“Do not stop it — make it your life mission” to get justice,’’ Vetrano told The Post on Sunday.
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Vetrano → stop → Sunday
“It’s crazy, it sounds familiar — son of a bitch,” Vetrano, 70, railed of the fiend who left 28-year-old bank teller Katie Suarez brain-dead by stabbing her in the neck as she jogged on a popular Brooklyn waterfront promenade Friday evening.
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she → ’ → promenade
Vetrano said he can’t believe the eerie similarities between that case and his family’s own tragedy.
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he → say → case
As with Suarez’s dad, Vetrano, a retired FDNY firefighter, went searching for his daughter when he grew worried because he hadn’t seen her return from a run on Aug. 2, 2016.
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her → go → Aug.
“I was looking for her immediately,” recalled Vetrano, who normally went running with his vivacious daughter, a world traveler who relished life but sat out that day in Spring Creek Park because of back pain.
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who → look → pain
“I told her, ‘I don’t think it’s a good idea,’” to go alone, Vetrano said.
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Vetrano → tell → her
“And she said, ‘Don’t worry, Daddy, I’ll be OK.’
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I → say → ?
Those were the last words the 30-year-old would ever say to her father.
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old → say → father
After little more than a half hour, Vetrano said he had a “bad feeling” and phoned her over and over, to no avail.
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he → say → avail
The father of Friday’s attacked jogger also phoned his daughter — in this case, because she was late getting to their agreed-upon meet-up spot — and when he got no answer, went looking for her.
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he → attack → her
The fathers both ended up finding their children.
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fathers → end → children
Karina had been sexually abused and fatally strangled, with her random attacker eventually caught.
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attacker → abuse → ?
Suarez’s attacker is believed to also have been a stranger, but there is no motive yet.
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attacker → believe → ?
She was not robbed or sexually assaulted, according to preliminary findings, law-enforcement sources told The Post on Sunday.
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sources → rob → Sunday
Vetrano said public outrage over Friday’s horror can help fuel the search for Suarez’s killer.
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outrage → say → killer
“It has to go viral like Karina went viral,” he said.
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he → have → ?
He said he stopped his entire life to find Karina’s killer.
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he → say → killer
“I had a multimillion-dollar business, and I just immediately stopped.
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I → stop → business
I didn’t give a s–t anymore – my mission was to find this guy,” said Vetrano, who recalled blanketing the community with reward posters every day.
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who → give → posters
“I wouldn’t stop.”
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I → stop → ?
To Katie’s dad, he pleaded: “You gotta get public outcry.
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You → plead → outcry
You have to get people standing up, not forgetting about it, because once it gets swept under the rug, it’s just another little girl that gets killed.”
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that → have → rug
Vetrano offered to speak with Suarez’s father to offer support.
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Vetrano → offer → support
“People say, ‘Yeah, I understand.’
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I → say → ?
No, you don’t understand.
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you → understand → ?
Only I understand, and he understands.
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he → understand → ?
And if he needs somebody to talk to, to help him get through his life, I am willing to speak to him,” Vetrano said.
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Vetrano → need → him
“In one instant, you don’t believe what you’re seeing — you think, ‘This is not real.’
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This → believe → what
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Vetrano said he takes some solace in knowing that Karina lived life to the fullest in her all-too-short 30 years.
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Karina → say → years
“Karina lived her life as if she was dying,” said the dad of the St. John’s University grad with a master’s degree in speech pathology, who worked as a tutor and speech pathologist and was an aspiring writer and actress.
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who → live → tutor
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