Investigators announced Thursday that DNA left by the suspected killer of a Maryland mother of five who was attacked on a local trail in August matches that of a man suspected in a home invasion and assault of a young girl in March in South Los Angeles.

Rachel Morin went missing the night of Aug. 5 after telling her boyfriend she was going to walk along the Ma & Pa Trail in Bel Air, a town in Harford County northeast of Baltimore. Her body was found near the 2.8-mile trail, which winds through a wooded area, the following afternoon. Authorities have not released her cause of death but said Thursday that she was brutally murdered in a violent attack.