Sonia Varaschin’s death remains unsolved 1 year later
Posted August 30, 2011 9:37 am.
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It was a year ago Tuesday that Orangeville woman Sonia Varaschin was reported missing, and the search continues for her “cold-blooded killer.”
The 42-year-old nurse was reported missing on the morning of Aug. 30, 2010, when she didn’t show up to work. Her blood-smeared car was found abandoned in a parking lot in downtown Orangeville and police later found a significant amount of blood inside her townhouse. Investigators said bed sheets and a comforter were removed from the Spring Street home — believed to have been used to conceal and move her body.
A person walking their dog discovered Varaschin’s body in a wooded area off Beech Grove Sideroad in Caledon on Sept. 5, 2010. Police believe the killer used Varaschin’s car to transport her body.
Last May, police announced they’d collected key evidence at Varaschin’s home and issued a warning to her killer.
“We have your DNA,” OPP Const. Peter Leon said on May 24. “It’s only a matter of time until we find out who you are. We will leave no stone unturned. We will find you and bring you before a court of justice.”
A boot impression is another key piece of evidence in the case. The impression was left by a size 10 or 11 Marks Work Warehouse men’s Dakota or Wind River brand boot. Police wouldn’t say where the print was discovered.
Varaschin’s boyfriend of nearly a year was routinely questioned by police and was ruled out as a suspect.
Investigators believe she may have met her killer on an online dating website. Police used computer files taken from Varaschin’s home to try and pin down the men she was talking with online.
Detectives also said last May that they would collect cheek swabs from Varaschin’s male personal and work associates.
Varaschin had been working at a Mississauga pharmaceutical company when she was murdered. She had quit a job at Southlake Regional Health Centre in Newmarket a month earlier due to disputes. She formerly worked as a nurse at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.
The case was the subject of a three-day summit last December involving criminal profiling experts from the American Federal Bureau of Investigation’s behavioural analysis unit and senior homicide investigators from the provincial, York Region, Toronto and Ottawa police forces.
