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[Music] [Music] [Music] Bel Air Maryland during the late evening hours of August
5th 2023 7-year-old Rachel Marin was reported missing by her boyfriend the boyfriend told police that the last
time he had spoke with Rachel she was heading to a hiking trail and the state's small Northeast town of Bel Air
he was uncertain if she had made it to her destination but if so she failed to return from her walk
she should have arrived at the trail around 6 PM that day not too long after the call was placed Rachel's car was
found at an entrance to the trail but unfortunately Rachel was nowhere in sight at 107 PM the following day a citizen
called 9-1-1 to report a female's body had been located off of the trail alerting emergency services that it was
obvious that this person was deceased law enforcement officials noted after the discovery that the case then went
from a missing person's investigation to a homicide investigation however the cause of death and details
about the crime scene have not been released to the public a ten thousand dollar reward is being
offered leading to the identity and arrest of the person suspected in her slang and her case has led local state and
federal law enforcement on a multi-state Manhunt for weeks her killer remains at Large
this is True Crime garage [Music] [Music] for this week's case we are going to go
out to a place that some may not have heard of before it was new to me as well Captain this is
a place called the ma and PAW Heritage Trail we're going to go out to the great state of Maryland for a case that is
very much in the news and in the spotlight right now and that's because it's a case that just came out just
broke a little over a month ago so we're gonna do our best to give you up-to-date
coverage on this True Crime Story now this is straight from the website Ma paultrail.org and here's what we learn
about this location the ma and PAW Heritage Trail is located on portions of the former Maryland and Pennsylvania
Railroad Corridor in Bel Air and Forest Hill Maryland the ma and Paul Heritage Trail is the best place to walk run and
bike in Harford County currently the trail consists of a 3.3 mile section in Bel Air and a 1.7 mile
segment in Forest Hill recently in a partnership with the town of Bel Air Harford County has acquired
an easement for a small stretch of land that will finally allow for the connection of its Bel Air and Forest
Hill sections the eventual connection will result in a nearly eight mile long trail that runs through the heart of Bel
Air Maryland now from the looks of it to me Captain not a resident I believe that they have
already started building and shaping that easement and so if you get in search engine this location and start
looking they show a lot of aerial views of the trail system here and it will look as though that some of it has just
been developed so why is the ma and Paw Trail important well it's important because we have Rachel Morin age 37
she's a mother of five she reportedly went onto those trails and that was the last known whereabouts
and she was reported missing that's exactly right Captain part of that report the missing persons report that
was filed late on August 5th 2023 states that Rachel Morin age 37 is believed to be or the statement by
the person providing and filing the report is that she was last seen around 6 pm on Saturday August 5th when she
left to go walk hike on the ma and Paul Trail in Bel Air and then the bolo goes out stating the
same we're looking for This Woman This Mother 5 age 37 they give a description of her and they're saying if anyone has
information about Rachel Morin please contact detective golden he is with a Horford County Sheriff's department and
they give his phone number 410 836 5430 and looking for information now unfortunately
after about 20 less than 24 hours after she's reported missing the body of Maryland Mom Mother of five
Rachel Morin was discovered by what this report from the New York Post States is
one of her close friends and it immediately seemed clear that she had been murdered according to what the
information was coming out so here's what we have Captain and this is what we learned very early on in this
investigation Rachel had recently started dating a guy he's he's listed and known online and social
media as her boyfriend and I've never done this myself but apparently just about a week before she goes missing he
declares the two a couple on his Facebook page he updated his status updated the status mine has been
complicated for decades now she goes missing according to this man and he calls and reports her as such
and this is kind of stating the obvious here Captain right but a lot of people immediately from Jump Street are
suspicious of this new boyfriend that she has of course and and do we have a report of who reported her missing it
was from from the information I found it was the boyfriend that reported her missing right and like we know a lot of
these cases I mean heck there's t-shirts that say the husband did it or the boyfriend did it and like we know in
most cases you have to look at the Inner Circle first so he reports her missing and as the
events go what we are told is that her schedule leading up to the 6 p.m time frame on Saturday August 5th is it that
afternoon she went to a spray tanning session followed by a workout at a gym where she is a member of and from my
understanding the boyfriend is a member at that gym as well and I believe he was
present at the gym for this workout I don't know if they were going to be working out together or
if they just plan to be in the same location at the same time so according to the report after she
goes to this workout at the gym then she's going to go walk or hike or jog on this Ma and Paw Trail in Bel Air now
this is not out of the norm for Rachel she all three of these activities are pretty regular routine activities for
Rachel she's an avid person at the gym she regularly goes and walks hikes jogs this Trail
I've even heard some statements that she does walks the trail daily or multiple times a day I think multiple times a day
seems a little out of bounds but this information is coming in a little fast and furious and some of it we've not
been able to vet every piece of information that's coming out because this is a case that has hit the
spotlight and as we've seen in other cases when that happens you're going to have to sift through information some of
it good some of it bad yeah and it might sound a little strange but it's not out
of the realm of possibilities she seems to be a little bit of a fitness nut which is not a bad thing and some people
become obsessive with getting a certain number of steps in so you know you break
it up twice a day I've been hoping to become a fitness nut for years it never stuck we do a lot of Fitness in the
garage we try to fit the beer into our mouths now let's go to this New York Post article and sift through some of
the information here this comes out August 9th and the headline is Rachel Marin's body was found by pal who
suspected murder and it reads the body of Maryland mom of five Rachel Morin was discovered by one of her close friends
and it immediately seemed clear that she had been murdered Michael gabaresky and I apologize to
Michael G there I've heard 12 different people say his name 12 different ways let's just call him Michael G Michael G
he said that he and his stepdaughter along with a friend joined with other volunteers in looking for the missing 37
year old mom when they found her remains this near a drain of the ma and Paul Heritage Trail in Bel Air on Sunday
afternoon so her body unfortunately is located less than 24 hours or so after she's reported missing
and from my understanding Captain there are tunnels off of this Trail they're they're like
drainage tunnels and as the story goes and we have to say this because the information coming out a lot of this
is not from law enforcement law enforcement is very tight-lipped about this case and we will understand why or
at least I believe I understand why and we'll get into those details as we get into the known details but we'll also
talk about some of the rumors that are coming out some of them are some of them hold their water or beer because some of
this information will come from Michael G and the persons that were with him assisting hoping to find this woman
alive and maybe injured off of the trail or what have you but instead they find her having been murdered and stating
that it was obvious from looking at the scene and looking at her body that the case was murder here so he says to the
newspapers quote I kept telling them to search the tunnels because I had a feeling about
those tunnels he goes on to say I walked forward to search the one tunnel and they searched the other one and that's
where they found her he said this of his stepdaughter and another friend I'm uncertain here Captain if the friend is
a friend of the stepdaughter or a friend of Michael G's the friend in in the information I've reviewed is not named
the condition of Rachel Marin's remains suggested that she had been murdered this according to Michael G and he did
not elaborate immediately to exactly why but he did say that his stepdaughter was
the one that found Rachel Marin's body on that Sunday afternoon he said he was glad to bring her home so she can find a
final resting place and for her family that that door can finally be closed and they can get the investigation on and
hopefully catch the person that did this he said he said that I hope they prosecute the perpetrator to the fullest
extent of the law again Rachel Moran was 37 years old last seen heading out according to the report that was filed
on the ma and Paul Trail around 6 p.m on that Saturday the body is found on the Sunday now what we do have immediately
here Captain is after her body is found we talked about people being suspicious of the boyfriend
and that is for good reason not just the statistics that we know the unfortunate
homicide statistics that we have in our country but also the fact that they've not been together very long
there was quick information coming out that Rachel was on several dating sites some people suggesting I this always
kind of rubs me the wrong way when people are like you know what I'm going to fill in the blanks I got I got no
clue what's going on and I know that we offer up speculation here but I feel like sometimes it's just knee-jerk
reaction they're like you just want if people are going to speculate you want them to at least start their own podcast
start their own podcast or sit on the thought for more than 30 seconds before you reveal it to the world unless you
have a podcast well I've I've said on this thought for about three days so the the thought was
not mine but the thought was people were saying oh well he must have been jealous
he they're together and she's on all these dating sites and it's like wait a second he just posted days or a week
before she goes missing that the two are a couple maybe she's just her profile's still on
the date maybe she's found the person that she wants to date and her profile just happens to still be there yeah we
don't know what which sites these are so maybe she paid for a service and she's going to let it run out at the end of
the month it doesn't exactly mean she's already looking to replace this guy right so but do we have any criminal
history on this guy well he does have a rap sheet and so what we have with him here is what's been reported is that
there's been upwards of a dozen or so arrests in his background oh that's a lot and from my
understanding some at least one of those arrests it stems from domestic violence
accusations now here's what we do want to say right good job Meathead what we do want to say from the reporting that's
out there right it's accusations not convictions and uh when we say the upwards of a
dozen or so arrests we don't know that they are all domestic violence related we what we do know is that this
individual has struggled with drugs in the past and he's worked very hard to get clean
in fact one of the first things that he says to the media when they turn their cameras on him
and their microphones on him with suspicious eyes he says look I've been clean now for 14 or 15 months
yeah and we've all unfortunately known somebody that has had to battle addiction and it is not easy at all and
so we say to all of you out there keep stacking days if you can and I cannot imagine this individual let's pretend
for a moment that he's perfectly innocent and that he's filing this report because he cares about this woman
and he's worried about where she could be right let's pretend that he's innocent and say
I hope that these suspicious eyes and and cameras and microphones and the the social media angle of it and
losing a loved one doesn't make his battle more difficult well this would also be difficult I mean
you you got clean and here's this young lady mother of five she's working out at the
gym you guys catch eyes you now start dating she's now officially your girlfriend
things are going in a good direction in your life and then she goes missing and then because of his efforts and
because of her friends and Family's efforts they go out looking for her if they find her
she has been murdered and all eyes are on you I mean that would be a difficult situation I mean
like like they say it's day to day as far as sobriety goes and this would be a difficult day to not run and hide
from the circumstances well and the suspicion was here this sounds like something out of crime
fiction but it's believable the suspicion here Captain was that well he maybe they got in a fight or an
argument things got crazy right he killed her and then placed her body off of these trails
and later calls it in hey she frequents these Trails she went there on that day or said she was going there the last I
saw her she never come home and so that would be a relatively elaborate scheme to cover one's tracks and
stage a scene that would may even suggest that somebody else perpetrated this homicide
now the Harford County Sheriff's Office this is a statement that they release on
Tuesday Rachel goes missing on Saturday body found on Sunday so two days after recovering The Remains the sheriff's
department is saying that they had received almost 90 tips from the public they are also stating no suspects have
been publicly named as of Tuesday and then that carried on with a follow-up statement saying the same thing on that
Wednesday now the media did interview the boyfriend his name is Richard Tobin and he said this is Monday the day after
his girlfriend's body is found he says look I I was not involved in her death in any way at all his statement is quote
I love Rachel I would never do anything to her let the family and I grieve yes I
have a past so he's not hiding from the fact that he has blemishes on his record
yes I have a pass but I also have been 15 months clean and have changed as a person please no and that's again every
case that we look at if the victim has a husband boyfriend girlfriend whoever is
connected I'm more suspicious if the individual doesn't understand why people are not questioning him why law
enforcement is looking at at that individual I question it more if they're like well why are you looking at me
right it's just what happens so the ones that seem a little more intelligent to go hey I understand you have to you have
to vet me first well a local councilwoman along with community members was working to
organize a a walk on the trails to honor Rachel's life and it sounds like that came to
fruition the councilwoman stating and saying publicly such a heinous act you know and it shouldn't go unnoticed we
need to come out in numbers and you know what who knows maybe we'll even get some
tips and we can help out with this investigation now police and detectives are still pleading to the public for
information at that time in the investigation stating if you were on the ma and Paul Trail on that Saturday or
near the trail or the trail heads and happen to take photos or any type of video we are asking if you would please
share them with investigators well then also investigators are going to have to go around the community and look for you
know store CCTV footage and and other surveillance footage that they might be able to
gather to get a idea of who was coming in and out of that Park well yeah and also to
lead you down the path to figure out one of the other right did Rachel arrive there on her own
alive and well and was attacked at the trail system or did like some people were concerned
about did somebody kill her elsewhere and then take the body and place it at the trail system and if that were to
be the case then of course all eyes should be on the boyfriend because he's the one that reports her missing with
the added detail of the last time I spoke with her she was heading to the ma and Paul Trail
now from the ma and PAW website the trail website they state that Harford County sheriff's deputies were planning
to provide increased patrols on the trail system starting on that Monday August 7 2023 The increased presence is
expected to continue throughout the week couple things here killer could return to the scene we know that that is and
can be the case in some situations the other thing too is this is a community area this is a community space this is a
place that many people go some of them even daily for exercise or just to be out and the Beautiful
God's green earth having some fun some Recreation and they wanted they wanted the public to know
that this was once a safe place and this will continue to be a safe place even though we are investigating this
homicide they also were reminding the community and continued to ask the public for
assistance in providing law enforcement with information and details they say no
matter how big or small just call them in send us that information and let us sort it out and figure out if this is
important to our case or not don't rationalize any of this away send it to us let us sort it out help the
detectives with this case adding that there could be something helpful in one of your photos or one of your
videos that might bring detectives and give to them one more piece of the puzzle
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let's get back to this case Captain because this one is very hot right now and I'm I'm appreciative that this is
hot in the media because of where the details of this case if you don't know of this case so far the details are
going to lead us to why it is necessary for us to be covering this case this week and why I am grateful and
appreciative that this case is hot in the media right now so again detectives still asking for help in this case
stating if you were on the ma and Paw Trail on that Saturday when Rachel went missing or near the trail trail heads
and took photos or video please send those to the Sheriff's Office they were updating us on the 8th of August saying
that they had received about 200 tips submitted to the Sheriff's office by that time still seeking more information
saying uh that they want your help no matter how big or how small please send any information they will quickly update
that information to state that the tips as you can see are growing by the day and
thankful to this community for being one coming out to the area to look and help search for Rachel and
eventually finding unfortunately finding her remains there near the trail system
but then grateful to the community for banding together and providing law enforcement
with information in this case let's get into a little bit of the speculation we talked about some people worried that
maybe she had been killed elsewhere and then the body placed there the boyfriend
reporting her missing he does have a past and he doesn't hide from that past some suggesting maybe something happened
between the two and she was placed there and then he calls her in reports her missing as some elaborate scheme as a
bit of a cover-up the thing here is early goings in this investigation we had the public and we had many people
speculating and I love to sit back and read and listen to the speculation why because
I'm trying to sort out these details it's Captain's trying to sort out these details and we're doing our own sort of
Investigation from the garage now one thing that I think through a bit of a wrench in the
situation is that remember we have our individual that went out there with two other persons
and located the body so Michael G is talking openly to news outlets and to the media and to newspapers and he's
giving his own assessment of the crime scene and of the victim that was found right interestingly enough he is saying
that what he believed he witnessed at the crime scene was Overkill with our victim and he had stated it sounded like
the department had got to him quick enough to say hey look don't give away all the details we need to hold back we
have hold back information that we want to use in this case so please you can talk to reporters but
don't give away our whole case and so he says in kind of a cryptic way there won't be an open casket I can tell
you that and he also says that he believes that there was Overkill present at the scene and he says it this to him
is very suggestive that the person that killed her knew her that this was not a stranger on Stranger crime and he's
basing that off of his well again he's helpful he's out there searching for this individual trying to
help right but again he's he's not a trained professional to be and even trained professionals get this stuff
wrong because look we know yeah sometimes this Overkill quote unquote is a sign that it's person personal to the
killer that the victim probably knew the Killer and then sometimes it just means
the person is a complete psychopath well and we reviewed a case last week Charlotte fimiano still unsolved
some have suggested the argument in her case has always been is this a perfect stranger that killed her or somebody
that had a vendetta against her yeah not to be gross but I I think a lot about that
the Dahmer case where he brought the victim up to the hotel room blacked out doesn't remember wakes up and the whole
chest is concaved because he pounded his chest with his fist that's Overkill the Dahmer probably didn't even know the
guy's name so sometimes it's it has nothing to do with whether and whether or not they
knew their victim and I think the problem with shows like mine hunter and heck are podcasts and other
podcasts is that we think that there's like always a pattern or that there's always a Rhyme or Reason well
there's always outliers that's true and the thing that we talked about when reviewing the femiano case
last week and we went straight to Joe Kennedy's Joe D Kennedy's Book solving cold cases investigation techniques and
protocols he's a well-seasoned detective he's solved homicide cases both fresh and very cold and in fact for those of
you that subscribe to off the Record you will hear his co-author at some point Hogan hilling but right from his book
this I I love learning from these season detectives and he says be careful and do
not assume there is a close personal relationship between the suspect and victim based on evidence of Overkill
such as excessive stab wounds except extensive blunt force trauma at the crime scene if ligatures and
restraining devices are present there was likely a sexual component to the murder this should be considered before
exploring other motives unless it is obviously another crime gone bad and examples of that would be robbery
burglary home invasion or such or the victim was restrained so the primary crime could be completed the first part
of that is key here do not assume close personal relationship between suspect and victim
based on Overkill and then the other thing the captain was honing in on right there that is so such a powerful
thing in these investigations Overkill is not easily determined either like like what you're saying with the
Dahmer thing yes that is overkill but it's not necessarily Overkill because he had a close personal relationship
with that particular victim right and we've discussed this several times here it so sometimes Overkill can be a sign
of other telling information about your suspect one can be mental illness there's this
and I'm not gonna claim to understand the science of it but I've had it explained to me several
different times by several different seasoned investigators and criminal psychologists
that say that sometimes the mentally mentally ill perpetrator does not know their victim
but is so intent on not just killing them but destroying them and that they have to destroy the image of that person
to be successful with what they're trying to achieve in their own mind and the way they do that
is most times to destroy the face of the victim right and like another thing that we've
learned over time from experts is sometimes the victims are actually not that the actual Target
correct and Edmond's Kemper case he he learned himself after killing all these innocent women
that actually the person that he was trying to kill was his mother that's exactly right and we talked about Gary
Ridgeway plenty of times the Green River Killer you know we've talked about this too
Captain where we sometimes on Stranger on Stranger crimes especially when you have a male a man killing a female
especially a grown woman is you almost have a surrogate victim that that female represents somebody
else to the killer right and Gary Ridgeway we also talked about hate crimes right and I'm not talking about
black on white white on black or somebody killing somebody because they're from a certain Creed
or certain sexuality we're not talking about that one thing that that goes that is not discussed and not categorized
here in our country in really any other country is there are hate crimes based off of gender
man hates all women right so he goes on a destructive path of killing every woman in his way anytime he thinks he
can get away with it he seeks and he destroys and we know for a fact that is exactly what Gary Ridgeway did because
that's what he told us that he did why did you kill I hate women yeah it doesn't matter if they're short they're
tall fat skinny it doesn't matter if they're straight or gay it doesn't doesn't matter doesn't matter what color
their hair is there there's no victim type the victim type is simply I hate females I'm going to kill all females
Gary why did you kill so many women his answer because I hate them all I hate them all so don't pile [ __ ] right
and and with us getting so little details here and even this individual who found the body
he's making leaps that I I think muddy the waters very early on now we talked about suspects in this case and what's
great here is right from Jump Street we have the boyfriend everybody's suspicious of the boyfriend and law
enforcement was as well rightfully so he reports her missing and he's in a relationship with her that gives you two
reasons they also become suspicious of Michael G who found the body now he goes out there
with other individuals and finds the discovery that nobody wanted to find nobody was hoping to find but this is
what he comes across and we we do know that when you have someone who finds the body they must be looked at and then
cleared as a suspect you either have to develop them as a better suspect or remove them as a suspect start to
eliminate them now the thing here in this case captain is you have Michael G who says some
strange things and I don't know I I think that this article reads a little suspect
when they say pal I don't know if they mean that the person that found Rachel was a close friend of Rachel's or was a
close friend of Michael G who was out there with them right well how about we all put on our detective hats and and
and you can read this to us but the the other part of that's not in the article that we that we've reviewed
is he gives a statement about the tunnels he had never been to this area before we
know that her body was either found in one of the tunnels or very near one of the tunnels and the and that's in a very
secluded area of the these Trail systems it's it's more or less off of the trail
itself and he says he had never been to the trails one but two says that I just kept seeing tunnels I just kept seeing
Tunnels for some reason in my mind and I don't know why but then when me and some
of the other volunteers went down there and saw that there were tunnels present near the trails he goes I got goosebumps
and I and I just felt like if we find her she's she's going to be tucked away somewhere she's not going to be out in
the open and sure enough based off of what we're hearing police haven't said as such
but what we're hearing from him and some of the volunteers is that's where they found her body either in one of those
tunnels or near the tunnels right now here's some things at the crime scene that would suggest that she was not
killed elsewhere there was a large amount of blood that has been reported in some sources
that was at the crime scene if she's already dead when placed there you're not going to find a large amount
of blood at the crime scene there is also some drag marks as well now I get it yes drag marks would
indicate that the victim was once in one location and then dragged to another location but these drag marks from my
understanding Captain basically start at one of the trails and work its way down near toward that
tunnel so either somebody carried her in or someone's carried her in and then had to drag her the rest of the
way what the crime scene would suggest to all of us is that she was attacked at the scene
probably attacked on the trail because that's where she most likely would have been trekking the trail traveling the
trail and attacked there and then dragged to the location where her body was eventually found the other information
that came out is that she was found on her back and nude and some of the very disturbing details were that one side of
her face had pretty much been removed or destroyed now we can surmise a few things from
these details that are coming out again it sounds like the attack went down at this location that there's not
another location where she was attacked and then placed here this we base this off of the amount of blood at the
location the other thing too is the terrain itself and the location where she's found is suggestive of what could
be the murder weapon or what she was attacked with that damage to the side of her face very
likely came from either a tree branch or a rock and we've seen large rocks heavy
rocks used unfortunately in a lot of attacks and the other unfortunate thing too is
it's not out of the realm of possibility because we've seen it happen time and time again
unfortunately where a woman is out jogging out running and attacked by a stranger
we did our murder joggers case years ago where we featured two different cases both of them have arrests were made in
both cases the perpetrator did not know the victim we did the Molly Tibbetts case she's out
jogging and the perpetrator pulls up alongside of her in his vehicle starts trying to talk to her gets out
and starts running next to her she threatens to call the police my case was awful that guy did not know the
victim we talk about Delphi two girls essentially abducted and then killed near a trail system
in Indiana and there's nothing to suggest that the perpetrator or the person that was
arrested for that crime knew either one of those victims so unfortunately this does happen and unfortunately a lot of
times it is the crime scene and the nature of this homicide is suggestive that she was likely ambushed
and that this was a sexually motivated crime and she was killed at the scene and I'm hoping and praying based off of
the information that I've reviewed that it was it was quick and she didn't even know what happened
because if you try to play this out in your mind she's either walking running hiking that trail
and the perpetrator jumps out ambushes her hits her to be able to gain control over her
and then moves her to a more secluded location because whatever it was that he intended
to do to the victim required a certain amount of privacy the other thing that I'm wondering here
too Captain is we're going to be told by investigators that they do we talk so much about transfer Theory
and transference of old transfer Theory trans buddy transference of evidence in these cases you can find Vic victim
evidence on your perpetrator or on his belongings you can also find evidence of your perpetrator on your
victim or at the crime scene and so in this situation what I'm wondering with the amount of blood
that's described at the scene it would stand a reason that the perpetrator himself likely became very
bloodied covered in blood at least his clothing you have to wonder did did he discard
any of his clothing at the scene uh so he wouldn't be seen leaving the trails covered in blood did he attempt to bury
a shirt or gloves or anything at the scene that were covered in blood so he wouldn't be
seen leaving again this is a trail system that is frequented by many people yeah it makes you wonder if they're
eyewitness didn't maybe see the attack but saw somebody with you know suspicious markings like covered in
blood also makes you wonder how the murderer gets to the trail system did they did they were they running were
they riding a bike did they drive there do they live close how well would they know the trail
system did they know we talk about this Michael G character who was involved in the search and he said he had he lives
nearby never been to the trails and even though he was envisioning tunnels he never he didn't know any
tunnels were there right we should also be very clear too not only has the boyfriend been Cooperative with police
but he voluntarily gives them his DNA very early in this investigation again could mean everything it could mean
nothing I mean Chris Watts was cooperative with police and we we know how that turned out the Harford County
Sheriff's office has been really great about updating the public in this case not only asking the public for their
help and their assistance with possible information photos videos taking it Trail heads or
on the trails themselves but also providing updates to the public close and across the country
the Harford County Sheriff's office has a YouTube page and on that page they have been releasing
regular press conference type news updates in the Rachel Morin case and here is the first of those Updates this
came out just about a month ago hi this is Hartford County Sheriff Jeff Gaylor it's been four days since Rachel Morin
went missing and three days since her body was located the victim of a violent homicide as your Sheriff I wanted to
update all of you on where the investigation stands and what we are doing to keep our citizens safe
currently there are 10 investigators assigned to our criminal investigations division who have been and will continue
to work around the clock on this investigation these detectives along with forensic
investigators and crime analysts have been scouring every detail of the days hours minutes and seconds before Rachel
died in order to put together the pieces of a comprehensive timeline our Harford County Community as usual
has been amazing and again I knew you would be it's what makes me the most proud when
our citizens step up and work together in times of need through you our Facebook page and reach has gone over 2
million people you have brought forth more than 100 tips and they are still pouring in some
of your tips have been promising and tremendous in advancing the investigation and bringing us closer to
getting the answers that we need the answers that Rachel's family needs and the answers that our community needs
each tip helps bring the pitcher into Focus so I ask you to keep sending them in even if it's something you think is
insignificant that might be the key piece of evidence or information we are looking for
I also know many of you are nervous to spend time on the trail concerned that there might be someone in our midst
preying on women please know that is your Sheriff but also as a husband and father of two
daughters I understand your fears if you went out to the trail today you will see a heavy presence of deputies
patrolling by foot by bike and by all-terrain vehicle to enhance our efforts just yesterday morning the
Harford County Sheriff's Foundation dropped off a check for twenty thousand dollars to support the purchase of a
second off-road utility vehicle this will fill an immediate need to have an off-road utility vehicle at each end
of the trail and these proactive patrols will continue into the future in an effort to keep everyone safe who
utilizes our hiking trails I understand many of you want answers and we do too what I can tell you for sure is this was
an intentional taking of a person's life please know we are holding details close
to help ensure a suspect is brought to Justice there will be a time when I can share
more and when we can I promise to answer as many of your questions as I can it's
a delicate balance to help the public stay informed but it cannot be at the expense of a quality investigation
one question we have continued to get centers around whether we have interviewed the boyfriend in this case
the answer is yes we have along with many other people who are close to Rachel that is the way an investigation
is conducted we start with people who are in her close Inner Circle and others who have made known her or she have
encountered and work outward please be safe to take care of each other watch out for each other together
we will solve this crime and find the heinous coward who took Rachel Morin from her family and friends
thank you [Music] [Music] I want to thank everybody for joining us here in the garage join us back here
same bat Time same bat Channel and until then be good be kind and don't litter [Music]
thank you

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August 5, 2023 - 37 year old Rachel Morin is reported missing. Less than 24 hours later her body is found near a local hiking trail, the Ma & Pa Trail in Bel Air, Maryland. The Harford County Sheriff’s Office is requesting assistance in identifying the suspect in relation to the homicide of Rachel Hannah Morin. The unknown male is approximately 5′ 09″, 160 pounds, 20-30 years of age, dark hair, muscular build, and is believed to be of Hispanic descent. A photo of the suspect was captured six months ago. We will post this photo on our social accounts. This individual is believed to have ties to the Los Angeles area and may have been involved in violent crimes in other states. Anyone who can identify this unknown male, or has additional information, is asked to contact the Harford County Sheriff’s Office at 1-410-836-7788 or RMtips@harfordsheriff.org

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Brief Summary

Rachel Morin, a mother of five, was murdered in Bel Air, Maryland, after going missing during a hike on August 5, 2023.

Key points

Body Found. Less than 24 hours after being reported missing, Rachel's body is discovered.
The Disappearance of Rachel Morin. Rachel Marin, a 37-year-old mother of five, goes missing after a hike.
Suspicion on the Boyfriend. Rachel's boyfriend, Richard Tobin, becomes a person of interest in her murder.
Community Support for Investigation. The community is urged to assist law enforcement in the ongoing investigation.
Personal Conflicts at Crime Con. A humorous admission about personal issues preventing attendance at Crime Con.
Understanding Overkill in Homicides. A discussion on the complexities of determining overkill in murder cases.

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