Hauck's kin aim to block inheritance

FARMINGTON — While Jeremy Hauck sits in the Davis County Jail accused of killing his mother and stuffing her body in a freezer, his relatives want to prevent him from inheriting her estate.

Laura Hauck's family filed petitions here in 2nd District Court, asking a judge to appoint her sister as a fiduciary of her estate.

"The decedent's (Laura Hauck) son has a higher priority, but is incarcerated on charges of the felonious and intentional killing of the decedent, and accordingly, is not qualified to act as a fiduciary of the decedent," a lawyer for Faye Garlock wrote in the petition filed last week and obtained by the Deseret Morning News.

Jeremy Hauck, 18, is the only son of Laura Hauck. He is accused of shooting her twice in the face, slitting her throat and then stuffing her body into a freezer, where it remained for days until police discovered it. Bountiful police had to wait three days for the body to thaw before they could identify her.

Jeremy Hauck was arrested last month in Missoula, Mont., where police say he was armed with several guns and a knife and driving his mother's car.

Bountiful police revealed to the Deseret Morning News a new theory investigators were looking into for a motive in the slaying.

"We're thinking that it's just over money or something to that effect," Bountiful Police Lt. Randy Pickett.

Pickett would not go into further details but said Jeremy Hauck did not have a job and needed money to buy things — including guns.

"That's the only thing that we can see that they would argue about," he said.

At Laura Hauck's townhouse condo in Bountiful, her relatives have been recarpeting and repainting, getting ready to put it on the market. The slain woman's things have been boxed up.

"All his stuff, I have it boxed up in my garage," said John Garlock, Jeremy Hauck's cousin. "If he gets out in 55 years, I guess I'll give him his clothes back."

Garlock said his aunt left no will and the family is adamant that Jeremy Hauck not get a dime from his mother's estate.

"It was hard when we were working on the house. We were talking as we painted and said we'd be very upset that we were doing all this and then Jeremy gets it," Garlock said.

Jeremy Hauck may not be allowed to inherit anything because of a new state law.