Car being pulled from Oregon river may be linked to family that mysteriously vanished in 1958
CBSN
Authorities planned to pull several vehicles from the Columbia River on Thursday, including a car believed to have belonged to a Portland couple who vanished in 1958 while out for a drive with their three daughters, including two whose bodies washed up at a dam the following year.
The station wagon believed to belong to Ken and Barbara Martin was found last fall by Archer Mayo, a diver who had been looking for the car for seven years, said Mayo's representative, Ian Costello. Mayo pinpointed the likely location and dove several times before finding the car upside down about 50 feet deep, covered in mud, salmon guts, silt and mussel shells, he said.
After matching a partial plate, officials now say they are 99% sure this is the Martins' car, CBS affiliate KOIN-TV reports, and a barge with a crane attached is set to pull the car out of the river.
