TRAIL-MOM RACHEL MORIN'S BLUDGEON-DEATH KILLER BUSTED IN TULSA
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 17 June 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
The man suspected in the bludgeoning death of Rachel Morin is no longer on the run.
Harford Sheriff Jeff Gahler announced the arrest of Victor Antonio Martinez Hernandez, an undocumented migrant from El Salvador. Police say the 23-year-old is suspected of a murder in his home country and the rape and assault of a 9-year-old California girl and her mother.
Morin's body was found along the Ma & Pa Trail 10 months ago. DNA found at the crime scene matched a home invasion in Los Angeles, leading to the suspect's arrest in Oklahoma.
Joining Nancy Grace Today:
- Matthew Mangino – Attorney, Former District Attorney (Lawrence County); Author: “The Executioner’s Toll: The Crimes, Arrests, Trials, Appeals, Last Meals, Final Words and Executions of 46 Persons in the United States”
- Caryn L. Stark – Psychologist, Renowned TV and Radio Trauma Expert and Consultant; Instagram: carynpsych/FB: Caryn Stark Private Practice
- Chris McDonough – Director at the Cold Case Foundation, Former Homicide Detective; Host of YouTube channel: “The Interview Room”
- Dr. Kendall Crowns – Chief Medical Examiner Tarrant County (Ft Worth) and Lecturer: University of Texas Austin and Texas Christian University Medical School
- Alexis Tereszcuk - CrimeOnline.com Investigative Reporter, Writer/Fact Checker at Lead Stories; X:@swimmie2009
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| 0:00.0 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. A beautiful young mom, the so-called trail mom, Rachel |
| 0:09.7 | Morons, killer, responsible for bludgining her dead and raping her, leaving her naked body lying |
| 0:18.3 | out on a public trail in the last hours busted in Tulsa. |
| 0:25.0 | Good evening, I'm Nancy Grace. |
| 0:27.0 | This is crime stories. |
| 0:28.0 | Thank you for being with us. |
| 0:30.0 | When I woke up, it felt like, um, it felt like a shadow. |
| 0:36.8 | It also felt like like, like sadness, |
| 0:45.0 | sadness, emptiness. |
| 0:48.4 | I just knew that there was something that, |
| 0:52.0 | I think it's just mother's intuition, I just knew there was something that wasn't right, there was something that wasn't right, |
| 0:56.6 | that there was something terribly wrong, but I didn't know what it was. |
| 1:00.8 | Just over three weeks ago on May 20th, on what should have been Rachel's 38th birthday, and then a poetic |
| 1:08.0 | coincidence, or perhaps in Rachel's own divine assistance, are investigators uncovered a lead that led us to this day and on this day I'm |
| 1:18.0 | here to tell you Rachel's murder is no longer a free man. |
| 1:23.0 | Hopefully he will never have the opportunity to walk free again. |
| 1:29.0 | He was just hearing Rachel's mother telling me the anguish that she has been through and describing the |
| 1:36.2 | moment that she learned her daughter a mother of five the so-called Trail Mom |
| 1:42.3 | beautiful woman mother of Five, found Bludgeoned |
| 1:47.2 | left naked and bloody on a trail. And then we hear in the last hours sheriff of Hartford County Jeff |
| 1:56.9 | Galler speaking out and what an arrest it was busted. Who is he? This guy is a non-citizen migrant. Some people would call an illegal alien a non-citizen migrant on the run from a |
| 2:20.3 | murder charge in El Salvador. And let me just remind everybody that he is |
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