Mark Hacking Pleads Guilty To Murdering Wife
Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 11:20 pm
Mark Hacking Pleads Guilty To Murdering Wife
POSTED: 4:20 pm EDT April 15, 2005
UPDATED: 5:12 pm EDT April 15, 2005
SALT LAKE CITY -- 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, a hospital orderly, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder. He also was charged with obstructing justice by disposing of the body, the gun and a bloody mattress, but those charges were dropped as part of Friday's deal.
Lori Hacking's decomposed remains were found in a Salt Lake City landfill in October after months of searching. Mark Hacking reported her missing on July 18.
He said she never returned from a morning jog. He said because he works the night shift he was usually sleeping when Lori left to go running in the morning. He said she usually woke him so he could drive her to work, but that the day Lori disappeared he woke up late and realized she hadn't returned.
While hospitalized in a psychiatric unit, Mark Hacking allegedly confessed to his brothers that he shot his wife while she slept, and that he disposed of her body, the weapon and a mattress in a trash bin.
An affidavit states that investigators found blood on the couple's headboard and bed rail. Court papers say those blood samples matched traces of blood found in Lori Hacking's car. Police took a box spring and several boxes full of items from the Hackings' apartment. They also impounded a mattress recovered from a nearby trash bin.
http://www.wral.com/news/4384623/detail.html
Copyright 2005 by The Associated Press.
POSTED: 4:20 pm EDT April 15, 2005
UPDATED: 5:12 pm EDT April 15, 2005
SALT LAKE CITY -- 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, a hospital orderly, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder. He also was charged with obstructing justice by disposing of the body, the gun and a bloody mattress, but those charges were dropped as part of Friday's deal.
Lori Hacking's decomposed remains were found in a Salt Lake City landfill in October after months of searching. Mark Hacking reported her missing on July 18.
He said she never returned from a morning jog. He said because he works the night shift he was usually sleeping when Lori left to go running in the morning. He said she usually woke him so he could drive her to work, but that the day Lori disappeared he woke up late and realized she hadn't returned.
While hospitalized in a psychiatric unit, Mark Hacking allegedly confessed to his brothers that he shot his wife while she slept, and that he disposed of her body, the weapon and a mattress in a trash bin.
An affidavit states that investigators found blood on the couple's headboard and bed rail. Court papers say those blood samples matched traces of blood found in Lori Hacking's car. Police took a box spring and several boxes full of items from the Hackings' apartment. They also impounded a mattress recovered from a nearby trash bin.
http://www.wral.com/news/4384623/detail.html
Copyright 2005 by The Associated Press.
