Search Continues for Hiker-Mom Rachel Morin MYSTERY PERP
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 4 September 2023
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Summary
Police now have two new pieces of evidence in their search for whoever killed Rachel Morin.
Harford County Sheriff Jeffery Gahler tells Nancy Grace that not only was DNA pulled from the Morin crime scene, but that DNA linked to an assault across the country. What's more, there video of the suspect leaving the California crime scene.Â
The video shows the suspect from the back with his head partially turned to the side. There is no frontal view, but investigators say someone should recognize the perpetrator.Â
   Joining Nancy Grace Today:Â
- Jessica Garth - Chief, Special Victims & Family Violence Unit, State's Attorney's Office, Prince George's County, MD
- Dr. Bethany Marshall - Psychoanalyst (Beverly Hills, CA); Twitter: @DrBethanyLiveÂ
- Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler - Sheriff of The Harford County Sheriff’s Office; Instagram/Twitter: @harford_sheriff, FB:  Harford County Sheriff’s OfficeÂ
- Dr. Monte Miller - Director, Forensic DNA Experts LLC; Specialist in Sexual Assaults and Murder, and Former Forensic Scientist for Texas Dept. of Public Safety State Crime Lab
- Dr. Tim Gallagher - Medical Examiner State of Florida; Lecturer: University of Florida Medical School Forensic Medicine and Founder: International Forensic Medicine Death Investigation ConferenceÂ
- Vincent Hill - Anchor/Reporter for FOX 45 in Baltimore, Former Police Officer and Private Investigator; Author: “Playbook to A Murder;" Twitter & IG: @VincentHillTV Â
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| 0:00.0 | Crime stories with Nancy Grace |
| 0:12.3 | The community is stunned after they learn that hiker mom out on a very well-known trail |
| 0:20.4 | the Ma and Pa trail ends up brutally murdered and I think sex attacked as well. |
| 0:28.9 | But in the last days, a major break in the case in the search for the killer of a mother |
| 0:35.6 | of five so-called hiker mom, Rachel Lauren. |
| 0:40.2 | I'm Nancy Grace. |
| 0:41.5 | This is Crime Stories. |
| 0:42.8 | Thank you for being with us here at Fox Nation and series XM111. |
| 0:48.1 | We have a very good idea who is the perp. |
| 0:53.8 | First of all, take a listen to our friend, Colonel William Davis. |
| 0:58.2 | DNA evidence is part of nearly every modern day investigation and in Rachel's case, DNA |
| 1:04.3 | evidence was collected by our forensic services unit. |
| 1:07.8 | That DNA was analyzed by the Maryland State Police and it was ran through the National |
| 1:12.3 | Code of System. |
| 1:14.2 | DNA evidence is, I mean, this DNA evidence has come back as a match, tied to a human |
| 1:19.5 | invasion and assault and an assault of a young girl in Los Angeles this past March. |
| 1:26.2 | Unfortunately, that suspect has not been possibly identified but he did leave behind his DNA. |
| 1:33.8 | Based on the DNA evidence, we consider the individual, in the video we obtained from |
| 1:38.6 | the Los Angeles Police Department and that we are about to show you on our TV screens |
| 1:43.5 | to be the person that murdered Rachel Lauren on August 10th. |
| 1:47.1 | DNA. |
| 1:48.1 | Isn't it amazing? |
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