacking, who is five weeks pregnant, went out about 5:30 a.m. Monday, heading from her Salt Lake City home to nearby City Creek Canyon and Memory Grove park for a run.

SALT LAKE CITY — The night after 27-year-old Lori Hacking (search) disappeared, her husband was causing a disturbance at a local hotel, FOX News has learned. Police late Monday night responded to a complaint at the Chase Suites Hotel, where Mark Hacking (search) was running around naked, only wearing a pair of sandals. When the officers realized who he was, they took him to the nearby University Neuropsychiatric Institute (search), where he was admitted as a patient. FOX News has also learned that less than a half hour before Mark Hacking called police to report that his pregnant wife never...