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Hacking Makes First In-Person Court Appearance Aug. 16, 2004 SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Mark Hacking, charged with shooting his wife in the head and throwing her body into a trash bin, showed up in a heavily guarded courtroom Monday wearing a bulletproof vest. (Photo Credit: Francisco Kjolseth, Pool) Hacking, dressed in yellow jail garb and orange sneakers, said nothing as the judge scheduled a preliminary hearing for Sept. 23. Hacking's first in-person court appearance came after police marked their 12th night searching a county landfill without finding her body or .22-caliber firearm. Hacking reported his wife missing July...

Deseret Morning News, Sunday, August 15, 2004Grief, anger, love fill mother's heartCopyright 2004 Deseret Morning NewsBy Jennifer DobnerDeseret Morning News OREM — It was the Thursday after Lori Hacking was reported missing and Thelma Soares, Lori's mother, had gone to the hospital to see her son-in-law, Mark. Thelma Soares asks July 20 that the search for her daughter continue.Ryan Long, Deseret Morning News At the time it seemed that Mark Hacking had collapsed with grief over the disappearance of his newly pregnant wife. He was undergoing psychological testing at the University of Utah Medical Center and had been incoherent when...

Surveillance Seized in Hacking Probe 14 minutes ago By PAUL FOY, Associated Press Writer SALT LAKE CITY - Police have seized surveillance equipment from the psychiatric hospital where Mark Hacking worked as an orderly and the convenience store where he was seen twice the night his wife, Lori, presumably died. Hacking, 28, is accused of killing Lori Hacking, 27, while she slept and dumping her body in a trash bin. Authorities believe the bin is at the University of Utah Neuropsychiatric Institute, Hacking's former employer. The equipment taken from the hospital was a digital recorder for surveillance cameras, according...

Deseret Morning News, Wednesday, August 11, 2004 Prison time really up to parole board Sentencing guidelines are only a suggestionBy Linda Thomson and Amy Joi BrysonDeseret Morning News TV commentators on the Fox News Network were reeling Monday night, apparently shocked by the "leniency" of Utah's homicide laws. One demanded to know why Mark Hacking hadn't been charged with capital murder in the apparent death of his wife, Lori, and suggested the first-degree homicide charge against Hacking might be referred to as "misdemeanor murder." Deseret Morning News graphic Also debated was the 5-years-to-life sentence a first-degree felony charge carries...

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Don't look now, but camera is watching Privacy: The video eye is almost everywhere these days, but the view isn't like they portray on crime shows By Bob Mims The Salt Lake Tribune Salt Lake Tribune 2004-08-13 00:25:49.959 On a plane, train or bus, strolling a mall or park, using an ATM, riding an elevator, pumping gas, feeding coins into a tollbooth, in class or even your doctor's examining room - someone could be watching.     Are you a store clerk? Your cash register may be the star attraction of a security cam. So may be the hallways at...

Letter shows Lori's heartache Typewritten note among early findings that made police suspicious By Matthew D. LaPlante The Salt Lake Tribune Salt Lake Tribune 2004-08-12 02:03:46.427 On the day Mark Hacking reported his wife missing, police found a letter in which she pleaded for him to change his ways.    "I want to grow old with you, but I can't do it under these conditions," she wrote.    The typewritten letter was found on a shelf in a spare bedroom of the couple's apartment about the same time an officer pulled a blood-stained hunting knife from a bedside drawer.    Within hours,...

Arraignment of Hacking puts case in lawyers' hands By Stephen Hunt and Matthew D. LaPlanteThe Salt Lake Tribune Salt Lake Tribune 2004-08-11 00:55:49.001 Now that Mark Hacking has been charged with murder, prosecutors will begin delivering piles of police reports, witness interviews and crime lab reports to defense attorney D. Gilbert Athay.   In those piles, Athay will find statements made to police by Hacking's parents, brothers, co-workers and friends, all of whom have provided information leading to criminal charges.    Athay will also find testimony from Lori Hacking's co-workers, the couple's neighbors and witnesses who believe they saw Lori or Mark,...

Deseret Morning News, Tuesday, August 10, 2004Rifle used, Yocom saysHacking bail soars to $1 million after charges are filedBy Pat Reavy and Lucinda Dillon KinkeadDeseret Morning News Mark Hacking was to make his first court appearance today in what prosecutors alleged Monday was the "gutless" shooting death of his wife, Lori, as she slept. Searchers are using excavators at the Salt Lake County Landfill in an effort to find Lori Hacking's body. They have gone through about half of the trash in the search area. Chris Bergin, Deseret Morning News The Salt Lake County District Attorney's Office on Monday filed...

Hidden Truth: Lori Hacking Case Aug. 6, 2004 On July 24, while sitting in a psychiatric hospital, Mark Hacking's brothers say he told them that he killed his wife, Lori, and then put her body in the trash. It is believed her body is buried under more than 2,000 tons of garbage. By all accounts, Mark Hacking worshipped his wife of five years, and he wasn’t afraid to show it. Correspondent Maureen Maher has this 48 Hours update. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “He adored her. And she adored him,” recalls Lori’s mother, Thelma Soares. “I couldn’t have asked for a better son-in-law. Lori...

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.