My friend and I went to this Norfolk southern bridge right outside of Clifton, on the Bull Run Occoquan Trail. We saw this graffiti that said HER SPIRT LIVES FOREVER and has the name Cara in a blue heart under the bridge. I googled some different key words to try to find something, but i could not find anything. So I have come on here to see if anyone knows anything about what happen. The place has a creepy vibe to it so my friend and I did not stick around. THESE ARE THE COORDINATES TO THE BRIDGE 38.776755, -77.421706 . I attached 3 photos of the bridge, the first two I too, the third is a screen shot off of NOVa Parks website.

I really would like to know what happened here so if you know anything leave a response.
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Just a month before her 17th birthday, friends, family members and classmates from Chantilly, Centreville and Fairfax are mourning the loss of a local girl. The body of Cara Lynn Golias, 16, of the City of Fairfax, was found Monday afternoon in Hemlock Overlook Regional Park in Clifton.

A junior at Fairfax High, she’d been missing since Sunday and both Fairfax County and City of Fairfax police had searched for her. They say foul play is not suspected in her death.

The tragedy has left all who knew her grieving and spurred Fairfax High Principal Dave Goldfarb to send an open message to the school community Tuesday morning.

“I am deeply saddened to report to you that one of our students, Cara Golias, died unexpectedly,” he wrote. “Cara was a junior and a member of our cross country and soccer teams. She also represented our school at the International Science Fair last spring. Cara will be truly missed and lovingly remembered by the Fairfax High School community [which] sends its thoughts and prayers to [her] family.”

On Monday, City of Fairfax police alerted area residents that she’d been missing since Sunday and asked for help finding her. A former AP student at Rocky Run Middle School in Chantilly, she was last seen Sept. 28 near Manassas Park Middle School and hadn’t been in contact with her family since then.

Golias was wearing a white shirt with sequins, jeans shorts and silver-and-turquoise dream catcher earrings, and police believed she walked through nearby woods initially searched by Manassas Park and Prince William County police.

Together, Fairfax City and County police conducted an extensive search and found the teen’s body Sept. 29, around 1 p.m., near the railroad bridge trestle in the 13200 block of Yates Ford Road in Hemlock Park. County police spokeswoman Shelley Broderick said the medical examiner will determine the “cause and manner” of her death.

In his message Tuesday, Goldfarb told Fairfax High parents he’d contacted Golias’s family Monday to offer the school’s condolences and support. “The family allowed me to share news of her death with you so that you may be prepared to support your students,” he wrote. “Teachers told students about Cara’s death during second period [Tuesday] morning. It was important to have students hear this sad news from a trusted adult.”

He said the school’s “taking every step” it can to be responsive to the students’ feelings. “Our counseling staff stands ready to meet their needs, wherever they are in the grieving process,” he wrote. “We also have a crisis team of psychologists and social workers from other FCPS schools at our school to provide comfort and support to our students.”

“Understanding death, especially the death of a classmate, can be a very difficult experience for a young person,” continued Goldfarb. “For that reason, we hope you’ll listen to your son or daughter, as well as discuss with them their feelings and reactions to this tragedy. We’re focused on supporting any students who may be grieving a loss.”

He advised parents of children particularly struggling with the tragedy, or experiencing strong feelings of previous losses, to contact their counselor. He also provided links to documents explaining how parents may help their children work through their grief and gave them several, emergency hotline numbers.

City of Fairfax Police Chief Carl Pardiny, himself a father, was also sorry to hear of Golias’s death. “We are all deeply saddened over the loss of Cara,” he said. “Our hearts and prayers go out to her family and friends.”

There was a moment of silence for her at the start of Fairfax High’s school day Tuesday, and many students wore the school’s blue color to honor her. Several Centreville High students also wore blue in support.
That evening, Fairfax High’s cross-country team competed in Washington, D.C. At the same time, the girls on Centreville and Westfield High’s cross-country teams participating in a meet at Centreville ran with Golias’s name written on their bodies in remembrance. Inscribed on their hands, arms and legs was “#ForCara.”

“About 15-20 people on our team wrote it on our hands,” said Centreville High senior and runner Jackie O’Shea. “And before the race, we chanted, ‘For Cara,’ in our circle. We wanted to do something because we’re one, big, running community.”

Fairfax High teammate Sierra Brooks, a senior, said Golias had a “genuine smile that lit up a room when she walked in; she was really special. She also worked hard on the team. Even if she was injured, she’d push through until her body gave out.”

Senior Ben Ryan manages the Rebels’ cross-country team and met Golias his sophomore year when she was a freshman and they were in Fairfax’s chorus together. “She was one of my best friends,” he said. “Cara was one of the easiest people to talk to. She was going through a lot of her own stuff. But you could tell her anything, and she’d listen to what you were saying, no matter what.”

“If you were sad about something, she’d be sad with you and ask you to tell her everything,” said Ryan. “And it was the same when you were happy; she was so amazing.”

He said their favorite hangout spot was the approximately 40-foot rope swing under the train trestle by the Bull Run stream. They and some friends discovered it in June.

“We thought nobody at our school knew about it, so it was our own place,” said Ryan. “Someone had written graffiti there saying, ‘The naughty nine,’ and there were nine of us, so we called ourselves that as a joke.” Over the summer, they returned 10-15 times, met the Centreville students there and, sometimes, even had picnics by the swing.

But Golias, who would have turned 17 on Oct. 30, also had a serious side. “She wanted to be a doctor,” said Ryan. “She was super smart. She went to the International Science Fair in California in May and won grand prize at Regionals last year.”

On Tuesday, the whole Rebel cross-country team spoke with a school psychologist and a counselor, and “that helped,” said Ryan. “I cried a lot [that day] – we all did.” He and about 60 others also attended a service for Golias that night at Fairfax Methodist Church. “We talked about her and said a prayer as we tied knots on a blanket to make a whole,” he said.

To cope with what’s happened, he’s talking with friends, and he said his teachers have been understanding about his schoolwork. As for what he’s learned from the tragedy, Ryan said, “No matter what’s bothering you, tell a friend. If other people know what’s going on, they can help.”

Westfield High cross-country parent Jennie Bush only met Golias a few times, but she, too, was touched by her death. “It’s heartbreakingly sad and I feel so badly for Cara’s family,” she said. “What a tragic loss of a beautiful, sweet girl.”

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Fairfax-Police-Seek-Publics-Help-In-Locating-Missing-16-Year-Old-277482211.html



Police in the City of Fairfax say a missing 16-year-old girl was found dead Monday afternoon, but foul play is not suspected.

Cara Lynn Golias was last seen Sunday afternoon near Manassas Park Middle School, police said. Police believed that Cara had been in the woods there, which were searched by Manassas Park City Police and Prince William County Police officers.
Her body was found near the railroad bridge trestle in the 13200 block of Yates Ford Road in Hemlock Overlook Regional Park around 1 p.m. Monday.

While the medical examiner will determine the cause and manner of death, the police department says there's no threat to public safety.

http://wjla.com/news/local/dead-body-found-in-clifton-park-is-that-of-fairfax-teen-cara-golias-reported-missing-107644

A 16-year-old Fairfax girl was found dead in a park after she had been missing since Sunday.

Fairfax police said Tuesday that the body of 16-year-old Cara Lynn Golias was found near a railroad bridge trestle in the Hemlock Overlook Regional Park on Monday afternoon.

Detectives said they don't suspect criminal activity and that no public safety threat is involved. A medical examiner will determine how she died.
Golias was last seen near Manassas Park Middle School on Sunday. Police said she was believed to have voluntarily left the area by walking through nearby woods.

http://www.insidenova.com/news/updated-body-found-in-clifton-park-is-that-of-missing/article_60e16cb0-4813-11e4-a298-f7101255d9e3.html







Fairfax County police say a body found Monday found in Hemlock Overlook Park near Clifton is that of missing 16-year-old Cara Lynn Golias.

Police say Cara was found near the railroad bridge trestle in the park at 13200 block of Yates Ford Road around 1 p.m.

The medical examiner's office will determine the cause and manner of death, but police say they don't suspect criminal activity.

Cara was last seen walking through the woods near Manassas Park Middle School on Monday. Manassas Park and Prince William police searched the woods, but did not find her.

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Cara Golias Suicide: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know




Missing teenager Cara Golias was found dead less than 24 hours after her disappearance in Fairfax, Virginia. Her body was found on September 29 with police saying there are no signs of foul play, reports WUSA.

Here’s what we know so far:


1. She Was Found Close to a Bridge
Police say that Golias was found close to a railroad bridge in Hemlock Overlook Regional Park, in Clifton, Virginia.




2. Cops Said Early On That No Foul Play Was Suspected
There is no criminal activity suspected at this point. According to WUSA reporter Peggy Fox, Golias committed suicide. The official cause of death hasn’t been released.


3. She Was Missing for 24 Hours
She was last seen on Sunday, September 28, near Manassas Park Middle School. WUSA reports that she was “voluntarily” leaving the area and was going to walk through some woods to get home.



4. Tributes Have Been Pouring in on Twitter
Even before news of her death officially broke, #RIPCara began to trend on Twitter. Many users speculated that she committed suicide due to depression or bullying or both.



5. On the Day Her Death Was Announced, Everybody in Her High School Wore Blue
Students at Fairfax High School have been encouraged to wear blue today as a mark of respect for Cara.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/family-struggles-to-explain-girls-death-among-3-teen-suicides-in-fairfax-since-sept/2014/11/18/e26bd0e6-6f54-11e4-893f-86bd390a3340_story.html








On a sunlit day in June, Cara Lynn Golias joined a group of friends at their secret swimming hole in Hemlock Overlook Regional Park, splashing into the water from a rope swing tied to a railroad trestle.

Cara and her friends, who called themselves the “Naughty Nine,” relaxed beneath the bridge over Virginia’s Bull Run, smiling for a group photo with their toes in the silty shallows.

It was “perfect,” she later tweeted, and by all accounts a carefree afternoon for a 16-year-old with a bright future. Cara, a star cross-country runner, had earned the grand prize at a regional science fair for her microbiology research on E. coli, and she made all A’s as a Fairfax High School junior, her father said.

But on Sept. 28, for reasons still unknown to her family, Cara returned to the place she treasured most, slipping into the woods near Manassas Park and hanging herself from the railroad bridge.

“It took everybody by surprise,” said her father, Michael Golias. “That’s why we’re still trying to figure out what happened.”

Cara was one of three teenage girls from Fairfax County who died in apparent suicides since September, including a 17-year-old South Lakes High senior and a 15-year-old Robinson Secondary sophomore, schools officials said.

It’s an alarming number of female teen suicides for a county that had 13 suicides among girls between the ages of 10 to 19 from 2003 to 2013, according to Virginia Health Department figures, an average of just more than one a year. The three deaths come as the school system has begun to overhaul its teen mental-health policies since six suicides in three years at W.T. Woodson High School and two suicides within 24 hours last fall at Langley High School.

Experts with the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Fairfax County Health Department are now investigating potential suicide clusters in the county at the request of state health officials. This week, CDC experts have led focus-group meetings with parents at eight high schools, including Fairfax, Langley, Robinson, South Lakes and Woodson, to identify risk factors and suicide-prevention strategies, according to a schools document.

Glen Barbour, a spokesman for Fairfax’s Health Department, said that the CDC experts will “help investigate the risk factors that may be contributing to youth suicides in Fairfax County and to make recommendations on what additional prevention steps could be taken.”

Kim Dockery, the county’s chief academic officer, said the school system has received multiple grants to focus on students’ mental health, including $50,000 in federal aid targeted for Woodson High. Another grant from the state will allow the school system to spend $2.8 million over the next five years on expanding a mental-health first-aid program.

To help identify teens in distress, Dockery said, all middle school and high school teachers are enrolled in mental-health awareness training this semester. A new county suicide help line that lets teens send text messages has proven life-saving, Dockery said.

“Suicide is a very complex issue,” said Asha Ivey-Stephenson, a behavioral scientist with the CDC in Atlanta. “It’s something that is preventable, and it’s a public health problem.”

Ivey-Stephenson said that although females are more likely to have suicidal thoughts, males are more likely to go through with suicide. She said the suicide rate among males tends to be four times that of females across all age groups.

According to data from the Virginia Department of Health, suicide is one of the top causes of death for those between 10 and 24 years old.

Marc Leslie, who oversees the state’s Violent Death Reporting System, said that between 2003 and 2013, males ages 10 to 19 had a suicide rate of 5.5 per 100,000. During that same span, females ages 10 to 19 had a suicide rate of 1.8. He said that each case is multifaceted, which makes investigating the root causes of suicides particularly frustrating for data scientists and families.

“It’s often a mystery,” Leslie said.

Golias said his daughter’s death shocked her family members and left them with questions that might never be answered.

“It’s like, ‘Cara, why did you do this? You were loved. You had a great heart.’ This is the question we all have,” her father said. “Her future looked so bright. .?.?. She was intelligent. She had great friends. She was part of the church group. She had loving parents and a loving family. She was involved with team sports. She was well-liked. But nothing that we saw could have led to something like this.”

Cara was a soccer player and long-distance runner; she ran the Marine Corps Marathon at age 14 in 2011, one of three times she completed the race with her father.

Last month, Golias ran the marathon again, a race he had planned to take part in with his daughter. Instead, he pinned Cara’s bib on his back and ran in her memory. Approaching the finish, he turned and ran backward so that Cara crossed the line two seconds ahead of his official time. The Marines handed Golias a finisher’s medal for himself and a second to keep for Cara.

“You wouldn’t want to wish this on any other parent, because kids are such a big part of your life,” Golias said. “I’m sad for the loss of memories I would have made with Cara .?.?. and also I’m sad that Cara will not be able to experience some of the pleasures of this life. Graduating high school. Graduating college. Her first job. Getting married. Having a honeymoon. Having a child of her own. Celebrating her child’s first birthday. .?.?. Those are the things I’m going to miss with Cara.”

Golias, who is divorced from Cara’s mother, encouraged parents to do whatever it takes to help their children if they are in distress. He said his daughter had been taking part in mental-health therapy in the months before she died. He also encouraged families to talk to other teens, who might see signs that parents miss. A memorial fund in Cara’s honor raised $16,166 for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.

“Do what you need to do to ensure that this doesn’t happen to your child,” Golias said. “Seek out professional help. Shower your child with love and understanding. Be there for your child.”

On Oct. 30, Cara’s birthday, her friends went back to their favorite swimming spot.

They created a memorial in her honor and left flowers beside a makeshift cross they planted in the rocky banks in the bridge’s shadow.



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Cara Lynn Golias
October 30, 1997 - September 28, 2014

Heaven has gained an angel. Cara Lynn Golias of Fairfax passed away on Sunday, September 28, 2014. She is survived by her mother Kristin Bertelli and stepfather Christopher Bertelli, as well as her father, Michael Golias, all of Fairfax. She leaves behind a beloved sister, Kelsey Elizabeth Golias. She is also survived by her grandparents Susan and David Gay of Topsham, Maine; Marilyn Golias of Falls Church; and Wendell Golias of San Antonio, Texas; as well as numerous aunts, uncles and cousins.

Cara was a junior at Fairfax High School and a member of Fairfax United Methodist Church. She was a passionate athlete, dedicating eight years to the FYPC Lions soccer team, as well as playing volleyball her freshman year, and running cross country her sophomore and junior years. In addition, Cara excelled at school and was especially passionate about math and the sciences, maintaining a 4.3 GPA and taking multiple Advanced Placement courses. The highlight for Cara was becoming Grand Prize Nominee in the Fairfax County Regional Science Fair, which earned her a trip to Los Angeles in May 2014 to compete in the International Science and Engineering Fair.

Cara was also an avid volunteer, traveling to Peru with her sister Kelsey and dear friend Erin Suidikas to work in a preschool with children. In addition, she was involved with the Jeremiah Project and taught English to Spanish-speaking adults through her church. Notably, Cara was the youngest competitor (age 14) in the 2011 Marine Corps Marathon, completing that race three years in a row. Cara was interested in medicine, loved unicorns, sharks, being outdoors, and taking photographs. She loved music and her favorite foods were gummy bears and steak. She had a sweet tooth and preferred to eat dinner for breakfast.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Cara Lynn Golias Memorial Fund or can be mailed to AFSP, 120 Wall Street, 29th Floor, New York, NY 10005.

Was she being molested by a family member or friend?

Was she hot?

This is so sad. Unfortunately, every false step or slight in high school is tremendously magnified to a young person. And we put so much pressure on young people now to be exceptional - much more so than when I was growing up. It takes the perspective of time and age to realize that most people are good at some things and not so much at others, some people will like you and some won't, and the things that matter so desperately in high school really don't matter that much in the long run. God bless this young girls family.

Never heard of her. I had some in common with her. I also did the AP program at Rocky Run then went to Fairfax and also did cross country. I think most of the people from the Rocky Run program go to Thomas Jefferson so maybe she felt like a failure or something.

It's also kind of weird because you switch back to Fairfax and all your friends from Rocky Run go to either Centerville, Chantilly or Thomas Jefferson and you never see them again.

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What kind of question is that? that is so messed up

If she was 18 I'd hit it...

I went to a private all-girls boarding school in Fairfax county near her highschool. I did not know her nor did we have any mutual relationships. I vividly remember getting the amber alert notification to my phone the day she disappeared. I was immediately intrigued bc I had just had my 16th birthday literally a week prior so I had her on my mind the entire day us being the same age and all. Nobody knew if it was foul play right away but once it was discovered that she had voluntarily walked into the woods my mind started to go dark places. I yearned for her to return safely home to her friends and family. I was dreading any other possible outcome. It's been a little over 6 years now and I still think of the day they found her by that bridge often because I just understand where her mind was that day and most likely the days leading up to it. I hope she is resting now. The mental agony I have been enduring every day since then because of my own poor mental is becoming a little too much.

It’s obvious.

Bet the mortician on call that day was happy!
Face bashed in, but vag is still warm

She has her profile and pic on Find A Grave - Buried at FMP

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What’s fukd up is that at her memorial, the other eight friends took turns swinging on her in memoriam.

Blue.
Numbers.
Simple.
Words.
Coding.