Authorities have arrested an illegal immigrant on suspicion of murdering a mother whose naked body was found on a hiking trail almost a year ago.

Suspect Victor Martinez Hernandez, 23, was arrested Friday in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and charged with the August 2023 murder and rape of Rachel Morin, 37, in Maryland.

Hernandez illegally crossed the southern border in February 2023 after he allegedly murdered another woman in El Salvador a month earlier, and he is also accused of attacking a nine-year-old girl and her mother in Los Angeles before Morin's murder.

The case had remained a mystery for 10 months after Morin, a mother-of-five, was reported missing by her boyfriend after she went for a run on hiking trails.


Morin's naked and battered body was found on the Ma and Pa hiking trail in Bel Air, around 45 miles north of Baltimore, the day after she was reported missing.

Six months later, Maryland investigators released a sketch of Morin's suspected killer as her family pleaded for the public to help solve the case.

According to detectives, Hernandez was believed to be hiding adjacent to the popular hiking trail when he allegedly murdered Morin.

He allegedly attacked, raped and killed her before fleeing the state, and the Tulsa Police Department said he was tracked down to Oklahoma after officials in the state were contacted by the FBI.

Hernandez was taken into custody inside a bar in Tulsa on Friday by several law enforcement agencies, and was said to be found 'casually sitting at the bar.'

Officials said he initially lied about his identity and denied any knowledge of the crimes he was wanted for. Hernandez is now awaiting extradition.

At a press conference on Saturday, Hardford County Sheriff Jeff Gaylor announced Hermandez's arrest, and said the suspect had carried out a trail of criminality since entering the country illegally.

Before reaching Morin in Maryland, Hernandez attacked a nine-year-old girl and her mother in a home invasion in Los Angeles, California, in March 2023, Gaylor said.

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