A 30-year-old jogger reported missing by her dad Tuesday afternoon was found dead in a marsh off the Belt Parkway less than half a mile away from her Queens home – and investigators believe she was murdered, police sources said.
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Karina Vetrano, 30, was reported missing by her father when she didn’t return from her regular run along the Belt Parkway’s bike path at about 5 p.m., according to the sources.
Miss Vetrano worked at the Vetro Lounge restaurant in Howard Beach and her Instagram account is full of glamorous pictures of her partying and enjoying life in NY and also on vacation in St Tropez, France.
Another neighbor said that “hobos and bums” typically lurk in the weeded area.
“I hear there’s a couple of shanty houses out there”, said one neighbor, who identified himself only as John. The NYPD says the body of Karina Vetrano was found in a marsh hours later with no obvious signs of trauma.
“I feel bad for the parents”. The same neighbor told the Post that Vetrano would run with her father before he was injured: “He asked her, ‘Don’t go in there'”. “Something like this, it’s so close by”.
The circumstances surrounding Vetrano’s death are under investigation. Police are trying to figure out how she died and if there was any foul play.
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Vetrano’s father, who neighbors say retired from the FDNY on disability, was called to the crime scene as sobbing neighbors gathered outside his home on 84th Street.
