Hello, campers, grab your marshmallows and gather around the true crime campfire. We're your camp counselors. I'm Katie. And I'm Whitney. And we're here to tell you a true story that is way stranger than fiction. We're roasting murderers and marshmallows around the true crime campfire.

Secrets can ruin everything. Not little ones. We we're talking big looming secrets that might change your life

forever if they were ever brought out into the light of day some people just can't help themselves

stacking lie upon lie hiding the secret truth behind an ever-growing wall of falsehood. And if that wall comes crashing down,

well, some people will go to any lengths to keep their secrets safe. This is True Lies,

the murder of Lori Hacking.

So, campers, for this one, were in Salt Lake City, Utah, July 19, 2004. People swarmed through City Creek Canyon, desperately searching the park for a missing woman.

Lori Hacking was 27 years old, a pretty highly intelligent young woman who was just on the

cusp of an exciting new chapter in her life. She was five weeks pregnant and just about to move to

North Carolina where her husband Mark was going to start med school. Mark was a tall redhead,

although that was hard to tell now with his shaved head. Mark was right in the middle of things,

thanking people for helping search for his missing wife, giving interviews to the media.

He'd always been comfortable being the center of attention. Almost everyone in City Creek had

nothing but sympathy for Mark. But that didn't include the detectives on the case, because

within just a few minutes of starting their investigation into Lori's disappearance, they'd become convinced that she wasn't just missing at all.

She was dead, and they believed her husband Mark had killed her.

Lori was born on New Year's Eve of 1976 in California and was adopted four months later by Thelma and Eraldo Soares.

They had met while doing mission work together in Eraldo's home country of Brazil and now lived in Fullerton, where Eraldo taught high school Spanish and Portuguese.

He and Thelma got divorced when Lori was 11 years old. Thelma and Lori moved to

Utah, while Iroldo stayed in California with Lori's older brother Paul, who was in his late

teens by then and about to get started on his own life. Lorry made friends quickly in her new

town. She was outgoing and smart and would soon be elected class president. On her 16th birthday,

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