FoxNews.com ^ | Nov 6, 2018 | Katherine Lam | Fox News
Karina Vetrano was viciously beaten and strangled "until she could not struggle anymore" -- then, in a final indignity, the 30-year-old New Yorker's body was left naked in a weed-covered patch of land, where her executioner robbed her and fled.
Prosecutors on Tuesday revealed the gruesome details of the Queens jogger’s August 2016 assault and murder, as the trial of her accused killer, Chanel Lewis, got underway. Vetrano's mother, Cathie Vetrano, was in the courtroom as Queens Assistant District Attorney Brad Leventhal recounted the graphic details, and was seen sobbing and clutching a crucifix, according to the New York Daily News.
Leventhal said Vetrano tried to fight off Lewis.
“And he strangled her until she could not struggle anymore. He strangled her until she was dead,” Leventhal said.
Photos from the crime scene of Vetrano’s naked body were shown in court.
Leventhal said, after Lewis killed Vetrano, he carried her body into a weed-covered area, removed her sneakers and took her phone and earbuds. ..."
Vetrano was attacked as she jogged in Spring Creek Park, not far from her home in Queens’ Howard Beach.
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February 6, 2017
The grieving father of slain jogger Karina Vetrano left his home Sunday carrying a large club just moments after officials formally told him a suspect had been busted in the sex assault and strangling of his daughter.
He tossed the weapon into a red Kia Soul before driving off with a male passenger around 1 p.m.
About 10 minutes earlier, NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce and Queens District Richard Brown had left the Vetrano home after meeting with the victim’s family and supporters gathered there.
The visit followed a news conference at which the officials announced the arrest of Chanel Lewis, 20, who Brown said will be charged with murder and sex crimes in the deadly, August attack on Karina, 30, in nearby Spring Creek Park.
Lewis is being held at the 107th Precinct in Flushing, Queens, pending his transfer to court for arraignment.
It was unclear where Vetrano went with the club, but he never showed up at the precinct.
He was gone from his house for about 25 minutes before returning with the club.
Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time
If he’s in gen pop it’s probably only a matter of time.
“They said he confessed only because he wanted to go home after waiting hours in an interrogation room.”
I always confess to crimes I didn’t do so I can go home and make me a sammich.
“Lewis added that correction officers were instructing inmates to call him a “f——t, the a-word and the p-word.”
Welcome to the Big House kid.
Get used to it, you earned it scumbag.
Sounds like he’s in the right place.
There was all kinds of mean, nasty, ugly looking people on the bench.
There was mother-rapers, father-stabbers, father-rapers!
Father-rapers; sitting right there on the bench next to me!
And they was mean and nasty and ugly and horrible...
Rikers Island has always been a hell-hole. While I have no sympathy for the murderer, guards should be held to a standard, not inciting to violence, smuggling in contraband, etc.
I also heard room service really sucks.
MERRY CHRISTMAS Chanel!
If you don’t like the way you are being treated END IT! You won’t be missed for a second.
If it was my Daughter that POS never would have made it to Rikers.
I was hoping someone would have reached out and touched this waste of oxygen by now.