Posted on 07/26/2004 4:04:10 PM PDT by randog
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.
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It's another "gloves don't fit" scenario.
This story is absolutly tragic. she is pregnant, looking forward to a wonderful life, and in one moment her world crashes.
This is a sad story. Mark Hacking reminds me of Scott Peterson. There is a look in the eyes that they both have.... vacant and unfeeling. She probably found out her husband had been lying to her and got very upset, went home argued with him and he killed her. Very sad. Another tragedy.....as soon as this tragic story broke, the Berger/Kerry filegate story just disappeared.
Yeah, it is a tragic story....a pretty, young girl, everything going her way, and then this. Makes you stop and think about the people around you that you think you know.
Could be a great story! She, riding the wave of the "husband must have murdered the pregnant wife" buzz, disappears to go with her boyfriend, the father of her child, and leaves all sorts of evidence pointing at her husband, who she already knows is already a little unbalanced.
some men really can't become fathers. Looks like it is becoming a trend.
The image I'm getting of Mark Hacking is that he's a guy who simply cannot stop from lying--the lies he's told are lies that anyone with half a brain would know would be discovered sooner or later, yet he tells them anyway. I mean, the med school thing? The mattress? Sheeesh.
You should read a book called "An American Tragedy" by Theodore Dreiser. One of the best stories I've ever read.
Yeah, his lying is pathological.
At this point, I'm more inclined to think this was a horrendous, 'heat of the moment' act that occured when the sh*t hit the fan & the truth came out about med school. Lori must have been livid, & the arguement could easily have gotten physical.
From what I've seen & heard, it sounds to me like he really did love her and may have killed her by accident or in desperation when she threatened to tell their families. Of course, this doesn't excuse it, and attempting to cover it up & going mental is reprehensible, but I don't think he's a sociopath like Scott Peterson.
What's really scary is that the #1 cause of death for pregnant women in this country is homocide.
"You should read a book called "An American Tragedy" by Theodore Dreiser."
Wasn't Dreiser the communist/socialist who also wrote a booked "Jenny Gerhardt" or something like that? That was also a good book.
"You should read a book called "An American Tragedy" by Theodore Dreiser."
Wasn't Dreiser the communist/socialist who also wrote a book entitled "Jenny Gerhardt" or something like that? That was also a good book.
She found out.
We have motive, means and opportunity. Why isn't the jerk in jail?
I wonder if he was planning to kill her while in transit, hide the body, and then just vanish with all your posession conveniently packed into your getaway vehichle. It would be weeks before anyone in either family would get worried enough to call police, and they would start looking in NC where they would not be.
this guy had his own little world created. The way to solve the problem, kill it. After all look how the media is making Peterson the poor mistreated"innocent" husband. those mean ole prosecutors are trying to frame him, doncha know.
Sounds like your theory was pretty close to the truth.
Rael was a socialist too, but Twelve Against The Gods is a really great book. The chapter on Mahomet should be read by anyone who wants to understand Islam today.
I think those guys thought socialism and the League of Nations would save the world from another "war to end all wars".
If alive today, I don't think they would support socialism.
I don't know about him being a commie, etc. The story I heard about this book is that Dreiser was a newspaperman during the early part of the 20th century, and this book was based on a murder case that happened about that time. After he wrote it as a fiction story he came under a lot of criticism for basically using the real event almost verbatim and just making up a lot of fictional scenes and motivations, etc.
Now that the years have passed and few people remember the real event it was based on, the book can be viewed as pure literature. And the writing is excellent! (Note - this is not a book with a happy ending. Read it if you like to wallow in the troubles and pathos of a real loser in life.)
The reason I mentioned it is because poor Clyde (in the book) ends up killing his young, pregnant wife. The situations that put him up to this deed, and the character of Clyde that drives him to do this are just fascinating.
I hardly know enough about the man to speculate as to whether or not he is a sociopath, but there is something seriously and desperately wrong with a person who would lie about graduating from college and lie about being accepted to medical school and actually planning a move across the country based on such a huge lie. How did he think he would get away with such lies?
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