{"id":125621,"date":"2025-08-07T06:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T06:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/125621\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T06:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T06:22:10","slug":"family-still-searching-for-missing-san-antonio-mother-a-year-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/125621\/","title":{"rendered":"Family still searching for missing San Antonio mother a year later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>SAN ANTONIO<\/strong> \u2013 A year after 26-year-old Kate Vara was last seen, her family continues to search for answers \u2014 and justice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">On the one-year mark of her disappearance, loved ones gathered across the street from the Winnquest Inn, near Eisenhauer Road and Austin Highway, where Vara was last seen alive. They held a prayer vigil and balloon release in her honor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cI\u2019m not going to stop fighting, I\u2019m not going to stop looking,\u201d Valerie Mendoza, Vara\u2019s mother, said. \u201cI\u2019m going to continue to keep searching for her and I\u2019m going to bring her home \u2014 and I\u2019m going to get her justice, however long it takes me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">According to the San Antonio Police Department, officers responded to a 911 hang-up call on Aug. 6, 2024, which was traced to Vara\u2019s phone. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Witnesses told police she had been at the location and was assaulted by another person. No arrests have been made, and police have not released additional details.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Mendoza, who organized Wednesday night\u2019s remembrance, said she wants closure \u2014 no matter the outcome \u2014 for herself and for Vara\u2019s 5-year-old son.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Mendoza has a message to those responsible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cYou\u2019re cowards,\u201d Mendoza said. \u201cYou\u2019re cowards for what you did to my daughter. She didn\u2019t deserve this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The family is urging anyone with information to come forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><b>Read also:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2013 A year after 26-year-old Kate Vara was last seen, her family continues to search for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":125622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,4219,5811,7202,7203,7725,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-125621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-missing","11":"tag-san-antonio","12":"tag-sanantonio","13":"tag-sapd","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114986047518724100","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}