A man was arrested in Oklahoma Friday for the last year’s murder of Rachel Morin in Maryland.
Victor Martinez-Hernandez was arrested in Tulsa in connection with Morin’s sexual assault and slaying. Police in Hartford County, Maryland, confirmed the break in Morin’s case in a press conference Saturday.
Morin’s body was found in a drainage ditch on the Ma and Pa trail on August 6, a day after her boyfriend reported her missing.
DNA from Morin’s crime scene linked her suspected killer to an unsolved home invasion and assault of a young girl which occurred in Los Angeles, California, in March. The suspect in those crimes remains unidentified, even after police publicized surveillance stills of him home leaving a Los Angeles home in March.
In that case, Hartford Police Captain Andy Lane said the suspect entered the home and attacked multiple people, including a child. A young family member reportedly entered the room and surprised the suspect before forcing him out of the residence, shutting and locking the door, and calling the police.
“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,” Harford County Sheriff Jeffery Gahler said during Saturday’s press conference. “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.”
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