The search continued to search for a California woman and her 8-month-old daughter, who disappeared on the way home after the doctor was appointed.
According to the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office, it has been more than two weeks since Whisper Owen and her daughter, Sandra McCarty, last appeared.
Authorities say they have no clues in the disappearance of Sacramento, and loved ones have been thinking and searching.
“It’s really hard for me to shut up my brain instead of constantly imagining her brain,” said Irving’s mother Vickie Torres in tears. “That beautiful little baby. God, I hope she’s with mom no matter what happens.”
The Sheriff’s Office said in a social media post that no information has been found to explain the disappearance. The Fresno Police Department’s Missing Personnel Department is leading an investigation and as of Wednesday night, there were no new developments to report.
“Nothing in the current missing person investigation convinces us that Whisper and her child have not found any foul game yet,” the department said in a statement to the Times.
Law enforcement is seeking public help. Officials and family have been searching for the area where the last time they saw the Sacramento mom and her children.
(Fresno County Sheriff’s Office)
Torres confirmed that Owen and her daughter left Sacramento at around 4 a.m. on July 15, heading south to Fresno for the doctor’s baby. Torres said Irving stopped at Torres’s house in Fresno, changed into Sandra’s diapers, and then checked in at 8:30 a.m.
Torres said Owen then visited her brother’s Fresno’s home until about 2:45 p.m., before stopping to meet Torres again at her home and leaving the city around 5 p.m. Officials said Owen drove a silver 2006 Chevrolet Trailblazer, and a license plate reader recognized her car at 8 p.m. that night at Atwater, about 65 miles from Fresno.
Torres said Irving could stop at Atwater to provide baby formula for Sandra or use the bathroom. Security footage from a smoke shop in Atwater captured the Irving parking lot and then changed the baby’s diapers around 7:30 p.m., police said.
That was the last sign of Irving, her daughter or the vehicle.
Torres said Irving often spent a few days at her Fresno house, so her partner wasn’t worried when she didn’t come home that night. Three days later, Irving’s partner was Torres and asked where her daughter was.
“I thought, ‘What do you mean? She’s not here,’ Torres told The Times. “So, then everything started to become terrifying.”
Owen’s 2006 Chevrolet Trailblazer was discovered at 8 p.m. on July 15 at Atwater.
(Fresno County Sheriff’s Office)
Torres said her family has been relentlessly searching for the road from Fresno to Sacramento, with businesses whose employees may have met Irving, lifting flyers and spreading messages on social media.
She also said that Irving experienced preeclampsia during her recent pregnancy, resulting in multiple hospitalizations, even though she continued after delivery. Torres is concerned about a medical emergency that may occur while Owen drives. She said that it is easy to create disturbing scenes because there is no information.
Torres said this has been suffering for the entire family.
Owen and her partner are Sandra’s parents, a 3-year-old and a 9-year-old child. She also has a 16-year-old child’s previous relationship.
“All of these kids lost their minds,” Torres said. “I mean, she’s not only running away or something like that. … She has other kids, I mean, no.”
Irving’s partner, Torres, declined to be named, did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Times: “It has been searching and he is exhausted for him,” she said.
Torres said she was frustrated by the lack of information so far. She has contacted other agencies, including the Department of Justice, the FBI and the Sacramento Police Department, to seek help during the investigation.
“They all blow me out,” Torres said.
Sacramento police said in a statement to The Times that they had assisted Fresno in the investigation. A Justice Department spokesman said the agency has posted Irving and her daughter on its public California Missing Persons website. The FBI did not respond to a Times request for comment.
Torres describes her daughter as a vocal, trustworthy man who will leave anything behind to help strangers in need.
“A lot of people love her,” Torres said. “I’ve never met anyone who doesn’t like my daughter.”
Fresno police said the convoy was in a family shelter in and around Sacramento County, Irving and her daughter.
The Fresno Sheriff’s Office advises the public to see Irving and her daughter or vehicle, call 911.
