Well-liked and respected, Mark Hacking came from a highly successful Mormon family. His father was a pediatrician. One of his brothers was also a doctor, and his other brother was an electrical engineer. With acceptances into both George Washington University and University of North Carolina medical schools, Mark was on the road to continuing his family's legacy of achievement. And with a beautiful wife by his side, Mark seemed to have it all. But what he had was a tangled web of lies…
For eight years, Mark lived a double life of deceptions, petty crimes, and failures, duping everyone, including his trusting wife Lori. But when Lori uncovered his most extraordinary lie, Mark Hacking turned from deceiver to stone-cold killer. On a hot July day in Utah, Mark Hacking told police that his wife had disappeared while jogging. For fourteen days, searchers looked frantically for Lori. The people who knew Mark Hacking and his wife best watched in amazement as suspicion fell on the outwardly normal, doting young husband who everyone thought was on his way to medical school.
When Lori Hacking's badly decomposed body was found in a Salt Lake City landfill, investigators and even family members finally discovered the shocking truth: Mark Hacking was not the man he seemed to be...
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HE WAS FRIENDLY, SMART, AND HARDWORKING… Well-liked and respected, Mark Hacking came from a highly successful Mormon family. His father was a pediatrician. One of his brothers was also a doctor, and his other brother was an electrical engineer. With acceptances into both George Washington University and University of North Carolina medical schools, Mark was on the road to continuing his family's legacy of achievement. And with a beautiful wife by his side, Mark seemed to have it all. But what he had was a tangled web of lies…
HE WAS A COMPULSIVE LIAR… For eight years, Mark lived a double life of deceptions, petty crimes, and failures, duping everyone, including his trusting wife Lori. But when Lori uncovered his most extraordinary lie, Mark Hacking turned from deceiver to stone-cold killer. On a hot July day in Utah, Mark Hacking told police that his wife had disappeared while jogging. For fourteen days, searchers looked frantically for Lori. The people who knew Mark Hacking and his wife best watched in amazement as suspicion fell on the outwardly normal, doting young husband who everyone thought was on his way to medical school.
HE WAS… When Lori Hacking's badly decomposed body was found in a Salt Lake City landfill, investigators and even family members finally discovered the shocking truth: Mark Hacking was not the man he seemed to be...
EVERY WOMAN'S NIGHTMARE
About the Author
Veteran Texas investigative journalist STEVEN LONG writes for major newspapers and magazines when he is not authoring books. An avid horseman, he also serves as editor of the state’s premier equine publication, Texas Horse Magazine. Steven Longs lives in Houston, Texas, with his wife Vicki. For more information, check out: www.stevenlongwriter.com
Lifelong journalist and author Steven Long brings a national reputation and talent for making special things happen to his current venture, Horseback Magazine, as the publication's creative force making it one of the nation's most respected regional publications targeting the recreational horseman. The magazine is distributed in Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Louisiana.
Horseback Online, www.horsebackmagazine.com, is visited daily in all 50 states and between 35 and 55 foreign countries.
Long is a triple threat. He is an editor, journalist, and entrepreneur most famous for his books on some of the most sensational true crime events in the nation. He has spent more than 2,000 hours in the courtroom, more time than most practicing lawyers spend there in a lifetime. He has covered some of the most important cases of the last two decades. Few can capture the drama of lawyer vs. lawyer quite like him.
His most recent book, Every Woman's Nightmare (St. Martin's Press) tells the story of the fairytale marriage and cold blooded murder of Utah's Lori Hacking, whose body was left in a city dump to rot. She was killed in her sleep by her husband Mark after catching him in the lie that he was about to begin medical school. The book has sparked heated opposition from members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the Mormons.
Steven's true crime tale, Out of Control, (St. Martin's Press), chronicled the strange murder of Dr. David Harris by his wife Clara. Long's story, set in a wealthy suburb of Houston, is not a typical grisly true crime paperback. He tells the tale of a woman who loved too much, so much that she was willing to kill to keep her man from his paramour.
In his first book, Death Without Dignity, (Texas Monthly Press, 1987) Steven Long wrote the sad story of catastrophic failure in a nursing home. The work prompted the Austin American-Statesman to call it the "literary equivalent of the movie Platoon." The book won a State Bar of Texas Gavel Award for distinguished journalism. Yet among the numerous awards he has received throughout his career, Steven Long is still most proud of the merit badge for journalism that he received as a Boy Scout when his first story was published in his hometown paper at age 11.
Long began his career in radio but quickly moved to print. For most of 11 years, he served as editor and publisher of Galveston's In Between Magazine, an award-winning alternative weekly famed for its gritty investigative work. His first freelance piece appeared in the respected Texas Observer.
In the 1982 Texas election for governor, Steven Long asked the incumbent, Bill Clements, a question that changed the state's history. "Would you appoint a consumer, for example, a housewife, to the Texas Public Utilities Commission?" The governor blundered and answered, "There isn't a housewife in Texas qualified to serve on the PUC." He lost the election.
After closing In Between, Steven Long carved out a career as a feature writer with the Houston Chronicle. One article resulted in the indictment, conviction and disbarment of the late Houston adoption lawyer Leslie Thacker for buying and selling crack babies in several Texas county jails. Another series of investigative stories ultimately resulted in the indictment and conviction of the head librarian of the oldest medical school west of the Mississippi for stealing rare and historic medical texts, some dating to the sixteenth century. He exposed the Texas prison system's wholesale practice of allowing the use of inmates as subjects for medical residents to hone their skills in cosmetic surgery at a state teaching hospital.
Steven Long covered the Andrea Yates murder case for the New York Post from the scene to conviction. For the same paper, he found rogue CEO Ken Lay who hid for ten days when the Enron scandal broke. He covered the lengthy and complex trial of the Arthur Andersen accounting firm for Agence France Presse, as well as Crain's Chicago Business. He has appeared on "Inside Edition," the "CBS Early Show" and "Catherine Crier Live", as well as "Mugshots" on Court TV. Steven worked as a consultant to "Dateline's" segment on the sensational Robert Durst Case. He has appeared on "Northwest Afternoon" on ABC/KOMO in Seattle. Steven appeared on the E Network's series, "Women Who Kill." Long served as courtroom analyst and special correspondent with CNBC for its gavel to gavel coverage of the Enron execs Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling. During the proceedings he frequently appeared on the popular business channel's "Squawk Box" and "Power Lunch" programs. Steven and his adopted horse Façade have appeared on Animal Planet's "Animal Cops Houston." Façade is an SPCA rescue animal. Steven and his wife Vicki recently adopted Flying Algonquin, a retired race horse saved from slaughter.
An avid horseman, he has been a contributor to Western Horseman magazine. His work has appeared frequently in the Houston Press. Steven Long is a regular contributor to the late and lamented true crime forum, In "Cold Blog," http://incoldblogger.blogspot.com. He secured one of the last, if not the final interview with the late actor Tony for Cowboys and Indians Magazine. Besides his writing career, Steven Long holds a certification in corporate community relations from the Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College.
Steven Long is a co-founder of the National Alliance of Urban Literacy Coalitions (Literacy USA), and completed three terms on the national board of CASA, the Court Appointed Special Advocates Association, based in Seattle. CASA volunteers throughout the nation help the courts place abused and neglected children in safe and permanent homes. He currently serves on the organization's prestigious Emeritus Advisory Board.
Steven Long is currently writing Ruby's Passing, a fiction book based on a 1955 triple murder in the small Texas town where he grew up. He also appears in the Katia Louise film, Saving America's Horses, A Nation Betrayed.
Steven and Vicki Long, a fiction writer, live in Houston, Texas. He serves as Vice President of The Greater Houston Horse Council.
This review is from: Every Woman's Nightmare: The True Story Of The Fairy-Tale Marriage And Brutal Murder Of Lori Hacking (Mass Market Paperback)
There has been much written in the press and the review about this book. As Lori's brother I lived through the events that were written about. I have found the book to have its fair share of errors but nothing that effects the underlying story of the book.
Lori was every brothers dream and this book portrays who and what Lori really was. I feel the book was well written and provides a good basis for this case.
This book is not anti-mormon nor is the author anti-mormon. The people who write that this book is anti-mormon are portraying their own opinion. I know in my opinion that this book is nothing to do with the LDS Church, except for the fact, that this story occurred in Utah where so much of daily life is intertwined with the LDS Church.
This story is a tragedy that has affected not only the families involved but everyone who become in contact with this story. This book, in general, captures the feelings, emotions, and facts that occurred over the search for Lori, Mark's trial, and all points in between.
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This review is from: Every Woman's Nightmare: The True Story Of The Fairy-Tale Marriage And Brutal Murder Of Lori Hacking (Mass Market Paperback)
I am a true crime buff...and I found this book rather boring. I could have written the same book, as there was no "inside info"...it seems like the author just gathered all the television news stories and put them inside the book
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This review is from: Every Woman's Nightmare: The True Story Of The Fairy-Tale Marriage And Brutal Murder Of Lori Hacking (Mass Market Paperback)
Nothing new here. I knew most of this information from news reports. The detail on the last page was new, but it was put in a strange place -- it didn't seem to fit on the last page.
I kept waiting to find out what Mark did during his missionary trip -- but it was never revealed, unless I missed it. The subject was brought up several times, and it was the only thing that kept me reading -- actually, by the end, I was "skimming," because I was tired of wasting my time on this book.
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