At a White House press briefing, Patty Morin, the mother of Rachel Morin, a young woman killed by an illegal immigrant, shared the heartbreaking story.
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00:00Nobody knows this more than the woman standing to my right, Patty Morin, whose beautiful
00:06daughter Rachel was brutally maimed and murdered at the hands of an illegal alien in August
00:11of 2023.
00:13Patty no longer has her daughter because of the failed Democrat Party's open border,
00:18and these are policies that President Trump is bringing an end to.
00:22Patty should not have to be here today, but she is, and we are grateful and we are honored
00:27for her willingness and her request to share her powerful story with the world.
00:32Thank you, Patty, for being here.
00:37A lot of you don't know the whole story about Rachel and about the crime that was committed
00:45against her.
00:46Even us, her family, we didn't know all the details.
00:51They kept most of it close to their chest, the detectives, because they didn't want to
00:59do anything to hurt the case.
01:04They wanted to keep the integrity of the case, so they kept everything close.
01:09I sat for the last two weeks in her trial, and we saw layer upon layer upon layer of evidence
01:21against the accused, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador.
01:27And the things that we thought, well, maybe this might have happened, we didn't know, but
01:32when we were at the trial, we got all the puzzle pieces.
01:36And I want to share some of those things with you.
01:40You know that Rachel's a 37-year-old mother.
01:43She has five children.
01:45We've walked the trail for the last 25 years that we've lived in Maryland.
01:49It's a safe place for our family.
01:51It's where we go to get a little bit of New England, because that's where we're from,
01:56New England.
01:57When she went on that trail that day, she was not planning on dying.
02:02She wasn't planning on walking to her death.
02:05She was planning on going to the grocery store with her girls afterwards.
02:09Victor Martinez, he waited for her.
02:14He waited for her to come closer.
02:17He saw her.
02:19He saw that there was nobody around.
02:22He attacked her.
02:26He dragged her 150 feet, blood gushing from her head.
02:32It left a 150-foot trail of her blood to the culverts, where he took, he picked her up,
02:41he threw her against the wall of the tunnel, and he raped her.
02:49But before he did that, he stopped on that trail, and rocks still stained with her blood.
02:58He used them to hammer her head against those rocks.
03:03They say 20, at least 20 times they could count the cuts in her head.
03:11They said that when they did the autopsy, and I've seen the pictures, there's a six-inch square in the back of her head, where the skull is shattered the way that you would crush an eggshell, in pieces.
03:24Three-fourths of her brain hemorrhaged.
03:30Her right and left side of her face bashed in.
03:34Her beautiful face bashed in.
03:37Her head bashed in.
03:40Broken bones fractures.
03:42He takes and he drags her some more.
03:45He drags her through the thorn bushes.
03:50He has all the scrapes and cuts on her body.
03:53There wasn't one inch of her body that didn't have some kind of injury, whether it's bruising, broken bones, contusions, the scratches.
04:04She had a fractured rib, fractured nose, fractured skull.
04:12And then he takes her into the tunnel and he picks her up.
04:17He throws her against the wall.
04:20Blood is gushing from her head.
04:23Her hair is soaked in blood.
04:25And they showed us pictures of her body.
04:29Against the wall, outline, the blood outlined her body.
04:32And you could see where the blood ran down around her as he was raping her.
04:39And then he threw her down and raped her some more.
04:44And then he strangled her because he didn't want her to be able to live to tell the story.
04:51They said that when they did the autopsy on her neck, that one of the things they do is
04:56they open up the neck and they look to see how far the injury is.
05:00And they went all the way down as far as an injury is possible, hemorrhaging in the muscles because
05:06of how strong and violent the group was around her.
05:13These are the kind of people that have no, no compulsion, like to them, this is nothing.
05:23When he was sitting in the courtroom, he actually looked like he thought he was going to be set free.
05:33There was no remorse on his face at all.
05:37This person took my daughter so violently and so gruesomely and so graphically that they sealed the pictures.
05:47Because I don't want my granddaughters to see these pictures.