Maryland prosecutors on Friday rested their case against Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez, the illegal immigrant accused of raping and murdering Bel-Air woman Rachel Morin in August 2023.

Morin, a 37-year-old mother of five, was jogging along the Ma & Pa Trail in Bel-Air, a quaint community northeast of Baltimore, when Martinez-Hernandez allegedly ambushed, strangled and beat her to death.

“This has been an emotionally grueling experience for Rachel’s family, but they remain steadfast in their pursuit of justice,” Randolph Rice, the family’s attorney, said in a Friday statement. “The State has presented a thorough and powerful case. We now await the Defense’s response and look ahead to closing arguments to bring this trial into its final stage.”

Harford County Det. Phil Golden testified Friday as prosecutors played a video of his interview with the suspect after Morin’s murder, facilitated by a Spanish interpreter. 

The suspect first denied knowing about the photo and then later admitted it was him, FOX 45 reported.

“I saw an unclothed human body on her back. At first, I truly thought it might have been a deer or something that had died in there,” Evan Knapp, who found Rachel Morin’s body, testified. “So, I had to move a bit closer to confirm what I had seen, and it was a human. I feel like time froze for a second and I didn’t know what I was looking at.”

A policeman holds fliers requesting information on the murder of Rachel Morin at the Ma and Pa Trail in Bel Air, Maryland, on Tuesday, August 8, 2023. The trail is where 37-year-old Rachel Morin was found dead on Sunday. (Mega for Fox News Digital)

The defense is expected to call witnesses on Monday, and the judge advised that closing arguments will likely be delivered Monday, as well.

Rachel Morin’s family has been present for each day of the trial so far and are expected to stay until its conclusion.