Fresno family still looking for answers after missing mother and baby found dead in canal

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A Fresno household yet has immoderate answers successful their hunt for a missing parent and daughter.

Whisper Owen and her 8-month-old girl were past seen connected July 15 erstwhile they had driven down from Sacramento for a doctor's assignment successful Fresno.

That aforesaid day, they stopped by to spot immoderate of Whisper's family, including her parent and brother.

But the 2 were ne'er seen live again. For weeks, her household drove antithetic routes betwixt Fresno and Sacramento looking for signs.

Early on, surveillance video successful Atwater was recovered showing Whisper's chiseled 2006 Chevy Trailblazer successful municipality respective hours aft she near Fresno.

Weeks later, her household recovered retired astir surveillance video showing the SUV successful Oakdale that aforesaid night.

Whisper's member feels instrumentality enforcement didn't instrumentality their concerns seriously.

"I'm frustrated, I'm angered. I don't deliberation the result would've been immoderate different, careless of instrumentality enforcement's efforts, but I bash consciousness similar we could person had this decision weeks ago, adjacent to a period ago, had they tried a small spot harder and enactment a small spot much effort into what we were telling them and that was... my sister, thing happened," Richard Owen said.

Richard confirmed it was his sister and niece recovered successful a SUV discovered successful a canal disconnected of Highway 120 and Victory Avenue.

Law enforcement has remained choky lipped astir the investigation.

The Fresno Police Department is starring the lawsuit due to the fact that the brace were reported missing from their city.

Other agencies betwixt Fresno and Sacramento person assisted implicit the past month.

When the SUV was recovered extracurricular Oakdale by Adventures with Purpose, a nonprofit that specializes successful searching waterways for missing people, the San Joaquin Sheriff's Office stepped successful to assistance with the recovery.

"Our bureau responded and our dive squad has responded and they did find 1 big successful the conveyance and 1 babe successful the vehicle," San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office spokesperson Heather Brent said. "At this time, we cannot corroborate immoderate identification. It'll beryllium handed implicit to the aesculapian examiner's bureau and arsenic acold arsenic immoderate of the probe volition beryllium with the Fresno Police Department."

The California Highway Patrol is besides moving alongside the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office to find however the SUV ended up successful the water.

The household has acceptable up a donation page to assistance with ceremonial costs.

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