The father of slain Howard Beach jogger Karina Vetrano raised a $163,000 reward Wednesday for the arrest of her killer in a massive outpouring of love and support. 
 
 More than 2,200 people kicked in donations ranging from $5 to $10,000 as the GoFundMe page easily surpassed its original goal of $100,000. 
 
 The mark was doubled to $200,000 after the initial target was reached in a matter of hours. 
 
 “We love you Karina — the whole world loves you!” wrote donor Olga Grafakos. “I hope that our Lord brings you and your family the much-needed peace during this very difficult time.” 
 
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 Karina Vetrano was killed while out for a jog in Queens last Tuesday. 
 
 Another woman, after chipping in $10, sent this message: “My heart breaks for her and her parents. I hope they catch the animal and justice is served.” 
 
 The slain 30-year-old’s dad issued his appeal for funds from outside the Queens home that Karina left at about 5 p.m. on Aug. 2 for her daily jog. 
 
 “I’m pleading with the public, with the country,” Philip Vetrano said Wednesday. “Five dollars, $10 — we need to raise this money very quickly.” 
 
 “Five dollars, $10 — we need to raise this money very quickly,” said Philip Vetrano, Karina's father, as the fundraising effort began. (Debbie Egan-Chin/New York Daily News) 
 
 The response was instant and overwhelming as the page was flooded with donations. More than $100,000 poured in between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. The kitty topped $150,000 just a few hours later. 
 
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 There was already a $20,000 reward from the NYPD for information leading to the conviction of the killer. 
 
 City detectives reached out to the Massachusetts State Police to check for any parallels between the Vetrano murder and the slaying of a jogger in Princeton, Mass. 
 
 Vanessa Marcotte, 27, a Google account manager from New York City who had been visiting her mom, left her mother’s house for a run Sunday afternoon. She was found dead hours later a half-mile from the home. But investigators and Philip Vetrano said there was no connection between the crimes. 
 
 “Totally unrelated,” said Vetrano, who added that his reward came with no strings attached. 
 
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 “No questions asked,” the retired FDNY firefighter said. “I don’t care if he turns himself in for the money. Someone knows something.” 
 
 Police were originally offering a $10,000 reward for information on Vetrano’s murder, but they raised it to $20,000. (David Wexler/For New York Daily News) 
 
 Vetrano said there were leads coming in, and the NYPD was chasing every one of them in an effort to solve the killing of his bright and beautiful daughter. 
 
 He also sent a message to the killer during his call for donations. 
 
 “You will pay dearly,” he said. “And you will pay for an eternity.” 
 
 Anyone with information on Vetrano’s murder is asked to call CrimeStoppers at (800) 577-TIPS. ||||| Officials have mulled the use of satellite imagery of the Howard Beach area at the time jogger Karina Vetrano was slain as police continue to press their search for her killer, a law enforcement source said. 
 
 The NYPD already had the services of an FBI drone, which flew over the crime scene in the days immediately after Vetrano was killed Aug. 2 while she jogged through Spring Creek Park, part of the Gateway National Recreation area. 
 
 Use of satellite imagery was something that has been discussed, the source said. It was unclear Thursday if any high altitude pictures exist showing the terrain and crime scene at the time of the attack, believed to have been right after Vetrano left her home on 84th Street about 5:30 p.m. that Tuesday. 
 
 U.S. Defense Department satellites can show objects down to a matter of a few inches, according to published reports. If a passing satellite took images on that day they might show Vetrano leaving her home, running or whether anyone else was in the area, the source said. 
 
 On Thursday, a high-ranked NYPD official said police were continuing to pull out all stops in the case, including requesting voluntary DNA samples from people in the area. Police recovered a good DNA sample from the crime scene but had not yet matched it to anyone. 
 
 “We are either going to get it or not going to get it,” the official said, referring to making an arrest. 
 
 A GoFundMe page was set up by Vetrano’s father, Phillip, in an effort to boost reward money — and smoke out new leads for investigators — had pulled in $215,910 as of 10:15 p.m. Thursday. 
 
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 “Somebody knows something. Somebody has to say something, and with this amount of money maybe they will,” Vetrano said Wednesday. “What we need is someone to say ‘Hello, I know the guy.’ ” 
 
 The fund can be found at the GoFundMe website under Karina Vetrano Memorial Fund. 
 
 Vetrano told Newsday the money donated through the website would be added to $25,000 being held in a different account. The city’s reward money — $20,000 — is separate. 
 
 The body of Karina Vetrano, 30, was found in Spring Creek Park on Aug. 2 about 10:40 p.m. by her father and police. Officials said she had been strangled and sexually assaulted. 
 
 She had gone for her usual run about 5:30 p.m. in the nearby federal wetlands area. 
 
 Phillip Vetrano said he remained involved in the case as a way of helping the family — himself included — cope with the tragedy. 
 
 “If I wake up and there is nothing for me to do, that is when the bottom is going to drop out,” he told reporters. “So I have to stay involved every day, in every way.” ||||| This GoFundMe page is being established in the name of Karina Vetrano. A beautiful. vivacious 30-year-old woman who was brutally murdered on the night of August 2nd when she went out for her nightly jog only blocks from her home in Howard Beach. 
 
 
 
 We are a committee of 5 people who represent the Howard Beach community, and we are joined by Karina’s parents, Cathy and Phil, in establishing this page. The money that we seek to raise here is to supplement the $20,000 reward currently offered by the NYPD. While we greatly appreciate the help of the police, Howard Beach is a community not known for sitting back while other people work on our behalf. Karina has become the “daughter” of the entire community and we are committed to seeing justice served in her memory. 
 
 
 
 We need your help in bringing this vicious animal to face the most sever punishment allowable by law. 
 
 
 
 Every dollar from you will help to bring her family and our community one step closer to the only thing that can help now and that is an arrest and conviction. 
 
 
 
 These funds are the only thing that we feel we can do to encourage anyone with information to come forward with something that will led to an arrest. We hope and pray that you will read this and recognize that an event like this is universal. It could happen to your daughter, your sister, your mother. 
 
 
 
 At a time like this we know that our fellow human beings will be happy to join in this quest to bring the only sense of peace possible to a family ripped apart by this horrendous act. 
 
 
 
 Please help us bring Karina’s killer to justice. 
 
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– The parents of Karina Vetrano, the jogger murdered in Queens last week, teamed up with others in their close-knit community, Howard Beach, to try to come up with a reward to supplement the $20,000 being offered by the NYPD to catch Vetrano's killer. The goal of their GoFundMe campaign was to raise $100,000—a goal that was met in hours, the New York Daily News reports, and, in just one day, nearly $200,000 has been raised. New fliers featuring Vetrano's picture and noting a $100,000 reward have already been put up, per an update on the fundraising page. The initial $100,000 fundraising goal, announced Wednesday morning, has been raised to $200,000, Newsday reports. Meanwhile, the Vetranos are in close contact with the NYPD and are talking to the media about their daughter. Her father, Phil, who normally jogged with her, recalled their last conversation: "I said, I don’t think it’s a good idea that you go in there. And she said, it’s OK Daddy, I’ll be all right," Vetrano tells PIX 11. Not long after that, when she failed to return home from the run, "I got a feeling. It came over me," Vetrano says. "And I got off that couch, and I went looking for her." Vetrano says the reward money is being offered with no questions asked, DNAinfo reports: "I don’t care if he turns himself in for that money. Somebody knows something, and somebody's going to say something."