Bloodstains Found in Hacking Apartment

[TeeYiYi]

Bloodstains Found in Hacking Apartment
Saturday, July 24, 2004

SALT LAKE CITY — Fox News has learned from family and investigative sources that bloodstains have been found all over the apartment of Mark and Lori Hacking (search).

Police sources say that when they entered the Hacking apartment earlier in the week, it appeared to have been cleaned. But investigators detected a substantial amount of blood and blood drippings using the forensic chemical luminol (search), which can make traces of blood glow blue-green in the dark even if it has been cleaned up, sources say. Police say they believe the blood is Lori’s and that she was attacked in her apartment. Toxicology results that can confirm whether it is Lori’s blood are still pending.

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Police searched a municipal landfill with cadaver sniffing dogs earlier today, possibly searching for a discarded mattress. Mark Hacking reportedly purchased a queen-sized mattress a mere half hour before reporting his wife missing to police. Investigators removed a box spring from the couple’s apartment late Monday afternoon.

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Family members have denied that Mark is in a psychiatric ward and on medication following a breakdown during which he was found running around a local hotel with nothing but sandals on Monday night. Mark was checked into University Neuropsychiatric Institute early Tuesday morning, but his current whereabouts are uncertain.

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“We think he’s lying and we hope to prove it soon,” an investigative official told Fox News.

More: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,126927,00.html

TYY

[DoNotRefill]

1. A positive luminol reaction doesn't mean it's blood...

lots of things react with luminol, including things like, get this, potato residue. A luminol reaction is a "it could be", not a "it definitely is" kind of thing.

[liberalhistorian]

2. SIGH.

God, that poor woman. I hope they at least find her body, for her family's sake, and that if Mark did do it he's held accountable for it and doesn't get off the way it appears Scott Petersen will.

Sheesh, this is all enough to make a never-married single mom like me scared of marriage!!!

[TheWraith]

3. I'm not sure...

...that an assumption of guilt is warranted in the Petersen case. The DA seems to have really no grounds for the case other than trial-by-media.

Also, I wouldn't put any faith in this news report. This IS Fox News, and they make up crap like this all the time just to keep their current scare story in the news and draw viewers.

[BiggJawn]

4. And if Lori was named Jolanda and lived in Cabrini...

Would we even be hearing about her?

S'Yeah....

Never mind the sharks we got Pretty Pregnant White Women with "suspicous" husbands..