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. ||||| A mysterious man whose likeness was sketched by a police artist could hold the key to solving the murder of a Howard Beach jogger. 
 
 Police released the drawing Wednesday of a potential witness to the slaying of Karina Vetrano, who was found facedown in Spring Creek Park on Aug. 2. Police said the bearded man was seen coming out of the weeds near the Belt Parkway around the time 30-year-old Vetrano was killed. 
 
 “We want to speak to this person because we feel that he was there,” NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said. “He is not a subject. He is not even a (person of interest).” 
 
 The gaunt-faced individual was seen by several people, including a utility worker in the area, Boyce said. He’s believed to be between 35 and 45 years old and about 5-feet-10 inches. He was spotted wearing a red shirt, dark pants and a wool cap. 
 
 Man could provide NYPD 'additional leads' in Howard Beach killing 
 
 Police released a sketch of a man they want to talk to about the slaying of Karina Vetrano. 
 
 The existence of the sketch was first reported by NYDailyNews.com on Tuesday. 
 
 A police source said the NYPD has already received a number of tips on the man’s identity. But as of Wednesday evening, cops hadn’t located him. 
 
 Hours after the sketch was released, Vetrano’s mother made an impassioned plea for the potential witness to come forward. 
 
 Police are still hunting for clues as to who killed jogger Karina Vetrano in Howard Beach. (Instagram) 
 
 “I hope that this man has the decency to be able to come forward to tell us if he saw or knows anything,” Cathy Vetrano said in an interview on Curtis Sliwa’s radio show. 
 
 Vetrano’s savage rape and strangulation has vexed investigators for weeks. 
 
 An avid runner, Vetrano’s battered body was found amid towering weeds about 15 feet off the desolate path she jogged nearly every day. Detectives have developed a DNA profile of the killer from material found on Vetrano’s body and her phone — but have found no match, police said. Investigators believe the murder was a random attack. 
 
 The man police wish to speak to was seen leaving the area of high weeds in Spring Creek Park around the time Vetrano was killed. (Debbie Egan-Chin/New York Daily News) 
 
 Cops have received about 85 tips since the murder and are vetting the last nine, Boyce said. 
 
 The reward for information about Vetrano’s killer has ballooned to $300,000. Vetrano’s mom brought up the enormous reward in her plea to the man in the police sketch. 
 
 “He will be rewarded both spiritually as well as monetarily if he gets the courage to come forward,” she said. 
 
 The grieving mom also offered some choice words to the person responsible for killing her daughter, a restaurant worker who earned a master’s degree last year at St. John’s University. 
 
 The police opted to release the sketch, which had been in the possession of investigators for a few weeks, after video evidence failed to provide clues about the killer. 
 
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 With Graham Rayman, Ryan Sit ||||| 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. ||||| Police are expected to release as early as Thursday a sketch of a man seen leaving Spring Creek Park in Howard Beach, Queens, around the time jogger Karina Vetrano was killed earlier this month, a high-ranking law enforcement official said. 
 
 The man in the sketch is not a suspect in the Aug. 2 homicide and is being sought because he may be able to provide information about what he may have seen in the park around the time police think Vetrano was killed, the official stressed. 
 
 Police were able to compile the sketch based on the recollections of a worker at the north end of the park who said he was startled by the appearance of the unknown man as he left the park along a bike and jogging trail near the Belt Parkway, the official said. 
 
 “A worker in the area said he spotted a guy,” the official said. The worker was surprised to see the man and for a moment thought he was going to be mugged, the official said. 
 
 After a number of attempts at rendering the sketch, police think they now have what was described as a generic portrayal of the person they would like to talk with about what he may have seen. 
 
 Meanwhile, a so-called mystery jogger seen recently in Howard Beach was ruled out as a possible subject in the investigation of the killing of Karina Vetrano after the person voluntarily talked with police Monday night, a top NYPD official said Tuesday. 
 
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 The 48-year-old man walked into the 106th Precinct late Monday after Philip Vetrano, the slain woman’s father, said on a radio program that both he and police wanted to talk with the man. 
 
 Police have said she left her home about 5:30 p.m. that day for her usual run and is believed to have entered the park at 161st Avenue and 81st Street, about three blocks from her home on 84th Street. She is believed to have run west on a path through the park, where she was confronted by an “unknown person or persons,” police have said. 
 
 Officials said she was strangled, battered and sexually abused. 
 
 On Monday night, Philip Vetrano questioned the whereabouts of the male jogger, saying in a radio interview with Curtis Sliwa on WABC radio that the man had not been seen since Karina was killed. The father said the man used to run in the neighborhood near Spring Creek Park. 
 
 NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said the jogger went to the precinct after hearing the broadcast and was quickly discounted as a subject in the probe. The jogger had hurt his knee and has had to refrain from running in recent weeks, Boyce said. 
 
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 “He heard it , that person came forward — is not a subject at all,” Boyce said. 
 
 Philip Vetrano said he was pleased the man had surfaced. 
 
 “That is great,” he said. “I just wanted to talk to him. I never said he was a suspect.” 
 
 Boyce said detectives still think Vetrano died at the hands of a chance encounter with a stranger in the densely weeded park. 
 
 “We don’t think this has anything to do with Karina’s background at all,” Boyce said. “We still maintain it was a random attack. There is nothing that suggests anybody in her past would do this to her.” 
 
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 The best evidence so far, Boyce said, has been DNA taken from Karina Vetrano’s body and cellphone. However, Boyce said the DNA from Karina’s body has not matched any profiles found in state or national databases. He said that the DNA also has not matched any profiles kept in smaller databases of DNA found at robberies, burglaries and other crimes for which there are no identified suspects. 
 
 Police have focused part of their search on the bike and jogging path at the north end of the park along the Belt Parkway. The path runs west to Brooklyn and east to South Ozone Park. However, there is a lack of video coverage in part of that area, which includes a shopping mall on Erskine Street, Boyce said. 
 
 “We have gone through that with a fine-tooth comb as well — anybody arrested for shoplifting, panhandling — whatever the case may be, we are doing a deep dive on that,” Boyce said of the mall area.
– 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.