The Maryland mother-of-five’s physique was discovered on a mountaineering path after she by no means returned from a run — now, authorities are opening up about the place she was killed and video displaying the suspect leaving a “violent assault” in California.

On Monday, the Harford Sheriff’s Division launched two model new sketches of the suspect, together with a 40-minute podcast during which Captain Andy Lane shared new particulars concerning the case.

The investigation into the mother-of-five’s homicide started in August 2023, after her boyfriend stated she by no means returned from a run. After he reported her lacking, her physique was found the next day alongside a mountaineering path. Later that month, authorities launched footage of a male they imagine is linked to the brutal murder of Rachel Hannah Morin; the video was from Los Angeles.

Within the podcast, Lane confirmed for the primary time that they imagine Morin was attacked on Ma & Pa path in Bel Air, Harford County, Maryland, earlier than she was pulled right into a drainage culvert “the place she misplaced her life.”

Whereas they’d been “leery about releasing too many particulars,” authorities stated plenty of witnesses noticed Morin on the path that day, main them to imagine the suspect was “almost definitely conversant in Rachel, who had a time of day she preferred to run and this particular person took a chance when Rachel was briefly out of view of anybody else for a brief time frame.”

Although one of many officers on the podcast stated his “intestine tells me she was stalked,” they added it might have been against the law of alternative and there was no proof Morin was particularly focused.

On the scene, they had been in a position to get better genetic materials which was entered right into a nationwide database, resulting in a “large break” linking Morin’s homicide to a different, earlier unsolved crime in Los Angeles. That crime is the place the Ring digital camera footage got here from, displaying a shirtless man leaving a residence in darkness, carrying his garments in his arms. There seems to be somebody inside the home, who closes the door after he leaves.

In accordance with Lane, the person seen within the video left behind a hat on the dwelling, which had DNA on it matching the genetic materials on the Morin crime scene.

“The crime that occurred there was additionally a violent assault,” he stated, explaining, “there have been a number of folks inside that dwelling who bought injured and there have been minor kids who had been injured as properly in that assault.”

Saying the sooner LA incident was nonetheless being actively investigated by the LAPD, Lane stated the person didn’t stay on the dwelling and was not identified to anybody who lived there. “After coming into the house, he violently and bodily attacked a number of folks, to incorporate a baby,” he stated, including that the person’s entry to the house wasn’t captured on digital camera as a result of he did not use the entrance door.

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“There was a variety of yelling .. they compelled him from the house. I believe folks typically occasions imagine this household ought to have held this individual there or ultimately tried to cease him. I believe that is not at all times doable,” stated Lane. “This assault was stopped by a member of this household who I believe acted in the most effective curiosity of everybody there and did all the pieces he might do to get that individual out of the house.”

After saying the suspect attacked two relations who had been “unable to defend themselves,” a 3rd, youthful member of the family “managed to shock the suspect” and power him out of the house. The video exhibits the person being shooed out of the home, earlier than having the door slammed in his face by somebody who then locked it and known as the police.

Per Lane, they’ve obtained “properly over 1,000 ideas” about Morin’s homicide since August, which have are available from all throughout the nation.

Concerning the 2 new sketches launched on Monday, he additionally cautioned that it has been six months because the crime and individuals are in a position to change their look with longer or shorter hair.

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