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Deseret Morning News, Monday, August 09, 2004Murder charge filed against Mark HackingBy Travis ReedAssociated Press A first-degree murder charge was filed Monday against Mark Hacking, who allegedly confessed to relatives that he shot his sleeping wife in the head and threw her body in a trash bin. Salt Lake County District Attorney David Yocom talks to the press Monday, as prosecuting attorney Robert Stott looks on.Chris Bergin, Deseret Morning News Lori Hacking's body has not been found, despite numerous searches of a landfill.The charge against the husband carries a sentencing range of five years to life in prison. Hacking remained...

Deseret Morning News, Sunday, August 08, 2004Portraits of Sorrow: MarkBy Lucinda Dillon KinkeadDeseret Morning News It was snowing that night in the fall of 2001, a miserable and cold night, and Kara Cottle was waiting for the shuttle bus to get home after her night class. Brandon Wood and Mark sport missionary attire in 1995. Mark was sent home early from his mission to Canada for disciplinary reasons. From under her hood, she saw Mark Hacking in his SUV, the popular student she'd known as a kid in Orem and who'd re-introduced himself in their Evolution of Human Health and...

Lori's outraged father lashes out ''Monstrous act'': In a statement, Hareld Soares decries the tragic death of his daughter, his son-in-law's lies and cowardice, says he seeks justice, not vengeance By Matthew D. LaPlante and Matt Canham The Salt Lake Tribune Salt Lake Tribune 2004-08-07 01:10:22.092 Four days after his wife vanished, Mark Hacking wrapped his large arms around his father-in-law's small frame and promised he wasn't responsible.     Now, believing his daughter's body is among thousands of tons of waste paper, plastics and rotting food, Hareld Soares is lashing out at his son-in-law.    "As the facts about my...

Hacking Confessed to Brothers, Father Says By PAUL FOY ASSOCIATED PRESS SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Mark Hacking confessed to two older brothers that he killed his wife as she slept and then put the body in a trash bin, their father said Thursday. Hacking, confronted with evidence he had something to do with his wife's disappearance, and overwhelmed by the volunteer effort to find her, made the confession when his brothers Scott and Lance visited him at a psychiatric ward July 24, the father, Douglas Hacking, said. "He decided the time was right - he had better let authorities...

'The right thing to do' Family says Mark Hacking is willing to help investigators even if his life is at stake By Matt Canham and Matthew D. LaPlante The Salt Lake Tribune Douglas Hacking, shown here during a news conference in Salt Lake City on July 25, said Thursday that his son, Mark, wants to help the investigation. (Leah Hogsten/Tribune file photo) He told his family he killed his wife. Now his family says Mark Hacking is ready to accept the consequences. In a telephone conversation from jail Wednesday night, Hacking reportedly talked to his father about his willingness to...

Posted on Wed, Aug. 04, 2004 Hacking volunteers alias to jailers By PAUL FOY Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY - A man jailed on suspicion of murdering his pregnant wife told authorities he used an alias - the latest in a number of discrepancies he has offered since reporting his wife missing after a morning jog, police said Wednesday. Mark Hacking volunteered the alias "Jonathan Long" when a jailer asked him, "Have you ever used another name - that could be for anything?" He did not say why he adopted the name or how he used it and authorities did...

The husband of a missing pregnant woman told a "reliable citizen witness" in the psychiatric ward that he killed his wife as she slept before throwing her body in a trash bin, according to a court filing. The statement, released Tuesday by the Salt Lake County Sheriff's Department, also says investigators found human blood on a knife in the bedroom of Mark Hacking's apartment and on their bed's headboard and a bedrail. Blood found in the bedroom matched traces of blood found in Lori Hacking's car, according to the statement. Mark Hacking was arrested Monday on a charge of aggravated...

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Here is part of a Fox News story about the murdered woman in Salt Lake. Lori Hacking, 27, had apparently learned she was five-weeks pregnant just days before she vanished and told friends and relatives, though Dinse said police still had no proof. He said if investigators find her body and her pregnancy is confirmed, police would consider bringing an additional charge against her husband.

Mark Hacking (search) has been arrested for the murder of his pregnant wife, Lori Hacking, Salt Lake City police said Monday. Authorities haven't found Lori Hacking's (search) body, detectives said in a news conference. The arrest came after the investigation into the young woman's disappearance took a grim turn, as authorities redirected their attention to a landfill and her relatives asked volunteers to stop looking for her in response to new information from the woman's husband.

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...