The search continues for a California lady and her 8-month-old daughter who vanished whereas on their approach residence after a health care provider’s appointment, authorities and household stated.
It’s been greater than two weeks since Whisper Owen and her daughter, Sandra McCarty, have been final seen, in line with the Fresno County Sheriff’s Workplace.
Authorities say they don’t have any clues within the Sacramento pair’s disappearance, and family members have been left questioning and looking out.
“It simply makes it actually arduous for me as her mom to close my mind off and never continually think about what might’ve occurred to her,” stated Owen’s mom, Vickie Torres, tearfully. “And that stunning little child. God, I hope, no matter occurred, she’s together with her mama.”
In a put up to social media, the Sheriff’s Workplace stated that no info had been discovered to elucidate the disappearance. The Fresno Police Division’s Lacking Individuals Unit is main the investigation and, as of Wednesday night, had no new developments to report.
“There’s nothing within the present lacking individuals investigations which leads us to imagine any foul play is concerned with Whisper and her youngster not being positioned but,” the division stated in a press release to The Occasions.
Regulation enforcement is in search of the general public’s assist. Officers and relations have been looking out the world the place the Sacramento mother and her child have been final seen.
(Fresno County Sheriff’s Workplace)
Torres confirmed that Owen and her daughter left Sacramento round 4 a.m. on July 15 and headed south towards Fresno to go to a health care provider’s appointment for the newborn. Owen stopped at Torres’ home in Fresno to alter Sandra’s diaper after which checked in for the appointment at 8:30 a.m., Torres stated.
Owen then visited her brother’s Fresno residence till round 2:45 p.m., then stopped to see Torres at her residence once more earlier than leaving town round 5 p.m., Torres stated. Owen drove a silver 2006 Chevrolet Trailblazer, and a license plate reader acknowledged her automobile in Atwater, about 65 miles from Fresno, at 8 that night time, in line with officers.
Torres stated that Owen in all probability stopped in Atwater to get child formulation for Sandra or to make use of the restroom. Safety footage from a smoke store in Atwater captured Owen parking after which altering her child’s diaper round 7:30 p.m., police stated.
That was the final signal of Owen, her daughter or her automobile.
Torres stated Owen typically spends days at a time at her home in Fresno, so her associate wasn’t involved when she didn’t return residence that night time. Three days later, Owen’s associate referred to as Torres, asking the place her daughter was.
“I’m like, ‘What do you imply? She’s not right here,’” Torres advised The Occasions. “So then every thing began to get scary at that time.”
Owen’s silver 2006 Chevrolet Trailblazer was noticed in Atwater at 8 p.m. on July 15.
(Fresno County Sheriff’s Workplace)
Ever since, Torres stated, her household has been tirelessly looking out the roads from Fresno to Sacramento, reaching out to companies whose workers might have seen Owen, placing up fliers and spreading the phrase on social media.
She additionally stated that Owen skilled preeclampsia throughout her most up-to-date being pregnant, inflicting her to be hospitalized a number of occasions with hypertension that continued even after she had given beginning. Torres anxious that Owen might need had a medical emergency whereas driving. With no info, it’s straightforward to create troubling eventualities, she stated.
Torres stated the scenario has been distressing for the whole household.
Owen and her associate are dad and mom to Sandra, in addition to a 3-year-old and a 9-year-old. She additionally has a 16-year-old youngster from a earlier relationship.
“All of those youngsters are shedding their minds,” Torres stated. “I imply, she didn’t simply run off or something like that. … She’s obtained different youngsters, I imply, no.”
Owen’s associate, whom Torres declined to call and who didn’t instantly reply to The Occasions’ request for remark, “has been continually looking out, and he’s exhausting each useful resource to him,” she stated.
Torres stated she has been annoyed with the lack of knowledge discovered to date. She has reached out to different businesses, together with the Division of Justice, the FBI and the Sacramento Police Division, asking for help within the investigation.
“They’ve all blown me off,” Torres stated.
Sacramento police stated in a press release to The Occasions, nonetheless, that that they had assisted Fresno within the investigation. A Division of Justice spokesperson stated the company had posted Owen and her daughter on its public California Lacking Individuals web site. The FBI didn’t reply to The Occasions’ request for remark.
Torres described her daughter as an outspoken, trusting one who would drop something to assist a stranger in want.
“Lots of people love her,” Torres stated. “I’ve by no means met anyone that didn’t like my daughter.”
Fresno police stated that groups have been checking household shelters in Sacramento County and surrounding areas for Owen and her daughter.
The Fresno Sheriff’s Workplace suggested the general public to dial 911 in the event that they noticed Owen and her daughter or the automobile.
