SEATTLE, Wash. - More than three decades after 14-year-old Tanya Frazier was murdered , prosecutors have charged 57-year-old Marc Anthony Russ with first-degree murder with sexual motivation.

A breakthrough in DNA evidence linked Russ to a case that has haunted Tanya’s mother, Theresa Frazier, and the entire community since July 1994.

Local perspective:

For 31 years, the answers never came — but the memories never left.

Theresa keeps her daughter close by sharing photos of Tanya's birthday parties, always around Halloween because she was born Oct. 29, with costumes, party hats, moments frozen in time.

Tanya Frazier

Theresa also keeps Tanya’s last professional photo framed but tucked away in her room. Too hard to see every day.

Now she's preparing to face the man prosecutors sa

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