Family, Friends Mourn Slain Mom Of Five Rachel Morin At Celebration Of Life

HARFORD COUNTY, MD — More than three weeks after 37-year-old Rachel Morin's body was found not far from the Ma and Pa Trail in Bel Air, her family held a public celebration of life.

A couple hundred people gathered Sunday with Morin's friends and family at Greater Grace World Outreach Church in Baltimore. The family had held a small, private funeral and burial for Morin previously.

Morin's mother, Patty Morin, talked about what the walk for Morin held earlier this month meant to the family. She described the "unbearable" pain of finding out what had happened to her daughter, reported WBAL.

"I can't be there to hold my baby and to comfort her, but I know that the God that we believe in, and the God that Rachel believed in, was there holding her and comforting her and he never left her," Patty Morin said at the celebration of life.

According to The Baltimore Banner, Rachel Morin her siblings would laugh for hours around the dinner table.

“We often joked about being in our 80s and living in the same old folks’ home. We imagined the mischief we would cause and laugh at how odd people would find our bond, the same bond we had shared since childhood,” one of Morin’s brothers said in a recording played at the service. “We were, and always will be, best friends.”

Morin's sister Rebekah talked about the mom of five and her devotion to her kids.

“The thing that always stood out for me was how much she loved her kids and would do anything for them,” she said. “She got such a kick out of them, and they were a riot always, and she would laugh over the things they would do.”

DNA evidence pulled from the Morin crime scene matched DNA found at the scene of a March 2023 home invasion and sexual assault of a girl in Los Angeles, the Harford County Sheriff's Office said during a news conference Aug. 16. The suspected attacker is described as 20 to 30 years old, about 5'9" tall and weighs 160 pounds, with dark hair and a muscular build.

Metro Crime Stoppers has offered a $2,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. The Harford County Sheriff's Office has added $8,000, bumping the reward up to $10,000.

Authorities are asking that anyone with information related to Morin's disappearance or death to call 412-836-5430 or email RMTips@harfordsheriff.org.

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