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New evidence?: U. video may show Mark Hacking dumping body

Published: Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2004 8:58 a.m. MDT
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FutureTech Inc. vice president Justin Harryman said he is not at liberty to discuss what images he had seen but confirmed that he had turned over the recordings to police. Harryman said the recordings are time- and date-stamped, and although he would not be specific about the time, he said the images were from the morning of July 19.

Asked if Mark Hacking appears in the recordings, Harryman said police have not confirmed the man's identity.

"It looked like him to me," Harryman said. "I'm not saying it's wrong; I just can't say what's on there. I can't say what I've seen."

Harryman said there are as many as 16 motion-sensitive closed-circuit television cameras in and around UNI that make digital recordings to a computer. On the morning of July 19, UNI staff contacted FutureTech because the unit appeared to be broken or malfunctioning. The unit was taken to FutureTech's Draper office for repair, and police called that Friday — July 23 — asking for images from the recordings, Harryman said. He said the company turned everything over to police.

"They've got the whole recorder," Harryman said.

Police have also talked with garbage truck drivers from Waste Management, which is contracted to place and service Dumpsters at the University of Utah, including those at UNI, company district manager Mark Miskol said.

"But that didn't happen until a week and half ago," Miskol said.

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That's well after Lori Hacking was reported missing and after police began their initial search of the Salt Lake County landfill, 6030 W. California Ave. (1400 South), where police believe her body may be located. So far police have searched the landfill nine times but have not yet recovered the body or other key pieces of evidence.

The trash receptacle at UNI would have been one of 40 collected by the same truck before 10 a.m. on July 19, Miskol said. Each Dumpster load is compressed with 2,000 pounds of pressure and a 6-foot-by-8-foot metal arm and then transported to the landfill, Miskol said. Dump trucks pick up trash at the UNI Dumpster on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, he said.

Police were also seeking information from Waste Management about an on-site trash compactor the company services at the U., which Miskol said is emptied six days a week.

Anything that might have been in it "is buried west of town in the landfill," he said.

Prosecutors believe Mark Hacking killed his wife after she learned that he had lied about graduating from the University of Utah and being accepted to medical school in North Carolina.

Lori Hacking apparently learned of the lie about Mark's medical school while seeking financial aid.

On July 16, University of North Carolina employee Randee Alston received a phone call from Lori asking about financial aid for her husband, according to court documents. Alston told Hacking that she checked several databases but there was no record of Mark registering or applying to medical school.

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Mark Hacking appears via video in court as Gil Athay, his lawyer, stands at a lectern.

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