
Dylan Segelbaum
Reporter at The Baltimore Banner
Reporter @BaltimoreBanner. Past: The York Daily Record/Sunday News (@ydrcom). @SyracuseU/@DailyOrange graduate. Always in search of a damn fine cup of coffee.
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1 week ago |
thebaltimorebanner.com | Dylan Segelbaum
A man who’s accused of killing Rachel Morin on the Ma & Pa Heritage Trail in Bel Air left his DNA on several parts of her body, a forensic scientist for the Maryland State Police testified on Friday. Tiffany Keener, an expert in forensic serology and DNA analysis, testified in Harford County Circuit Court that Victor Martinez-Hernandez’s DNA was found on Morin’s left wrist, neck and chest. In other instances, he could not be ruled out as a contributor.
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2 weeks ago |
thebaltimorebanner.com | Dylan Segelbaum
One winter day in late 2023, Victor Martinez-Hernandez sent a Facebook message to his family asking for help. Using the alias Fernando Ismael, Martinez-Hernandez wrote that he was in Oxon Hill but had nowhere to live. Even though they were not particularly close, Jose Hernandez decided to let his cousin stay with him at his apartment at the time on 23rd Parkway in Temple Hills for about five months. Then the FBI showed up. Jose Hernandez later told his cousin about the visit.
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2 weeks ago |
thebaltimorebanner.com | Dylan Segelbaum
On the evening of Aug. 5, 2023, Kyle Stacy and his girlfriend, Olivia, were walking their dog on the Ma & Pa Heritage Trail in Bel Air when he heard a tree branch snap. “I saw a man in the woods — just out there,” Stacy testified on Wednesday in Harford County Circuit Court. “I think he felt like he got caught, so to speak.”The man was holding a walking stick, he said, and wearing sunglasses and a gray sweatshirt with the hood up.
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2 weeks ago |
thebaltimorebanner.com | Dylan Segelbaum
Cecilia Occorso heard there was a missing person in Harford County, and she wanted to help. She found out about the search for Rachel Morin, a 37-year-old mother of five who owned a housecleaning business, on Facebook. So Occorso said she told her friend, Evan Knapp, and they decided on Aug. 6, 2023, to go to the Ma & Pa Heritage Trail in Bel Air. Occorso said the two walked down what she described as a deer path. That’s when they stumbled upon a bloody rock and leaves.
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2 weeks ago |
thebaltimorebanner.com | Dylan Segelbaum
Her mother had stopped responding to text messages, and Violet Custer was growing worried. On Aug. 5, 2023, Custer’s mother, Rachel Morin, ran errands, came home and then left again to go for a run on the Ma & Pa Heritage Trail in Bel Air. That’s something that she’d try to do almost every night. She was a fitness enthusiast. But it was uncommon for her to not respond to messages, Custer said. Eventually, Morin’s boyfriend, Richard Tobin, arrived at the house and called 911.
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RT @BaltimoreBanner: Foundation CEO on Key Bridge fund backlash: ‘This issue now has my full attention.’ https://t.co/h1NaT041TH

How family members helped detectives capture man charged in Rachel Morin’s death: https://t.co/xBnNCAtCog (via @BaltimoreBanner)

The trial is adjourning for the day.