66 years ago a family of five left the US state of Oregon to buy a Christmas tree. Since then there has been no trace of the couple and the three girls. Now the puzzle about the residence of the five could be resolved: a diver discovered a car in a river that was the family.
On December 7, 1958, Ken and Barbara Martin started their daughters between the ages of eleven and 14 to get a Christmas tree – they never came home. 66 years was unclear what had happened to the family. Now the mystery is apparently resolved.
A diver found a car wreck in the Columbia River who may have heard the Martin family. Special forces broke the Ford Station car with a crane from the river. Human remains have not been discovered for the time being, but the interior of the car must first be examined exactly, the police said.
Police: “Everything fits together”
The officials are pretty sure that the car is each of the disappeared family. “Everything fits together,” police officer Pete Hughes told the media. “It seems to be the vehicle of the Martin of the color, the brand and the model.”
The case caused a sensation at the end of the 1950s: after the Martins in Cascade Locks, a small community on the Columbia River, were additional and eaten, there was no trace of it. Even then the police started that the vehicle could have fallen into the river.
Corpses were found
Almost half a year later the body of the youngest daughter was found in a river arm, only a day later the remains of the 13-year-old sister were discovered 40 kilometers upstream. The other family members remained disappeared.
More vehicles found in the river
When the diver – archer Mayo, who specialized in the search for victims of accidents, learned about the case, he wanted to reach the bottom of the mystery – in the true sense of the word. After seven years of searching, he finally found the car car at a depth of 15 meters, which was covered with mud, mud and mussel scales. In his mission, the diver found other vehicles at the bottom of the river – these must now also be investigated by the executive.
Source: Krone
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