A mother-of-five was found dead Sunday in a popular hiking trail and the Maryland Sheriff’s Office is suspecting foul play in her death.
Rachel Morin, 37, was last seen alive at around 6:30 p.m. Saturday when she left for a walk on the Ma and Pa Heritage Trail in Bel Air, roughly 30 miles north of Baltimore.
Harford Sheriff Jeff Gahler said that Morin’s lifestyle was “active” and that it “wasn’t unusual for her to be out.”
The mother’s boyfriend reported her missing at around 11:30 p.m. when she didn’t return home. Her lifeless body was discovered the following day, in dense woods on the side of the hiking trail.
“This is not an accidental death or an incident where she took her own life. This is foul play on the part of another,” said the sheriff.
“It could be someone who came to learn [the victim’s] routine and knew where she might be at that time, or it could be a random person,” he added.
Gahler said that detectives do not have security footage from the parking lot at the Williams Street trailhead entrance where the victim left her car. He asked witnesses to come forward and call the police at 1-888-540-8477.
“We are a county that enjoys very low crime,” Gahler said. “Our community is rightly very concerned.”
