Eerie 'Goodbye' Photo in Missing Woman Case

S A L T   L A K E   C I T Y, July 28, 2004 -- In an eerie photo taken the Friday before she disappeared, Lori Hacking holds up a farewell cake on which was written "We'll miss you, Lori." And the supervisor standing with her in the photo, taken at an office goodbye party, says he received a phone call from her distraught husband Mark the day she vanished.

"He kind of broke down," Randy Church, Hacking's supervisor, told ABC News. "And I said, 'Mark, you got to call the police. Get off the phone right now and call the police.' "

Hacking, 27 and early in a pregnancy, has been missing since July 19, when Mark Hacking reported to police that she had not returned from an early morning jog nor shown up for work at Wells Fargo bank.

Mark Hacking — named by Salt Lake police as a "person of interest" in the disappearance — has been hospitalized in a psychiatric ward since having an emotional breakdown following his wife's disappearance, his relatives and police say.

He has come under heavy scrutiny since investigators — and surprised family members — learned that he had lied about being accepted into medical school at the University of North Carolina.

Some of Lori Hacking's other co-workers at Wells Fargo also remembered seeing her in tears after getting a phone call that Friday. While Lori Hacking apparently did not describe the phone call to anyone, her co-workers recalled she had been inquiring about on-campus housing at the University of North Carolina.

Police denied reports, however, that authorities suspect a "rage killing" took place inside the Hackings' apartment hours before Lori Hacking was reported missing. A police source told ABC News the reports were plain "conjecture."

But authorities are also awaiting test results on a hair and a knife that were reportedly recovered last weekend from the Hacking apartment. An arrest warrant could follow the test results.

In addition, a convenience store clerk who may have been one of the last people to see Lori Hacking reportedly said today Mark Hacking appeared happy, but she did not.

According to the Deseret Morning News and from KSLNewsRadio, the unidentified clerk, who works at a store near Mark and LoriHacking's apartment, said the couple came in the night before she was reported missing. The clerk said Mark Hacking visited the store several times a week, and he asked employees not to tell his wife hewas buying cigarettes.

Husband Went Mattress Shopping

At the time of Lori Hacking's disappearance, she and her husband were preparing to move and start a new life in North Carolina.

Mark Hacking had told his family and in-laws that he had been accepted into medical school, but University of Utah officials have since said he had never graduated there, making him ineligible to apply to medical school.

It is unclear whether Mark Hacking also had deceived his wife.

Police are also looking closely at Hacking because, they say, he was at a store buying a new mattress just before reporting that Lori was missing.

On the day she disappeared, authorities were seen removing a box spring from the couple's apartment, but they have refused to confirm reports they found a mattress in a nearby trash bin the same day.

Search Shifts to Landfill

Meanwhile, police used cadaver dogs to focus their search on a Salt Lake City municipal landfill for a second straight night Tuesday.

Police would not comment on what specifically they were looking for as they searched the landfill.

Earlier Tuesday, officials called off the volunteer search for Hacking because the investigation was moving from neighborhoods, industrial areas and canyons to more rugged terrain, and they didn't want volunteers to get hurt. A spokesman for Lori Hacking's family said the volunteer search could be resumed with specialized teams or specific tips.

Meanwhile, a lawyer hired by Mark Hacking said Tuesday he has his own investigators working on the case. The attorney, D. Gilbert Athay, said he has spoken to Mark Hacking several times, but he would not characterize their conversations.

As police focused on the search, Mark Hacking's brothers were seen Tuesday disassembling and loading some of his and his missing wife's belongings from their Utah apartment onto trailers.

"It's sacred to us," said Scott Hacking, Mark's brother. "He's my brother. She's my sister-in-law. We love them both. We still think it's their house. We'll treat their stuff with respect."

Anyone with information about Lori Hacking's whereabouts should contact Salt Lake City Police at (801) 799-3000. Those with tips can also share their information at www.findlori.com.

ABC News' Neal Karlinsky in Salt Lake City, Utah contributed to this report.