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Police: Remains at landfill are Lori's
Dental records used to confirm identity
The state medical examiner's office used dental records to identify the remains as Hacking's, about six hours after they were found.
The discovery came on the 33rd working day of a search of 4,600 tons of garbage that began with the help of cadaver dogs and finished with authorities using garden rakes to comb through the trash. About 20 law enforcement officers were beginning a manual search Friday when one of them turned up the decomposed body.
"It means everything to us to find Lori's mortal remains so that we might lay them to rest with dignity," Hacking's divorced parents, Eraldo Soares and Thelma Soares, said in a joint statement.
Hacking, a 27-year-old assistant stock broker, has not been seen since July 18. Her 28-year-old husband, Mark Hacking, reported her missing the following day, saying she never returned from a morning jog that police determined she never took.
Mark Hacking's father, Douglas Hacking, issued a statement saying, "We hope today's discovery will begin to bring closure to both our family and the Soares families in this tragic event."
The searchers found the remains in an area not previously probed by cadaver dogs.
The remains were found among trash that included newspapers dated July 16-19, the weekend Lori Hacking disappeared. Investigators also found business envelopes indicating they were from the University of Utah Research Park area where Mark Hacking worked and where prosecutors believed he dumped the body in the trash.
The search was called off Friday, even though police haven't found a .22-caliber firearm they believe was the murder weapon.
"We were confident we could go forward with the case without a body, and now we have the body," said Assistant District Attorney Robert Stott.
Hacking is being held on $1 million bail. A week ago he waived his right to a preliminary hearing, and his next court date was scheduled for Oct. 29.
His attorney, Gil Athay, did not return calls Friday from The Associated Press.
Investigators' hopes of finding the body had diminished in recent weeks. Searching the landfill had been tedious, with each day presenting searchers and dogs with 300 or more tons of trash to sort through.
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