The disappearance of Lori Hacking just keeps getting weirder:
SALT LAKE CITY - Mark Hacking directed a relative to give police new information about his wife's disappearance that has police turning again to a municipal landfill, detectives said today.
Authorities investigating the case were surprised by the family's request that volunteers stop searching for Lori Hacking based on new detail from her husband.
The statement released late Saturday by the families of Mark and Lori Hacking did not say what Mark Hacking had told them.
Authorities would only say that the relative provided "additional substantive new information," said Detective Dwayne Baird. He declined to comment further.
I'm no prosecutor, but that sounds pretty bad for the husband. Maybe the idea of an anonymous tip never occurred to him.
The organized search for Lori Hacking was called off by the families earlier this week, a decision they said was made out of concern for the volunteers' safety. The search was in neighborhoods, industrial areas and canyons near the park where Lori Hacking was said to have been jogging the morning she was reported missing.
Since that day, Mark Hacking's credibility has crumbled amid revelations that he lied to his wife about enrolling at medical school in North Carolina and about graduating from the University of Utah.
The day after Mark Hacking reported his wife missing, he was taken to a psychiatric ward after he was seen running around at night naked outside a motel where he'd taken a room.
Kinky. Me, I would've probably claimed the neighbor's dog told me to do it, or insisted I was distraught by the cancellation of Oliver Beene, so you've got to give Hacking credit for going the extra mile.
Then again, facing a possible death by firing squad tends to encourage creativity.
UPDATE: Quelle surprise. Hacking's been arrested.
I think I'd opt for death by firing squad, over lethal injection. There's something more dignified in meeting death head on, standing on your own two feet. I'm not sure I'd even want the blind fold. Though, a cigarette would be mandatory. Filterless, of course.
Oh, the liquor is available. I'll have to find my sources again, but Utah has the highest rate of alcoholism per capita in the US. And there aren't enough non-Mormons to account for all of that boozin', I'd reckon.
Oh, yeah. Highest rate of child abuse per capita, too.
Utah is now the undisputed leader in the coveted AFCR (the 'annual freaky crime rate'). Maybe its aggression bottled up by the lack of available liquor. Strange days