Every Woman's Nightmare: The True Story Of The Fairy-Tale Marriage And Brutal Murder Of Lori Hacking

by Steven Long

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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 For eight show more 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 Every Woman's Nightmare is the shocking true crime story of a fairytale marriage that ended in murder. show less

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The case itself seems very interesting, but the book is poorly written. The author kept jumping around and couldn't stay on track for more than a few paragraphs. Unrelated cases had several paragraphs dedicated to them (like Elizabeth Smart's kidnapping and several death row cases in Utah), and the author would go on tangents that added nothing to the story itself (what movie Lori saw with a friend, Mark Hacking's reading list, various "minor characters'" life stories, etc). When the author did focus on the case itself, he continually repeated information. I'd like to read about this case, but only if another, better author addressed it.
I did not think this was so badly written. It shed some new light on the crime, and what he was thinking and maybe gives some reasons why he was the way he was.
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Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Politics and Government
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364.1523Society, government, & cultureSocial problems and social servicesCrimeCriminal offensesOffenses against the personHomicideMurder
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HV6534 .S26 .L66Social sciencesSocial pathology. Social and public welfare. CriminologySocial pathology. Social and public welfare.CriminologyCrimes and offenses
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