From: wisconsinmomma (Original Message) Sent: 2/1/2002 2:53 PM
My daughter, Lydia Braschler-Varo has been missing since July 2, 2001. Lydia lived in Wisconsin when she came to us and asked us if she could live with her father in Oregon State. She wanted to get to know that side of her family and she wanted to be the aunt that she was to her sisters son and future child. Lydia had not seen her father in over 2 years by this time.

After talking with her for over 2 hours and many times after that for months to come we decided to let her go...

Lydia was with her father for 27 days and durning that time they were adjusting to each other and Lydia would call home and tell me about how her father would not spend time alone with her, there always had to be someone there too... his girlfriend or her younger sister; now remember she has not seen him in over 2 years...

I called and spoke with Lydia every Sunday before I went to work and also once or twice during the week because just being apart from her tore me up inside, this is my baby and I was feeling so quilty for not having her home with me...

On June 29, 2001 her father and I sent her to Washington State to visit with my family for a week, she was to be there for the 4th of July holiday. My sister and her husband, who had lung cancer, had bought a 12 acre farm and another 6 acres that also had a home on it that another sister and her husband were renting from them.. My sister and her husband went to the Amtrak station to pick up Lydia and brought her back to thier home that was right next door to the other sister.

Lydia was there for 2 days and 3 nights and went for a walk... 200 feet north of the property the search and rescue dogs lost her scent... no one has seen her or heard from her since...

We have been trying to get the FBI to get involved with the case and they won't. I have petitions out that eveyone is signing to get them involved. The county that she disappeared from has not had a missing person in over 20 years and they are asking the FBI for help also.

There is a $ 5,000 reward from a foundation in California and also the CrimeStoppers in Washington State has a
$ 1,000 reward for her also.

LYDIA MARIE BRASCHLER-VARO
Case Type :Endangered Missing
DOB ct-05-1987 Age :14 years
Height : 5' 4" - 163 cm
Weight : 120 lbs - 54 kg
Eyes :Blue Hair : Blonde
Circumstances : Lydia's photo is shown age-progressed to 14 years. She was last seen on July 2, 2001 walking away from the home of a family member. She has not been seen since.
Date Missing :jul-02-2001
City of Report :MOUNT VERNON
State of Report :WA
Country of Report :USA
Case Number 15617

http://www.fredi.org/enfants_disparus/liste_b.htm

Strange dates?

My personal impressions:
She met someone...a man she found exciting, possibly an authority figure (even policeman?) or an older man, a "father figure". She might have gone with him for a drive in the country, and there might have been bondage involved and eventually he may have harmed her or she somehow harmed herself with a knife.

Remains thought to be those of Wisconsin girl--(Seattle Post-Intelligencer)-- Skagit County sheriff's homicide investigators today expect to determine if human remains discovered in a ravine southeast of Mount Vernon are those of a 13-year-old Wisconsin girl who was reported missing from her aunt's Big Lake home last summer.
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Remains thought to be those of Wisconsin girl

Friday, April 19, 2002

By MIKE LEWIS
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER

Skagit County sheriff's homicide investigators today expect to determine if human remains discovered in a ravine southeast of Mount Vernon are those of a 13-year-old Wisconsin girl who was reported missing from her aunt's Big Lake home last summer.

Because the body had been concealed, deputies suspect homicide.

"We won't know much more until the autopsy is done," Skagit County Chief Deputy Dave Corrion said. "There is the strong possibility that it was her."

Wearing jeans, sneakers and carrying no money, Lydia Varo, who was visiting her aunt in Big Lake, had gone on a noon walk to a convenience store July 2. She never returned.

Search teams, including a Snohomish County helicopter rescue team, scoured the area near the home but found nothing. Then last Wednesday, an unidentified mushroom hunter discovered badly decomposed skeletal remains in a ravine about 70 feet below Lake Cavanaugh Road.

"It definitely had been concealed there," Corrion said, adding that detectives don't yet know the cause of death. He declined to reveal what led authorities to suspect it might be Varo.

Reached yesterday at his Wisconsin home, Varo's brother, Matt Frost, 17, said his family has been in touch with Skagit County authorities and has sent along his sister's dental records. He said his mother and father have not been told much by police. "They said they'd know more after the autopsy," he said.

Frost said his sister had gone on a 10-minute walk to a nearby gas station convenience store -- a walk he had done when visiting the same relatives. "It's not far, maybe a mile or two," he said. "We didn't know what happened to her."

At the time she disappeared, authorities said the girl, described as 5 feet 5 inches tall and 110 pounds, had been arguing with her cousins. Frost said that wasn't the case.

"She just went on a walk," he said.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/67136_girl19.shtml
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Sorry I can not locate the update information that I posted last week. Will search.

Archived thread:
http://64.224.241.41/dcf/MC/158.html

Was this Lydia wanting to go to some concert??
I thought I read something like that earlier??

LadyBug's photo album of missing children:

http://groups.msn.com/MissingChildrenPhotoAlbumByLadyBug