'TRAIL-MOM-OF-5' Rachel Morin, Raped, Murdered: COP SECRETS REVEALED

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 14 February 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

A sketch of a possible suspect in the brutal Maryland murder of Rachel Morin has now been released.

DNA collected at the scene linked the suspect to another assault across the country in Los Angeles. A doorbell camera captures the suspect as the left the California home, but it didn't show the suspect's face. Working with a sketch artist, investigators interviewed the witnesses of the home invasion in Los Angeles, as well as witnesses in Maryland, especially around the Ma and Pa trail.

Some new information has been released about where Rachel Morin's body was found and where investigators believe her killer was hiding. Captain Andy Lane says there are drainage culverts along the trail, but most people wouldn't notice them because they are hidden by shrubbery and trees in the summertime. Standing at the scene, there is a bend in the trail near the hidden culverts.

Investigators believe the killer attacked Morin in the bend on the trail, then drug her body through the weeds, trees, and undergrowth to the culverts. That is where Rachel Morin was murdered.

Joining Nancy Grace Today:

Matthew McMahon - Father of Rachel Morin’s oldest child
Jessica Garth – Chief, Special Victims & Family Violence Unit, State’s Attorney’s Office, Prince George’s County, MD
Caryn L. Stark – Psychologist, Renowned TV and Radio Trauma Expert and Consultant; Instagram: carynpsych/FB: Caryn Stark Private Practice
Tim Pappa - Former FBI BAU Profiler and Supervisory Special Agent, Founder and Behavioral Content Creator for “Storytellers;" X: @storytellerscc (walked the trail and examined Rachel Morin’s crime scene)
Dr. Michelle Dupre – Forensic Pathologist and former Medical Examiner, Author: “Homicide Investigation Field Guide” & “Investigating Child Abuse Field Guide”, Ret. Police Detective Lexington County Sheriff’s Department
Michael Streed - Forensic Facial Imaging Expert, Former Law Enforcement; X: @thesketchcop/ FB & IG: @TheSketchCopOfficial
Vincent Hill – Anchor/Reporter for FOX 45 in Baltimore, Former Police Officer and Private Investigator; Author: “Playbook to A Murder;” X & IG: @VincentHillTV

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0:00.0	Crime stories with Nancy Grace. A gorgeous young mom and I mean absolutely stunning. Of course one victim is no more or less important than another victim, but the fact that Rachel
0:29.8	Lauren's killer specifically destroyed her face.
0:37.4	I find highly probative, as we say in the courtroom he destroyed her beauty why why in the last hours
0:50.3	bombshell in the search for this beautiful young mother's killer.
0:57.0	We now have an incredible composite sketch of her attacker. How did they do it? With us the composite sketch
1:09.0	artist who created it. Not only that, we are now learning so many more details that law enforcement
1:18.9	L.E. admits they had kept secret. I'm Nancy Grace.
1:24.0	This is Crime Stories.
1:25.0	Thank you for being with us here at Crime Stories and on Serious XM 111.
1:29.0	First of all, one of the facts that have been kept secret till now is the location where Rachel
1:38.6	Moran was killed and where her body was dragged listen.
1:45.0	Along the side of this trail there are two large drainage culverts that run under a local highway. Those drainage culverts that run under a local highway.
1:53.7	Those drainage culverts are hidden during the summertime
1:57.4	by trees and shrubbery and aren't something
1:59.7	that most people would see.
2:01.4	I myself have been down that trail many times, and I wasn't aware that those culverts were there.
2:05.2	In this instance we could see from the scene that Rachel was ultimately attacked on the trail. That area of the trail,
2:15.7	there is a bend in the in the trail. That area of the trail, there is a bend in the trail that most likely was used by the individual who committed this crime, who attacked Rachel and the trail, pulled
2:20.8	her through the wooded area into this drainage culvert where she ultimately lost her life.
2:28.0	You are hearing Captain Andy Lane, commander of criminal investigations in that division, but there's more about what
2:37.2	we now realize is a secret location up until now we didn't realize it even existed.
2:43.8	Take a listen to Sheriff Jeff Geller.
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