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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.\xa0 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.\xa0 But then things got not so slam-dunk.\xa0 And fast.\xa0 Police followed empty lead after empty lead.\xa0 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.\xa0 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.\xa0 Shortly thereafter, Lewis confessed to the murder in a videotaped police interview.\xa0 Seems like cops were back running toward the hoop unchallenged again, right?\xa0 Not so fast.\xa0 In the following 14 months, right up to April 2018, the road to justice in this case ran into a bizarre series of courtroom mishaps, alleged jury misconduct and a mystery letter to the defense team that makes this case - though officially now "solved," one that the locals in Queens still wonder about.\xa0 And it ain't over yet.\xa0 Join Melissa as she conveys the twists and turns of this intriguing and tragic case.