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OAKDALE, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Family members of Whisper Owen accidental instrumentality enforcement ne'er took concerns astir the missing mother's payment seriously. The family's disapproval comes aft the hunt for Whisper and her child, 8-month-old Sandra, came to an extremity connected Sunday after diving radical "Adventures with Purpose" announced they had recovered Whisper Owen's SUV.
Whisper Owen vanished portion traveling and was archetypal reported missing astir a period ago. She had been reported missing successful Fresno, but her SUV was recovered successful San Joaquin County.
Her household believes instrumentality enforcement did not instrumentality their concerns earnestly from the precise beginning.
“Honestly, I don’t cognize however to feel,” said her brother, Richard Owen. Her believes it should not person taken this agelong to find his sister and her baby.
“I asked for practice from instrumentality enforcement a period ago.”
Whisper archetypal went missing connected the evening of July 15, portion traveling from Fresno to Sacramento, wherever she lived.
“I was told that, you know, she was a delayed motorist. Still to this day, CHP has a delayed motorist. There was nary existent cooperation,” Owen said.
On Aug. 17, Whisper’s 2006 Chevy Trailblazer was discovered submerged successful a canal adjacent Road 120 and Victory Road, conscionable extracurricular Oakdale successful San Joaquin County. Inside the vehicle, divers accidental they recovered the bodies of an big and a tiny child. Official recognition has not yet been confirmed.
“I asked for them to measurement in, I asked for them to usage each resources to assistance find my sister and her 8-month-old baby, and I was told she wasn’t considered missing.”
Owen says the household was devastated to perceive what they felt were dismissive responses aboriginal successful the investigation.
“I anticipation instrumentality enforcement ne'er again tells somebody, ‘Well, possibly they conscionable don’t privation to beryllium found,’ oregon ‘Maybe they decided to instrumentality a interruption from you guys.’”
According to the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office, the Whisper Owen lawsuit spanned 4 counties — Fresno, Merced, Stanislaus, and San Joaquin — complicating jurisdiction.
“It gets a small analyzable successful a sense,” said Heather Brent with the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office.
“Because we presume the idiosyncratic who is missing retired of Fresno lives successful Sacramento, and due to the fact that of our location, we’re successful San Joaquin County.”
Richard Owen said that it wasn’t instrumentality enforcement who brought the astir adjuvant leads — it was citizens and volunteers.
“Most of the footage, different than what was acquired by postulation cams successful Oakdale agelong aft it should person been, came from concern owners,” helium said.
One important portion of video — showing Whisper’s car successful Waterford — came from a surveillance camera astatine Waterford Farm Supply.
“Law enforcement yet decided to commencement searching and wrong 5 minutes aft getting a subpoena, they had this arsenic her location.”
While the household acknowledges that the result whitethorn not person changed, they judge a much urgent effect would person eased their suffering overmuch sooner.
“I anticipation erstwhile the adjacent household tells them thing is wrong, that they instrumentality it earnestly — that they bash their job.”
Since the bodies were recovered successful San Joaquin County, the Medical Examiner’s Office determination volition beryllium liable for confirming and releasing the identities erstwhile affirmative recognition has been made.
YourCentralValley.com has reached retired to some the CHP and the Fresno Police Department and did not person a response.
