From Deseret News archives:
Search for Lori revised
Crews now raking through 100-ton batches of garbage
In spite of that, 38 police officers and firefighters waded into 2-foot piles of landfill waste Tuesday as the second phase of the search for Lori Hacking began.
Shoulder to shoulder, dressed in coveralls, steel-soled firefighter boots and face masks, officers took bent pitchfork-like garden tools in hand and began poking and prodding through a field of 100 tons of garbage, looking for the body of the 27-year-old jogger who police believe was shot and killed by her husband on July 19.
The search will continue this way 10 hours each day from Tuesday to Friday each week for as long as it takes, Salt Lake City police detective Dwayne Baird said.
"We'll be out here during the day over the next several weeks or the next several months if it's necessary," Baird said. "(The search) is for evidentiary value that adds to this case, but equally so for the closure for the family. We do not want this to be (Lori's) final resting place. "
Included among the evidence police would like to find is the .22 caliber rifle Mark Hacking allegedly used to kill his wife as she slept.
But within hours, police knew Mark Hacking's story, like many that he told about his life, was a lie.
Mark Hacking is now at the Salt Lake County Jail facing charges of murder and obstruction of justice. Bail is set at $1 million.
In an alleged confession, Mark Hacking told his brothers he killed his wife and left her body in a Dumpster near the University of Utah. A preliminary hearing in the case is scheduled for Sept. 23.
Tuesday marked a return to the Salt Lake Valley Solid Waste Facility, 6030 W. California Ave. (1400 South), after a little more than a week. In phase one of the search, police used cadaver dogs to search the more than 4,600 tons of refuse dumped the same day Lori Hacking was allegedly murdered. After about two dozen nights of such searches, the decision to switch to a hand search was made.
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