Boyce said the investigation is now focusing on people who might have been in jail before 1998, when the nationwide database was first started, or on someone younger who might not have done jail time.
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While police sources could not confirm whether authorities were on the hunt for the man, Vetrano insisted that investigators were looking to speak with him about his daughter’s murder in Spring Creek Park on August 2.
“A DNA profile was developed from three parts of the investigation: from the victim’s phone, Karina’s phone, from touch DNA from her neck, and also … other parts of her person”, Boyce said. Anxious about his daughter, Phil Vetrano contacted a friend who was also a member of the NYPD and went searching for her. Her body was found at Spring Creek Park. Her father, Phil Vetrano, made the gruesome discovery.
Vetrano shared the mystery jogger’s exact route and insisted that he would see the man four to five days out of the week during an interview with Guardian Angel Founder Curtis Sliwa on WABC radio.
“It’s very important we speak to him, ’cause he might have seen something”, the retired New York City firefighter added. “Now, he dropped off the face of the earth”, Vetrano said. That man has now come forward and spoken to police-and the reason he disappeared had nothing to do with the case. The NYPD will release a sketch this week of the man, whom police sources say was seen coming out of the weeds at Spring Creek Park near Belt Parkway around the time Vetrano was killed.
Vetrano described the man as being between 30 and 35 years old, 5-foot-9, and 150 pounds with black hair parted to the side. “Nothing more heinous than that”.
“As you can imagine, that’s quite an undertaking”, Boyce said, according to ABC7.
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Boyce added that investigators still believe Karina was killed in a random attack.
