This week marks the start of the much-anticipated trial for the undocumented immigrant accused of killing 37-year-old Rachel Morin, a mother of five from Maryland, who was murdered while on a hiking trail.

Jury selection was set to start Tuesday in the Harford Country Circuit Court in Bel Air, Maryland, before Judge Yolanda Curtin.

Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez, a 23-year-old from El Salvador, faces charges for the violent rape and murder of Morin. Her body was found in August 2023 on the Ma & Pa Trail in Bel Air, with injuries indicating she had been beaten and strangled.

The crime shocked the community and highlighted the then-Biden administration’s failed border policies.

Morin, aged 37, was declared missing in August 2023 by her boyfriend. He reported that she failed to return from a run on the Ma & Pa Trail, located in Bel Air—a typically quiet and secure town approximately 28 miles northeast of Baltimore—on August 5, 2023.

Her body was found near the trail the next day.

In February, police released new sketches of Martinez Hernandez.

“I’m going to make this short because I’m very emotional,” Morin’s mother, Patricia Morin, said previously. “I just want to take this time to thank all the law enforcement for all their hard work.

“They just really cared for our family and for our daughter,” she said. “They were going to diligently work and find the person who murdered her.”

Martinez-Hernandez’s court-appointed attorney Marcus Jenkins did not immediately return a request for comment.