When Double Lives are Deadly

Lori Hacking seemed to be at a high point in her life. She and her husband, Mark, were happily married. She had just found out she was pregnant with their first child. They were packing up to move to Chapel Hill, North Carolina so Mark could start medical school. So, when she went missing on July 19, 2004, family and friends rallied around Mark, engaged in a massive search, and reminded themselves that Elizabeth Smart, a Utah teen who had been missing for nine months, had been recovered alive and well. So, too, might Lori.

Varkha Rani, on the other hand, was struggling. The twenty-four-year-old bride had met Jasvar Ginday through a matchmaker in India when he traveled to India to find a wife in October of 2012. In August 2013, they moved to England, Ginday’s home but — to Varkha — a place that was foreign and isolating. A month later, she had vanished. In a missing person’s report Jasvir Ginday filed with the police, he stated that he believed his wife had abandoned him after using him to relocate to the U.K.

On the surface, these two women had little in common. In reality, they were both involved with men who were leading lives filled with deception and lies. And, when these women discovered them, and made it clear those lies would be exposed, they were murdered.

Living A Double Life