CA WHISPER OWEN & SANDRA McCARTY: Missing from Fresno / Atwater, CA - 15 July 2025 - Age 36 & 8 months *Found Deceased* (1 Viewer)

Mother, infant daughter missing after leaving for doctor’s appointment, family says

The search for a mother and her 8-month-old baby in California continues more than a week since they were last seen by family.

www.wwnytv.com

Mother, infant daughter missing after leaving for doctor’s appointment, family says​

The search for a mother and her 8-month-old baby in California continues more than a week since they were last seen by family.

The mother of Whisper Owen said her daughter and granddaughter were in Fresno, California for a doctor’s appointment and on their way back home to Sacramento when they disappeared.

The missing mother’s car was spotted on traffic cameras in Atwater last Tuesday, which is her last known location.

Owen’s mother, Vickie Torres, was the last person to see her daughter and granddaughter before they vanished.

Torres said she does not know why her daughter was in Atwater. She said she believes her daughter and granddaughter are somewhere between Atwater and Sacramento.

“For me to think that now she drove away and I’m not going to see my daughter again because I can’t find her,” Torres said. “Something has happened. Nobody knows.”

Fresno Police said they do not believe the missing mother and baby are in the Fresno area.

“Something happened to my daughter, she didn’t disappear on her own,” Torres said. “She didn’t run away from this family. She didn’t run away from her other children.”

The family is now urging anyone from Atwater to Sacramento to check their security cameras for even a flash of her car’s appearance in the hopes that it could lead to some answers.

Media - WHISPER OWEN & SANDRA McCARTY: Missing from Fresno / Atwater, CA - 15 July 2025 - Age 36 & 8 months

 

[Tresir]

You can eat/drink at mom's and/or brothers. 10 hours is a LONG time if your baby is fussy and pretty much guaranteed to keep getting fussier for the rest of the evening. Get her home in her own bed or like you said, stay the night (like her partner assumed she did). Her trip, that late with broken headlight that she was supposedly in fear of getting stopped for, makes absolutely no sense unless she planned on making a stop that way. She was guaranteed to be traveling in the dark with the decisions she made. That doesn't sound like anybody that was scared of traveling with a broken headlight at all.

These are the sunrise sunset time for July in Fresno. She would not have had to drive in full darkness by the look of it.


July 2025 — Sun in Fresno, CA Metro Area ; 90°. 60°. 30°. 0°. -30°. -60°. -90°. Rise. 5:51 am. 62°ENE. Meridian. 1:04 pm. 180°S · Set. 8:17 pm.

 

[Guess Who]

These are the sunrise sunset time for July in Fresno. She would not have had to drive in full darkness by the look of it.


July 2025 — Sun in Fresno, CA Metro Area ; 90°. 60°. 30°. 0°. -30°. -60°. -90°. Rise. 5:51 am. 62°ENE. Meridian. 1:04 pm. 180°S · Set. 8:17 pm.

Look at the set time. She wouldn't have gotten home until way after 9 with the way she went, which is way after legally needing headlights. She wouldn't have gotten home even going the faster way before needing them. The excuse of going that way because of her broken headlight makes absolutely no sense with how late she left, all by itself.

 

[Guess Who]

She left too late to be concerned about a broken headlight even driving straight through, without any stops, going the fast way.

 

[Tresir]

Look at the set time. She wouldn't have gotten home until way after 9 with the way she went, which is way after legally needing headlights. She wouldn't have gotten home even going the faster way before needing them. The excuse of going that way because of her broken headlight makes absolutely no sense with how late she left, all by itself.

Sunset doesn't mean dark immediately. There is usually an hour of legal twilight/dusk afterwards. As there is in the morning too with dawn. She could have easily driven on sidelights during those periods and not get pulled over.

She probably couldn't afford a new headlight. She also had no licence -another reason she didnt want to be pulled over. She was risking it for sure but people do it all the time or we wouldn't need traffic cops.

 

[Tresir]

Look at the set time. She wouldn't have gotten home until way after 9 with the way she went, which is way after legally needing headlights. She wouldn't have gotten home even going the faster way before needing them. The excuse of going that way because of her broken headlight makes absolutely no sense with how late she left, all by itself.

She left at 6 pm and 3 hours was plenty of time to drive that distance. She has clearly had an accident somewhere after the last sighting at Atwater IMO.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

No phone. Page one. Post 5.

Sacramento mother and her 8-month-old daughter have been missing for over 10 days

Desperate family members and authorities in central California are searching for a mother and her 8-month-old daughter, who haven't been seen in almost two weeks since departing Fresno to return to their home near Sacramento.

abc7news.com

But when she didn't return home, her partner thought she had stayed behind to help her mother clean up a house she had just purchased, her brother told CNN. Her partner didn't realize something was wrong until Saturday - when the two would normally spend the weekend together, Richard Owen said.

Owen's partner contacted her family - which is when they realized she had been missing for three days - and her mother reported her missing to the Fresno County Sheriff's Office.

Owen hasn't had a working phone for the past year or so, making it sometimes difficult to communicate with her, according to her brother. Her mother told CNN she typically spoke with her daughter, sometimes using her partner's phone, around twice a week.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

She left at 6 pm and 3 hours was plenty of time to drive that distance. She has clearly had an accident somewhere after the last sighting at Atwater IMO.

The last sighting was not in Atwater.

 

[Guess Who]

Sunset doesn't mean dark immediately. There is usually an hour of legal twilight/dusk afterwards. As there is in the morning too with dawn. She could have easily driven on sidelights during those periods and not get pulled over.

She probably couldn't afford a new headlight. She also had no licence -another reason she didnt want to be pulled over. She was risking it for sure but people do it all the time or we wouldn't need traffic cops.

I inked the legal criteria for headlights to be on in California for you. Did you not read it?

That also makes even less sense that she left that late AND took the long way if she didn't have a license AND a broken taillight.

 

[Guess Who]

She left at 6 pm and 3 hours was plenty of time to drive that distance. She has clearly had an accident somewhere after the last sighting at Atwater IMO.

The fast way is 3 hours non stop. That puts her in getting home, taking the shortest way, after legally needing headlights to be on. I'm not sure why that is so hard to understand. Then adding the info you provided that supposedly didn't have a license, makes leaving that late and taking the even longer way home make absolutely no sense. Unless she had an agenda to go the long way and leave that late.

 

[Tresir]

Another article. This says she left at 5 pm and last sighting was Atwater.

2 weeks ago, she left a doctor's appointment with her baby. They haven't been found since

It's been weeks since Whisper Owen and her baby went missing on their way home from Fresno. No information explaining their disappearance has been found.

www.latimes.com

 

[Tresir]

The last sighting was not in Atwater.

The links i have posted all say Atwater. Where was it if not Atwater?

 

[Guess Who]

The links i have posted all say Atwater. Where was it if not Atwater?

If you simply read through the very short thread, your answers are all there. Constantly having to relink info for those that won;t read a page or two back gets redundant.

 

[Tresir]

I inked the legal criteria for headlights to be on in California for you. Did you not read it?

That also makes even less sense that she left that late AND took the long way if she didn't have a license AND a broken taillight.

No i must have missed that. Is there a post number? I am not on here all the time. I also haven't seen the link that said she had no phone so could you give me the post numbers and I'll check them out.

 

[Tresir]

If you simply read through the very short thread, your answers are all there.

I have read the thread and haven't seen it. Like the post that said she had no phone was wrong.

 

[Guess Who]

No i must have missed that. Is there a post number? I am not on here all the time. I also haven't seen the link that said she had no phone so could you give me the post numbers and I'll check them out.

look back. this thread is short.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

I have read the thread and haven't seen it. Like the post that said she had no phone was wrong.

I literally just reposted the anrticle about no phone. It’s literally here on this page. Immediately above the post you quoted to reply to this. It was not wrong.
And now this.
Clearly you have not read the thread. Which…fine. You do you. Can’t make you do it. But don’t act like you have.

Now, police are saying their SUV was also confirmed traveling through Waterford around 9 p.m. before making its way to Highway 120, east of Escalon – about an hour’s drive from their home.

Sure looks like they were heading in the direction of home... Fresno to Atwater to Waterford to Escalon. Keeping to smaller roads instead of the main highway though.
Doesn't appear to be any bodies of water in the area ("Hwy 120 east of Escalon") that she was last seen.
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[Guess Who]

If the headlight was broken because she couldn't afford to fix it, she sure spent more than that in gas traveling the three hours and back, especially taking into account for California gas prices.

If you have no license and a broken taillight, you don't leave on a trip that is surely going to give you many chances on getting stopped and it getting dark, when there are pediatricians much closer to home. You also don't take the long way home instead of the shorter one with no license, broken taillight and a baby that is getting fussier by the minute from her shots.

 

[Tresir]

So whether she didn't have a working phone or she didn't have a phone at all are two different scenarios. Also she wasn't legally driving because she had no licence so presumably no insurance either. Therefore the broken headlight becomes irrelevant as she is driving illegally anyway.

However, she is a missing person and so is her daughter and this takes precedence over the other facts IMO and she and the baby need to be found.

 

[Tresir]

I literally just reposted the anrticle about no phone. It’s literally here on this page. Immediately above the post you quoted to reply to this. It was not wrong.
And now this.
Clearly you have not read the thread. Which…fine. You do you. Can’t make you do it. But don’t act like you have.

So I will read it. Thankyou for that. Do not lecture me about reading threads though I read what and when i can so there's that. I read a lot more than most members do, that's for sure.

 

[Guess Who]

So whether she didn't have a working phone or she didn't have a phone at all are two different scenarios. Also she wasn't legally driving because she had no licence so presumably no insurance either. Therefore the broken headlight becomes irrelevant as she is driving illegally anyway.

However, she is a missing person and so is her daughter and this takes precedence over the other facts IMO and she and the baby need to be found.

But knowing why she took that route instead of the more logical one and what her plans were are very important to find them

She 100% was not trying to get back home before dark because of a broken taillight like her mom proposed. Hey mom is also the one that brought up meth use, which could make her decision to go that way instead make sense.