Police have released new surveillance video showing what may have been Karina Vetrano's final moments on Aug. 2 before she was found killed near her home in Queens. (Published Sunday, Feb. 5, 2017) 
 
 Police Release New Video of Karina Vetrano on Day She Went Missing 
 
 What to Know New surveillance video shows Karina Vetrano jogging in her possible last moments alive 
 
 She was later found sexually assaulted and killed on Aug. 2 near her Howard Beach home 
 
 Police say it remains "one of the unsolved, very high-profile murders" 
 
 Police have released new surveillance video showing what may have been Karina Vetrano's final moments on Aug. 2 before she was found killed near her home in Queens. 
 
 The video shows Vetrano jogging near her Howard Beach home. She was later found sexually assaulted and strangled in a marshy area just off the trail at Gateway National Recreation Area. 
 
 NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton said Monday the release of the new video is an effort to keep the case fresh in the public's mind. 
 
 "It remains one of the unsolved, very high-profile murders," he said. 
 
 A reward of nearly $300,000 is being offered for information leading to an arrest. 
 
 Late last month, police released a sketch of a man in a woven wool cap they want to talk to in connection with Vetrano's death. The man was seen in the area around the time Vetrano went missing. 
 
 Police officials stressed at the time that the man wasn't a suspect or a person of interest in the case. The man was seen in the area around the path where Vetrano was last seen that day and was spotted by a utility worker. Police said that the man could have seen Vetrano or her assailant. 
 
 Authorities have culled DNA from three different investigative points -- Vetrano's neck, her phone and her fingernails. Police say the fingernail DNA is the strongest, and all the samples point to the same person, though the state and local databases have yet to yield a possible match. 
 
 Anyone with information on the Vetrano case should call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS. ||||| NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — New video has surfaced of a Queens jogger minutes before her murder. 
 
 Karina Vetrano, 30, was murdered while running through Spring Creek Park in Howard Beach on Aug. 2. Police said she was strangled and possibly sexually assaulted. Her father along with authorities found her body hours after she didn’t return home from her jog. 
 
 New video airing on Crime Watch Daily, a nationally syndicated show, shows Vetrano jogging carefree down a street bordering the park, with her long hair held back in a pony tail and wearing ear buds. 
 
 The video is the freshest clue for the public to see in the now six week old murder mystery. 
 
 “You never know in the sense of somebody in Arkansas, some place that may hear something about it and come forward with a piece of information,” Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said. 
 
 The video was released with the approval of Vetrano’s family. 
 
 New video shows slain jogger Karina Vetrano moments before her death. https://t.co/osv72euWpt via @PIX11News pic.twitter.com/FzbdjqTYmo — Crime Watch Daily (@CrimeWatchDaily) September 12, 2016 
 
 “It was provided as part of the continuing effort, along with the rewards, to try and find out what happened on that day,” Bratton said. “I think we have done all that we can to try and keep that story alive in the public mind and consciousness because it spread such fear through the city.” 
 
 As CBS2’s Jessica Layton reported, Vetrano’s family hopes the video will inspire someone to come forward. 
 
 “Think that it could be your child,” Phil Vetrano said. 
 
 The video is one of the last images Vetrano has of his daughter. 
 
 “Very disturbing to watch that, to see her like that,” he said. 
 
 It’s what the video doesn’t show that has the NYPD and the Vetranos so puzzled. 
 
 “It doesn’t show anybody following her. It doesn’t show anybody in a car behind her,” Phil said. 
 
 Detectives have a DNA profile of Vetrano’s killer, but so far have no matches. 
 
 “If we encounter a new entry into whether it’s our own system, state system or elsewhere in the country that might be the case breaker for us,” Bratton said. 
 
 Standing on his front porch with a police patrol car still parked outside the family home, Vetrano said he’s hoping the video makes someone who knows something sympathetic enough to come forward. 
 
 He believes the person in a sketch who is wanted for questioning could provide the best clue as to who killed Karina. 
 
 “He’s not worth protecting,” Phil said. 
 
 In the meantime, the family has struggled to heal. 
 
 “Once this scum is caught, maybe we can begin to heal. But I doubt it,” Phil said. 
 
 The reward for information leading to Vetrano’s killer has grown to more than $300,000. A GoFundMe account set up by Vetrano’s family has raised more than $270,000, while a $35,000 reward for information is being offered by the NYPD. 
 
 On Sunday, Phil Vetrano said he’s considering hiring private investigators to aid in the search for his daughter’s killer. 
 
 Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782), visit www.nypdcrimestoppers.com or text tips to 274637 (CRIMES) then enter TIP577. ||||| Police released a sketch of a man they'd like to talk to in connection with the death of a missing runner who was found strangled in an overgrown section of a Queens park earlier this month. Marc Santia reports. (Published Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016) 
 
 What to Know The sketch depicts a person the NYPD wants to talk to about the case 
 
 Vetrano was sexually assaulted and killed earlier this month 
 
 Her family is offering a reward of more than $250,000 for her killer 
 
 Police released a sketch of a man they'd like to talk to in connection with the death of a missing runner who was found strangled in an overgrown section of a Queens park earlier this month. 
 
 NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce held up a photo Wednesday of a man wearing a woven wool cap and asked anyone who recognized him to call police. The man was seen in the area around the time Karina Vetrano went missing at the Gateway National Recreation Area in Howard Beach on Aug. 2. 
 
 Her body was found in a marshy area of off a trail several hours later. 
 
 Boyce stressed that the man wasn't a suspect or a person of interest in the case. The man was seen in the area around the path where Vetrano was last seen that day and was spotted by a utility worker. Boyce said that the man could have seen Vetrano or her assailant. 
 
 "We have to speak to this person," Boyce said. "That's the only reason we're putting this out." 
 
 The man is described as being between 35 and 45 years old, standing 5 feet, 10 inches tall and has a medium build. Boyce said his wool cap stuck out on the hot summer day. 
 
 "It's a little unusual he was walking around in August with a cap on," Boyce said. 
 
 Earlier this week, Vetrano's father said he was seeking a runner who frequented the area before her death but hadn't been seen since. Police later said the man was not a suspect and had in fact been resting an injured knee. 
 
 Authorities culled DNA from three different investigative points -- Vetrano's neck, her phone and her fingernails. Police say the fingernail DNA is the strongest, and all the samples point to the same person, though the state and local databases have yet to yield a possible match. 
 
 Vetrano's family has raised more than $250,000 for a reward in the 30-year-old's death. 
 
 Eighty-five tips have poured in to police about the case, Boyce said; nine remain to be investigated. Anyone with information on the Vetrano case should call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS. ||||| "Crime Watch Daily With Chris Hansen" has exclusive new video of Karina Vetrano captured moments before she was attacked at a Howard Beach, New York park. 
 
 The 30-year-old woman vanished about 5 p.m. Aug. 2 while on a solo jog through a marshy area of Howard Beach called Spring Creek Park. 
 
 Vetrano was beaten "quite severely," suggesting she put up a "ferocious fight," NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said in an Aug. 4 news conference. The medical examiner determined strangulation to be the cause of death, and officials have said she was sexually assaulted, WPIX reports. 
 
 Investigators said without witnesses their best chance of finding Vetrano's killer was to create a DNA profile using a sneaker, ear buds and a used condom found at the scene, as well as DNA discovered on Vetrano's body. 
 
 That DNA profile has been created, but has yet to yield a match in the nationwide database, officials said. 
 
 Vetrano's father typically accompanied his daughter during an afternoon run, but due to back pains had to skip the day she was ultimately killed. He, along with a search party, found her body about 15 feet off the jogging path hours after she went missing. 
 
 There's no evidence she knew her attacker, officials said. 
 
 If you have any information you can submit a tip anonymously at CrimeWatchDaily.com, or call NYPD Crime Stoppers hotline at (800) 577-TIPS.
– A new possible clue in the "extraordinary case of murder" of Queens jogger Karina Vetrano, CBS New York reports. A surveillance video showing the 30-year-old on her run shortly before she was killed last month. The video is being shown with her family's permission on Crime Watch Daily, although dad Phil Vetrano tells CBS it's "very disturbing" to watch his daughter's final moments. The video, which shows Vetrano casually jogging down a street at 5:46pm on Aug. 2 near Spring Creek Park in Howard Beach, doesn't appear to offer any explicit clues as to what happened afterward—"It doesn't show anybody following her," Phil Vetrano says—but police are hoping it opens doors in the case. "Somebody in Arkansas, someplace … may hear something about it and come forward with a piece of information," Police Commissioner Bill Bratton says. Last month, cops released a sketch of a man they want for questioning, per NBC News. A reward worth almost $300,000 is being offered for info leading to an arrest.