Overview

• Adventures With Purpose and diver Juan Heredia located Whisper Owen’s 2006 Chevy Trailblazer pinned under a bridge near Highway 120 and Victory Road west of Oakdale.
• The San Joaquin County dive team recovered the SUV and confirmed an adult and an infant were inside, with formal identifications and autopsies pending.
• The county medical examiner provided presumptive identifications as 36-year-old Whisper Owen and her 8-month-old daughter, Sandra McCarty.
• Fresno police, the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office and the California Highway Patrol are examining how the SUV ended up in the water.
• Family members say the canal stretch had been searched earlier, and a local volunteer using sonar and collected surveillance video helped narrow the search area.