Mark Hacking Sentenced for Wife's Murder
Judge Denise Lindberg said she would recommend to the state parole board that he remain incarcerated for "a very long time."
"She didn't do nothing but love me unconditionally, even when I didn't deserve it. She was the greatest thing that ever happened to me, but I killed her, and took the life of my unborn child and put them in the garbage and I can't explain why I did it," Hacking said. "I put them in the garbage, and they rotted out at the landfill. I'm tormented every waking minute by what I did."
According to police records, Mark and Lori argued on July 18 after she found out that he had lied to her about being accepted into medical school. After she went to sleep, Mark shot her in the head. He dumped her body, the rifle and the bloody mattress into separate trash bins.
The next morning he bought a new mattress and reported that his wife did not return from an early-morning jog. A massive search was conducted for Lori until Mark confessed to family members that he had shot and killed her.
Her body was found several months later in a landfill. An autopsy could not confirm that she was pregnant at the time of her death.
Hacking pleaded guilty to murder in April.
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>>was sentence to six years to life in prison, the maximum sentence allowed under Utah law.
for some reason my comment did not show up, just part of the text I quoted. I am shocked that 6 years is the max sentence for murder. Is this not a typo?!
2008 and I am still appalled by the prision sentence of a cold calculating murderer. Must be mice to have daddy be a doctor. He’s probably a monster like his son.
Linda Holley’s comment about Hacking’s father shows a remarkable degree of ignorance as well as unkindness. Decent people sometimes have troubled children through no fault of their own. In Hacking’s case, this is obvious from the fact that his siblings are successful and well-adjusted people.
This guy should have been shot or sent to the electric chair. No if ands or buts. If he would have been my own brother and I was judge I would have sentenced him to death.