But the man who may have broken the case after 67 years never bought the “foul play” theories about what happened to the ...

The case of the Martin family’s disappearance has bewildered local residents and investigators for more than six decades — until Friday. By Simon J. Levien On Dec. 7, 1958, Ken and Barbara ...

Deputies and divers will be working carefully Thursday to recover the Ford station wagon to preserve any potential evidence ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — After a Portland family vanished near Cascade Locks in 1958, no other evidence or clues surfaced for decades. Now, 66 years later, an underwater search is underway after ...

A crane has pulled a Ford station wagon from the Columbia River that officials believe belonged to an Oregon family who ...

The chassis and engine of the car were recovered from the Columbia River, but the cabin of the car remains in the river.

Officials are attempting to recover from the Columbia River a Ford station wagon that could be linked to the Martin family.

But here is what we know about the disappearance of the Martin family. Ken Martin and his wife Barbara tell family members and their Northeast Portland neighbors the family was going to spend the ...

In December 1958, Portlanders Ken and Barbara Martin and their three young daughters headed east in the family’s cream-colored Ford station wagon to find a Christmas tree. They never returned.

According to Columbia Gorge News, the family consisted of Kenneth Martin, his wife Barbara Martin, as well as the couple’s three children: 14-year-old Barbara, known as “Barbie” 13-year-old ...

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.