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Working Hospital Inventory and the Karina Vetrano Case
from The Fixer (Bronx Jonny) · #86
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3 minJohnny recounts doing inventory work at a hospital morgue and dealing with dying, racist elderly patients, which spirals into discussing the Karina Vetrano jogging murder case in Howard Beach and the suspicious behavior of her father afterward.
- 6:58Tim describes working hospital inventory, including witnessing a patient with a hematoma who died before medical students could operate.
- 7:34A Jehovah's Witness coworker refused to help tag the body, creating awkwardness on the team.
- 7:52During two years of hospital inventory work, Tim met lonely patients—including racist older residents from neighborhoods who praised Reggie Jackson and expressed pride in property values without admitting racial prejudice.
- 8:45Tim confuses details about a jogging case on Long Island, initially mixing up the Chandra Levy case with the Howard Beach incident.
- 9:07A black teenager was found near the body in Howard Beach; an old detective later claimed to remember seeing him in the neighborhood, even though the encounter was unremarkable at the time.
- 9:47Tim's takeaway: don't jog in Howard Beach, especially if black people are around.
- 10:01The victim's father struck Tim as strange for taking his dead daughter's best friends on trips to Italy after her death—an apparent attempt at what Tim calls sympathy attraction.
Chandra LevyHoward BeachReggie Jackson