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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Killers Amongst Us: (Part 2) Gorgeous Queens jogger Karina Vetrano murdered the one day dad stays behind.

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

News, True Crime

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The father of murdered New York jogger Karina Vetrano says he lives every day seeking justice for his daughter. Today, Phil Vetrano shares with Nancy Grace emotional details of the day of his daughter’s death and how a memorial he creates for her helps him cope.

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0:00.0

Hi guys, Nancy Grace here. Welcome back to Killers Among Us, a production of I Heart

0:09.4

Media and Crime Online. What happened to Karina Vitrano? Absolutely stunning. The jogger

0:25.3

who goes for a jog this one day without her dad firefighter Phil Vitrano. Entragety

0:32.8

defaults her. Nancy Grace Killers Among Us, right now more questions than answers. Her dad,

0:45.9

a sense of foreboding coming over him. Literally thinks he hears Karina's calling out for

0:54.8

dad, daddy, goes looking for her. And of all the cops, the helicopters, the dogs, it's

1:03.3

her dad. Phil Vitrano that finds Karina's body. Joining me right now Karina's father

1:13.1

Phil Vitrano also with me Tony DeStefano, reporter with News Day. Phil, you were just describing

1:25.7

how you want to explain what you found. And you know, at first I, Jack and I called Tony

1:34.3

DeStefano, the News Day in Sint-Lesson. We're going to have you describe the condition

1:40.7

of Karina's body because I don't want to put Phil through that. And then he'll join

1:46.6

us. We told Phil and he said, no, I want to be there. I want to hear this. Then you

1:57.1

want to tell me something incredible Phil that you actually go to this location every

2:04.9

day. You know, it's really moving me to tears because as I've told you in the past, to

2:11.8

this day I have not gone back to where my fiance was murdered. And I don't even know if I

2:17.2

could find it now out in the middle of nowhere. But you go every day. Phil Vitrano explained

2:25.7

that to me. Well, I built a memorial for my daughter. I built it out of cobblestone and

2:32.6

blue stone. Everything that I built it out of was found on the trail that she ran. I dug

2:38.7

it up out of the ground myself. And we made a memorial and I planted sunflowers and rose

2:44.4

bushes and dacidils and butterfly bushes. And I go there and I have bird feeders and

2:51.8

I sit there and I listen to nature and I watch the carves and the birds and I feel

2:57.3

peace. And if you would ask me, how could that be? Maybe because it's the only place that

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