Illegal immigrant convicted in mom of 5 Rachel Morin’s rape, murder after jury deliberates for less than an hour
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Victor Martinez-Hernandez, 24, was convicted of first-degree murder, first-degree rape, first-degree sexual offense and kidnapping after Morin, 37, was killed along a trail about 30 miles northeast of Baltimore in August 2023.
The guilty verdicts came after less than an hour of deliberations, WBFF reported .
Martinez-Hernandez could spend the rest of his life in prison, according to the station.
Harford County State Attorney Alison Healey said she would seek the maximum sentence for him during a press conference after the verdicts.
“This case shook our Harford County community and robbed a family of their daughter, sister, mother and friend,” she said during the briefing streamed by WBAL.
Healey wasn’t surprised at how rapidly Monday’s guilty verdicts were returned, noting DNA recovered from Morin’s body matched up with Martinez-Hernandez.
“The quickness of the verdict speaks to the strength of the evidence in the case,” she added.
“This was an airtight case.”
Healey said Morin “fought for her life” during the violent struggle.
“She was viciously beaten, raped and ultimately murdered at the hands of the defendant,” the prosecutor added.
Morin’s case gained national headlines at the time of her gruesome slaying because it was yet another example of an illegal migrant carrying out a shocking crime as the Biden administration refused to address the chaos at the border, which led to record illegal crossings under the former president .
“They put every American citizen in harm’s way, every American citizen, and especially the most vulnerable, which are women and children,” Patricia Morin, the victim’s mother, previously told The Post.
Martinez-Hernandez was captured in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in June 2024 following a nationwide manhunt, and his trial began earlier this month.
Morin was on the Ma and Pa Trail in Bel Air when she was dragged into the woods and attacked. Her badly beaten body was later found in a culvert, and her car was still in the parking lot.
The now-convicted killer had been living illegally in the US since February 2023, police said.
He had also been accused of a violent home invasion in Los Angeles — and allegedly committed several heinous crimes in the months before the young mom’s vicious slaying.
Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler said “this monster” deserved the death penalty, but state lawmakers have outlawed executions.
“It shouldn’t be political, but the failure here again is the immigration system that allowed this person to enter our country illegally and remain in our country and commit crimes in Los Angeles and here in Harford County,” he said.
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The empathy deficit among many democrats seems to be getting worse. Jumping from assassin, to terrorist supporter to murderer to a salvadoran immigrant identified as a member of one of the worst gangs in the world to valorize and demonstrate on behalf of. The Senator from Maryland is now in El Salvador trying to free a Salvadoran gang associate (to put the best spin on it) from a foreign prison.
Ms. Morin was his actual constituent, whatever the Senator says. Did he reach out to the family to even offer condolences? Did he do anything to prevent other Americans from being murdered? Of course not. But he'll across the planet to help a foreigner with gang ties. As the mother of the victim said today:
Anyone else notice the timing of this story from the trump admin? What was the stock market doing at the same time? Distraction story, nothing more...trump doesn't care about these people LOL
misdirection and deflection ...
Basically, he was told: "Yankee, go home ... and don't come back!"
What about the pets?
With bot-like precision, along come an illegal alien boogie man seed. Remind us - what laws did Garcia break? Does the punishment fit his “crimes”? Did Garcia murder people? He has been dealt a virtual death sentence for the crime of existing in the US, and you want the crime seeded here to somehow help justify his guilt?
Thank you for proving my point. What did Mrs. Morin do to deserve to be raped and murdered?
Why doesn't her needless, preventable death bother you, at all, even though the policies you support caused it?
I’ll thank you when you answer my question. What laws did Garcia break?
He entered the country illegally, remained illegally and was subject to a deportation order.
And for that he gets a virtual death sentence. Gangsta justice.
Again, an American mother of five was given an actual death sentence by an illegal alien and it’s crickets from the people who fight to keep illegals here.
Lee Harvey Oswald was a cold blooded killer too, and Oswald has exactly as much to with with Garcia as the guy you are yammering on about. Garcia is not even accused of any crime worthy of his sentence, much less guilty of one.
What are you talking about? What does lee harvey Oswald have to do with the murder of mother in Maryland, in your mind?
Why do you also refuse to answer this question: Why doesn't her needless, preventable death bother you, at all, even though the policies you support caused it?
Post after post about a citizen of El Salvador but no empathy for about a brutally murdered American, demonstrating my point perfectly.
Amazing! The denial at play here is just ……. Crazy.
The jury clearly got it right. In less than an hour.
Maybe you can volunteer to allow him to stay in your home.
That might persuade the El Salvador president to allow him to come back.
Because, more than likely, that mother of 5 is a Trump supporter.
That is why many on the left are putting her killer over her.
For the only crime of entering the US? Why does that frighten you? Are you frightened by everyone who wears a bulls hat, or just the brown ones? I guarantee you I’ve had dozens of contractors in my house that fit that bill. They’ve been perfect gentleman.
He came to the country illegally.
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Illegal entry, human trafficking and wife beating. Those are the ones we know about.
Human trafficking? Link please. How on earth did this guy manage to not get arrested and charged with human trafficking and spousal abuse? And I thought you guys loved wife beaters. You hired one with a proven history of it to run the pentagon. None of that justifies his illegal sentence. Admit it.
Apparently, all acceptable to many leftists.
From those they have chosen to be heroes or martyrs over the years, this is not surprise.
The Tennessee Star:
In 2022, he was stopped driving without a license and Tennessee Highway Patrol suspected him of trafficking the 7 people inside. THP then learned he was on a terrorist watch list so they called Biden’s FBI but Biden’s FBI told THP to RELEASE HIM. Kilmar Abrego Garcia was then released due to the Biden FBI order and the THP concerns about trafficking were ignored by the government.
Provide the link, not an AI photo with your interpretation of what’s in the link. My guess is that you didn’t provide quotes because it’s clear there is no actual crime. Brown people are not criminals just because they are in a vehicle together. Your racist bullshit is tiresome.
There wasn't just a photo there. That was an investigative report done earlier. I know you don't want to read it, but FORTUNATELY THE DHS RELEASED INFO YESTERDAY!
Do you follow the news?
Here:
The other document -- a DHS I-213 form -- cited the Prince George's County Police Department field interview sheet to claim that Abrego Garcia was "identified" and "validated" as a member of MS-13. Abrego Garcia denied having any information about the gang or human smuggling, according to the DHS report.
DOJ plans to appeal Abrego Garcia ruling, releases documents it says tie him to gang - ABC News
And I'm not going to give you another 10 links.
You got it.
Not a thing has been released that said he committed a crime. If he committed a crime he would have been charged just like every other actual criminal. He is not so special as to get away with evidentiary criminal behavior. You won’t provide it because it DOES NOT EXIST.
I swear the desperation to defend this guy is almost comical, if they weren't so serious about it.
The President seems to love letting them go on about it.
Does anyone think they are going to win the midterms?
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I didn’t see bugsy’s name in this article.
Neither do I but it is hilarious that leftists here will defend this...
1. Illegal
2. MS 13 member, which means more than likely committed crimes as a member, maybe even murder
3. Wife beater.
4. Accused (more than likely actual) human smuggler
I just wonder why they don't charter a flight themselves to El Salvador and sit outside the president's house and demand he release this "see above" and send him back to the US.
Now, if they agreed to taking him into their home, feeding him and guaranteeing he won't ever, ever, ever commit another crime, then I would be more agreeable to him returning here.
[✘] It is interesting who they chose to demonize and who they chose to canonize. Very interesting indeed.
Probably for the same reasons these "Free Palestine" clowns don't. They know it wont end well for them.
Not really interesting.
Seeing what they are capable of, and how they are on the wrong side of EVERY 80/20 issue, it is more expected than interesting.
Lol …. I’ll agree to disagree on that.
Show us something tangible that says Americans approve of sending unconvicted people to foreign prisons.
this is a new poll
Look at the last line, the 35% is the number of independents that agree with Trump on the deportations to El Salvador, and the 57% is the number of independents that dont.
Show us where I said anything about unconvicted.
BTW...he entered this country illegally, so by just that alone, he is convicted.
LOL. Garcia has not even been charged with a crime let alone convicted.
Then why is he sitting in an El Salvador prison?
He entered this country illegally. That is a crime. You don't need a court to determine that.
Only common sense.
Why didn’t they just shoot him on site? If they’re going to just ignore the laws on sentencing then why waste time and money shipping him to a Salvadoran death camp? [deleted][✘]
He's being picked on?
ask your god Trump
I dont see anything in there about putting them in a prison in El Salvador.
doing the trump pledge
It's funny that AOC and Bernie are taking a road trip together praying for that kind of pledge.
Did Trump physically take him to El Salvador and put him in prison there?
So Wisconsin's new Supreme Court Justice is a member of whatever you are imagining?
Whodathunk?
Yep, perp walked him there himself.
Weird how the left wing loon media, who follows Trump's every move, missed this on video.
Trump specifically asked his crowds to raise their hands in a personal pledge of loyalty to him.
You have proof of this?
What he did was ask them to raise their hands to confirm they were going to vote for him.
Do you think anyone that attended a Trump rally was not going to vote for him?
Well at least they're not suffering with the masses in that trip.
And Nate Silver is prognosticating that AOC will be the Democratic nominee in 2028. oy vey
Didn't ask for a nazi solute and he was talking about supporting him for president. Man you twist things alot. So back to the actual topic and her nazi solute...............
Sounds about right. Ask for money and spend it before landing at the next stop. Dem socialists in action.
And the Trump Admin is laying the blueprint for her to fuck MAGA in the ass.
So she is transitioning.
So you don't know.
Given the lack of a link, the only logical thing to think is you are parroting what somebody else told you.
So much for that "going green" bullshit they spewed for the past few years.
Like they set Harris up to do the same last election? We see how that worked out.
They don’t give a shit about the unwashed masses donating the money for them to jet around the country. Sanders is a multi-millionaire, he could pay his own freight.
You’d think a millionaire “socialist” would.
You know they aren't going to spend their own money for any of this.
Now couple that with them being derelict in their duties as elected representatives? How does any of this benefit their constituents? I can see how a small fringe group would see it as beneficial, but for the most part they're failing at what they were elected to do.
So I suppose that they all are guilty, don't bother trying them, just send them all away?
Consistency.
I asked:
ChatGPT said: I asked: ChatGPT said:So, it does not matter how heartwrenching the story, (or how AI looking the Photos) people who are not documented kill less than the normal American.
I guess the real question should be, "Why are we not doing more to make murder less of a problem with Americans?"
I guess the real question should be, "Why are we not doing more to make murder less of a problem with Americans?"
A lot of strong advocates of the death penalty would likely tell you that if a person is convicted of murdering another he/she should be executed forthwith (no decades of appeals)
The new solution is to pay El Salvador do it for us.
That is very nice of you to offer. I think they take PayPal and Venmo. Your choice.
Now, it is well known leftists won't use their own money
Well …. Hal offered, I took her at her word.
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Paying to have people killed (while Trump might consider this as a cost saving opportunity) would lower the morals of the federal government (the executive branch) to a level equal to a third world dictatorship on one side and Russia/China/North Korea on the other side.
You’re watching it in real time. I don’t think these ganged up foreign magaprisons have an aging population.
That is secondary to watching the deterioration of the morals and standards of our government
That era was ushered in on a golden escalator.
The morals of the federal Government are already at the level you mention.
Seems so
It has turned out to be "fool's gold"
I saw this on twitter:
https://x.com/FrailSkeleton/status/1912657583749349810S
Sometimes some of them seem to go out of their way to create that impression.
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Yeah, many seem to hold that hate permanently in their hearts. It’s pretty sad they chose to live like that but unfortunately many do.