Built On Air

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. A young wife vanishes on an early morning run. Her husband calls it in himself, hollow-eyed and shaking, and by noon a city has mobilized to find her. Church groups. Search-and-rescue teams. More than a thousand strangers who couldn't stay home. They comb the creek beds and the culverts of a canyon in Salt Lake City, certain they are looking for a jogger. She never went running that morning. She never went running any morning that mattered. Three days earlier, one phone call to a university that had never heard her husband's name had unraveled something much larger than a marriage. For five years, Mark Hacking had built an entire life out of nothing — fake classes, a fake graduation, a fake acceptance to medical school waiting for them both in Chapel Hill — and everyone around him had believed it completely. His father believed it. His ward believed it. The woman who loved him believed it most of all, staking her career, her savings, and her unborn child's future on a man who did not exist. What happened in the seventy-two hours after she found out unfolded almost entirely out of sight. By the time the search began, something beneath the grieving husband's sympathy already didn't add up. It would take a landfill, two brothers who could no longer stay silent, and thirty-three days of searching to find out what. This book is for true crime listeners who want more than a case file — for anyone drawn to pathological deception, domestic homicide, and the slow unraveling of a perfect image. If you've ever wondered how a lie survives five years inside a marriage, a family, and an entire community, this is the case that answers it, and the one that rewrote Utah law because of what it cost. The frame is empty. He never was real. Press play. She's still waiting to be heard. Duration - 1h 8m. Author - Colt Ross. Narrator - Digital Voice Jon E. Published Date - Thursday, 01 January 2026. Copyright - © 2026 Colt Ross ©.