Determined relations and authorities in central California are looking for a mom and her 8-month-old daughter, who haven’t been seen in virtually two weeks since departing Fresno to return to their residence close to Sacramento.
Whisper Owen, 36, and her toddler daughter Sandra McCarty have been final seen on July 15, in response to the Fresno County Sheriff’s Workplace.
“I’m desperate to find my daughter and her baby,” Owen’s mom, Vickie Torres, tearfully advised CNN. “It’s like she vanished into thin air.”
The pair left Fresno, the place they have been visiting household, round 5 p.m. on the fifteenth, in response to the sheriff’s workplace.
A site visitors digicam final captured their car, a silver 2006 Chevrolet Trailblazer, shortly after 8 p.m. in Atwater, round 66 miles north of Fresno, the sheriff’s workplace stated.
Since then, neither has been seen – and no data has been uncovered to clarify their disappearance, in response to the sheriff’s workplace.
The Fresno Police Division, which is now main the investigation together with different Northern California legislation enforcement companies, advised CNN they consider Owen and Sandra are usually not within the Fresno space. There may be nothing to recommend foul play is concerned of their disappearance, police advised CNN.
Whisper Owen and Sandra McCarty have been touring in a silver 2006 Chevrolet Trailblazer.
Mom and child final seen after physician’s appointment
Whisper and Sandra have been alleged to be “heading home to Elk Grove (Sacramento County) where family members were expecting them,” the sheriff’s workplace stated on Fb. Elk Grove is round 158 miles north of Fresno.
However on account of a miscommunication, her household didn’t understand she was lacking for 3 days, they advised CNN Sunday.
Owen was in Fresno for a routine checkup for the newborn, her mom advised CNN. She visited her mom’s home, the place she modified and fed the newborn, earlier than the 8:30 a.m. appointment.
Afterward, she visited her brother’s home. Richard Owen advised CNN he final noticed his sister round 2:45 p.m. on July 15.
Then, Owen returned to her mom’s residence, the place they ate lunch and performed with the newborn earlier than she left round 5 p.m., hoping to get residence to Elk Grove earlier than darkish, Torres advised CNN.
However when she didn’t return residence, her companion thought she had stayed behind to assist her mom clear up a home she had simply bought, her brother advised CNN. Her companion didn’t understand one thing was fallacious till Saturday – when the 2 would usually spend the weekend collectively, Richard Owen stated.
Owen’s companion contacted her household – which is once they realized she had been lacking for 3 days — and her mom reported her lacking to the Fresno County Sheriff’s Workplace.
Owen hasn’t had a working telephone for the previous 12 months or so, making it typically troublesome to speak together with her, in response to her brother. Her mom advised CNN she usually spoke together with her daughter, typically utilizing her companion’s telephone, round twice every week.
Owen suffers from hypertension that has been significantly dangerous since she gave delivery, her household advised CNN. She was hospitalized a number of instances through the being pregnant, in response to her mom.
“My fear is that maybe there was a medical emergency behind the wheel, and maybe she had veered off the road,” her brother stated.
“I can’t help but to feel like something horrible has happened,” Richard Owen stated. “The last time I talked I talked to my sister, she was talking about how good life was. She was just happy. There was no reason for her to want to disappear or to leave.”
‘Somebody knows something’
Owen is an outspoken and outgoing “free spirit” who cherishes her kids, in response to her mom.
She has a 17-year-old from a earlier relationship in addition to an 8- and 3-year-old together with her companion. The youngsters are “all devastated wanting to know if and when they will see their mother again,” her brother stated.
“She’s just a very loving person,” Torres stated. “Everybody loves Whisper.”
“We, as a family, know she didn’t leave on her own,” Torres stated. “Everything is good in her life right now. There’s no reason for her to have taken off.”
Torres urged anybody with details about her daughter and granddaughter to contact police. “Somebody knows something and they need to come forward,” she stated.
She added she was annoyed with restricted legislation enforcement effort to find the 2. “We need this to go further. We need more help,” she stated.
Richard Owen advised CNN he has spent the previous a number of days sleeping in his automotive as he and his spouse search up and down the freeway and comb again roads within the space the place his sister was final seen.
He described his sister as a loving, trusting one who would “roll her window down for a stranger, whether it’s 2 p.m. in the afternoon or 2 a.m. in the morning.”
CNN has reached out to the Fresno County Sheriff’s Workplace, the Fresno Police Division and the Sacramento Police Division for extra data.
“At this point, I’m not ruling out anything,” Richard Owen stated. “I’m trying to find her in any way possible.”
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