SALT LAKE CITY – Three days before her husband reported her missing, Lori Hacking took a phone call at work that left her stunned and sobbing, her colleagues at a brokerage house said.
Several colleagues said that Hacking had been arranging for on-campus housing at the University of North Carolina medical school and that they believe the school was returning a call to say her husband, Mark Hacking, was not enrolled there, as he had told her.
Lori Hacking left work early after receiving the call the afternoon of Friday, July 16. Mark Hacking reported his wife’s disappearance the following Monday. She is now feared dead.
At the time of her disappearance, the couple were packing to move to North Carolina within weeks. But after she vanished, police and family members learned that in addition to lying about being accepted to medical school, Mark Hacking had not even graduated from college.
Mark Hacking, a 28-year-old nightshift hospital orderly, has been at a psychiatric hospital since police found him running around naked in sandals the night after the search for his wife began.
Lori Hacking, a 27-year-old trading assistant who just learned she was five weeks pregnant, was a private woman who did not share personal troubles, making her breakdown in the office all the more unusual, said colleagues at Wells Fargo Securities Services.
Results on some of the evidence collected by police, including a mattress recovered from a trash bin and a box spring taken from the couple’s apartment, could come back from a laboratory this week.
Associated Press
Lori Hacking’s brother Paul Soares and his wife, Valeria, take part in a candlelight vigil for her Sunday night in Salt Lake City, Utah. The vigil was held in the park where Hacking’s car was found last week. A poster of the missing woman is at right.
Talk to us
> Give us your news tips.
> Send us a letter to the editor.
> More Herald contact information.
