Rachel Morin's killer has 'more than we have': Victim's mother

(NewsNation) — Rachel Morin's mother says that her daughter's killer, Victor Martinez-Hernandez, has it better than her and Morin's family.

Patty Morin joined "Banfield" in the hours following Martinez-Hernandez sentencingd to life imprisonment without parole for raping and murdering Morin, a single mother of five, while she was jogging along a trail in Baltimore in 2023.

"He still has more than we have," Patty told NewsNation. "He has breath in his lungs, my daughter doesn't. He has a daughter that someday he may be able to see. I will never be able to see my daughter again. So, he even though he has a lifetime in prison, he still has more than my family has, and my daughter has," she said.

In full, Martinez-Hernandez was sentenced to life without parole for the charge of murder, life for the charge of rape in the first degree, 10 years for the charge of third-degree sex offense, and 30 years for the charge of kidnapping. The judge ordered the charges to be served consecutively.

"I was crying so hard, I could hardly see the words as I was reading," Patty told NewsNation of her victim impact speech. "It was like a culmination of the whole two years, all of the memories and all of the feelings...

"And for Victor to hear how much it has affected me personally ... the kind of person Rachel was. How valuable she was, so he could see the contrast between him and his crime, and the evil behind it, and how good and pure Rachel was."

Martinez-Hernandez did not apologize during the sentencing hearing, but he was moved to tears in Patty's victim impact statement.

He is originally from El Salvador and was in the United States illegally. He was arrested in June 2024 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, after a search that lasted nearly a year.