A 36-year-old Sacramento woman and her baby daughter were found flooded under the bridge weeks after the doctor was appointed, according to a volunteer rescue group and law enforcement official.
Whisper Owen and her 8-month-old daughter, Sandra McCarty, showed up on July 15 on the way home by a doctor’s appointment at Atwater. According to a Facebook post by Adventures With Adventures, a volunteer dive team that helps find missing persons, searches ended Sunday’s tragedy in a tragedy on Sunday.
“She is doing everything she can to save her daughter Sandra as a mother,” the Post said of Irving.
The Fresno County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that the body of Irving and her daughter was found inside the 2006 Chevrolet Trail Blazers. The vehicle was found near Highway 120 and near Victory Avenue in San Joaquin County, the statement said.
Fresno police have previously said they have no suspicion of the foul in the disappearance. The Fresno County Sheriff’s Department said the California Highway Patrol is investigating how the vehicle is flooded.
Owen and her daughter left Sacramento at around 4 a.m. on July 15 and headed south to Fresno to appoint the baby. Irving’s mother Vickie Torres said Irving changed the child’s diapers at her mother’s home and then signed in to the date at 8:30 a.m.
Authorities said Owen visited her brother and returned to her mother’s home by 5 p.m., as detected by her Silver Trail Blazers at 8 p.m. that night, a license board reader at Atwater, about 65 miles from Fresno.
Police said the last time the mother and daughter were found in a smoke shop in Atwater that captured Irving’s parking car and then changed Sandra’s diapers around 7:30 p.m.
While the family and authorities were looking for the couple, Vickie Torres told the Times: “It made it really hard for me to turn off my brain to my mother instead of constantly imagining what would happen to her.
