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Lori Hacking Murder Case

· Wife Killer Hacking Gets 6 Years to Life.  A man who admitted shooting his wife in the head while she slept was sentenced to six years to life in prison Monday, bringing to a close the case of murder and deceit that shocked Utah last July.  Judge Denise Lindberg handed Mark Hacking his sentence after hearing emotional statements from the family of his murdered wife Lori. She added that it would be a long time before she would recommend his release to the parole board. 

· Mark Hacking:  'I intentionally shot Lori Hacking in the head.'  Mark Hacking pleaded guilty on Friday to killing his wife Lori Hacking, whose disappearance last summer set off an intense search in Salt Lake County.  "I intentionally shot Lori Hacking in the head with a .22 rifle," Mark Hacking told a judge in a Salt Lake City courthouse. 

· Mark Hacking Pleads Guilty To Murdering Wife.  Mark Hacking has pleaded guilty to killing his wife.  Prosecutors said the Utah man faces six years to life when he's sentenced in a Salt Lake City court June 6.  Lori Hacking vanished last July as the couple was packing for a move to North Carolina, where her husband said he was going to attend medical school.  Police said Hacking killed his wife after she confronted him over lying about his education and plans to become a doctor. It turned out he hadn't been accepted, nor even applied to the medical school. 

· 'Hacking' Removed From Lori's Gravestone.  The family name "Hacking" has been removed from the gravestone of a woman whose husband has been charged with killing her and dumping her body in a trash bin. 

· Brother Urges Hacking to Plead Guilty.  A man charged with killing his wife and dumping her body in the trash should "be a man" and plead guilty to her murder, the woman's brother wrote to the suspect. 

· Lori Hacking's body laid to rest.  Family and friends buried the remains of Lori Hacking on Saturday, eight days after her body was recovered from a landfill in Salt Lake County. 

· Hacking's family takes remains for burial.  Authorities have given Lori Hacking's remains to her family for a private burial later this week. Family members received the body Tuesday, four days after searchers found the remains at a landfill, where crews combed through mounds of garbage after Hacking's husband, Mark, allegedly confessed to shooting her and throwing her body in the trash. 

· Lori Hacking's Remains Found in Utah Landfill.  Remains belonging to Lori Hacking have been found in a Salt Lake County landfill, confirming that the Utah woman who went missing two and a half months ago is dead. 

      » Confirmed by Dental records.  Dental records confirmed that human remains found in a Salt Lake County landfill Friday are those of Lori Hacking, a Salt Lake Police spokesman told CNN.  Earlier Friday, Salt Lake City Police Chief Rick Dinse said authorities believe they have most of the body, but they do not have a "formed skeletal" shape.  "It looks like a petite body," he said. 

· Lori Hacking's Body May Have Been Found.  Police on Friday recovered human remains at the Salt Lake County landfill in an area where investigators have been looking for the body of missing woman Lori Hacking.  It wasn't immediately known whether the remains were those of the missing woman, who was believed to be five weeks pregnant when she was killed. Her husband, Mark Hacking, has been charged with her murder. 

· Mark Hacking May Be Working on Book.  As police search through 35 to 40 feet of landfill for the body of Lori Hacking, her husband, charged with her murder, is apparently working on a book.  Mark Hacking said in a letter to KTVX-TV that any proceeds from the book would go to the Lori Hacking memorial scholarship fund, which was established by the woman's mother. 

· Hand-Search For Hacking's Body Replaces Cadaver Dogs.  The search for the body of Lori Hacking resumed Tuesday as volunteers began hand-searching more than 4,600 tons of trash at the county landfill.  Thirty-eight public safety officials - including police officers, firefighters and Urban Search and Rescue Team members who looked for human remains at the World Trade Center - volunteered to replace cadaver dogs in the search for Hacking, who has been missing since July 19 and is presumed dead. 

· Hope dims of finding Hacking body.  Police acknowledged Tuesday they may never find Lori Hacking's body at a landfill where they have concentrated their search for the past several weeks. 

· Hacking in Court With Bulletproof Vest.  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.  

· Lori Hacking: A woman of 'class and style.'  Hundreds of family members, friends and searchers attend the service to honor the Salt Lake City woman; Notably absent during the 90-minute program was any mention of Lori's husband, Mark Hacking, who has been charged with killing her and remains in jail in lieu of $1 million bail. But members of Mark Hacking's family did attend the memorial, and his father, Douglas Hacking, gave the opening prayer. 

· Memorial Held for Lori Hacking.  Family and friends of Lori Hacking gathered Saturday for a memorial service to remember the woman whom authorities believe was slain by her husband while she slept. 

· Hacking's Parents Visit, Urge Forgiveness.  Mark Hacking, accused of killing his sleeping wife and dumping her body in a trash bin, has been grieving and praying, his parents said after visiting him Thursday night.  Janet Hacking said Thursday night she has spent a lot of time thinking of Mark as "a sweet, little boy," of the promise and the good things, "and that I still have faith in him that he will find his way back." 

      » Funeral For Missing Utah Woman Set.  Lori's parents - Eraldo and Thelma Soares - are preparing for her memorial service, to be held Saturday at a Mormon church in Orem, Utah, which will have a display honoring their daughter's life. 

· Did Letter Spark Hacking Murder?  A search warrant in the case of a missing Salt Lake City woman revealed a handwritten letter suggesting marital trouble between the woman and the husband accused of killing her.  "I hate coming home from work because it hurts to be home in our apartment," the police document, released Wednesday, quotes from the letter. "I can't imagine life with you if things don't change." 

· Hacking Read Charges In Court.  The man who confessed to shooting his wife in the head and throwing her body in a trash bin stood passive Tuesday as a judge read the charges against him during an initial court appearance. 

· Hacking Charged With First-Degree Murder.  Mark Hacking was charged with first-degree murder Monday after he allegedly confessed to family members that he shot his wife Lori in the head and put the body in a garbage bin. 

· Hacking Attorney Fights Back.  The attorney for Mark Hacking said he will raise the issue of mental illness and challenge his client's confession to relatives that he killed his wife, Lori Hacking, and dumped her body in a garbage bin. 

· Hacking's Dad: Mark 'Snapped.'  Mark Hacking "just snapped" and killed his pregnant wife after she learned he had been lying for years about his education and career plans, his father said.  He said Mark first denied it, then revealed to his brothers Scott and Lance on July 24 at a psychiatric ward that he had killed his wife in bed while she slept and threw her body in a trash bin. 

· Mark Hacking Confessed to Brothers.  A Salt Lake County judge on Thursday granted an extension to file formal charges against Mark Hacking in what is now believed to have been the murder of his wife Lori. The prosecution requested the extension, set to expire on Monday at 7 p.m. EDT, while police continue to search for Lori Hacking's body.

Hacking's brothers Scott and Lance together were the "reliable citizen witness" police said Mark confessed to about murdering his wife, Scott Hacking told the Salt Lake Tribune. 

· Landfill Search For Lori Hacking's Body Renewed.  The county landfill was bathed in the glow of large spotlights overnight Wednesday as Salt Lake police and cadaver dogs continued searching for the body of Lori Hacking. 

· Prosecutor wants more time in missing wife case.  A Utah district attorney said Wednesday that he needs more time to screen evidence against Mark Hacking before he can determine whether to formally charge him with aggravated murder or the lesser charge of criminal murder in the death of his wife, Lori. 

· Mark Hacking Used An Alias.  When Mark Hacking was booked into jail on suspicion of murdering his pregnant wife, he volunteered an alias that could open another chapter in his secret life.  Hacking offered the alias "Jonathan Long" when a jailer asked him, "Have you every used another name - that could be for anything?"  Hacking didn't say why he had adopted the alias or how he used it, and jailers don't ask those questions, Salt Lake County Sgt. Rosie Rivera said.  Police are trying to determine if there is a post office box. 

· SLC Tribune: Police release evidence of Mark's guilt.  Mark Hacking told a "reliable citizen witness" that he murdered his wife while she slept, then threw her body in a Dumpster, according to a revised arresting document released Tuesday. 

· Police start disclosing evidence against Mark Hacking.  Police says investigators found human blood on a knife in the bedroom of Mark Hacking's apartment and on the couple's headboard and bedrail. 

· Mark Told Psych Ward Patient He Killed Lori.  Mark Hacking told a "reliable citizen witness" in the psychiatric ward that he killed his pregnant wife as she slept, according to a probable cause statement released Tuesday by the Salt Lake County Sheriff's Department. 

· Tape Shows Mark After Alleged Murder.  Soon after authorities believe Mark Hacking killed his wife, he is seen inside a convenience store, where he repeatedly checked his hands, pulled something out of his watch and apparently avoided eye contact with other customers. 

· Mark Hacking Booked.  A man whose credibility began crumbling the day he first reported his pregnant wife missing was arrested Monday in her death, just before his scheduled release from a psychiatric ward.

Investigators believe Lori Hacking, 27, was killed in the couple's apartment and that her body is buried somewhere below 3,000 tons of trash at the county landfill. The landfill will be searched again Wednesday. 

· Mark Hacking Arrested for Murder.  Mark Hacking has been arrested for the murder of his pregnant wife, Lori Hacking, Salt Lake City police said Monday. 

· Police to Search Landfill for Lori Hacking.  The investigation into a 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. 

· Hacking family says 'don't bother searching for Lori.'  The families of Mark and Lori Hacking issued a statement late Saturday saying Mark Hacking had provided information that makes a volunteer search for his missing wife unnecessary. Police are now more certain missing pregnant woman Lori Hacking was killed after recovering a mattress belonging to her and her husband. 

· Lies Catch Up to Missing Woman's Husband.  By all accounts, Mark Hacking was fun to be around - a loving husband who wanted to be respected and, like his father, become a doctor. But years of deceptions are catching up to the former nightshift hospital orderly and he has become the focus of the investigation into the disappearance of his wife. 

· Husband's fate after hospital in question.  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" go home? 

· Dump Still Focus Of Jogger Search.  There was no search of the Salt Lake County landfill overnight, but police say that doesn't mean they have given up their search there for clues in the disappearance of missing 27-year-old Lori Hacking. Investigators say they just had to give the cadaver dogs a rest. 

· Lab: Evidence May Help Solve Hacking Case.  Police did a thorough job of collecting evidence that could prove useful in helping solve the disappearance of Lori Hacking, the pregnant woman reported missing by her husband, the head of the state's crime lab said Thursday. 

· Cops doubt the 'missing jogger' theory.  She's been called the "missing jogger" but Lori Hacking may have never gone jogging at all the day she vanished, police said Thursday. 

· Store Clerk May Be One Of Last People To See Missing Jogger.  A clerk at a convenience store near Mark and Lori Hacking's apartment claims the couple came in between 6 and 9 p.m. on the night of July 18.  The pregnant woman was reported missing the next day.  Mark Hacking was talking with the clerks and seemed happy, but his wife did not seem happy. The clerk said Mark Hacking visited the store several times a week, and he asked clerks not to tell his wife he was buying cigarettes. 

· Cops: 'Rage Killing' in Hacking Home.  Police believe that a "rage killing" took place inside Lori and Mark Hacking's apartment hours before Lori was reported missing, FOX News has confirmed.  Authorities also said they believe Lori Hacking was attacked and killed inside the apartment.  Police confirmed that a bloody knife with strands of brown hair on it was among the numerous pieces of evidence they removed from the couple's apartment. 

· Missing woman's spouse gets lawyer.  The family of a man whose wife has been missing since last week said Monday that an attorney has been hired to represent him.

Salt Lake City attorney Gilbert Athay will represent Mark Hacking, who has been hospitalized in a psychiatric ward since shortly after his wife disappeared.  Athay told CNN by phone that he had been retained by the Hackings on Thursday and has been visiting his client daily at the hospital. 

· Hacking Apartment Turned Over to Families.  Police completed their search of Lori and Mark Hacking's apartment Tuesday, and the families of the missing woman and her husband began packing up and moving out the couple's possessions.

Police hunting for evidence in the Lori Hacking disappearance returned to a previously searched landfill, this time with cadaver dogs. 

· Lori Got Upsetting Phone Call.  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.

Lori Hacking's co-workers at Wells Fargo Brokerage Service said she received a phone call at the office that prompted her to leave work early, sobbing and visibly upset. 

· Bloody knife allegedly found in Hacking's apartment.  Deseret Morning News is reporting that unnamed sources have confirmed that a bloody knife with strands of hair were found among the items taken from the Hackings' apartment.  

· Timeline: Lori Hacking Disappearance.  The following are the events surrounding the case of missing jogger Lori Hacking. 

· Missing Utah woman’s family clinging to hope.  The family of a missing pregnant woman said Sunday they were clinging to diminishing hopes of finding her alive, and appointed a spokeswoman after a week of nearly constant media coverage.

The family has been more reluctant to face reporters since questions arose about the credibility of Hacking’s husband, Mark. 

· Police seeking missing woman investigate trash bin.  Police are investigating a clump of brown hair found Saturday in a trash bin near the store where the husband of a missing woman bought a mattress before reporting her disappearance. 

· Lori Hacking's Tearful Mom Holds News Conference.  The mother of Lori Hacking, the reportedly five-weeks pregnant 27-year-old Utah woman who allegedly went missing during a jog last week, fought back tears Sunday morning at a press conference as she announced her continued support for her son-in-law. 

· Bloodstains Found in Hacking Apartment.  Bloodstains have been found all over the apartment of Mark and Lori Hacking, family and investigative sources say. 

· Dad Confronted Mark Hacking at Hospital.  The father of the man whose wife vanished this week, allegedly as she went out for a jog, said Friday that his son looked him in the eye and denied having anything to do with the disappearance. 

· Man bought mattress before reporting wife missing.  Around the time Mark Hacking called police to report that his pregnant wife never returned from her morning jog, he was at a furniture store buying a new mattress, according to local news reports. 

· Missing woman's in-laws: Son lied about medical school.  The parents of a missing pregnant woman's husband told reporters Wednesday they had just learned that their son lied about being accepted to a medical school in North Carolina. 

      » Missing woman's husband enters psychiatric ward.  The husband of a missing Salt Lake City woman has checked himself into a psychiatric ward because of the stress of her disappearance, according to the father of the missing woman. 

· Pregnant Woman Disappears While Jogging.  In a case reminiscent of the disappearance of Laci Peterson, a 27-year-old pregnant woman vanished in Salt Lake City during her daily morning jog, and distraught family and friends turned out Tuesday to search for her. 

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