(NewsNation) — A Maryland assemblage has recovered Victor Martinez-Hernandez guilty on each 4 counts successful the decease and rape of Rachel Morin, a parent of 5 who went missing aft going retired for a tally successful 2023.
Martinez-Hernandez was charged with first-degree execution and first-degree rape, 3rd grade intersexual discourtesy arsenic good arsenic a kidnapping charge.
The determination comes aft a 2 week proceedings wherever prosecutors presented DNA grounds linking the antheral to Morin’s killing.
The 37-year-old parent was past seen astatine the fashionable Ma & Pa Trail successful Bel Air, Maryland successful August of 2023. Morin was aboriginal recovered dormant adjacent the trail.
Martinez-Hernandez entered the U.S. illegally aggregate times from his autochthonal El Salvador, wherever helium was accused of murdering a pistillate successful December of 2022. He was expelled each clip helium crossed the borderline successful aboriginal 2023.
He aboriginal appeared successful Los Angeles aft a palmy effort to get into the state wherever helium was linked to the battle of a pistillate and her nine-year-old daughter.
Martinez-Hernandez faces a beingness condemnation without the anticipation of parole.