The parents of Karina Vetrano said in an interview Thursday that the slain jogger’s last words before heading our for her run were, “It’s OK, Daddy, I’ll be all right.”
Grieving dad Phil Vetrano said during an interview with WPIX/Channel 11 that he had a bad feeling about his 30-year-old daughter jogging through the park on Aug. 2.
“I said, ‘I don’t think it’s a good idea that you go in there,’ ” Vetrano said.
The doting dad said he had a bad premonition after Karina did not immediately return from her run.
“I got a feeling. It came over me,” he said. “She was talking to me then. And I got off that couch, and I went looking for her.”
The dad discovered his daughter’s lifeless, bruised body following an hours-long search.
Vetrano and his wife are hoping more than $100,000 in reward money will spur someone to come forward with information about their daughter’s killer.
Vetrano’s body was found face down near a running path in a deserted area of Howard Beach, Queens.
Police believe the avid runner tried to fight off her attacker before she was sexually assaulted and then manually strangled, according to sources.