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Rachel Morin and the Cases That Look Eerily Similar · Beyond The Horizon

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  Speaker 1: And welcome back to the program. In the wake of
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  Speaker 1: Rachel Morin being found murdered on the Mon Paw Trail
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  Speaker 1: in Maryland, Fox News has an article out discussing some
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  Speaker 1: of the more high-level cases of joggers who were murdered
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  Speaker 1: while out for a run. So instead of me whinging
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  Speaker 1: about it, why don't we just dive right into this
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  Speaker 1: article and let's see what Fox has come up with. Headline,
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  Speaker 1: Rachel Morin murder eerily similar to high-profile cases of female
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  Speaker 1: joggers killed by strangers. This article was authored by Audrey Conklin.
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  Speaker 1: Nearly a week since Rachel Morin was found dead after
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  Speaker 1: she vanished from a popular walking trail in Maryland, no
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  Speaker 1: suspects have been named in connection with her homicide and
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  Speaker 1: locals are wondering whether the attack was random. So there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of questions, right? Was it random? Was it
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  Speaker 1: somebody she knows? We heard some rumors that she was
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  Speaker 1: on various dating websites. So was it somebody she met
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  Speaker 1: on one of those? Was it some random scumbag that
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  Speaker 1: was lurking and waiting for her? Again, we just don't
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  Speaker 1: know yet. The Marilyn mother of five was jogging on
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  Speaker 1: the Ma and Pa trail in Bel Air around 6.30 p.m. Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: August 5th, when she disappeared. She was found dead in
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  Speaker 1: what authorities have described as a horrific homicide the next day.
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  Speaker 1: So a horrific homicide leads us to believe that this
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  Speaker 1: crime scene was brutal. So was it a case of
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  Speaker 1: overkill because it's somebody that was mad she had a
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  Speaker 1: new boyfriend? Again, just me speculating. We have no idea.
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  Speaker 1: But something initiated this attack. And it is fleetingly rare
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  Speaker 1: for it to be a random stranger to do something
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  Speaker 1: like this. However, that does not mean that it does
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  Speaker 1: not happen. There are strangers out there that do this
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  Speaker 1: sort of thing, like we're about to find out in
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  Speaker 1: this article. A majority of female runners fear being attacked
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  Speaker 1: because instances of these random crimes are not entirely uncommon.
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  Speaker 1: These cases are not out of the ordinary, and while
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  Speaker 1: you are always looking at individuals who are closest to
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  Speaker 1: the victim, you have to keep your eyes open. Former Washington, D.C.
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  Speaker 1: homicide detective and Fox News contributor Ted Williams told Fox
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  Speaker 1: News Digital. This is one reason why women are told
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  Speaker 1: if you're going to be jogging alone in the early
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  Speaker 1: morning or late at night to change their jogging pattern,
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  Speaker 1: because there are always, unfortunately, predators out there. And thankfully,
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  Speaker 1: my lady doesn't do the whole jogging by herself early
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  Speaker 1: in the morning anymore, but she used to. Now she
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  Speaker 1: waits till she gets to the gym. You know, she's
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  Speaker 1: a personal trainer. So she gets there earlier than everybody else,
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  Speaker 1: gets her workout in and then teaches her classes. But
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  Speaker 1: she used to go and run in the neighborhood and
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  Speaker 1: it used to make me crazy. I used to say
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  Speaker 1: to her all the time, you know that there's sickos
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  Speaker 1: out there, a bunch of psychopaths. What are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: Why are you going out there and running in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the night like that? And the sad part
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  Speaker 1: is we shouldn't have to have those conversations with the
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  Speaker 1: women we love. They shouldn't have to fear for their
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  Speaker 1: lives when they're out having a jog. So really, it's
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  Speaker 1: more telling about society than anything else, in my opinion.
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  Speaker 1: I've seen it happen around the country, unfortunately, Williams added.
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  Speaker 1: Chandra Levy, the former homicide detective, was reporting on the
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  Speaker 1: ground from the nation's capital when Chandra Levy, 24, was
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  Speaker 1: found dead in Rock Creek Park, a two-point-square-mile park in
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  Speaker 1: the center of Washington, D.C., in May of 2002, after
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  Speaker 1: she vanished from a jog, in May of 2001. Levy
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  Speaker 1: was reportedly having an affair with former Congressman Gary Condit
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  Speaker 1: at the time of her disappearance, prompting speculation directed at
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  Speaker 1: the congressman until 2009. Well, if you were her parents
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  Speaker 1: and you found out she was having an affair with
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  Speaker 1: a congressman, wouldn't you think that he had something to
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  Speaker 1: do with her going missing? I know I would. That year,
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  Speaker 1: authorities arrested Ingmar Guandique, an undocumented immigrant, and known MS-13
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  Speaker 1: gang member involved in other abductions of women in connection
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  Speaker 1: with Levy's abduction and murder. In 2011, he was sentenced
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  Speaker 1: to serve 60 years in prison. 60 years, that's it? Why?
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  Speaker 1: Why only 60? You killed this lady. I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to hear about 60 years. Helicopters, volcanoes. The case remains
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  Speaker 1: unsolved to this day, however, because it was later overturned
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  Speaker 1: and back in 2016, prosecutors dropped their case against Guandique.
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  Speaker 1: That next year, he was deported back to El Salvador. Well,
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  Speaker 1: all things being fair, if he was deported back to
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  Speaker 1: El Salvador, chances are he got caught up in Bukele's
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  Speaker 1: sweep-ups and now he's sitting in some shitty penitentiary for
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  Speaker 1: the rest of his life. So karma did catch up
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  Speaker 1: to him. Molly Tibbetts. Molly Tibbetts, 20, also vanished while
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  Speaker 1: running on a rural road outside of her hometown in Brooklyn, Iowa,
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  Speaker 1: on July 18th, 2018. Christian Bahana Rivera, 27, an undocumented
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  Speaker 1: immigrant from Mexico, working as a farmhand at the time,
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  Speaker 1: was convicted in 2018 for her murder and later sentenced
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  Speaker 1: to life in prison without the possibility of parole. You
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  Speaker 1: know another one, this guy right here, I have no
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  Speaker 1: remorse for him, no empathy, and I don't think he
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  Speaker 1: should be doing a life sentence. If you don't want
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  Speaker 1: to do the volcano idea, that's cool, but how about
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  Speaker 1: we feed them to some animals, some lions and shit,
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  Speaker 1: like the Romans used to do in the Colosseum? I'm
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  Speaker 1: not even kidding at this point. I'm so sick of
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  Speaker 1: these disgusting degenerates who are preying on people on a
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  Speaker 1: regular basis that I'm all for tossing them into a
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  Speaker 1: fucking volcano or strapping them to a rocket and launching
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  Speaker 1: them into outer space. Enough is enough already. Investigators tied
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  Speaker 1: Bahana Rivera to the scene of Tibbetts' murder after surveillance
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  Speaker 1: video from a homeowner appeared to show his Chevy Malibu
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  Speaker 1: repeatedly driving past the victim as she was jogging. When
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  Speaker 1: Bahana Rivera was sentenced in 2021, Tibbetts' mother, Laura Calderwood,
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  Speaker 1: addressed her daughter's killer in an impact statement read by
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  Speaker 1: a representative to the court. So, this is... scumbag, piece
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  Speaker 1: of shit, should have been given over to Molly Tibbetts' family,
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  Speaker 1: and they should have been able to do with them
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  Speaker 1: as they wish. Maybe that should be the punishment from
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  Speaker 1: here on out. And for people who might be taken
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  Speaker 1: aback by that, well, what if it was your daughter?
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  Speaker 1: Especially considering how softly the justice system handles people like this.
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  Speaker 1: Karina Vetrano In August 2016, Karina Vetrano was jogging near
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  Speaker 1: her family's home in Howard Beach in Queens, New York,
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  Speaker 1: when she was brutally beaten and left for dead by
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  Speaker 1: an unknown assailant. Her father, Phil Vetrano, and police discovered
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  Speaker 1: her body about 15 feet from the jogging path in Marshland.
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  Speaker 1: Chanel Lewis, 22, was found guilty in 2019 of sexually
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  Speaker 1: assaulting and murdering the 30-year-old woman two years after his arrest.
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  Speaker 1: Lewis confessed to killing Vetrano in a recorded interview with investigators.
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  Speaker 1: He said he was angry at his neighbor at the
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  Speaker 1: time and suggested Vetrano happened to be in the wrong
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  Speaker 1: place at the wrong time, according to the New York
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  Speaker 1: Daily News. Well, I hope that you're in the wrong
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  Speaker 1: place at the wrong time while you're in prison and
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  Speaker 1: someone sticks a shiv in you. How about that, fuckface?
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  Speaker 1: Authorities also link Lewis to the crime through crime scene DNA.
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  Speaker 1: Eliza Fletcher Eliza Fletcher, a 34-year-old teacher, left her Memphis,
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  Speaker 1: Tennessee home around 4 a.m. in September 2022 for a
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  Speaker 1: morning run. As she passed by the University of Memphis campus,
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  Speaker 1: a stranger named Cleotha Abston allegedly snatched her off the street,
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  Speaker 1: forced her into his SUV, sexually assaulted her, and shot
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  Speaker 1: her in the back of the head. Abston, 38, allegedly
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  Speaker 1: camped out in the area for about 24 minutes before
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  Speaker 1: Fletcher was taken. Police say surveillance cameras recorded him sprinting
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  Speaker 1: out of a GMC Terrain SUV and grabbing Fletcher around 5.30 a.m.
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  Speaker 1: In the ensuing struggle, he lost his champion slides at
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  Speaker 1: the scene, and police found his DNA on them, according
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  Speaker 1: to an arrest affidavit. And we covered Eliza Fletcher's abduction
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  Speaker 1: while it was happening, and we also found out that
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  Speaker 1: the man who was allegedly responsible for this... had already
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  Speaker 1: been reported to the police previously for some shit just
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  Speaker 1: like it, and they didn't take the woman who reported
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  Speaker 1: him seriously. How many times do we have to hear
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  Speaker 1: that story? Police found Fletcher's remains dumped behind a vacant
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  Speaker 1: home near Abston's brother's apartment days later. Witnesses told investigators
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  Speaker 1: they saw him washing out the SUV in the parking
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  Speaker 1: lot with chemical cleaner. The case against Abston is ongoing.
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  Speaker 1: Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty and they should get it.
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  Speaker 1: Sidney Sutherland. Morin's case is also similar to the 2020
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  Speaker 1: murder of Sidney Sutherland, 25, who was jogging near her
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  Speaker 1: home in Jackson County, Arkansas, when she went missing. Her
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  Speaker 1: body was discovered north of her home. two days later,
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  Speaker 1: and police soon arrested Quake Lewin, 28, in connection with
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  Speaker 1: her abduction. Sexual assault and murder. Unlike the former cases,
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  Speaker 1: authorities said, Llewellyn, a local farmer, and Sutherland knew each other.
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  Speaker 1: He was traveling westbound on County Road 41, saw Sutherland walking,
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  Speaker 1: and abducted her. He then put her in the back
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  Speaker 1: of his pickup truck and assaulted her before killing the
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  Speaker 1: young nurse. Llewellyn would eventually confess to the crime, allegedly
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  Speaker 1: telling medical experts that he was driving to check the
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  Speaker 1: wells and the rice fields, and he spotted Sutherland walking
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  Speaker 1: along a gravel road. He turned his truck around after
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  Speaker 1: driving past her, but could no longer see her and
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  Speaker 1: assumed he hit her with his vehicle. When he believed
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  Speaker 1: her to be dead, he took her to a rice
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  Speaker 1: field where he dug a hole, took her clothes off,
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  Speaker 1: and tried messing with her a bit. So not only
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  Speaker 1: are you a disgusting, greasy-looking fuckbag, you're a necrophiliac, huh? Shiv, shower, helicopter, volcano.
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  Speaker 1: Take your choice. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to
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  Speaker 1: life in prison in 2021. Morin's cause and manner of
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  Speaker 1: death have not been released. As of Thursday, but, Harford
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  Speaker 1: County Sheriff Jeff Goller described her killing as a criminal
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  Speaker 1: homicide in an interview with Fox News Digital. Williams said
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  Speaker 1: suspects in these kinds of cases, strangers targeting women who
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  Speaker 1: are walking or jogging, typically occur in places that are
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  Speaker 1: familiar to them. The suspects are also normally young and
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  Speaker 1: relatively strong, he said. Well, you have to be. You
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  Speaker 1: have a woman here who's probably in decent shape. She's
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  Speaker 1: out here jogging, working out. So you're going to have
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  Speaker 1: to have some kind of strength to overpower her. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: joggers are at a disadvantage because the perpetrators of these
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  Speaker 1: kinds of crimes know where to hide to try to
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  Speaker 1: determine how to best take the woman down. The former
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  Speaker 1: detective said it is more likely than not that the
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  Speaker 1: perpetrator was a man and a younger man, and he
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  Speaker 1: would have known where to take Morin and maybe attempt
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  Speaker 1: to assault her. and try to hide the body. The
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  Speaker 1: one thing you look for in a case of this
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  Speaker 1: nature is somebody who's familiar with the area. Morin's boyfriend,
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  Speaker 1: Richard Tobin, broke his silence Sunday in a Facebook post
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  Speaker 1: after online sleuths speculated that he might have played a
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  Speaker 1: role in her death. I love Rachel. I would never
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  Speaker 1: do anything to her. Let the family and I grieve. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I have a past, but I also have 15 months
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  Speaker 1: clean and have changed as a person. Please, the 27-year-old wrote.
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  Speaker 1: Sheriff Goller said investigators are looking into both Morin's inner
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  Speaker 1: circle and working their way out to people who may
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  Speaker 1: not have known her at all. The sheriff's office is
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  Speaker 1: encouraging anyone with a tip that may be helpful for
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  Speaker 1: authorities to call 410-836-5430 or send the Hartford County Sheriff's
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  Speaker 1: Office a message through its Facebook page. So while this
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  Speaker 1: story of Rachel Morin is certainly very, very disturbing, it's
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  Speaker 1: not one that we haven't seen before, unfortunately. And I
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  Speaker 1: think it's just another clarion call to all the women
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  Speaker 1: out there to make sure if you're going jogging, you're
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  Speaker 1: going to a place that is well-populated. And I hate
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  Speaker 1: even having to say that, but society's fucked. And while
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  Speaker 1: chances are you're not going to run into one of
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  Speaker 1: these psychos while you're out on your jog, what if
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  Speaker 1: you do? Do you think any one of these women
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  Speaker 1: thought that they were going to go out for a
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  Speaker 1: jog and never come home? But that's what happened, isn't it?
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  Speaker 1: And while we're all guilty of the, it's never going
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  Speaker 1: to happen to me type of mentality, You never know
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  Speaker 1: what sort of evil is lurking right around the corner.
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  Speaker 1: Just like these poor women were unaware of the evil
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  Speaker 1: that was about to engulf them. All right, folks, that's
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  Speaker 1: going to do it for this one. All of the
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