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Retired FDNY firefighter finds daughter, 30, strangled in Howard Beach park
New York Daily News | August 3, 2016 | Byron Smith, Ryan Sit, Thomas Tracy, Larry McShane

Posted on 08/04/2016 4:43:37 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff

The father of slain Queens jogger Karina Vetrano had a bad back — and a worse feeling — when his devoted daughter left on her nightly run.

The vivacious 30-year-old, who typically jogged alongside her dad, ignored his warning to avoid an overgrown trail and ran right into the hands of a merciless killer, cops said Wednesday.

Though cops say it appears she fought desperately, her father, Philip Vetrano, found her lifeless body — strangled and likely raped — facedown amid the towering weeds about 15 feet off a desolate path in a Howard Beach park.

Neighbors say the 10-foot-high growths along the trails allowed predators to lie in wait and partiers to drink and do drugs without fear.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: howardbeach; murder; ny; nyc; queens
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1 posted on 08/04/2016 4:43:37 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/queens/murdered-queens-jogger-30-discovered-father-howard-beach-marshes-article-1.2736823


2 posted on 08/04/2016 4:47:55 PM PDT by pilipo (We are not free.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Makes me sad and angry.


3 posted on 08/04/2016 4:48:48 PM PDT by umgud (ban all infidelaphobics)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

That poor father. How devastating. This sounds like one of those parks that needs to be kept clear of brush and tall weeds at all times.


4 posted on 08/04/2016 4:49:30 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: umgud

Me too. This is very sad.


5 posted on 08/04/2016 4:49:57 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Cue “Warriors” theme music.


6 posted on 08/04/2016 4:51:25 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (TRUMP THAT BEYOTCH!)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff
ignored his warning to avoid an overgrown trail

Key passage in this article. She knowingly ran right into a meat grinder.

7 posted on 08/04/2016 4:51:42 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

‘Girl power’ indoctrination in the schools kills another one.


8 posted on 08/04/2016 4:56:37 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Females DESTROYED America.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Let’s see if it was done by a DeBlasio supporter. DeBlasio bashed the police and forced them to cut back on proactive patrolling. Now Bratton is gone (not really a loss).

Let’s see if this is due to a lack of regular policing or just a random act of NYC brutality.

I am, though, eliminating the Amish as suspects.


9 posted on 08/04/2016 4:57:02 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Horrible, but there is some consolation in this. The scum that did this will be caught soon. Just got to find the right snitch.

Plus the suspects DNA is almost certainly on file, this will be a priority case.


10 posted on 08/04/2016 4:58:42 PM PDT by Molon Labbie
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Some 2 legged cretins deserve and have earned the hell they will inherit. Disgusts me greatly.


11 posted on 08/04/2016 4:59:35 PM PDT by tflabo (truth or tyrrany)
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To: Molon Labbie

Hopefully there will be no trial.


12 posted on 08/04/2016 5:00:09 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

John Gotti’s old neighborhood. This would never have happened on his watch.


13 posted on 08/04/2016 5:04:04 PM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative.)
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To: lee martell
Agreed.

This guy could do the job. It has the advantage of taken care of the criminals at the same time.


14 posted on 08/04/2016 5:04:42 PM PDT by TheDon (BO must be replaced immediately for the good of the nation and the world!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Agreed, it’s just a long drawn out process that haunts the family.

But the should let dad do punishment by fireaxe.


15 posted on 08/04/2016 5:04:45 PM PDT by Molon Labbie
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To: pilipo

Sad. She was a looker. And I don’t mean she had it coming by any means, but sooner or later people are going to snap back to the reality that our cities and streets can no longer be assumed safe. And some of the “pussy” generation wonder why some of us would be happy to see life like it was 40 and 50 years ago again.


16 posted on 08/04/2016 5:05:12 PM PDT by Magnum44 (I dissent)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Even Howard Beach, a neighborhood policed by the crooked nose, is not immune from the ILLEGAL ALIENS UNLEASHED BY HUSSEIN BARAKA/SHRILLARY! that most likely had to be INSANE enough to perpetrate such a dastardly act when certain death by street justice is ensured.


17 posted on 08/04/2016 5:07:08 PM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: lee martell

With fire...


18 posted on 08/04/2016 5:08:15 PM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

My feelings as well, though I don’t want to turn this into that.

Suffice to say that men and women need to be aware, and women need to understand that in general, unless she has the aggressiveness, strength, training, and willingness to use that training, it isn’t going to be an even fight with a chance for success if she encounters an average men bent on doing her harm.

She was apparently warned, but didn’t heed it. Nine times out of ten, it is going to be fine. All it takes is that one time.


19 posted on 08/04/2016 5:11:27 PM PDT by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: Disambiguator

Same thing happened forty five years go on Riverside Drive in Tulsa. Terrible. I don’t think they ever found the killer.


20 posted on 08/04/2016 5:12:36 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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