| | |  | Hacking | Home » » » Every Woman's Nightmare: The Fairytale Marriage and Brutal Murder of Lori Hacking | | | | | | | Description: | | Well-liked and respected, Mark Hacking came from a highly successful Mormon family. His father was a pediatrician. One of his brothers was also a doctor, and his other brother was an electrical engineer. With acceptances into both George Washington University and University of North Carolina medical schools, Mark was on the road to continuing his family's legacy of achievement. And with a beautiful wife by his side, Mark seemed to have it all. But what he had was a tangled web of lies…
For eight years, Mark lived a double life of deceptions, petty crimes, and failures, duping everyone, including his trusting wife Lori. But when Lori uncovered his most extraordinary lie, Mark Hacking turned from deceiver to stone-cold killer. On a hot July day in Utah, Mark Hacking told police that his wife had disappeared while jogging. For fourteen days, searchers looked frantically for Lori. The people who knew Mark Hacking and his wife best watched in amazement as suspicion fell on the outwardly normal, doting young husband who everyone thought was on his way to medical school.
When Lori Hacking's badly decomposed body was found in a Salt Lake City landfill, investigators and even family members finally discovered the shocking truth: Mark Hacking was not the man he seemed to be...
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38 of 42 found the following review helpful:
 A Brother's OpinionApr 10, 2006
By Paul E Soares
"Paul"
There has been much written in the press and the review about this book. As Lori's brother I lived through the events that were written about. I have found the book to have its fair share of errors but nothing that effects the underlying story of the book.
Lori was every brothers dream and this book portrays who and what Lori really was. I feel the book was well written and provides a good basis for this case.
This book is not anti-mormon nor is the author anti-mormon. The people who write that this book is anti-mormon are portraying their own opinion. I know in my opinion that this book is nothing to do with the LDS Church, except for the fact, that this story occurred in Utah where so much of daily life is intertwined with the LDS Church.
This story is a tragedy that has affected not only the families involved but everyone who become in contact with this story. This book, in general, captures the feelings, emotions, and facts that occurred over the search for Lori, Mark's trial, and all points in between.
12 of 12 found the following review helpful:
 Not That GoodMar 05, 2007
By S. Jay
"book junkie"
I am a true crime buff...and I found this book rather boring. I could have written the same book, as there was no "inside info"...it seems like the author just gathered all the television news stories and put them inside the book
11 of 11 found the following review helpful:
 Very disappointedMay 23, 2007
By C. Watkins
Nothing new here. I knew most of this information from news reports. The detail on the last page was new, but it was put in a strange place -- it didn't seem to fit on the last page.
I kept waiting to find out what Mark did during his missionary trip -- but it was never revealed, unless I missed it. The subject was brought up several times, and it was the only thing that kept me reading -- actually, by the end, I was "skimming," because I was tired of wasting my time on this book.
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
not a good crime bookJul 21, 2007
By The Baron
I love crime books. I've read hunderds of them. This one, just might be the worst I've read in years. The story is just so shallow, the characters are so flat, and the ending totally predictable. I really can't recommend this book to anyone.
12 of 14 found the following review helpful:
Bored -- just couldn't get into this oneFeb 15, 2007
By Veronica T.
I don't know what to make of this book. I bought it and I just couldn't get into it. I read almost half of it and I was bored. I went out and bought another true crime book to start reading. I probably won't go back to reading this one.
It's written like a story-telling book. Much of it tells us what Mark Hacking was "thinking" when the author couldn't possibly know. I don't really like that sort of writing style. I'd rather just have the facts and contemplate myself what he might have been thinking. Example (page 52): "Mark Hacking looked down at the mass that was once his wife. He felt nothing but anger, no remorse, no sadness, nothing whatsoever other than the rage that drove him to kill Lori." How does the author know this?
There are no interviews with the major players in the case (or anyone) from what I've read so far. That's weird to me. I don't understand why someone would put together a book about a high profile case without giving that to the reader.
As far as the "eight pages of gripping photos".. Mark Hacking mug shot, Mormon Temple, the outside of the Hacking apartment building, a picture of a dumpster where "many believe he deposited Lori's body", outside of the convenience store where Mark bought cigarettes, picture of owners of the furniture store where Mark bought the mattress, missing flier, empty courtroom, Lori's grave marker before and after the Hacking name was taken out. Not very gripping to me.
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