The Fukin Prophecy
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I'm not buying this, smells like Central Park 5 all over again...
This dude supposedly raped and strangled Karina Vetrano...
Son look like he 140 pounds wearing boots and soaking wet and that wasn't a petite little white girl...that was a fit crossfit white girl that could of legit suplexed this dude...
This dude supposedly raped and strangled Karina Vetrano...
Son look like he 140 pounds wearing boots and soaking wet and that wasn't a petite little white girl...that was a fit crossfit white girl that could of legit suplexed this dude...
She wasn’t being stalked or targeted. It was just that jogger Karina Vetrano was a woman, and the man accused of killing her hated women.
Chanel Lewis was filled with lethal rage when he grabbed Vetrano as she went for a summer evening run in Queens, according to authorities. He raped her and strangled the petite runner, they said, and left her body in weeds.
And then he vanished for six months.
Detectives had little to work with to find the man who crossed Vetrano’s path. She scratched him and captured some of his DNA, but he had no record so no match could be made. The randomness of the attack added to the difficulty of solving the crime. It took months of searching the area and records, a cop’s suspicions, to finally land Lewis.
When they did, one source said, the East New York man cracked.
“He was pretty forthcoming once he was in custody,” a law enforcement source told the Daily News about Lewis, 20.
“He gave a detailed incriminating account of what happened — but he doesn’t really explain why it happened. It was a very random thing. He just came up on her and acted out. There wasn’t any conversation. It was a chance encounter. There was no reason to believe he was stalking her. He just happened to come up on her.”
Hours after Lewis was arrested Saturday evening outside his home in East New York, a profile began to emerge of one of the most wanted and unsuspecting men in the city.
Brooklyn man nabbed in slay of Queens jogger Karina Vetrano
Lewis had been in a little trouble with the law, receiving several summonses in Howard Beach not far from the crime scene.
But there was nothing that left a likely suspect trail, or screamed out rapist. Or murderer.
“He doesn’t have a criminal record,” a source said. “But he’s had previous incidents in which he has expressed a hatred for women. He’s thought of hurting women or attacking women. He’s expressed a deep-seated aggression towards women. But it was nothing he’s ever acted on.”
That was the night the 30-year-old Vetrano disappeared after leaving for a jog through Spring Creek Park near her Howard Beach home.
Her father, Phil Vetrano, found her lifeless body face down amid towering weeds about 15 feet off the desolate path while helping police search for her.
The heartbroken dad said he always reasoned the murder was a chance encounter.
“We kind of knew that,” Vetrano said. “It was impossible for anyone to follow her in there. It had to be a random, wrong place, at the wrong time. She was unlucky that day.”
Vetrano put up a furious fight, authorities said.
The slaying sparked a massive manhunt that yielded few clues.
In the days and weeks following her killing, Vetrano’s parents made a series of impassioned pleas for someone to turn in the perpetrator.
Police recovered the murderer’s DNA from Vetrano’s body and cell phone, but the sample didn’t match anyone in either the New York or national DNA databases of convicted criminals.
Cops also cobbled together a sketch of a “person of interest” seen in the park around the time of the murder, but it failed to produce a break in the case.
Then Lt. John Russo, who works in the Chief of Detectives office and also lives in Howard Beach, remembered something.
Russo had seen Lewis lurking around parked cars in Howard Beach in late May. Russo called 911, as did another resident who saw Lewis holding a crowbar and skulking around someone’s backyard. When patrol officers arrived, Lewis was gone. The following day, Russo spotted Lewis again, and cops arrived to question him.
Months later, Russo was immersed in the Vetrano murder case, poring over leads, tips, and investigative files.
“He was spending a lot of time every single day trying to figure out what was missing,” said the person familiar with the matter. Then he remembered the guy creeping around the neighborhood three months before Vetrano was killed.
“It occurred to him that (Lewis) was someone they should look at,” the law enforcement source said. The call about a “suspicious person” hanging around the area ultimately led to the break police needed.
FACE!