In the US found a car of a family that disappeared 66 years ago: what happened to them

Parts of the car were pulled out of the river and handed over for examination

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For more than 60 years, the case of the mysterious disappearance of the Martin family remained unsolved due to lack of evidence. However, the American diver recently found a car that could belong to the disappeared family.

The car was discovered at the bottom of the Columbia River near the old gateways of the XIX century, where it probably fell in 1958, reports The New York Times.

More than 66 years ago, Ken and Barbara Martin's spouses from Portland took their three daughters and went on a family trip.

The family stopped at a gas station near the Columbia River, Oregon – and no one saw them anymore. After the mysterious disappearance of the family, law enforcement officers suggested that the Martin's car could fall from a rock near Cascad-Lox and drown in the river.

Subsequently, the local authorities found the bodies of two of the three daughters of the couple at a distance of more than 40 kilometers from each other. However, the location of the car and other family members has not yet been known, which made the investigation into a dead end.

In 2018, 56-year-old Diver Archer Mayo, who likes to solve secrets and search for things in rivers, decided to find a Martin car. The nineteenth -century old gateways used to pass steamers across the river.

The man had a firm belief that a car of the missing family could be in the pit at the base of the gateway. Therefore, in November 2024, it plunged to a depth of about 15 meters and with the help of a vacuum device dug a car that could be Ford Martin.

At the end of February 2025, Archer Mayo spoke about his find to the local government. After that, law enforcement officers initiated the operation to get the wreckage of the car. In early March, the crane and divers managed to get the machine frame, the engine and other parts of the car that was stuck in the pit upside down.

Sheriff's Sheriff Sheriff Guz reported that parts of the car would be handed over to the State Criminal Laboratory to confirm that he really belonged to the missing Martin.

« For 66 years his (car – ed.) Covered stones in the river »– added a law enforcement officer.

Although the study can determine whether the car belonged to the disappeared family, the circumstances in which it found itself in the river remain unknown. Also, law enforcement officers do not know what happened to spouses and one of the daughters whose bodies were not found.

« It won't be fast. Our main goal is to try somehow to complete it, » Said the Sheriff about further investigation.

Archer Mayo's representative said that during the operation to remove a car from the river near the reservoir, many viewers gathered.

« This is a great local story. Of course, it is well remembered, and in the last few days it is in everyone's hearing, » Said Jan Kostollo.

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