Maryland Town on Edge After Apparent Murder Off Popular Nature Trail

A frantic weekend search for 37-year-old Rachel Morin—who disappeared Saturday evening near the Ma and Pa Trail in Bel Air, Maryland—has ended after investigators discovered a body near the route.

When the “obviously deceased” woman’s body was found off the trail just after 1 p.m. on Sunday, Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler said the missing person investigation shifted to a homicide investigation. Still, Gahler was unable to officially identify the body as Morin’s.

“We firmly believe this is the body of Rachel Morin,” Gahler said at a press conference Sunday night. “But that final determination belongs with the medical examiner and that has not happened yet.”

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