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"I'm here to tell you that Rachel's murderer is no longer a free man. Hopefully he will never have the opportunity to walk free again," the sheriff said during a Saturday press conference.
The first break in the case came two weeks after Rachel’s body was found on the trail. A DNA match with a suspect in another case provided police with an image of who they believed to be her murderer. The surveillance footage shows a man wanted or assaulting a woman and a 9 year-old girl at their Los Angeles home in March of 2023. It was a short video, and you never get a good look at his face. Police still had no name.
That finally change a few weeks ago, on what would have been Rachel’s 38th birthday.
Using genealogy testing through Othram Labs, FBI investigators worked with their counterparts in El Salvador to identify Victor Martinez-Hernandez. But they still didn’t know where he was. Authorities put out a “red notice” on Hernandez, which alerts law enforcement across the globe of wanted persons. They finally tracked him down in Tulsa, Oklahoma.