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

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]

Here's another sighting.

Gone Without a Whisper – Doug Kari

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Update as of August 7, 2025:
A security camera in Waterford, CA captured video of Whisper Owen’s 2006 Chevrolet Trailblazer heading north on the Oakdale-Waterford Hwy. at 9:05 p.m. on July 15.
This fits with the known timeline and dovetails with the theory that Whisper was taking backroads to avoid being ticketed.
As seen below, only the left headlight of the Trailblazer was working.

Whisper’s Trailblazer passed by Waterford Farm Supply on July 15th (Richard Owen/Adventures With Purpose)​

The newfound video suggests that something must have happened to Whisper, baby Sandra, and the Trailblazer, between Waterford and the Rosemont area of Sacramento where Whisper lives.
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Prior post:
Whisper Owen, a 36-year-old mom from Sacramento, California, and her 8-month baby Sandra, disappeared while driving home on the night of Tuesday, July 15, 2025.
It had been a long day for Whisper and Sandra. They left home at 4:00 a.m., with Whisper driving a 2006 Chevy Trailblazer.

Whisper was driving a silver 2006 Chevrolet Trailblazer with baby Sandra in the rear seat (Fresno County Sheriff’s Office)​

Whisper and baby Sandra headed south toward Fresno on Highway 99, a freeway that runs along the east side of the Central Valley.
Whisper formerly lived in Fresno and she was taking Sandra to a well-baby doctor’s appointment.

Whisper followed Highway 99 to Fresno, a route she’d driven many times (Google Maps)​

About three hours later, Whisper and Sandra arrived in Fresno.
They stopped at the home of Whisper’s mom Vickie Torres so that Whisper could prepare a bottle for the baby and change her diaper.
Then they headed to the doctor’s office and arrived on time for the 8:30 a.m. appointment.

Whisper arrived in Fresno in time for baby Sandra’s 8:30 a.m. doctor’s appointment (Downtownfresno.org)​

After the doctor’s appointment, Whisper and Sandra visited Whisper’s brother Richard Owen, a painting contractor who lives in Fresno with his wife and family.
“The baby had gotten shots,” Richard told me when I interviewed him. “She was fussy and had a fever.”

Whisper brought Sandra to visit her brother Richard Owen in Fresno (Richard Owen, Facebook)​

After leaving Richard’s house, Whisper and Sandra drove back to the home of Whisper’s mom Vickie.
“We spent two hours talking, ” Vickie said when I interviewed her. “Everything was good in her life.”
Whisper left her mom’s house at about 5:00 p.m. but didn’t head off right away. Vickie said she believes Whisper went shopping at a nearby Smart & Final.
“She was down to her last diaper,” said Vickie.

Before leaving Fresno, Whisper reportedly went shopping at at Smart & Final store (Downtownfresno.org)​

At about 6:30 p.m. on July 15th, not 5:00 p.m. as has been widely reported, Whisper and baby Sandra left Fresno.
Mom and baby were headed back to the Rosemont area of Sacramento, where Whisper lives with her partner.

Whisper and her partner, a man who hasn’t been identified, live in the Rosemont area (Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office)​

According to Vickie, the couple were doing well together. “They’d gone on a family trip to Wyoming and had a good time,” Vickie said.
Contrary to what’s been reported, Whisper didn’t live in Elk Grove even though her car was registered there.

Whisper drove north for about 65 miles to the city of Atwater (Google Maps)​

Vickie said that by the time Whisper left Fresno, her phone was dead. She also reported that Whisper was suffering from dangerously high blood pressure.
Sixty to ninety minutes after leaving Fresno, Whisper and Sandra stopped off in Atwater, a city in Merced County.

Whisper was seen changing Sandra’s diaper at a parking lot in Atwater (Google Maps)​

At about 7:45 p.m., Whisper was seen parked outside a smoke shop near the Five Corners area of central Atwater.
Whisper had opened a rear door of the Chevy Trailblazer and was changing Sandra’s diaper.
Shortly after 8:00 p.m. a license plate reader camera in Atwater caught the Trailblazer’s license plate number as the car was on the move again.

A license plate reading was the last sign of Whisper, Sandra, and the car (Fresno County Sheriff’s Office)​

After that, Whisper, Sandra, and the Chevy Trailblazer vanished.
There’s no evidence to support the speculation online that Whisper was running away from her partner in Sacramento or that she and Sandra were in danger.
Besides, according to Richard his sister carried only $100 in cash and $600 in food stamps, which wouldn’t get her and the baby very far.

The driver’s side headlight on the Trailblazer wasn’t working (Fresno County Sheriff’s Office)​

Richard said that Whisper didn’t have a driver’s license, and the left front headlight wasn’t working on the Trailblazer, so she may have taken backroads to avoid being ticketed.
Backroads in the Central Valley can be dark and hard to follow on a night like July 15th where there’s no moon in the sky until the wee hours.

Baby Sandra was feverish and fussy from getting shots at the doctor’s office (Fresno County Sheriff’s Office)​

Whisper might’ve had an especially difficult drive in a car with only one headlight and with the other headlight cloudy from age.
Plus, Whisper must have been tired after getting up at 4 a.m. On top of all that she had a fussy baby in the backseat.

Whisper and Sandra may have gone off the road on the moonless night of July 15th (Richard Owen, Facebook)​

But with Whisper’s route passing through multiple rural counties, and because she has a troubled past, her family feels that law enforcement has mostly ignored the disappearance.
“Nobody’s doing anything,” Vickie told me. “They’ve profiled this family as ex-cons and drug users. But that little baby is innocent.”

The fate of baby Sandra and her mom remains unknown (Fresno County Sheriff’s Office)​

Richard and his wife Nicole spent two days driving the backroads, but with various rivers, canals, and brushy areas to check, it’s possible they overlooked an accident site.
Nor can foul play be ruled out, even though this seems unlikely.

 

[Tresir]

The phone details have been mentioned. She didn't have one.

Have you a link for that? The article i just posted says she had a phone but it was dead by the time she left Fresno. Maybe she charged it in her car though which means it could have tracked her journey.

 

[Guess Who]

Have you a link for that? The article i just posted says she had a phone but it was dead.

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.

 

[Guess Who]

 

[Tresir]

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She had the vax at 8.30 am so a fever developing within 12 hours would coincide with her journey home. I don't understand why are you doubting this and the phone.

 

[Tresir]

Here's a map screenshot of the back roads she may have taken. Hopefully they will eventually find them.

 

[Tresir]

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.

It is possible she doesn't have a smart phone. Not everybody has one.

 

[Guess Who]

She had the vax at 8.30 am so a fever developing within 12 hours would coincide with her journey home. I don't understand why are you doubting this and the phone.

Per the article you linked, she went to her brothers right after the shot which is too early for a fever. She left for home from her mother's house after visiting her brother before 12 hours after the shot. Sll that info is in the article you posted.

The phone into had been discussed and linked in this very short thread.

 

[Guess Who]

It is possible she doesn't have a smart phone. Not everybody has one.

Not sure what a smart phone has to do with anything. It has been documented that she had no phone, smarr phone or dumb phone

 

[Kimster]

Now I understand why she took the side roads, she didn’t want to get ticketed for the one headlight.

 

[Tresir]

Not sure what a smart phone has to do with anything. It has been documented that she had no phone, smarr phone or dumb phone

She had a phone. From my post above:-

"Vickie said that by the time Whisper left Fresno, her phone was dead."

also

After the doctor’s appointment, Whisper and Sandra visited Whisper’s brother Richard Owen, a painting contractor who lives in Fresno with his wife and family.
“The baby had gotten shots,” Richard told me when I interviewed him. “She was fussy and had a fever.”

 

[Tresir]

Now I understand why she took the side roads, she didn’t want to get ticketed for the one headlight.

Yes and there are rivers and lakes on those side roads and probably no cams. She also had no drivers licence, it says too. She could have gone off the road anywhere between that last sighting and Rosemont where she was heading.

The reason I asked about a phone was because a smart phone would track her movements but her phone was dead when she left Fresno, the article says.

 

[Guess Who]

Now I understand why she took the side roads, she didn’t want to get ticketed for the one headlight.

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.

 

[Kimster]

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. You tippy toe and slink quietly through the small towns here.

Same here, but she may not have looked at it that way. According to that report anyway.

 

[Guess Who]

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.

 

[Tresir]

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.

She had just driven for 3 hours to get to the docs for 8.30 a.m. so would have needed rest, food and they got that at her relatives before heading back. She left around 6pm.

 

[Guess Who]

She had just driven for 3 hours to get to the docs for 8.30 a.m. so would have needed rest, food and they got that at her relatives before heading back. She left around 6pm.

According to her Mom she was at her house for hours before she left for home. I still would be taking the fastest way home to get the fussy baby back to her own bed when she and I would both be most comfortable. It's like she was delaying going home with the way she took off she wasn't meeting up with someone or planned on stopping somewhere specific on that route. The back is going to be feeling worse as the evening wore on. I sure wouldn't want to be driving even longer with a fussy baby.

 

[Guess Who]

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.

 

[Tresir]

According to her Mom she was at her house for hours before she left for home. I still would be taking the fastest way home to get the fussy baby back to her own bed when she and I would both be most comfortable. It's like she was delaying going home with the way she took off she wasn't meeting up with someone or planned on stopping somewhere specific on that route. The back is going to be feeling worse as the evening wore on. I sure wouldn't want to be driving even longer with a fussy baby.

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.

 

[Guess Who]

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.

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.