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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Queens Jogger Karina Vetrano's accused killer wants confession tossed

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

3.97.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The man charged with the brutal murder of Queens jogger Karina Vetrano gave a videotaped confession soon after his arrest, but his lawyer now argues no jury should ever hear it. Chanel Lewis has entered a not guilty plea and awaits trial. Nancy Grace looks at the Vetrano case with forensic psychiatrist Dr. Daniel Bober, death scene investigator Joseph Scott Morgan and DNA expert George Schiro.

Transcript

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0:38.2

Climbsstories with Nancy Grace on Sirius XM Triumph channel 132.

0:44.0

A videotape statement made by the man accused of the notorious murder of a jogger in Queens was

0:49.3

presented during a pretrial hearing. Arena Vectrono was murdered while jogging at Howard Beach.

0:54.0

The 30-year-old was found dead. Her body was discovered just 15 feet away from a trail that

0:58.5

she and her father ran together nearly every day, but backpink forced him to stay at home the

1:03.2

afternoon she was killed. Detective station L. Lewis provided a detailed confession to the crime

1:08.4

and police collected DNA samples from scores of young men before focusing on Lewis.

1:13.5

Kathy Vectrono shared this chilling message to the person who killed her daughter, Karina.

1:18.1

The whole entire world knows what a pathetic, puny, weak piece of filth that you all.

1:26.5

The retired firefighter has a message of his own for the attacker. Justice will be served.

1:33.1

A beautiful young girl goes jogging every day with her father, a retired firefighter.

1:40.9

They're very close, soulmates. One day he decides he's down in the back, as we say, and he

1:48.2

doesn't go. She goes jogging, but then an hour passes. Then an hour and a half, and he,

1:55.6

the dad, knows instinctively that something is horribly wrong and begins frantically calling

2:02.6

herself, and he doesn't waste time. He immediately calls police. Together they retrace her typical

2:11.3

jogging route, and it is her own father, Phil Vectrono, that finds his daughter dead.

2:20.4

And now a shocking twist to the already disturbing story. I mean, it's a grace this is crime

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