quote:Also, did anyone notice that Mark himself was the first to bring up parallels between his wife's disappearance and the Laci Petersen case? He knew the spotlight would be on him.
Now he's obviously a complicated individual, but I all the reports I have seen point to him being pretty well collected until after the investigation began.
There was an article implying the interest in this case is due to media favoring whites. But Lori was part Hispanic. I think it's because the last name is "Hacking". Hello.
Hmmmm. Well, then, there's at least one other parallel with the Peterson case - Laci Peterson was also part Hispanic. However, in both cases, the couples appear to be young, upwardly mobile, and physically attractive according to current standards of attractiveness. I think that has a lot to do with all the media interest.
I'll just warn all of you in the SLC area. Get ready for it: the publicity isn't going to go away any time soon. The Peterson case is local to my area - it happened about an hour or so up the road from where I am, but is considered "local" because of TV coverage areas and the fact that Amber Frye, the girlfriend, is local.
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I can only imagine the gut-wrenching sorrow if my husband was murdered and on top of that I was the top suspect. That has gotta suck big time. But of course, if the guy is guilty.... It's just so hard to know.
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It's unfortunate, but it happens often enough the cops have reasonable justification for looking at family and friends first before moving outward.
People get angry when cops pursue that line of investigation, but from the outside looking in - you may know you're not guilty, but the cops can't know that until they start to investigate.
Of course, it's always easier to be dispationate when you're not the one being looked at.
I am finding myself wondering if Mark is sterile? Maybe a discovery of pregnancy incited jealous rage.... Oh the drama of speculation.
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I've been following the story in the Deseret News. To all appearances he was a devout Mormon. His family are practicing, devout members. His cigarette habit was on the sly. One more lie to add to the growing pile.
I feel great sympathy for the families. They have lost their daughter, but can hope of reuniting in Heaven afterward. Their son maybe lost forever.
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PSI - they haven't verified the information or the source of the information.
I could run around saying I saw the Great Pumpkin crawl through a window and eat my roomie's cat, but until it could be verified, I would be the "alleged witness."
It's not unheard of for people to fabricate statements in an effort to sway the evidence for or against, depending on their own bias.
I thought of this local case due to the mention of non-white vs white media coverage. I was surprised ther was not much national media attentio. Of course, there won't be a trial here.
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You're probably right, Trevor, but for the sake of argument, I would say that if you were saying you saw the Great Pumpkin, then you wouldn't be an alleged witness because either you saw it, or saw the place where it wasn't. At best I might call you a lying witness. That doesn't make much sense but give me a break, I'm sick.
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TM-- the Deseret News is reporting that it was his brothers that he confessed to and they notified the police.
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I read that as a headlining story off of a CNN, Drudge, or GoogleNews on the day it happened, romanylass. Possibly it was on other news services as well, but I only felt the need to read it once (and I'm also sure that what I read wasn't from the site you linked to).
So I'm not sure what your "non-white vs white media coverage" is about. The perpetrator is known&dead, everybody involved with the story died; no mystery. There just isn't anything there to give the story more than a day's coverage.
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Wendy - yep, I read the article as well as other updates. I wish I could be surprised.
PSI - I suppose it depends on who said "alleged witness." According to Webster's, "alleged" has several definitions, including:
quote:accused but not proven or convicted
So someone decided to be hyper-accurate in specifying a witness has claimed, but the information has not been verified. Using the "alleged" qualifier on a witness can either be used to create a sense of distrust of the witness' credibility or to literally specify the witness testimony is uncorroborated at this point.
As to the "white versus non-white" coverage, there has been several allegations that crimes against whites draw more media attention and therefore more police attention than crimes against non-whites.
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