Boyfriend of Maryland woman found dead on hike says he ‘didn’t do anything’ to hurt her

The new boyfriend of Maryland mother of five Rachel Morin, who was found dead on a hiking trail Sunday, insisted he played no role in her demise after police announced a homicide probe.

Richard Tobin, 27, who has a lengthy criminal record, took to Facebook on Sunday to shoot down rampant online speculation that he may have been behind her killing.

“I love Rachel, I would never do anything to her, let the family and I grieve. Yes, I have a past but I also have 15 months clean and have changed as a person. Please,” Tobin wrote under his relationship status, which was updated Aug. 1 to reflect that Morin is his girlfriend.

Tobin has prior arrests for malicious destruction of property, criminal second-degree assault, resisting arrest, drug possession, disorderly intoxication and violating restraining orders, according to Maryland court records.

He has not been named as a suspect in his girlfriend’s death or been accused of any wrongdoing.

He reported her missing Saturday at 11:30 p.m. after she didn’t return home from a hike on the Ma and Pa Heritage Trail in Bel Air, Maryland – about 30 miles north of Baltimore.

She was last seen at home wearing a dark tank top, black spandex shorts and gray sneakers before heading out around 6 p.m.

Her car was located at the trailhead’s Williams Street entrance and taken to the criminal investigations division for processing, police said.

The next day, a person called 911 to report finding a woman’s body near the trail, which authorities believe is Morin, Harford County Sheriff Jeff Gahler said at a press conference.