Mother Of Cold Case Victim Lydia Varo,'I'm Trying To Find Out Who Did This'

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MOUNT VERNON, Wash. -- Nearly a decade ago, a little girl went missing in Washington. Little Lydia Varo was later found beaten to death.
Now the girl's mother is back in Washington state, begging for answers.
"And I'm trying to find out who did this," said Marie Braschler, the victim's mother.
Varo was murdered nearly a decade ago, but her mother still remembers every detail like it was yesterday.
"And I will not give up ever until the person or persons who are responsible for this are caught," said Marie Braschler.

Braschler flew into Mount Vernon from Missouri, hoping to kick up new clues.
Lydia Varo came to Washington in July of 2001 to visit family. The 13-year-old went for a walk and never came back. Nine months later, someone found her body down a 50 foot embankment six miles from her aunt's house.
"Even now - nine years later, it's painful," said Darlene Pearson, the victim's aunt who was one of the last to see her. "I told her that we were going to go shopping, and we'd be back in a couple of hours. She gave me a big hug and kiss, told me she loved me and took a basketball and walked out towards the barn. And that's the last I saw her."
An autopsy showed Varo had been beaten to death.
Search and rescue crews scoured this area in the weeks after she disappeared. She was finally found nine months later when someone picking mushrooms found her body, leaving detectives to believe the murderer placed Varo's body in the field.

"I would say that someone has to know something," Pearson said. "Nine years can't go by without somebody speaking up and letting something slip out."
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Marie Braschler is seen at the memorial honoring her daughter, Lydia Varo, on Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2010.

Lydia Varo

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Yes, someone knows something. Problem is that nine years have gone by and whoever does could be dead or in prison already. No witnesses? No physical evidence (tough after nine months in a field)? Yeah, this is going to be a doozie to solve. I hope someone will buck up the courage to come forward, even if it's just a hunch.

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Her brother was murdered 5 years later

February 16, 2006 Two unsolved murders haunt a Beaverton family PORTLAND, Ore. - It is the kind of tragedy anyone could hardly endure once, but now a Beaverton family has had to go through the pain of losing a loved one twice - two siblings murdered in separate incidents, less than five years apart. The murder of 22-year-old Daniel Varo, who was one of three people slain in a Tacoma home last week, has shaken Deanne Bays. Varo was her younger brother. "He was my best friend and I loved him so much and I can't protect him now," she says. "That is the hardest part, you know. I keep picturing my little brother sitting at the computer, somebody he trusted, one of his friends, coming up and shooting him in the back of the head. I just… my heart breaks when I think about it because he was so trusting." This is not the first time Bays has endured this kind of a loss. Her 13-year-old sister, Lydia, was found murdered four and a half years ago, her body dumped in the woods outside the small community of Mount Vernon where she had been kidnapped. It was about the same time that authorities were investigating the murders of Ashley Pond and Miranda Gaddis in Oregon City. "I knew what those families were going through because we were going through it too," Bays says. Both her sister's killing and her brother's recent murder remain unsolved. Bays says she supports the death penalty if those responsible are ever found. "They have my brother and my sister's blood on their hands for the rest of their lives and they're the ones who saw their dark, empty eyes staring back at them after they took their lives,"

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