Nov. 3, 2026
URGENT MANHUNT: Brooklyn Woman On Life Support, Stabbed While Running Along Waterfront Path
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RSS Feed New York police are searching for a suspect who stabbed 28-year-old Katie Suarez, out for her evening run, just 1/2 a mile from her Brooklyn home. Suarez’s father went looking for her when she didn’t return and found her stabbed twice in the neck under a tree. Suarez is fighting for her life as police are looking for answers, saying this appears to be a random act of violence. This comes after a Central Park attack on a female runner last week and has eery similarities to the murder of a Queens woman whose father found her after she failed to come home from her run.
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Speaker 1: Hey there, folks. It is Tuesday, November 3rd, and there is an urgent manhunt going on in New York City for the man who randomly attacked a woman who was out for a run. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ Enrolled. I'm just going to tell folks what you said to me right before we started. I said, we sure they haven't caught this guy. You said, they don't even have an effing description.
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Speaker 2: They don't know who they're looking for, and this is really, really frightening. We're talking about 28-year-old Katie Suarez, and as of this recording, she is literally fighting for her life. We've been told she is currently on life support, and this is how the police chief described her condition to reporters just a short while ago. As of right now, her condition, she is in grave condition. We're hoping for the best, but she is still in very, very, Critical condition. She was stabbed twice in the neck while she was running on a very popular running path here in New York City.
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Speaker 1: For reasons nobody understands. Robes. This was random. She was not targeted. She was not sexually assaulted.
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Speaker 2: Nope.
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Speaker 1: What in God's name is going on? And Robes, obviously this was going to get a lot of attention no matter what, but when this happened, this was at a time where the whole city was getting ready for the New York City Marathon. A lot of attention was on runners at the time. She was not participating in the marathon, but Robes, it's hard to describe if you're outside of New York just how picturesque this area is because the best views of New York are actually from New Jersey and Brooklyn and outside of Manhattan. She was running along a path, Robes, that is just magical for runners.
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Speaker 2: Yes. It's called Shore Parkway. And that's one of the many things I love about this city. But as a runner, yes, we have running paths along the Hudson, along the East River.
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Speaker 3: We're an island.
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Speaker 2: And so yes, There are gorgeous running paths everywhere. And this was among one of the more popular ones along the Brooklyn waterfront path. Yes, fantastic views of Manhattan.
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Speaker 3: And this is a young woman. It's heartbreaking. We have a timeline.
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Speaker 2: And when you find out how she was discovered, it's going to break your heart even more. So her own father, her own father found her.
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Speaker 1: And Robes, we should say here, and I'm stopping, and you mentioned this earlier, so I know you don't mind. Your daughter runs this path every single day almost.
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Speaker 2: She does.
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Speaker 1: Lives in Brooklyn, and this is a very popular spot. So it sends chills as runners anytime you hear this. But Rose, this is a path that is in the family.
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Speaker 2: You know this, Ava, and she's a morning runner. And that makes me feel a little bit better because this happened at night. Obviously, women and anyone should be able to run whenever they damn well please. But at night, these are unfortunately the hours that this type of thing tends to happen more often. But yeah, I get photos from Ava almost every morning with this exact view from Brooklyn, looking at Manhattan, and she tells me it's magical.
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Speaker 3: I love running. Look at my running path.
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Speaker 2: And she sends me pictures from these paths every single day because she knows that we share that love of, Of running and just being out and feeling free and looking at these incredible views all around us. So this young woman, again, Katie Suarez is her name. She finished work at 6.30 p.m. She works at the TD Bank. She finishes work. This is how committed she is to her running and her exercise. You and I both understand this. She meets her mom at Wendy's. Because she wants, her mom is bringing her her running clothes and she wants to give her mom her work clothes. They literally, she goes into the bathroom, she changes into her running clothes, gives her mom her work clothes. They meet her dad next and she says, I'll be back.
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Speaker 3: I'm going for my run. I'll see you.
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Speaker 2: Guys at home. An hour later, her dad calls at 8 p.m. and says, where are you, sweetheart? She says, I'm a half a mile away.
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Speaker 3: I'll be home in five minutes.
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Speaker 2: Ten minutes later, When she doesn't return home, dad, and this gives me chills, dad goes out to the path to find her because he's like, where the hell is my daughter? And he finds her under a tree with two stab wounds to the neck. She was bleeding and it was, this is how it was described. She could not communicate verbally. As a dad, as a parent, as a runner, this is a story that just feels brutal.
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Speaker 1: Um, Robes, um, it's like that whole story. Look, you, you relate to everything you hear here in a lot of ways as a parent and as a runner of Robes and you certainly as a woman, but just hearing that she, the routine, we all have these routines. We factor into our day when our run is going to take place and to hear the planning that took place and her mom is meeting, she changed the bathroom, she obviously was an avid runner, took this seriously and her family was a part of this to a great degree. The next part of that, Robes, is that they knew her so well and trusted the schedule and her behavior so well to know within five minutes something's wrong. She was supposed to be here. This time, it's five minutes past that. Going to find Rose. That is chilling.
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Speaker 2: I get chills because I think this dad is probably thinking, I'm probably overreacting. I'm probably being silly here. Maybe she's just got a phone call or she's taking pictures of the beautiful skyline. And you would not think, it would be like worst case scenario, but to walk upon that scene, to find his daughter like that. And I have to say, obviously she's fighting for her life. She's on life support. But if he hadn't, been that quick to go find her, she wouldn't have had a shot. Now right now in terms of the investigation, we said they don't know. who they're looking for, but they're using flock cameras right now. They're actually using license place readers along the Belt Parkway. So her body was found under a tree next to the eastbound lanes of Belt Parkway.
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Speaker 3: This is what police are doing.
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Speaker 2: They have identified 1,700 cars that drove by that location in that window of time. And what they are doing is they are tracking down all of those vehicles to see if anyone had a dash cam.
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Speaker 3: Saw anything that could help.
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Speaker 2: And that's what they're having to do because they don't have anywhere else to look. Because yes, they don't believe this was targeted. They don't believe that there was any connection to this runner. It was just a crime of opportunity.
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Speaker 1: And Robes, there are no cameras out there.
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Speaker 2: None.
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Speaker 1: There are no cameras. That is a little surprising to hear that. Given how popular this area is, but Robes, at 8 o'clock at night, there aren't a lot of people that are going to be going up and down that area. And to think of her out there alone at night and opportunity. They're looking at all these license plates, baby. And again, not from what I've seen, they're not looking for them as a possible suspect in any of those cars. They're looking, does anybody have a camera that saw something, man? That is some tedious freaking stuff.
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Speaker 2: Right. And so to your point, local leaders have already been demanding more cameras and better lighting on that path.
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Speaker 3: Foot patrols have been stepped up.
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Speaker 2: I can't imagine anyone wanting to run on that path right now, knowing that whoever did this is still out there. That's the scary thing to me. There's a $ 10, 000 reward right now from Crimestoppers for any information leading to an arrest. But by the way, as scary and awful as this is, and yes, the fact that a man is on the loose, there is also another rapist on the loose. Do you remember last week?
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Speaker 3: We didn't cover this.
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Speaker 2: But a 39-year-old woman was raped while running in Central Park at 8.30 p.m. Again, very similar time of night. She described it as a man brandishing a knife, dragged her into the wooded areas. And if anyone is familiar with Central Park, there are so many nooks and crannies and twists and turns.
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Speaker 3: I will tell you, as a woman, I would.
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Speaker 2: Never run in Central Park by myself after dark, period.
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Speaker 1: I'm telling you, as a man, I wouldn't go through Central Park if it's starting to get a little dark. That park is enormous. There are so many spots, Rob. You could be screaming and yelling for your life on a crowded Saturday and nobody could see or hear you. There are just so many spots in that park.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so there's a rapist who was willing to brandish a knife.
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Speaker 3: Who has attacked a woman in Central Park.
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Speaker 2: And now we have a man with a knife who has attacked another runner and this one in Brooklyn. And look, you get this false sense of security as a runner. I feel like I mentioned I wouldn't ever run in Central Park at night by myself, but I have run along the West Side Highway. Now, not by myself, but with girlfriends. And I've even at dark at night. And it's felt scary because those areas get desolate, but you kind of feel like when you're running along the water, as this young woman did in Brooklyn, there's this sense of openness. So you don't feel like you're hidden or that someone's going to jump out. It doesn't feel as scary and it's a false sense of security. Probably she had her AirPods in, right? Probably she's thinking I'm a half a mile from home. She was a half a mile from home. She was Less than a five minute run from her home and she never made it back. This is some scary, scary stuff right now.
00:09:57
Speaker 1: And to think about you doing it, doing it with a girlfriend. Even the West Side Highway, if you're running north, the water's on your left. If you're running through there at night in the dark, there are so many places that somebody can see you from a distance coming and anticipate you. You can't see somebody where they're hiding and jumping out. It's impossible. It's so true. And if there's no one else out there to see this going on, and many of us out there are running, not paying attention to other runners and whatever somebody else is doing. Sometimes you want to make sure you don't get into somebody else's mess or business or what's going on. Robes, that idea, and I know we talk about it, we've seen cases, I guess more so with you now and thinking about you running at night. Robes, there's no way. No way I would let you walk. I would stop anything I'm doing to go outside with you if you insisted on running at dark.
00:10:57
Speaker 2: I will tell you, even when I run during the day and we break up our runs because we might have a different goal, you always ask me, which way are you running? Because you want to know if somehow, some way, I didn't come back, you'd know which direction to head in.
00:11:13
Speaker 3: And that's where we are, unfortunately, in this world when you are a female runner.
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Speaker 2: Now, when we come back, a very interesting and important person is offering some assistance to the family of this young woman because this man knows exactly what it's like to find his daughter after she didn't return home from running. Welcome back everyone to Amy and TJ. An urgent manhunt is underway right now in New York City for whoever stabbed Katie Suarez twice in the neck while she was out for a run on a popular waterfront Brooklyn path. There's also, by the way, a rapist on the run who attacked a female runner last week in Central Park. But it all, this latest incident is eerily similar to a case we covered in significantly here in the New York area and on Good Morning America back in 2016, a decade ago. Her name, Karina Vetrano, 30 years old. She was out running after work around 8 p.m. in Howard beach in Queens. It was a popular running path, beautiful views in Queens, New York city. She was living at home as well. Her father noticed she didn't come home when she was supposed to. He goes out looking for her cause he knows her running path and he finds her lifeless body. And he obviously has seen what's happened now in Brooklyn. And it took six months for them to find her killer. And he said the only reason they found her killer is because he was beating the drum. The public has to care. The public has to put pressure. The public has.
00:13:05
Speaker 3: To speak up.
00:13:05
Speaker 2: It's the only way that these types of crimes are solved.
00:13:10
Speaker 1: Six months later, do you? I'm sorry for putting you on the spot here. I can't remember the guy they caught in that one. What was his deal?
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Speaker 2: 22-year-old Chanel Lewis, sentenced to life in prison. And by the way, he strangled her and sexually assaulted her. He was just a bad guy. Crime of opportunity. And he raped her, strangled her. And yeah, 30 years old, out for fun. Gorgeous girl. I mean, just this... And just like a powerhouse. Like just this athlete, this girl who... And you think about these women, these young women. And I'm so proud of my daughter. Like to... To get out there and to run and to better yourself and to feel your strength. That's the irony of we're out there running, feeling strong. Because you're badasses.
00:13:50
Speaker 3: Feeling strong.
00:13:51
Speaker 2: Yes.
00:13:52
Speaker 1: And quite frankly, in better shape and more fit than these attackers. However, ropes, you just got to remember that. It doesn't matter how strong you feel, how badass you are. Ropes, you are a target fighter. You're not expecting that kind of attack. Robe, there is just horror to think of what this young lady went through on that trail.
00:14:16
Speaker 2: Horror.
00:14:17
Speaker 1: Robe, we know how it feels to be half mile out. You know that euphoric feeling you get. You put that last good song on or finish your race. Just that moment and where her head was. And for this to take place. What she saw. Did she see him coming? Did he come up behind her? Just what this. This is horrific. It really is. I really hope this young lady pulls through. I know it sounds awful, Robe, to some of the. Reports we're getting was stabbed in the neck. I mean, no, she lost a lot of blood.
00:14:43
Speaker 2: Yeah. You're stabbing someone to kill them when you stab them in the neck. And that's what, what, for what reason? And look, Phil Vitrano, um, You know, can you imagine, like, it is so, like, freakishly similar to what happened to his daughter.
00:14:58
Speaker 3: And he wrote, it's happened to someone else again.
00:15:00
Speaker 2: I know exactly what this father is going through because the similarities are uncanny. There has to be a public outcry like there was for Karina because we had so much pressure on this case because I would not stop. And we need to have that same kind of outcry because... people have to get up and demand justice. And he said this to the Ramirez family, if you need someone to talk to, you can contact me. I am probably the only person who can honestly say, I know exactly what you're going through.
00:15:27
Speaker 1: Is that all we have to do? You cannot. I mean, what pushback can there be? You as a woman, cannot go out for a run alone anywhere close to it being dark. You cannot. And even if it's daytime, Rose, wasn't Lincoln Riley, was she running daytime?
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Speaker 2: And that was in Athens, Georgia on a popular running path. And it was the middle of the day, but she was alone. and there weren't enough cameras, and look, I know there's been this big outcry, and I understand privacy concerns about not wanting flat cameras everywhere, but my God, on a public path, on a running path, on a wooded path, please, God, please, more lighting, more cameras, because I do believe If anyone who's lying in wait, who's seeking an opportunity, a moment to inflict harm on someone, if they know there are cameras, if they know that.
00:16:18
Speaker 1: You would hope.
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Speaker 2: I would hope.
00:16:19
Speaker 1: It has to help.
00:16:20
Speaker 3: That it would help.
00:16:21
Speaker 2: And at least we could get this person arrested sooner rather than later.
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Speaker 3: I hate the idea.
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Speaker 2: I hate the idea right now, especially where we live, that this person is on the loose right now and we don't even have a description.
00:16:33
Speaker 1: Robes. That is... That, you said it in a succinct way that makes it even scarier. There's a woman that was stabbed twice in the neck. The guy who did it, we don't know who he is, where he's from, what he looks like, what his motives are, if he's out there wreaking havoc on others. We have no idea. And you just have to say that. I mean, I'll say this to Ava now. Robes, you cannot, as a woman, go out for a run by yourself. You just can't. I don't know that it has to be crowded as hell like the West Side Highway.
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Speaker 2: Maybe.
00:17:07
Speaker 1: Other than that, babe, you just cannot do it. And that's where we are. That's what we have to do.
00:17:11
Speaker 2: Yes.
00:17:12
Speaker 1: That's what we have to do until otherwise noted.
00:17:14
Speaker 2: Yep. We have to limit the opportunities that criminals would have to inflict harm.
00:17:19
Speaker 3: But we hope they get this guy.
00:17:21
Speaker 2: And we hope, we hope this beautiful young woman, Katie Suarez, pulls through.
00:17:27
Speaker 3: We're praying for her and her family.
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Speaker 2: And just a reminder to all you women runners out there, please, please, please be mindful. We always appreciate you listening to us. I'm Amy Robach alongside TJ Holmes.
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Speaker 3: We'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 1: Hey there, folks. It is Tuesday, November 3rd, and there is an urgent manhunt going on in New York City for the man who randomly attacked a woman who was out for a run. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ Enrolled. I'm just going to tell folks what you said to me right before we started. I said, we sure they haven't caught this guy. You said, they don't even have an effing description.
00:00:26
Speaker 2: They don't know who they're looking for, and this is really, really frightening. We're talking about 28-year-old Katie Suarez, and as of this recording, she is literally fighting for her life. We've been told she is currently on life support, and this is how the police chief described her condition to reporters just a short while ago. As of right now, her condition, she is in grave condition. We're hoping for the best, but she is still in very, very, Critical condition. She was stabbed twice in the neck while she was running on a very popular running path here in New York City.
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Speaker 1: For reasons nobody understands. Robes. This was random. She was not targeted. She was not sexually assaulted.
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Speaker 2: Nope.
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Speaker 1: What in God's name is going on? And Robes, obviously this was going to get a lot of attention no matter what, but when this happened, this was at a time where the whole city was getting ready for the New York City Marathon. A lot of attention was on runners at the time. She was not participating in the marathon, but Robes, it's hard to describe if you're outside of New York just how picturesque this area is because the best views of New York are actually from New Jersey and Brooklyn and outside of Manhattan. She was running along a path, Robes, that is just magical for runners.
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Speaker 2: Yes. It's called Shore Parkway. And that's one of the many things I love about this city. But as a runner, yes, we have running paths along the Hudson, along the East River.
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Speaker 3: We're an island.
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Speaker 2: And so yes, There are gorgeous running paths everywhere. And this was among one of the more popular ones along the Brooklyn waterfront path. Yes, fantastic views of Manhattan.
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Speaker 3: And this is a young woman. It's heartbreaking. We have a timeline.
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Speaker 2: And when you find out how she was discovered, it's going to break your heart even more. So her own father, her own father found her.
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Speaker 1: And Robes, we should say here, and I'm stopping, and you mentioned this earlier, so I know you don't mind. Your daughter runs this path every single day almost.
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Speaker 2: She does.
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Speaker 1: Lives in Brooklyn, and this is a very popular spot. So it sends chills as runners anytime you hear this. But Rose, this is a path that is in the family.
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Speaker 2: You know this, Ava, and she's a morning runner. And that makes me feel a little bit better because this happened at night. Obviously, women and anyone should be able to run whenever they damn well please. But at night, these are unfortunately the hours that this type of thing tends to happen more often. But yeah, I get photos from Ava almost every morning with this exact view from Brooklyn, looking at Manhattan, and she tells me it's magical.
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Speaker 3: I love running. Look at my running path.
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Speaker 2: And she sends me pictures from these paths every single day because she knows that we share that love of, Of running and just being out and feeling free and looking at these incredible views all around us. So this young woman, again, Katie Suarez is her name. She finished work at 6.30 p.m. She works at the TD Bank. She finishes work. This is how committed she is to her running and her exercise. You and I both understand this. She meets her mom at Wendy's. Because she wants, her mom is bringing her her running clothes and she wants to give her mom her work clothes. They literally, she goes into the bathroom, she changes into her running clothes, gives her mom her work clothes. They meet her dad next and she says, I'll be back.
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Speaker 3: I'm going for my run. I'll see you.
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Speaker 2: Guys at home. An hour later, her dad calls at 8 p.m. and says, where are you, sweetheart? She says, I'm a half a mile away.
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Speaker 3: I'll be home in five minutes.
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Speaker 2: Ten minutes later, When she doesn't return home, dad, and this gives me chills, dad goes out to the path to find her because he's like, where the hell is my daughter? And he finds her under a tree with two stab wounds to the neck. She was bleeding and it was, this is how it was described. She could not communicate verbally. As a dad, as a parent, as a runner, this is a story that just feels brutal.
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Speaker 1: Um, Robes, um, it's like that whole story. Look, you, you relate to everything you hear here in a lot of ways as a parent and as a runner of Robes and you certainly as a woman, but just hearing that she, the routine, we all have these routines. We factor into our day when our run is going to take place and to hear the planning that took place and her mom is meeting, she changed the bathroom, she obviously was an avid runner, took this seriously and her family was a part of this to a great degree. The next part of that, Robes, is that they knew her so well and trusted the schedule and her behavior so well to know within five minutes something's wrong. She was supposed to be here. This time, it's five minutes past that. Going to find Rose. That is chilling.
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Speaker 2: I get chills because I think this dad is probably thinking, I'm probably overreacting. I'm probably being silly here. Maybe she's just got a phone call or she's taking pictures of the beautiful skyline. And you would not think, it would be like worst case scenario, but to walk upon that scene, to find his daughter like that. And I have to say, obviously she's fighting for her life. She's on life support. But if he hadn't, been that quick to go find her, she wouldn't have had a shot. Now right now in terms of the investigation, we said they don't know. who they're looking for, but they're using flock cameras right now. They're actually using license place readers along the Belt Parkway. So her body was found under a tree next to the eastbound lanes of Belt Parkway.
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Speaker 3: This is what police are doing.
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Speaker 2: They have identified 1,700 cars that drove by that location in that window of time. And what they are doing is they are tracking down all of those vehicles to see if anyone had a dash cam.
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Speaker 3: Saw anything that could help.
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Speaker 2: And that's what they're having to do because they don't have anywhere else to look. Because yes, they don't believe this was targeted. They don't believe that there was any connection to this runner. It was just a crime of opportunity.
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Speaker 1: And Robes, there are no cameras out there.
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Speaker 2: None.
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Speaker 1: There are no cameras. That is a little surprising to hear that. Given how popular this area is, but Robes, at 8 o'clock at night, there aren't a lot of people that are going to be going up and down that area. And to think of her out there alone at night and opportunity. They're looking at all these license plates, baby. And again, not from what I've seen, they're not looking for them as a possible suspect in any of those cars. They're looking, does anybody have a camera that saw something, man? That is some tedious freaking stuff.
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Speaker 2: Right. And so to your point, local leaders have already been demanding more cameras and better lighting on that path.
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Speaker 3: Foot patrols have been stepped up.
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Speaker 2: I can't imagine anyone wanting to run on that path right now, knowing that whoever did this is still out there. That's the scary thing to me. There's a $ 10, 000 reward right now from Crimestoppers for any information leading to an arrest. But by the way, as scary and awful as this is, and yes, the fact that a man is on the loose, there is also another rapist on the loose. Do you remember last week?
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Speaker 3: We didn't cover this.
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Speaker 2: But a 39-year-old woman was raped while running in Central Park at 8.30 p.m. Again, very similar time of night. She described it as a man brandishing a knife, dragged her into the wooded areas. And if anyone is familiar with Central Park, there are so many nooks and crannies and twists and turns.
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Speaker 3: I will tell you, as a woman, I would.
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Speaker 2: Never run in Central Park by myself after dark, period.
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Speaker 1: I'm telling you, as a man, I wouldn't go through Central Park if it's starting to get a little dark. That park is enormous. There are so many spots, Rob. You could be screaming and yelling for your life on a crowded Saturday and nobody could see or hear you. There are just so many spots in that park.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so there's a rapist who was willing to brandish a knife.
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Speaker 3: Who has attacked a woman in Central Park.
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Speaker 2: And now we have a man with a knife who has attacked another runner and this one in Brooklyn. And look, you get this false sense of security as a runner. I feel like I mentioned I wouldn't ever run in Central Park at night by myself, but I have run along the West Side Highway. Now, not by myself, but with girlfriends. And I've even at dark at night. And it's felt scary because those areas get desolate, but you kind of feel like when you're running along the water, as this young woman did in Brooklyn, there's this sense of openness. So you don't feel like you're hidden or that someone's going to jump out. It doesn't feel as scary and it's a false sense of security. Probably she had her AirPods in, right? Probably she's thinking I'm a half a mile from home. She was a half a mile from home. She was Less than a five minute run from her home and she never made it back. This is some scary, scary stuff right now.
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Speaker 1: And to think about you doing it, doing it with a girlfriend. Even the West Side Highway, if you're running north, the water's on your left. If you're running through there at night in the dark, there are so many places that somebody can see you from a distance coming and anticipate you. You can't see somebody where they're hiding and jumping out. It's impossible. It's so true. And if there's no one else out there to see this going on, and many of us out there are running, not paying attention to other runners and whatever somebody else is doing. Sometimes you want to make sure you don't get into somebody else's mess or business or what's going on. Robes, that idea, and I know we talk about it, we've seen cases, I guess more so with you now and thinking about you running at night. Robes, there's no way. No way I would let you walk. I would stop anything I'm doing to go outside with you if you insisted on running at dark.
00:10:57
Speaker 2: I will tell you, even when I run during the day and we break up our runs because we might have a different goal, you always ask me, which way are you running? Because you want to know if somehow, some way, I didn't come back, you'd know which direction to head in.
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Speaker 3: And that's where we are, unfortunately, in this world when you are a female runner.
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Speaker 2: Now, when we come back, a very interesting and important person is offering some assistance to the family of this young woman because this man knows exactly what it's like to find his daughter after she didn't return home from running. Welcome back everyone to Amy and TJ. An urgent manhunt is underway right now in New York City for whoever stabbed Katie Suarez twice in the neck while she was out for a run on a popular waterfront Brooklyn path. There's also, by the way, a rapist on the run who attacked a female runner last week in Central Park. But it all, this latest incident is eerily similar to a case we covered in significantly here in the New York area and on Good Morning America back in 2016, a decade ago. Her name, Karina Vetrano, 30 years old. She was out running after work around 8 p.m. in Howard beach in Queens. It was a popular running path, beautiful views in Queens, New York city. She was living at home as well. Her father noticed she didn't come home when she was supposed to. He goes out looking for her cause he knows her running path and he finds her lifeless body. And he obviously has seen what's happened now in Brooklyn. And it took six months for them to find her killer. And he said the only reason they found her killer is because he was beating the drum. The public has to care. The public has to put pressure. The public has.
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Speaker 3: To speak up.
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Speaker 2: It's the only way that these types of crimes are solved.
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Speaker 1: Six months later, do you? I'm sorry for putting you on the spot here. I can't remember the guy they caught in that one. What was his deal?
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Speaker 2: 22-year-old Chanel Lewis, sentenced to life in prison. And by the way, he strangled her and sexually assaulted her. He was just a bad guy. Crime of opportunity. And he raped her, strangled her. And yeah, 30 years old, out for fun. Gorgeous girl. I mean, just this... And just like a powerhouse. Like just this athlete, this girl who... And you think about these women, these young women. And I'm so proud of my daughter. Like to... To get out there and to run and to better yourself and to feel your strength. That's the irony of we're out there running, feeling strong. Because you're badasses.
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Speaker 3: Feeling strong.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 1: And quite frankly, in better shape and more fit than these attackers. However, ropes, you just got to remember that. It doesn't matter how strong you feel, how badass you are. Ropes, you are a target fighter. You're not expecting that kind of attack. Robe, there is just horror to think of what this young lady went through on that trail.
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Speaker 2: Horror.
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Speaker 1: Robe, we know how it feels to be half mile out. You know that euphoric feeling you get. You put that last good song on or finish your race. Just that moment and where her head was. And for this to take place. What she saw. Did she see him coming? Did he come up behind her? Just what this. This is horrific. It really is. I really hope this young lady pulls through. I know it sounds awful, Robe, to some of the. Reports we're getting was stabbed in the neck. I mean, no, she lost a lot of blood.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. You're stabbing someone to kill them when you stab them in the neck. And that's what, what, for what reason? And look, Phil Vitrano, um, You know, can you imagine, like, it is so, like, freakishly similar to what happened to his daughter.
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Speaker 3: And he wrote, it's happened to someone else again.
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Speaker 2: I know exactly what this father is going through because the similarities are uncanny. There has to be a public outcry like there was for Karina because we had so much pressure on this case because I would not stop. And we need to have that same kind of outcry because... people have to get up and demand justice. And he said this to the Ramirez family, if you need someone to talk to, you can contact me. I am probably the only person who can honestly say, I know exactly what you're going through.
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Speaker 1: Is that all we have to do? You cannot. I mean, what pushback can there be? You as a woman, cannot go out for a run alone anywhere close to it being dark. You cannot. And even if it's daytime, Rose, wasn't Lincoln Riley, was she running daytime?
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Speaker 2: And that was in Athens, Georgia on a popular running path. And it was the middle of the day, but she was alone. and there weren't enough cameras, and look, I know there's been this big outcry, and I understand privacy concerns about not wanting flat cameras everywhere, but my God, on a public path, on a running path, on a wooded path, please, God, please, more lighting, more cameras, because I do believe If anyone who's lying in wait, who's seeking an opportunity, a moment to inflict harm on someone, if they know there are cameras, if they know that.
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Speaker 1: You would hope.
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Speaker 2: I would hope.
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Speaker 1: It has to help.
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Speaker 3: That it would help.
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Speaker 2: And at least we could get this person arrested sooner rather than later.
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Speaker 3: I hate the idea.
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Speaker 2: I hate the idea right now, especially where we live, that this person is on the loose right now and we don't even have a description.
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Speaker 1: Robes. That is... That, you said it in a succinct way that makes it even scarier. There's a woman that was stabbed twice in the neck. The guy who did it, we don't know who he is, where he's from, what he looks like, what his motives are, if he's out there wreaking havoc on others. We have no idea. And you just have to say that. I mean, I'll say this to Ava now. Robes, you cannot, as a woman, go out for a run by yourself. You just can't. I don't know that it has to be crowded as hell like the West Side Highway.
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Speaker 2: Maybe.
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Speaker 1: Other than that, babe, you just cannot do it. And that's where we are. That's what we have to do.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 1: That's what we have to do until otherwise noted.
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Speaker 2: Yep. We have to limit the opportunities that criminals would have to inflict harm.
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Speaker 3: But we hope they get this guy.
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Speaker 2: And we hope, we hope this beautiful young woman, Katie Suarez, pulls through.
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Speaker 3: We're praying for her and her family.
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Speaker 2: And just a reminder to all you women runners out there, please, please, please be mindful. We always appreciate you listening to us. I'm Amy Robach alongside TJ Holmes.
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Speaker 3: We'll talk to you soon.