Huge breakthrough in murder of Maryland mom Rachel Morin as cops finally arrest ILLEGAL migrant seen in haunting doorbell footage TEN MONTHS after her body was found naked and beaten on a remote hiking trail

Maryland police have arrested an illegal immigrant on suspicion of murdering a mother whose naked body was found on a popular hiking trail almost a year ago. 

Suspect Victor Martinez Hernandez, 23, was arrested Friday in Tulsa, Oklahoma and charged with murder and rape over the August 2023 death of Rachel Morin, 37. 

Hernandez illegally crossed the southern border in February 2023 after he allegedly murdered another woman in El Salvador a month earlier. 

The case had remained a mystery after Morin - a mother of five - was reported missing by her boyfriend, who said she vanished after she went for a run on hiking trails.  

Morin's naked and battered body was found on the ma and Pa hiking trail in Bel Air, around 45 north of Baltimore, the day after she was reported missing. 

Six months later, Maryland investigators released a sketch of Morin's suspected killer as her family pleaded for the public to help solve the case. 

According to the detectives, Hernandez was believed to be hiding adjacent to the popular hiking trail when he allegedly murdered Morin. 

He allegedly attacked, raped and killed her before fleeing the state, and the Tulsa Police Department said he was tracked down to Oklahoma after officials in the state were contacted by the FBI. 

Hernandez was taken into custody inside a bar in Tulsa on Friday by several law enforcement agencies, and was said to be found 'casually sitting at the bar.' 

Officials said he initially lied about his identity and denied any knowledge of the crimes he was wanted for. Hernandez is now awaiting extradition.   

At a press conference on Saturday, Hardford County Sheriff Jeff Gaylor announced Hermandez's arrest, and said he had carried out a trail of criminality since entering the country illegally. 

Before reaching Morin in Maryland, Hernandez attacked a nine-year-old girl and her mother in a home invasion in Los Angeles, California in March 2023, Gaylor said. 

DNA evidence from the home invasion was later linked to Morin's case, and Gaylor added that Hernandez is known to have ties to gangs. 

'It is my understanding that this suspect, this monster, fled to the United States after the murder of a young woman in El Salvador a month earlier in January of 2023,' he said at Saturday's press conference. 

'Once in our country, he brutally attacked a nine-year-old girl and her mother in a home invasion in March of 2023 in Los Angeles.'  

In the almost-year-long investigation, detectives scoured seven states and involved 10 federal, state and local agencies. 

Officials expressed fears that the suspect could strike again, and released Ring doorbell camera footage showing the assailant fleeing the Los Angeles home after the home invasion. 

Gaylor said at the time: 'Serial killers all start somewhere. What he did in Los Angeles was certainly, I believe, in that direction.

'I believe it was his intention to inflict more serious physical harm. We don't know who he is yet.

'He could still be laying his head here in our county, or he could have fled anywhere in the country or even the world.' 

Morin's boyfriend Richard Tobin found her car at the trailhead on the day her body was found, and he was forced to take to social media to deny any involvement after the case gained national attention. 

The pair had made their relationship official on social media four days before she was murdered. 

He posted: 'I love Rachel. I would never do anything to her, let the family and I grieve.

'Yes, I have a past but I also have 15 months clean and have changed as a person. Please.'

Tobin has been arrested 14 times since 2014 on a variety of charges including drug dealing, assault, disorderly conduct and refusing arrest.