• It's confirmed that Mark Hacking has hired Utah defense attorney D. Gilbert Athay. Lori Hacking's colleagues at Wells Fargo Securities Services say she left work early Friday, July 16, in tears, after receiving an upsetting phone call.

JULY 27

• Police and family clear out Mark and Lori Hacking's apartment and remove crime-scene tape. Community organizers call off volunteer search efforts.

JULY 28

• Police say there is a possibility Lori Hacking never went jogging and was never in Memory Grove. A convenience-store clerk reports having seen Mark and Lori Hacking in the store, near 900 East and 300 South, around 8:30 p.m. on July 18.

JULY 30

• Police confirm that a Dumpster was confiscated from behind a meetinghouse of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at 951 E. 100 South, less than one block from the Hackings' residence.

JULY 31

• The families of Mark and Lori Hacking receive information from Mark Hacking that causes them to discontinue any further searching.

AUGUST 1

• Police receive "additional substantive information" from a member of the Hacking family to be "followed up by investigators."

AUGUST 2

• Police say evidence retrieved from the Hackings' apartment, the seized Dumpster and Lori's car have led them to arrest Mark Hacking on suspicion of aggravated murder in the disappearance of Lori Hacking.

AUGUST 4

• Court filings suggest Mark Hacking killed his wife, Lori, while she was sleeping and then dumped her body in a Dumpster. The landfill search resumes with the assistance of cadaver dogs and continues intermittently into October.

AUGUST 6

• Mark Hacking's brothers, Lance and Scott, say he told them on July 24 that he killed his wife, Lori.

AUGUST 9

• The Salt Lake County District Attorney's office charges Mark Hacking with one count of first-degree felony homicide and three counts of second-degree felony obstructing justice. His bail is set at $1 million. New allegations reveal that Mark Hacking shot his wife in the head with a .22-caliber rifle while she slept on the morning of July 19. Allegations also suggest Mark and Lori argued about his lies regarding his schooling before the killing.