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(NewsNation) — The antheral convicted of sidesplitting Maryland parent Rachel Morin volition beryllium sentenced Monday, astir 2 years aft her death.
Victor Martinez-Hernandez was recovered blameworthy successful April of raping and murdering Morin, a 37-year-old azygous parent of 5 who was attacked portion jogging connected a way successful suburban Baltimore.
Martinez-Hernandez is primitively from El Salvador and was successful the United States illegally. He faces beingness successful situation without the anticipation of parole, since Maryland does not person the decease penalty.
A memorial for Rachel Morin is displayed connected a histrion connected the Ma & Pa Trail successful Bel Air, Maryland. (Dillon Mullan/Baltimore Sun/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
Victor Martinez-Hernandez was arrested successful the sidesplitting of Rachel Morin, a Maryland parent whose assemblage was recovered adjacent a fashionable hiking way successful August 2023. Hernandez, 23, had illegally crossed the borderline into the U.S. successful February 2023, aft murdering different young pistillate successful El Salvador a period earlier, according to authorities. 
(Photo: Harford County Sheriff's Office)
Rachel Morin's slayer had transgression past successful US, El Salvador
Martinez-Hernandez is accused of sidesplitting a pistillate successful El Salvador successful 2022. In aboriginal 2023, helium crossed the U.S. confederate borderline 3 times and was expelled each clip by the Border Patrol.
Martinez-Hernandez succeeded connected his 4th effort and aboriginal surfaced successful Los Angeles, wherever helium was linked to the battle of a pistillate and a 9-year-old girl. He past traveled to Maryland, wherever Morin was recovered dormant Aug. 6, 2023.
In June 2024, Martinez-Hernandez was arrested in Tulsa, Oklahoma. While the hunt took astir a year, a determination connected his guilt came successful little than an hour. A assemblage recovered him blameworthy connected each counts successful conscionable 46 minutes successful April.
'All cried out': Rachel Morin's daughter, parent to present statements
Morin's mother, Patty Morin, told NewsNation that penning her victim-impact connection was draining but bittersweet.
“You besides are reliving each the memories that you’ve shared with Rachel — similar erstwhile I recovered retired I became pregnant, erstwhile I was carrying her, the dreams and hopes I had for her … what she was similar arsenic a child,” she said. “All those things travel rushing into your mind.”
Her goal, she said, was to “convey it truthful the justice sees however precious and invaluable Rachel was.”
In summation to her ain statement, she said immoderate of Morin's children, including the teenage daughter who was the past idiosyncratic to talk with her, volition marque statements astatine Monday's hearing.
NewsNation's Michael Ramsey and Anna Kutz contributed to this report.
