4 things to know about Rachel Morin and her killing ahead of the 2024 presidential debate

The killing of Rachel Morin along Harford County’s Ma & Pa Heritage Trail last August and the subsequent arrest of a suspect from El Salvador this month quickly turned Maryland’s northeast region into a hotbed of political discourse.

As presidential hopefuls — current President Joe Biden, a Democrat, and former President Donald Trump, a Republican — debate the nation’s top issues such as immigration policy on Thursday night, here are four things to know about Morin, her life and her death.