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🗓️ 19 January 2024
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Months after the body of Rachel Morin is found along a trail the Ma & Pa Trail, her killer is still a mystery.
DNA found at the crime scene matched to a home invasion in Los Angeles 5 months earlier, but investigators are still not sure who the DNA belongs to. The only evidence made public is a video of the man they believe is the suspect, seen leaving the home invasion scene in LA.
But now, WMAR 2 reports that investigators are following up a lead in Washington DC. Police aren't calling the person a suspect, but the hope is this person can point them in the right direction.
Morin's family is turning to all options in trying to bring this killer to justice. They are working with profiler Pat Brown to provide more information about the possible suspect in Morin's murder. The possible suspect is Hispanic and appeared to be in his early to mid-20s. He stands around 5 foot 9 and weighs about 160 pounds.
Brown says this person is likely narcissistic, lacks empathy, is manipulative, and a pathological liar.
The family has also created a flyer using still images from the doorbell camera footage of the suspect sending out 10,000 flyers to homes and schools near the LA crime scene.
Morin Family attorney, Randolph Rice, tells CBS News the reason the family is reaching out to schools in Los Angeles is the suspect could have been in high school as early as two years ago. They are hoping a teacher who taught him and saw him every single day during the school year will recognize the suspect.
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0:00.0 | Crime stories with Nancy Grace. |
0:07.0 | An absolutely gorgeous young mom goes for a hike and ends up horribly bludgeoned dead |
0:21.7 | losing vast quantities of the blood in her body, |
0:26.8 | apparently brutally beaten with a rock |
0:31.0 | found completely naked face up on the trail and still even though this |
0:37.4 | happened months ago we don't have the killer. This is a very popular hiking trail that Ma and Pa trail. |
0:48.7 | Then in a stunning turn the DNA of the Perp, I'm assuming she was raped, the DNA from the Perp found in and on. |
1:01.2 | The young mom's body is entered into the DNA database and bam |
1:06.2 | Get a hit from another attack all the way in LA where the guy is actually caught on door cam leaving home but you don't see his face. |
1:17.3 | Oh, we still don't have him. We've got his DNA. We've got a general description, but we don't have him. The family |
1:28.8 | is desperate to the point they're actually sending letters out to high schools hoping that a |
1:37.6 | teacher can identify the killer and so much more. |
1:43.0 | What happened to Rachel Moran? |
1:45.8 | Who, what, where, why, when? |
1:48.6 | I'm Nancy Grace. |
1:49.4 | This is Crime Stories. |
1:50.8 | Thank you for being with us here at Crime Stories and on Serious Exeisem at |
1:54.2 | 111 who murdered Rachel Moran. We also know that Ellie law enforcement has |
2:02.2 | stated they believe this is a serial rapist that could |
2:08.2 | blossom into a serial killer. First of all, listen to this. |
2:15.0 | It approximately 1123 last evening, our deputies responded to a report of a mission person. |
2:20.0 | It was |
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