Just The Tip-sters

The brutal strangulation death of Karina Vetrano in the Howard Beach neighborhood of Queens New York in August 2016 seemed like a slam-dunk, easy-to-solve crime at first blush.  The 30 year-old beauty had been killed while jogging in the late afternoon, her body dumped just a few yards off the running path in Spring Creek Park.  But then things got not so slam-dunk.  And fast.  Police followed empty lead after empty lead.  The touch-DNA found on the young victim's body could not be matched in any database - and the case went cold for six months.  Then, through what can only be described as a complete fluke of a train-of-thought hunch by a police officer in a completely different jurisdiction, 20 year-old Chanel Lewis was arrested after a DNA swab matched that of the DNA found on Karina's body.  Shortly thereafter, Lewis confessed to the murder in a videotaped police interview.  Seems like cops were back running toward the hoop unchallenged again, right?  Not so fast.  In the following 14 months, right up to A