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.

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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]

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.

When you have a baby needing shots, formula and nappies, that is a lot more important than a working phone, fixed headlight, licence and insurance. Choices have to be made and she chose the shots. She does not need criticising by armchair posters on the net. They need to be found.

 

[Tresir]

Oh so now she is a meth addict as well as missing. Forget about her then and delete the whole thread.

Ridiculous.

 

[Guess Who]

Oh so now she is a meth addict as well as missing. Forget about her then and delete the whole thread.

Ridiculous.

ALL of that info is coming from her mom.

 

[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.

It said she had no working phone and used her boyfriend's. So she had a phone that didn't work. My son is similar. He has a non smart phone that often doesn't work. He chooses not to have a working smart phone.

The last sighting was not in Atwater.

From your link you just reposted:-

A traffic camera last captured their vehicle, a silver 2006 Chevrolet Trailblazer, shortly after 8 p.m. in Atwater, around 66 miles north of Fresno, the sheriff's office said.
Since then, neither has been seen - and no information has been uncovered to explain their disappearance, according to the sheriff's office.

That's ok. Everyone gets things wrong sometimes.

 

[Guess Who]

It said she had no working phone and used her boyfriend's. So she had a phone that didn't work. My son is similar. He has a non smart phone that often doesn't work. He chooses not to have a working smart phone.

From your link you just reposted:-

A traffic camera last captured their vehicle, a silver 2006 Chevrolet Trailblazer, shortly after 8 p.m. in Atwater, around 66 miles north of Fresno, the sheriff's office said.
Since then, neither has been seen - and no information has been uncovered to explain their disappearance, according to the sheriff's office.

That's ok. Everyone gets things wrong sometimes.

Keep reading. You'll get there eventually.

 

[Tresir]

Keep reading. You'll get there eventually.

No i won't because i am giving up following this thread as posters are so rude.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

That's ok. Everyone gets things wrong sometimes.

Some more than others, apparently.

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.

 

[Kimster]

Plus, the time she left AND going the long way is guaranteed that she would be on the road when headlights were needed. If she was really concerned about getting stopped with it, she would have left earlier and/or taken the fast way to get off the road before legally needing your headlights to be on. California law is headlights on 3o minutes after sunset to 30 minutes before sunrise. She left at a time that she would have been legally required to turn on her headlights before she got home, even going the fastest way.

What time was sunset that night? Well, obviously she had to turn her headlights on cause I think they have that on video.

 

[Kimster]

They were at her brother's first then at her mother's, leaving for home at 6pm. So they were only in Fresno for a max of 10 hours. Including visiting 3 locations and eating and drinking etc, that is a short visit.

Me, I would have stayed the night and gone home next morning.

I was thinking that too, but maybe she had to go to work the next day?

 

[Kimster]

I’m just getting caught up. No one has to reply to my post because obviously I was behind the eight ball and now I’m caught up. Thank you.

 

[Guess Who]

What time was sunset that night? Well, obviously she had to turn her headlights on cause I think they have that on video.

Which totally goes against her wanting to get home before that for driving with no license and no headlight and taking the long way home.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

There is apparently a canal in the area that was searched.

Sacramento mother missing with infant for nearly a month had an outstanding warrant

Owen's family suggested she might have taken backroads to avoid being pulled over due to her broken headlight and the warrant for her arrest.

www.kcra.com

Investigators now believe Owen and her baby made it to Waterford and then traveled on Highway 120, east of Escalon. This route, which involves taking backroads, is roughly 50 miles north of Atwater in Merced County, previously reported as the last place their SUV was spotted.

A sheriff's team searched a canal running across Highway 120 near Escalon on Friday but did not find anything. See more here.

Owen's family suggested she might have taken backroads to avoid being pulled over due to her broken headlight and the warrant for her arrest.

 

[Guess Who]

There is apparently a canal in the area that was searched.

Sacramento mother missing with infant for nearly a month had an outstanding warrant

Owen's family suggested she might have taken backroads to avoid being pulled over due to her broken headlight and the warrant for her arrest.

www.kcra.com

Investigators now believe Owen and her baby made it to Waterford and then traveled on Highway 120, east of Escalon. This route, which involves taking backroads, is roughly 50 miles north of Atwater in Merced County, previously reported as the last place their SUV was spotted.

A sheriff's team searched a canal running across Highway 120 near Escalon on Friday but did not find anything. See more here.

Owen's family suggested she might have taken backroads to avoid being pulled over due to her broken headlight and the warrant for her arrest.

Ahhh, so she also had a warrant, too. Even another reason that her leaving that late was not smart. She was probably going to jail if she got stopped at all if this is actually true with an active warrant, no license and driving through small towns with no headlight.

 

[Kimster]

Is there any evidence that she didn’t know anyone in that area where she was last seen?

 

[Guess Who]

Is there any evidence that she didn’t know anyone in that area where she was last seen?

No clue.

 

[GrandmaBear]

I think they said she planned to get formula for the baby. Not sure how they knew that. Maybe she was sighted or met someone in Atwater.

Have they tracked her phone at all?

Just been reading through. Probably wont comment much as lost use of my right arm and hand out of blue last wee (what next) and in no mood to try to type with one hand.

Just been reading through and I read she did buy formula and she did change the baby's diaper.. i find both things encouraging, she was taking care of her.

 

[GrandmaBear]

There are many articles in this thread that mention it. This appears to be the hey mom's phone that had died or the mom is lying since she is the one that mentioned her daughter had no writing phone for a year.

Also, that seems awfully fast for a fever to develop after a vaccine. Fussy, sure, but the fever take hours to develop.

My daughter reacted to vaccines very badly and almost immediately. I wouldn't assume such and this was a long day as well.

 

[GrandmaBear]

But she went through the small towns that if driving here through them is pretty much guaranteed to get you a ticket. I'd take my chances on the main highway where they would rather wait 5 minutes and easily get somebody doing 20 over the speed limit. They rarely stop you for much else here on the main highways but will look for more infractions if they do. You tippy toe and slink quietly through the small towns here.

Ha. Sure if Barney is awake and doing his job. Well familiar with small town cops.

I am not a main highway driver. I'll take any road but. I don't find it unusual at all and she was getting closer to home. She certainly does not sound suicidal as I think you mentioned above. She is visiting and taking care of the child. Also she shopped after leaving mom's.

 

[GrandmaBear]

I also know if I had a fussy baby that just had her shots if be taking the fastest way home so I could get her comfy and in her own bed.

Riding in a car often puts children to sleep. We also have no way of knowing all she did, stop to eat, etc.? it's amazing they have tracked as much of her time and trail as they have.

 

[Guess Who]

Ha. Sure if Barney is awake and doing his job. Well familiar with small town cops.

I am not a main highway driver. I'll take any road but. I don't find it unusual at all and she was getting closer to home. She certainly does not sound suicidal as I think you mentioned above. She is visiting and taking care of the child. Also she shopped after leaving mom's.

I've never once mentioned suicide and I don't remember anybody else mentioning it either.

You probably haven't been driving with active warrants, no license and a broken headlight while leaving at a time guaranteed to get you home after dark, have you?. I'm a back roads taker a lot, too, but I wouldn't have been doing that with those circumstances. That i can guarantee. I know you tippy toe in a way that doesn't scream "stop me" through the little towns that nearly always have a speed trap. Driving through those with a headlight out is asking to get pulled over and she would have had to know that would have been a trip to jail.