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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Killers Amongst Us: (Part 3) Gorgeous Queens jogger Karina Vetrano murdered the one day dad stays behind.

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

The search for jogger Karina Vetrano's killer begins. Police begin with the her father, pulling him out of her funeral for a DNA text. Today, Phil Vetrano shares with Nancy Grace the extent of his daughter's injuries and what steps police took to identify a murder.

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0:00.0

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

0:09.4

Media and Crime Online. What happened to this beautiful girl, Karina

0:19.9

Vatrono, her father Phil finds her body now the search for a killer. Leagues

0:28.4

begin to pour in. Still no results. Can't catch who killed this beautiful girl.

0:36.0

What they found made even a hardened detective turn away. Nancy Grace. Killers

0:42.5

Amongst Us.

0:46.5

Give me a sense for the injuries Karina suffered. Facial injuries. She also had

0:51.8

bruising on her body. We believe from being dragged through those weeds. From

0:57.1

her to so that's what we believe where that bruising on the body came from. And

1:00.8

when you found her she was still graspable to the weeds. She had the weeds stems

1:06.6

of the weeds in her hands. What does that tell you? She fought not to go into

1:10.1

those weeds. Contrary to several reports, chief voice now confirms to me there

1:14.8

was no DNA evidence found at the scene to show that the would be rapist

1:18.1

completed his sexual assault. Karina's dad took me to that jogging trail in

1:22.7

Howard Beach where police found his beautiful daughter. I don't know if this

1:26.7

person was waiting for her. I don't know if this person was following her. I

1:32.3

don't know if this person knew her routine drove to the other end and met her

1:37.6

head on. You're hearing our friends at crime watch Daley that was Chris Hanson

1:42.6

with Detective Robert Voice. With me, Dr. Tim Gallagher, the medical

1:48.3

examiner for the state of Florida. Share at La Point DNA genealogical expert

1:53.5

with the gene hunter LLC. We're now it's like a therapist Dr. Robbie Ludwig,

1:59.3

Steve Lampley detective and Tony DeStefano, news day reporter on the story

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