CASCADE LOCKS, Ore. (AP) — Authorities said Thursday that they planned to pull a station wagon from an Oregon river believed to have belonged to a family of five that disappeared nearly 70 years ago while out searching for Christmas greenery.
The station wagon thought to belong to Ken and Barbara Martin was found last fall by Archer Mayo, a diver who had been looking for it 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 (15 meters) deep, covered in mud, salmon guts, silt and mussel shells, he said.