Mum of jogger murdered 20 years ago fears serial killer could be at work
Daughter of Lidia Pinto Machado was slain in similar circumstances..and her murderer was never found
THE mother of a jogger who was murdered 20 years ago has spoken out in the wake of the killing of two female runners, who were killed in broad daylight just like her daughter.
Lidia Pinto Machado, 86, still has no idea who killed Maria Isabel Monteiro Alves, who was found dead in Central Park, New York, in 1995.
She says when she saw the headlines about the tragic death of Karina Vetrano she thought: "There goes another one."
Machado believes the NYPD will never find out what happened the 30-year-old, who was bludgeoned to death while running near her home in Howard Beach, on August 2.
They discovered who it was who murdered her own daughter.
Both women died in similar circumstances - Alves was on her morning jog on a September morning when she was slain.
She was out on her usual run - her body was found three hours later in a stream - she had also been brutally beaten, and was left in a stream near to the path she had been dragged from.
There is evidence both women had been assaulted and raped.
Both she and Vetrano had clearly fought for their lives before they were killed - they had lost teeth in those horrific moments before they died.
Machado told the : "You can't imagine how much I've suffered over this. I think of her everyday. I don't think I'll ever get justice."
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NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton created a task force for the case, made up of divers, and investigators - but rain and the stream washed away the evidence.
He has done the same for Vetrano in a bid to find her killer.
Meanwhile her family believe they will get justice for their daughter's death.
Cathy Vetrano spoke at a press conference held this week saying: "I guarantee you - you will pay forever.
"I'm here to remind you, in case you don't already know, that now it's the whole entire world against you."
She took her sunglasses off to speak to the killer who she branded a "coward."
The news conference was a day after Karina's funeral was held.
Her father Phillip, who found his daughter's body spoke at the service saying: "She was so full of life, light, beauty and power.
"Just as a shooting star burns out at its greatest brilliance, so did Karina."
Cathy Vetrano then read a poem she had written for her daughter more than 10 years ago.