67-Year-Old Mystery Solved: Oregon Family Found

0:00On April 17, DNA tests have finally identified remains pulled from a car in the Columbia River as those of an Oregon family missing since 1998. 58. That's Kenneth Martin, his wife Barbara and their daughter Barbie, who vanished on a trip to cut Christmas greenery. A diver searching for years spotted their Ford station wagon in 2024 and officials recovered parts of it the next year. After the frame and some bits came up, buried deep in River sediment. Back in December 1958, two of the family's other kids turned up months later, but the parents and this daughter stayed gone. Searches hit dead ends, leaving folks wondering where else to look. Fast forward to later in 2025 when the diver found human remains in the wreck. The state medical examiner used DNA from those, matching it to Martin relatives for positive IDs. No signs of foul play, so the Hood River Sheriff closed the case after 67 years, bringing long-awaited closure to a mystery that's haunted. The area.