Monstrous Illegal Immigrant Rapes And Murders A Mother Of 5 On A Hiking Trail In Connecticut, Killed A Woman In El Salvador

HARFORD COUNTY, Md. (WBFF) — A man has been arrested in the killing of Rachel Morin, a Maryland mother of five who was found dead near a hiking trail in August of 2023.

In a news conference announcing the arrest on Saturday, Harford County Sheriff Jeffery Gahler said that Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez was arrested late Friday night and booked on Saturday morning. He is charged with first-degree murder and first-degree rape.

Gahler went on to say that Martinez-Hernandez is a "23-year-old citizen of El Salvador." He said that Martinez-Hernandez crossed the border into the United States in February of 2023, and that he believes that Morin was not his first victim.

"It is my understanding that this suspect, this monster, fled to the United States after the murder of a young woman in El Salvador a month earlier in January of 2023," Gahler said. "Once in our country, he brutally attacked a nine-year-old girl and her mother in a home invasion in March of 2023 in Los Angeles."

The Los Angeles case was the through line which allowed investigators to connect DNA samples from the murder scene in Harford County to the surveillance video of the suspect in California. This gave local and federal investigators their first images of Martinez-Hernandez.

"I want to now direct these comments to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and to every member in both chambers of Congress."

"We are 1800 miles away here in Hartford County. We are 1800 miles away from the southern border, and the American citizens are not safe because of failed immigration policies."

"This is the second time in just two years, that an innocent Hartford County woman has lost her life to a criminal in our country illegally."

"Victor Hernandez did not come here to make a better life for himself or for his family."