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[Music] [Music] [Music] Bel Air Maryland during the late evening hours of August
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5th 2023 7-year-old Rachel Marin was reported missing by her boyfriend the boyfriend told police that the last
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time he had spoke with Rachel she was heading to a hiking trail and the state's small Northeast town of Bel Air
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he was uncertain if she had made it to her destination but if so she failed to return from her walk
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she should have arrived at the trail around 6 PM that day not too long after the call was placed Rachel's car was
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found at an entrance to the trail but unfortunately Rachel was nowhere in sight at 107 PM the following day a citizen
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called 9-1-1 to report a female's body had been located off of the trail alerting emergency services that it was
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obvious that this person was deceased law enforcement officials noted after the discovery that the case then went
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from a missing person's investigation to a homicide investigation however the cause of death and details
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about the crime scene have not been released to the public a ten thousand dollar reward is being
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offered leading to the identity and arrest of the person suspected in her slang and her case has led local state and
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federal law enforcement on a multi-state Manhunt for weeks her killer remains at Large
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this is True Crime garage [Music] [Music] for this week's case we are going to go
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out to a place that some may not have heard of before it was new to me as well Captain this is
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a place called the ma and PAW Heritage Trail we're going to go out to the great state of Maryland for a case that is
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very much in the news and in the spotlight right now and that's because it's a case that just came out just
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broke a little over a month ago so we're gonna do our best to give you up-to-date
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coverage on this True Crime Story now this is straight from the website Ma paultrail.org and here's what we learn
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about this location the ma and PAW Heritage Trail is located on portions of the former Maryland and Pennsylvania
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Railroad Corridor in Bel Air and Forest Hill Maryland the ma and Paul Heritage Trail is the best place to walk run and
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bike in Harford County currently the trail consists of a 3.3 mile section in Bel Air and a 1.7 mile
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segment in Forest Hill recently in a partnership with the town of Bel Air Harford County has acquired
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an easement for a small stretch of land that will finally allow for the connection of its Bel Air and Forest
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Hill sections the eventual connection will result in a nearly eight mile long trail that runs through the heart of Bel
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Air Maryland now from the looks of it to me Captain not a resident I believe that they have
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already started building and shaping that easement and so if you get in search engine this location and start
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looking they show a lot of aerial views of the trail system here and it will look as though that some of it has just
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been developed so why is the ma and Paw Trail important well it's important because we have Rachel Morin age 37
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she's a mother of five she reportedly went onto those trails and that was the last known whereabouts
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and she was reported missing that's exactly right Captain part of that report the missing persons report that
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was filed late on August 5th 2023 states that Rachel Morin age 37 is believed to be or the statement by
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the person providing and filing the report is that she was last seen around 6 pm on Saturday August 5th when she
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left to go walk hike on the ma and Paul Trail in Bel Air and then the bolo goes out stating the
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same we're looking for This Woman This Mother 5 age 37 they give a description of her and they're saying if anyone has
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information about Rachel Morin please contact detective golden he is with a Horford County Sheriff's department and
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they give his phone number 410 836 5430 and looking for information now unfortunately
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after about 20 less than 24 hours after she's reported missing the body of Maryland Mom Mother of five
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Rachel Morin was discovered by what this report from the New York Post States is
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one of her close friends and it immediately seemed clear that she had been murdered according to what the
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information was coming out so here's what we have Captain and this is what we learned very early on in this
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investigation Rachel had recently started dating a guy he's he's listed and known online and social
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media as her boyfriend and I've never done this myself but apparently just about a week before she goes missing he
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declares the two a couple on his Facebook page he updated his status updated the status mine has been
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complicated for decades now she goes missing according to this man and he calls and reports her as such
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and this is kind of stating the obvious here Captain right but a lot of people immediately from Jump Street are
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suspicious of this new boyfriend that she has of course and and do we have a report of who reported her missing it
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was from from the information I found it was the boyfriend that reported her missing right and like we know a lot of
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these cases I mean heck there's t-shirts that say the husband did it or the boyfriend did it and like we know in
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most cases you have to look at the Inner Circle first so he reports her missing and as the
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events go what we are told is that her schedule leading up to the 6 p.m time frame on Saturday August 5th is it that
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afternoon she went to a spray tanning session followed by a workout at a gym where she is a member of and from my
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understanding the boyfriend is a member at that gym as well and I believe he was
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present at the gym for this workout I don't know if they were going to be working out together or
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if they just plan to be in the same location at the same time so according to the report after she
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goes to this workout at the gym then she's going to go walk or hike or jog on this Ma and Paw Trail in Bel Air now
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this is not out of the norm for Rachel she all three of these activities are pretty regular routine activities for
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Rachel she's an avid person at the gym she regularly goes and walks hikes jogs this Trail
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I've even heard some statements that she does walks the trail daily or multiple times a day I think multiple times a day
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seems a little out of bounds but this information is coming in a little fast and furious and some of it we've not
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been able to vet every piece of information that's coming out because this is a case that has hit the
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spotlight and as we've seen in other cases when that happens you're going to have to sift through information some of
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it good some of it bad yeah and it might sound a little strange but it's not out
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of the realm of possibilities she seems to be a little bit of a fitness nut which is not a bad thing and some people
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become obsessive with getting a certain number of steps in so you know you break
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it up twice a day I've been hoping to become a fitness nut for years it never stuck we do a lot of Fitness in the
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garage we try to fit the beer into our mouths now let's go to this New York Post article and sift through some of
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the information here this comes out August 9th and the headline is Rachel Marin's body was found by pal who
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suspected murder and it reads the body of Maryland mom of five Rachel Morin was discovered by one of her close friends
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and it immediately seemed clear that she had been murdered Michael gabaresky and I apologize to
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Michael G there I've heard 12 different people say his name 12 different ways let's just call him Michael G Michael G
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he said that he and his stepdaughter along with a friend joined with other volunteers in looking for the missing 37
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year old mom when they found her remains this near a drain of the ma and Paul Heritage Trail in Bel Air on Sunday
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afternoon so her body unfortunately is located less than 24 hours or so after she's reported missing
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and from my understanding Captain there are tunnels off of this Trail they're they're like
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drainage tunnels and as the story goes and we have to say this because the information coming out a lot of this
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is not from law enforcement law enforcement is very tight-lipped about this case and we will understand why or
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at least I believe I understand why and we'll get into those details as we get into the known details but we'll also
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talk about some of the rumors that are coming out some of them are some of them hold their water or beer because some of
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this information will come from Michael G and the persons that were with him assisting hoping to find this woman
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alive and maybe injured off of the trail or what have you but instead they find her having been murdered and stating
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that it was obvious from looking at the scene and looking at her body that the case was murder here so he says to the
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newspapers quote I kept telling them to search the tunnels because I had a feeling about
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those tunnels he goes on to say I walked forward to search the one tunnel and they searched the other one and that's
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where they found her he said this of his stepdaughter and another friend I'm uncertain here Captain if the friend is
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a friend of the stepdaughter or a friend of Michael G's the friend in in the information I've reviewed is not named
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the condition of Rachel Marin's remains suggested that she had been murdered this according to Michael G and he did
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not elaborate immediately to exactly why but he did say that his stepdaughter was
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the one that found Rachel Marin's body on that Sunday afternoon he said he was glad to bring her home so she can find a
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final resting place and for her family that that door can finally be closed and they can get the investigation on and
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hopefully catch the person that did this he said he said that I hope they prosecute the perpetrator to the fullest
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extent of the law again Rachel Moran was 37 years old last seen heading out according to the report that was filed
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on the ma and Paul Trail around 6 p.m on that Saturday the body is found on the Sunday now what we do have immediately
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here Captain is after her body is found we talked about people being suspicious of the boyfriend
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and that is for good reason not just the statistics that we know the unfortunate
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homicide statistics that we have in our country but also the fact that they've not been together very long
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there was quick information coming out that Rachel was on several dating sites some people suggesting I this always
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kind of rubs me the wrong way when people are like you know what I'm going to fill in the blanks I got I got no
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clue what's going on and I know that we offer up speculation here but I feel like sometimes it's just knee-jerk
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reaction they're like you just want if people are going to speculate you want them to at least start their own podcast
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start their own podcast or sit on the thought for more than 30 seconds before you reveal it to the world unless you
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have a podcast well I've I've said on this thought for about three days so the the thought was
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not mine but the thought was people were saying oh well he must have been jealous
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he they're together and she's on all these dating sites and it's like wait a second he just posted days or a week
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before she goes missing that the two are a couple maybe she's just her profile's still on
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the date maybe she's found the person that she wants to date and her profile just happens to still be there yeah we
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don't know what which sites these are so maybe she paid for a service and she's going to let it run out at the end of
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the month it doesn't exactly mean she's already looking to replace this guy right so but do we have any criminal
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history on this guy well he does have a rap sheet and so what we have with him here is what's been reported is that
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there's been upwards of a dozen or so arrests in his background oh that's a lot and from my
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understanding some at least one of those arrests it stems from domestic violence
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accusations now here's what we do want to say right good job Meathead what we do want to say from the reporting that's
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out there right it's accusations not convictions and uh when we say the upwards of a
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dozen or so arrests we don't know that they are all domestic violence related we what we do know is that this
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individual has struggled with drugs in the past and he's worked very hard to get clean
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in fact one of the first things that he says to the media when they turn their cameras on him
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and their microphones on him with suspicious eyes he says look I've been clean now for 14 or 15 months
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yeah and we've all unfortunately known somebody that has had to battle addiction and it is not easy at all and
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so we say to all of you out there keep stacking days if you can and I cannot imagine this individual let's pretend
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for a moment that he's perfectly innocent and that he's filing this report because he cares about this woman
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and he's worried about where she could be right let's pretend that he's innocent and say
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I hope that these suspicious eyes and and cameras and microphones and the the social media angle of it and
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losing a loved one doesn't make his battle more difficult well this would also be difficult I mean
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you you got clean and here's this young lady mother of five she's working out at the
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gym you guys catch eyes you now start dating she's now officially your girlfriend
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things are going in a good direction in your life and then she goes missing and then because of his efforts and
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because of her friends and Family's efforts they go out looking for her if they find her
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she has been murdered and all eyes are on you I mean that would be a difficult situation I mean
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like like they say it's day to day as far as sobriety goes and this would be a difficult day to not run and hide
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from the circumstances well and the suspicion was here this sounds like something out of crime
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fiction but it's believable the suspicion here Captain was that well he maybe they got in a fight or an
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argument things got crazy right he killed her and then placed her body off of these trails
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and later calls it in hey she frequents these Trails she went there on that day or said she was going there the last I
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saw her she never come home and so that would be a relatively elaborate scheme to cover one's tracks and
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stage a scene that would may even suggest that somebody else perpetrated this homicide
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now the Harford County Sheriff's Office this is a statement that they release on
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Tuesday Rachel goes missing on Saturday body found on Sunday so two days after recovering The Remains the sheriff's
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department is saying that they had received almost 90 tips from the public they are also stating no suspects have
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been publicly named as of Tuesday and then that carried on with a follow-up statement saying the same thing on that
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Wednesday now the media did interview the boyfriend his name is Richard Tobin and he said this is Monday the day after
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his girlfriend's body is found he says look I I was not involved in her death in any way at all his statement is quote
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I love Rachel I would never do anything to her let the family and I grieve yes I
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have a past so he's not hiding from the fact that he has blemishes on his record
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yes I have a pass but I also have been 15 months clean and have changed as a person please no and that's again every
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case that we look at if the victim has a husband boyfriend girlfriend whoever is
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connected I'm more suspicious if the individual doesn't understand why people are not questioning him why law
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enforcement is looking at at that individual I question it more if they're like well why are you looking at me
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right it's just what happens so the ones that seem a little more intelligent to go hey I understand you have to you have
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to vet me first well a local councilwoman along with community members was working to
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organize a a walk on the trails to honor Rachel's life and it sounds like that came to
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fruition the councilwoman stating and saying publicly such a heinous act you know and it shouldn't go unnoticed we
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need to come out in numbers and you know what who knows maybe we'll even get some
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tips and we can help out with this investigation now police and detectives are still pleading to the public for
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information at that time in the investigation stating if you were on the ma and Paul Trail on that Saturday or
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near the trail or the trail heads and happen to take photos or any type of video we are asking if you would please
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share them with investigators well then also investigators are going to have to go around the community and look for you
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know store CCTV footage and and other surveillance footage that they might be able to
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gather to get a idea of who was coming in and out of that Park well yeah and also to
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lead you down the path to figure out one of the other right did Rachel arrive there on her own
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alive and well and was attacked at the trail system or did like some people were concerned
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about did somebody kill her elsewhere and then take the body and place it at the trail system and if that were to
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be the case then of course all eyes should be on the boyfriend because he's the one that reports her missing with
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the added detail of the last time I spoke with her she was heading to the ma and Paul Trail
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now from the ma and PAW website the trail website they state that Harford County sheriff's deputies were planning
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to provide increased patrols on the trail system starting on that Monday August 7 2023 The increased presence is
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expected to continue throughout the week couple things here killer could return to the scene we know that that is and
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can be the case in some situations the other thing too is this is a community area this is a community space this is a
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place that many people go some of them even daily for exercise or just to be out and the Beautiful
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God's green earth having some fun some Recreation and they wanted they wanted the public to know
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that this was once a safe place and this will continue to be a safe place even though we are investigating this
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homicide they also were reminding the community and continued to ask the public for
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assistance in providing law enforcement with information and details they say no
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matter how big or small just call them in send us that information and let us sort it out and figure out if this is
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important to our case or not don't rationalize any of this away send it to us let us sort it out help the
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detectives with this case adding that there could be something helpful in one of your photos or one of your
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videos that might bring detectives and give to them one more piece of the puzzle
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what happens at crime con is that the the the Meetup area is open for like 10 hours but obviously we're not going to
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expect to podcast row yeah the podcast row hours are open for a very long time period so not everybody's going to be
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there for 10 hours the colonel is a sprinter not a marathoner very much a sprinter all right let's this case yeah
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let's get back to this case Captain because this one is very hot right now and I'm I'm appreciative that this is
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hot in the media because of where the details of this case if you don't know of this case so far the details are
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going to lead us to why it is necessary for us to be covering this case this week and why I am grateful and
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appreciative that this case is hot in the media right now so again detectives still asking for help in this case
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stating if you were on the ma and Paw Trail on that Saturday when Rachel went missing or near the trail trail heads
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and took photos or video please send those to the Sheriff's Office they were updating us on the 8th of August saying
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that they had received about 200 tips submitted to the Sheriff's office by that time still seeking more information
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saying uh that they want your help no matter how big or how small please send any information they will quickly update
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that information to state that the tips as you can see are growing by the day and
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thankful to this community for being one coming out to the area to look and help search for Rachel and
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eventually finding unfortunately finding her remains there near the trail system
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but then grateful to the community for banding together and providing law enforcement
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with information in this case let's get into a little bit of the speculation we talked about some people worried that
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maybe she had been killed elsewhere and then the body placed there the boyfriend
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reporting her missing he does have a past and he doesn't hide from that past some suggesting maybe something happened
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between the two and she was placed there and then he calls her in reports her missing as some elaborate scheme as a
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bit of a cover-up the thing here is early goings in this investigation we had the public and we had many people
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speculating and I love to sit back and read and listen to the speculation why because
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I'm trying to sort out these details it's Captain's trying to sort out these details and we're doing our own sort of
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Investigation from the garage now one thing that I think through a bit of a wrench in the
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situation is that remember we have our individual that went out there with two other persons
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and located the body so Michael G is talking openly to news outlets and to the media and to newspapers and he's
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giving his own assessment of the crime scene and of the victim that was found right interestingly enough he is saying
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that what he believed he witnessed at the crime scene was Overkill with our victim and he had stated it sounded like
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the department had got to him quick enough to say hey look don't give away all the details we need to hold back we
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have hold back information that we want to use in this case so please you can talk to reporters but
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don't give away our whole case and so he says in kind of a cryptic way there won't be an open casket I can tell
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you that and he also says that he believes that there was Overkill present at the scene and he says it this to him
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is very suggestive that the person that killed her knew her that this was not a stranger on Stranger crime and he's
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basing that off of his well again he's helpful he's out there searching for this individual trying to
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help right but again he's he's not a trained professional to be and even trained professionals get this stuff
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wrong because look we know yeah sometimes this Overkill quote unquote is a sign that it's person personal to the
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killer that the victim probably knew the Killer and then sometimes it just means
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the person is a complete psychopath well and we reviewed a case last week Charlotte fimiano still unsolved
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some have suggested the argument in her case has always been is this a perfect stranger that killed her or somebody
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that had a vendetta against her yeah not to be gross but I I think a lot about that
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the Dahmer case where he brought the victim up to the hotel room blacked out doesn't remember wakes up and the whole
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chest is concaved because he pounded his chest with his fist that's Overkill the Dahmer probably didn't even know the
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guy's name so sometimes it's it has nothing to do with whether and whether or not they
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knew their victim and I think the problem with shows like mine hunter and heck are podcasts and other
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podcasts is that we think that there's like always a pattern or that there's always a Rhyme or Reason well
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there's always outliers that's true and the thing that we talked about when reviewing the femiano case
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last week and we went straight to Joe Kennedy's Joe D Kennedy's Book solving cold cases investigation techniques and
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protocols he's a well-seasoned detective he's solved homicide cases both fresh and very cold and in fact for those of
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you that subscribe to off the Record you will hear his co-author at some point Hogan hilling but right from his book
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this I I love learning from these season detectives and he says be careful and do
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not assume there is a close personal relationship between the suspect and victim based on evidence of Overkill
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such as excessive stab wounds except extensive blunt force trauma at the crime scene if ligatures and
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restraining devices are present there was likely a sexual component to the murder this should be considered before
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exploring other motives unless it is obviously another crime gone bad and examples of that would be robbery
00:35:52
burglary home invasion or such or the victim was restrained so the primary crime could be completed the first part
00:36:01
of that is key here do not assume close personal relationship between suspect and victim
00:36:06
based on Overkill and then the other thing the captain was honing in on right there that is so such a powerful
00:36:14
thing in these investigations Overkill is not easily determined either like like what you're saying with the
00:36:21
Dahmer thing yes that is overkill but it's not necessarily Overkill because he had a close personal relationship
00:36:28
with that particular victim right and we've discussed this several times here it so sometimes Overkill can be a sign
00:36:37
of other telling information about your suspect one can be mental illness there's this
00:36:46
and I'm not gonna claim to understand the science of it but I've had it explained to me several
00:36:52
different times by several different seasoned investigators and criminal psychologists
00:36:58
that say that sometimes the mentally mentally ill perpetrator does not know their victim
00:37:06
but is so intent on not just killing them but destroying them and that they have to destroy the image of that person
00:37:15
to be successful with what they're trying to achieve in their own mind and the way they do that
00:37:21
is most times to destroy the face of the victim right and like another thing that we've
00:37:29
learned over time from experts is sometimes the victims are actually not that the actual Target
00:37:40
correct and Edmond's Kemper case he he learned himself after killing all these innocent women
00:37:49
that actually the person that he was trying to kill was his mother that's exactly right and we talked about Gary
00:37:56
Ridgeway plenty of times the Green River Killer you know we've talked about this too
00:38:02
Captain where we sometimes on Stranger on Stranger crimes especially when you have a male a man killing a female
00:38:09
especially a grown woman is you almost have a surrogate victim that that female represents somebody
00:38:18
else to the killer right and Gary Ridgeway we also talked about hate crimes right and I'm not talking about
00:38:25
black on white white on black or somebody killing somebody because they're from a certain Creed
00:38:31
or certain sexuality we're not talking about that one thing that that goes that is not discussed and not categorized
00:38:38
here in our country in really any other country is there are hate crimes based off of gender
00:38:46
man hates all women right so he goes on a destructive path of killing every woman in his way anytime he thinks he
00:38:54
can get away with it he seeks and he destroys and we know for a fact that is exactly what Gary Ridgeway did because
00:39:02
that's what he told us that he did why did you kill I hate women yeah it doesn't matter if they're short they're
00:39:08
tall fat skinny it doesn't matter if they're straight or gay it doesn't doesn't matter doesn't matter what color
00:39:16
their hair is there there's no victim type the victim type is simply I hate females I'm going to kill all females
00:39:23
Gary why did you kill so many women his answer because I hate them all I hate them all so don't pile [ __ ] right
00:39:32
and and with us getting so little details here and even this individual who found the body
00:39:38
he's making leaps that I I think muddy the waters very early on now we talked about suspects in this case and what's
00:39:45
great here is right from Jump Street we have the boyfriend everybody's suspicious of the boyfriend and law
00:39:52
enforcement was as well rightfully so he reports her missing and he's in a relationship with her that gives you two
00:39:58
reasons they also become suspicious of Michael G who found the body now he goes out there
00:40:05
with other individuals and finds the discovery that nobody wanted to find nobody was hoping to find but this is
00:40:14
what he comes across and we we do know that when you have someone who finds the body they must be looked at and then
00:40:21
cleared as a suspect you either have to develop them as a better suspect or remove them as a suspect start to
00:40:30
eliminate them now the thing here in this case captain is you have Michael G who says some
00:40:38
strange things and I don't know I I think that this article reads a little suspect
00:40:45
when they say pal I don't know if they mean that the person that found Rachel was a close friend of Rachel's or was a
00:40:53
close friend of Michael G who was out there with them right well how about we all put on our detective hats and and
00:41:01
and you can read this to us but the the other part of that's not in the article that we that we've reviewed
00:41:08
is he gives a statement about the tunnels he had never been to this area before we
00:41:15
know that her body was either found in one of the tunnels or very near one of the tunnels and the and that's in a very
00:41:21
secluded area of the these Trail systems it's it's more or less off of the trail
00:41:27
itself and he says he had never been to the trails one but two says that I just kept seeing tunnels I just kept seeing
00:41:35
Tunnels for some reason in my mind and I don't know why but then when me and some
00:41:39
of the other volunteers went down there and saw that there were tunnels present near the trails he goes I got goosebumps
00:41:47
and I and I just felt like if we find her she's she's going to be tucked away somewhere she's not going to be out in
00:41:53
the open and sure enough based off of what we're hearing police haven't said as such
00:41:59
but what we're hearing from him and some of the volunteers is that's where they found her body either in one of those
00:42:05
tunnels or near the tunnels right now here's some things at the crime scene that would suggest that she was not
00:42:13
killed elsewhere there was a large amount of blood that has been reported in some sources
00:42:20
that was at the crime scene if she's already dead when placed there you're not going to find a large amount
00:42:29
of blood at the crime scene there is also some drag marks as well now I get it yes drag marks would
00:42:36
indicate that the victim was once in one location and then dragged to another location but these drag marks from my
00:42:43
understanding Captain basically start at one of the trails and work its way down near toward that
00:42:52
tunnel so either somebody carried her in or someone's carried her in and then had to drag her the rest of the
00:42:59
way what the crime scene would suggest to all of us is that she was attacked at the scene
00:43:06
probably attacked on the trail because that's where she most likely would have been trekking the trail traveling the
00:43:13
trail and attacked there and then dragged to the location where her body was eventually found the other information
00:43:21
that came out is that she was found on her back and nude and some of the very disturbing details were that one side of
00:43:30
her face had pretty much been removed or destroyed now we can surmise a few things from
00:43:38
these details that are coming out again it sounds like the attack went down at this location that there's not
00:43:45
another location where she was attacked and then placed here this we base this off of the amount of blood at the
00:43:51
location the other thing too is the terrain itself and the location where she's found is suggestive of what could
00:43:59
be the murder weapon or what she was attacked with that damage to the side of her face very
00:44:05
likely came from either a tree branch or a rock and we've seen large rocks heavy
00:44:12
rocks used unfortunately in a lot of attacks and the other unfortunate thing too is
00:44:19
it's not out of the realm of possibility because we've seen it happen time and time again
00:44:25
unfortunately where a woman is out jogging out running and attacked by a stranger
00:44:34
we did our murder joggers case years ago where we featured two different cases both of them have arrests were made in
00:44:43
both cases the perpetrator did not know the victim we did the Molly Tibbetts case she's out
00:44:50
jogging and the perpetrator pulls up alongside of her in his vehicle starts trying to talk to her gets out
00:44:57
and starts running next to her she threatens to call the police my case was awful that guy did not know the
00:45:05
victim we talk about Delphi two girls essentially abducted and then killed near a trail system
00:45:15
in Indiana and there's nothing to suggest that the perpetrator or the person that was
00:45:21
arrested for that crime knew either one of those victims so unfortunately this does happen and unfortunately a lot of
00:45:28
times it is the crime scene and the nature of this homicide is suggestive that she was likely ambushed
00:45:37
and that this was a sexually motivated crime and she was killed at the scene and I'm hoping and praying based off of
00:45:46
the information that I've reviewed that it was it was quick and she didn't even know what happened
00:45:53
because if you try to play this out in your mind she's either walking running hiking that trail
00:45:59
and the perpetrator jumps out ambushes her hits her to be able to gain control over her
00:46:07
and then moves her to a more secluded location because whatever it was that he intended
00:46:14
to do to the victim required a certain amount of privacy the other thing that I'm wondering here
00:46:22
too Captain is we're going to be told by investigators that they do we talk so much about transfer Theory
00:46:31
and transference of old transfer Theory trans buddy transference of evidence in these cases you can find Vic victim
00:46:41
evidence on your perpetrator or on his belongings you can also find evidence of your perpetrator on your
00:46:48
victim or at the crime scene and so in this situation what I'm wondering with the amount of blood
00:46:55
that's described at the scene it would stand a reason that the perpetrator himself likely became very
00:47:03
bloodied covered in blood at least his clothing you have to wonder did did he discard
00:47:09
any of his clothing at the scene uh so he wouldn't be seen leaving the trails covered in blood did he attempt to bury
00:47:16
a shirt or gloves or anything at the scene that were covered in blood so he wouldn't be
00:47:22
seen leaving again this is a trail system that is frequented by many people yeah it makes you wonder if they're
00:47:29
eyewitness didn't maybe see the attack but saw somebody with you know suspicious markings like covered in
00:47:38
blood also makes you wonder how the murderer gets to the trail system did they did they were they running were
00:47:46
they riding a bike did they drive there do they live close how well would they know the trail
00:47:54
system did they know we talk about this Michael G character who was involved in the search and he said he had he lives
00:48:01
nearby never been to the trails and even though he was envisioning tunnels he never he didn't know any
00:48:07
tunnels were there right we should also be very clear too not only has the boyfriend been Cooperative with police
00:48:15
but he voluntarily gives them his DNA very early in this investigation again could mean everything it could mean
00:48:24
nothing I mean Chris Watts was cooperative with police and we we know how that turned out the Harford County
00:48:31
Sheriff's office has been really great about updating the public in this case not only asking the public for their
00:48:38
help and their assistance with possible information photos videos taking it Trail heads or
00:48:45
on the trails themselves but also providing updates to the public close and across the country
00:48:54
the Harford County Sheriff's office has a YouTube page and on that page they have been releasing
00:49:02
regular press conference type news updates in the Rachel Morin case and here is the first of those Updates this
00:49:12
came out just about a month ago hi this is Hartford County Sheriff Jeff Gaylor it's been four days since Rachel Morin
00:49:19
went missing and three days since her body was located the victim of a violent homicide as your Sheriff I wanted to
00:49:27
update all of you on where the investigation stands and what we are doing to keep our citizens safe
00:49:34
currently there are 10 investigators assigned to our criminal investigations division who have been and will continue
00:49:39
to work around the clock on this investigation these detectives along with forensic
00:49:45
investigators and crime analysts have been scouring every detail of the days hours minutes and seconds before Rachel
00:49:53
died in order to put together the pieces of a comprehensive timeline our Harford County Community as usual
00:50:02
has been amazing and again I knew you would be it's what makes me the most proud when
00:50:09
our citizens step up and work together in times of need through you our Facebook page and reach has gone over 2
00:50:18
million people you have brought forth more than 100 tips and they are still pouring in some
00:50:24
of your tips have been promising and tremendous in advancing the investigation and bringing us closer to
00:50:30
getting the answers that we need the answers that Rachel's family needs and the answers that our community needs
00:50:38
each tip helps bring the pitcher into Focus so I ask you to keep sending them in even if it's something you think is
00:50:46
insignificant that might be the key piece of evidence or information we are looking for
00:50:52
I also know many of you are nervous to spend time on the trail concerned that there might be someone in our midst
00:50:58
preying on women please know that is your Sheriff but also as a husband and father of two
00:51:04
daughters I understand your fears if you went out to the trail today you will see a heavy presence of deputies
00:51:13
patrolling by foot by bike and by all-terrain vehicle to enhance our efforts just yesterday morning the
00:51:21
Harford County Sheriff's Foundation dropped off a check for twenty thousand dollars to support the purchase of a
00:51:27
second off-road utility vehicle this will fill an immediate need to have an off-road utility vehicle at each end
00:51:34
of the trail and these proactive patrols will continue into the future in an effort to keep everyone safe who
00:51:41
utilizes our hiking trails I understand many of you want answers and we do too what I can tell you for sure is this was
00:51:50
an intentional taking of a person's life please know we are holding details close
00:51:55
to help ensure a suspect is brought to Justice there will be a time when I can share
00:52:00
more and when we can I promise to answer as many of your questions as I can it's
00:52:06
a delicate balance to help the public stay informed but it cannot be at the expense of a quality investigation
00:52:14
one question we have continued to get centers around whether we have interviewed the boyfriend in this case
00:52:20
the answer is yes we have along with many other people who are close to Rachel that is the way an investigation
00:52:28
is conducted we start with people who are in her close Inner Circle and others who have made known her or she have
00:52:35
encountered and work outward please be safe to take care of each other watch out for each other together
00:52:42
we will solve this crime and find the heinous coward who took Rachel Morin from her family and friends
00:52:52
thank you [Music] [Music] I want to thank everybody for joining us here in the garage join us back here
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same bat Time same bat Channel and until then be good be kind and don't litter [Music]
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thank you