Patty Morin, the mom of Rachel Morin, the Maryland mother of five allegedly raped and killed by an illegal immigrant in August 2023, spoke at Turning Point USA’s AmFest in Phoenix on Saturday, recounting the heartbreaking story of how she learned about Rachel’s death.
It’s a narrative she bravely told during congressional testimony about the border crisis, back in September, as my colleague at sister site Townhall.com, Jeff Charles wrote. She said:
We got the phone call, and the phone call went something like this. “Hello, Mom. There’s somebody here that’d like to speak to you.” “Okay. Hello.” “Hello, Mrs. Morin. This is Detective So-and-so. There’s no easy way to tell you this. We found your daughter’s body.” I had just learned a few hours earlier that she was missing. We didn’t know she was missing. She went on a trail in our town that’s very public,…