Maryland Sheriff Jeff Gahler, who is investigating the August 2023 murder of Rachel Morin, suggested pedestrians “break” their routines following the Feb. 22 killing of Augusta University student Laken Riley on the University of Georgia campus.
Both women – Morin, a 37-year-old mother of five, and Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student – were murdered while jogging on popular pedestrian trails.
“We put out a lot of recommendations following Rachel’s case. Break your routine. Don’t be a creature of habit. Don’t be on the trail… at that location at the same time every single day,” Harford County Sheriff Gahler told Fox News Digital. “Always, if you can, be with a friend. Go out when the trails or the parks are more crowded.
“I live on a section of the mine trail here in our county where Rachel was killed. The same trail. And I’ll pass by younger ladies, older ladies… and they’ll have their headsets in, and they won’t know someone’s beside them until you’re beside them.”
MARYLAND SHERIFF’S ‘GUT’ TELLS HIM RACHEL MORIN WAS ‘STALKED’ BEFORE HER MURDER
Morin was running along the Ma and Pa Trail, a pedestrian trail in Bel Air, a quiet and typically safe town about 28 miles northeast of Baltimore, on Aug. 5, 2023, when she vanished. Authorities found her body the next day in what Gahler previously described as a “horrific” criminal homicide.
In February, the Harford County Sheriff’s Office released a composite sketch of the suspect in Morin’s case, described as a Hispanic male based on witness accounts and video…
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