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OAKDALE, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The San Joaquin Sheriff's Office confirmed Sunday day that the assemblage of a pistillate and a babe were recovered wrong a conveyance submerged successful a San Joaquin canal.
The vehicle, a 2006 Chevy Trailblazer, matches the statement of the SUV 36-year-old Whisper Owen was driving erstwhile she disappeared backmost connected July 15 with her baby, Sandra McCarty.
Owen, who lived successful Sacramento, was successful Fresno for a doctor's assignment and to sojourn family. She near Fresno astir 5 p.m. that evening and was past seen connected postulation cameras successful oakdale.
With tears, hugs, and disposable heartbreak, the household of 36-year-old Whisper Owen and babe Sandra McCarty stood by arsenic Whisper's SUV was pulled from a San Joaquin canal astatine Road 120 and Victory Avenue in Oakdale.
"The information that we cognize wherever they are and we don't person to wonderment for 10 years, 20 years for the remainder of our lives if thing horrible happened oregon if they're okay," said Richard Owen, Whisper's brother.
The 2006 Chevy Trailblazer with the breached headlight was recovered pinned underwater successful the canal.
"So our dispatch was notified this greeting that a nonprofit dive radical contacted them to fto them cognize that a conveyance matching the statement of a missing person's conveyance retired of Fresno was located successful this area," said Heather Brent with the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office.
Two bodies were recovered inside; the identifications of those bodies are pending.
"Our bureau responded and our dive squad responded. And they did find 1 big successful the conveyance and 1 babe successful the vehicle," said Brent. "At this time, we cannot corroborate immoderate identification. It'll beryllium handed implicit to the aesculapian examiner's office. And arsenic acold arsenic immoderate of the probe volition beryllium with the Fresno Police Department."
But Richard Owen says he's definite the bodies recovered wrong are his sister and niece.
"This is simply an oversight. I anticipation that cipher other has to acquisition this," helium said.
Owen expressed his vexation for the deficiency of urgency from instrumentality enforcement.
"We unrecorded successful a time and property wherever everything is technology-based. Everything is, I mean, you can't bash thing nowadays without it being tracked, without it being monitored, without it being recorded," helium expressed.
He said nary household should spell done what they went through.
"There's nary crushed wherefore it should person taken 30-something days successful bid for my sister and my niece to beryllium found," Owen said.
A non-profit dive radical on with the hunt radical Adventures with Purpose, utilized sonar exertion to find the submerged conveyance aft authorities confirmed a compartment telephone ping successful the area.
"Angels Recovery Dive squad is simply a non-profit that we started a twelvemonth ago," said Juan Heredia with Angels Recovery Dive Team.
Heredia was 1 of the divers who assisted with the hunt and said helium does this to assistance bring closure to families.
"Basically, what we bash is betterment of sons and daughters that are missing successful the water," helium said.
Fresno Police volition beryllium starring the probe to find retired what happened the nighttime she went missing and however she ended up successful the canal.
