First the details of the crime. Rachel Morin murder: Maryland police tie crime scene DNA to Los Angeles assault, home invasion
Morin, a 37-year-old mother of five, was jogging on the Ma & Pa Trail in Bel Air around 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 5., when she vanished. She was found dead the next afternoon in what authorities have described as a "criminal homicide."
That is in northern Maryland, near the Pennsylvania state line.
The DNA from the murder was linked to a previous assault.
"This DNA has come back as a match tied to a home invasion and assault of a young girl in Los Angeles this past March. [2023] Unfortunately, that suspect hasn't been positively identified, but he did leave behind his DNA," Chief Deputy Col. William Davis said during the Friday press conference.
An arrest was finally made. Rachel Morin murder: Illegal immigrant from El Salvador charged in rape, killing of Maryland mom of 5
"Five hours after meeting with [Morin's] family and just before midnight our time, police in Tulsa, Oklahoma assisted by our federal partners, located and arrested Rachel's murderer: Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez," Gahler said.
He was charged with first-degree murder and first-degree rape.
He came to this country illegally, in February of 2023, and in March of 2023 assaulted a 9-year-old girl. In August of that year he killed Rachel Morin. Police believe he escaped El Salvador after committing a brutal murder of a young woman in that country.
"We are 1800 miles of the southern border," Gahler said. "And American citizens are not safe because of their failed immigration policies."
"This is the second time in two years that an innocent Harford County woman has lost her life to a criminal in our country illegally," he said, repeating his statement. "In both cases, they are suspects from El Salvador with ties to criminal gangs. This should not be happening."
The hat tip goes to The Other McCain, and Maryland Sheriff Blasts Biden: ‘We Are 1,800 Miles Away from the Southern Border Here in Harford County and the American Citizens Are Not Safe Because of Failed Immigration Policies’
Rachel Morin, a 37-year-old mother of five, was found murdered in August 2023 on a hiking on a trail near Bel Air, Maryland. That’s north of Baltimore, up near the Pennsylvania border, in Harford County, a Republican bastion that hasn’t voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since 1964. On Saturday, the county’s Republican sheriff, Jeffrey Gahler, held a press conference at which he announced that the suspect in the case — linked by DNA evidence — had finally been arrested. And buddy let me tell you, Sheriff Gahler unloaded.
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