Rachel Morin murder: Jury to decide fate of illegal immigrant accused of killing jogger

A Maryland assemblage connected Monday began deliberations successful the lawsuit against Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez, the amerciable migrant accused of raping and murdering Bel Air pistillate Rachel Morin successful August 2023.

Morin, a 37-year-old parent of five, was jogging on the Ma & Pa Trail successful Bel-Air, a quaint assemblage northeast of Baltimore, erstwhile Martinez-Hernandez allegedly ambushed, strangled and bushed her to death.

"This has been an emotionally grueling acquisition for Rachel’s family, but they stay steadfast successful their pursuit of justice," Randolph Rice, the family’s attorney, antecedently said successful a Friday statement.

RACHEL MORIN MURDER: ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT SUSPECT DENIED EVER BEING IN MARYLAND AT TIME OF CRIME

Rachel Morin was killed on a hiking way successful Bel Air, Maryland. (Harford County Sheriff's Office)

Morin’s household has been contiguous for each time of the proceedings truthful acold and is expected to enactment until its conclusion.

Harford County autopsy results revealed that Morin had endured 15 to 20 blows to the caput and had died from a operation of strangulation and blunt unit trauma. Her decease was officially ruled a homicide.

RACHEL MORIN'S ALLEGED ILLEGAL KILLER LEFT SLAIN JOGGER'S BODY ALONG 150-FOOT BLOOD TRAIL

Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez was charged successful the execution of Rachel Morin. (Harford County Sheriff's Office)

Witnesses who were walking on the Ma & Pa Trail erstwhile Morin was inactive considered missing said they recovered a way resembling a cervid way flattened by leaves, but they soon discovered rocks with humor connected them adjacent the way and followed the antithetic markings done 2 tunnels adjacent the way with overgrown brush. 

That's wherever they came crossed Morin's bare body, Harford County State's Attorney Alison Healey said successful her opening statements.

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Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez allegedly killed Rachel Morin successful Bel Air, Maryland. (Tusla Police Department)

"I saw an unclothed quality assemblage connected her back. At first, I genuinely thought it mightiness person been a cervid oregon thing that had died successful there," Evan Knapp, who recovered Morin’s body, testified. "So, I had to determination a spot person to corroborate what I had seen, and it was a human. I consciousness similar clip froze for a 2nd and I didn’t cognize what I was looking at."

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A photograph of Rachel Morin is posted to a histrion by her household on the Ma and Pa Trail successful Bel Air, MD, Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023. (Mega for Fox News Digital)

Martinez-Hernandez, who is from El Salvador, allegedly fled the country and the authorities of Maryland aft Morin's murder. Authorities said during his proceedings that they recovered DNA matching the suspect's astatine the transgression country and were yet capable to hint him to Tulsa, Oklahoma, wherever constabulary arrested him.

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The 23-year-old migrant illegally crossed into the United States successful February 2023, constabulary announced.

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"We each suspected that Rachel was not his archetypal victim," Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler said aft the suspect's arrest. "It is my knowing that this suspect, this monster, fled to the United States illegally aft committing the brutal execution of a young pistillate successful El Salvador a period earlier, successful January of 2023."

Gahler added that officials' archetypal DNA lucifer for Martinez-Hernandez was from a Los Angeles location penetration and onslaught successful March 2023.

Fox News' Jake Gibson contributed to this report.