Search is on hold until dogs are ready

Salt Lake City police did not resume their search of the Salt Lake Valley landfill Thursday night for evidence related to the disappearance of Lori Hacking as they previously planned to because the specially trained cadaver search dogs were not ready to go.

Police did not say when the dogs would be ready nor when the search would continue.

Hacking was allegedly killed by her husband Mark while she slept in her bed early on the morning of July 19. Mark Hacking allegedly put his wife's body in a dumpster near the University of Utah and the .22-caliber rifle allegedly used to shoot her in a second dumpster.

After more than a dozen searches of the landfill, investigators with dogs have sorted through a little less than two-thirds of the 3,000 tons of trash in which her body is believed to be.

Salt Lake City police detective Dwayne Baird said if Hacking's body is indeed in the landfill, investigators believe they are getting closer.

"We have found certain items that were in the same truck that has been indicated to us as the one that Lori Hacking was put in," he said. "We feel like we might be getting closer."

Investigators have conceded, however, that there's a chance Hacking is not in the landfill at all. Much of what prompted the search of the landfill was Mark Hacking's alleged confession to his brothers. Police admit Mark Hacking was less than truthful in some of the answers he's given during interviews.

Hacking remained Thursday in the Salt Lake County Jail on $1 million bail.