A Murder in Howard Beach, the Ghost of John Gotti and John Travolta in a Wig

Oct 13, 2016 882

Howard Beach is no stranger to murder, but this latest slaying — on Aug. 2 — has the whole town talking. The victim was Karina Vetrano, 30, a self-described "thrillseeker" who wrote about her sex life and self-destructive tendencies in candid online journals.

Vetrano was beaten, strangled and raped with a foreign object during her late-afternoon run in the spooky, remote marshland — "the Weeds," locals call it — that abuts Jamaica Bay. A surveillance video shows a few minutes of her running in the street before she entered the desolate parkland.

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Source: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/

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