A Maryland judge on Monday sentenced Victor Martinez-Hernandez, a 24-year-old Salvadoran national, to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the 2023 rape and murder of Rachel Morin. The court imposed a second life term and an additional 40-year sentence on related rape and kidnapping counts. Declaring the defendant "completely unamenable to rehabilitation," the judge stressed that public safety required the maximum penalty. Morin, a 37-year-old mother of five, was attacked while jogging on the Ma & Pa Trail in Bel Air, Maryland, on 5 August 2023. Her body, found the next day, showed signs of strangulation and blunt-force trauma. A jury in April convicted Martinez-Hernandez of first-degree murder, first-degree rape and kidnapping after prosecutors presented DNA evidence and witness testimony linking him to the crime. He was arrested in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in June 2024 following a ten-month nationwide search. Court filings showed Martinez-Hernandez had entered the United States illegally in February 2023 and was wanted in El Salvador on a separate homicide investigation. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said he crossed the border multiple times before the killing. The case has intensified debate over U.S. border enforcement, with ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons commenting that Morin “was stolen from her family by a criminal alien who never should have been in this country.”