SAN ANTONIO – A year after 26-year-old Kate Vara was last seen, her family continues to search for answers — and justice.
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.
“I’m not going to stop fighting, I’m not going to stop looking,” Valerie Mendoza, Vara’s mother, said. “I’m going to continue to keep searching for her and I’m going to bring her home — and I’m going to get her justice, however long it takes me.”…