Missing Woman Had Taken Upsetting Call

Three days before her husband reported her missing, Lori Hacking took a phone call at work that left her sobbing, her colleagues at a brokerage house told Associated Press.

Several colleagues said Hacking had been arranging for on-campus housing at the University of North Carolina medical school and that they think the school called to say her husband, Mark Hacking, was not enrolled there, as he had told her. The university is trying to determine if one of its employees called.

Lori Hacking left work early after the call July 16. Mark Hacking reported his wife’s disappearance the following Monday. She is now feared dead, and police are focusing on her husband.