Deputies are still searching for a California lady and her 8-month-old daughter who went missing after they left a health care provider’s appointment greater than two weeks in the past.
Whisper Owen, 36, and her child daughter, Sandra McCarty, have been final seen on July 15, in keeping with the Fresno County Sheriff’s Workplace.
The sheriff’s workplace mentioned investigators nonetheless haven’t any clues as to the place the mom and daughter went or what result in their disappearance.
The duo’s family members try to make sense of the horrifying developments.
“It simply makes it actually onerous for me as her mom to close my mind off and never always think about what may’ve occurred to her,” Owen’s mom, Vickie Torres, advised the Los Angeles Times. “And that stunning little child. God, I hope, no matter occurred, she’s together with her mama.”
The Fresno Police Division’s Lacking Particular person’s Unit is main the investigation into the lady and youngster’s disappearance.
As of Wednesday, the division had nothing new to report, however famous that there was no motive to suspect foul play was concerned within the disappearance.
“There may be nothing within the present lacking individuals investigations which leads us to consider any foul play is concerned with Whisper and her youngster not being situated but,” the division mentioned in a press release to the LA Occasions.
On the day of their disappearance, Owen left her residence in Elk Grove, the place she lives together with her accomplice and their three different youngsters, round 4 a.m. She was leaving early to make a 160-mile drive to Fresno to make a health care provider’s appointment for 8-month-old Sandra.
After the physician’s go to, Owen visited her brother in Fresno and stayed there till round 2.45 p.m., after which she went to go to her mom’s home. She left Fresno round 5 p.m., however by no means made it residence.
A license plate reader in Atwater, roughly 65 miles from Fresno, flagged Owen’s 2006 Chevy Trailblazer.
Surveillance footage from a close-by tobacco store confirmed Owen altering Sandra’s diaper within the parking zone a couple of half and hour earlier than the license plate reader picked up her automobile.
Nobody has heard from or seen the mom or daughter since.
Owen’s mom, Torres, advised the LA Occasions it wasn’t uncommon for her to remain in Fresno for days at a time. Three days later, she acquired a name from Owen’s accomplice, who police haven’t recognized, asking the place she was.
“So then the whole lot began to get scary at that time,” Torres advised the paper.
Torres has been pissed off with the dearth of solutions from legislation enforcement. She contacted the Sacramento Police Division and the FBI for assist, although she famous that neither have been responsive.
“They’ve all blown me off,” she advised the LA Occasions.
That is left members of the family to look the route between Elk Grove and Fresno looking for any signal of Owen. Torres mentioned her daughter’s different youngsters are “shedding their minds” and insisted her daughter would by no means run off and abandon her youngsters.
She additionally advised the paper that Owen’s accomplice has been “always looking out, and he is exhausting each useful resource to him.”
Owen is 5’6 and weighs roughly 145 kilos. She has blue eyes and brown hair. Her daughter is an toddler weighing round 17 kilos with inexperienced eyes and brown hair.
The Fresno County Sheriff’s Division has requested anybody who sees Owen and her daughter to name 911 instantly.
