[BenLurkin]

The Martians?

[stanne]

Car went into thee river for some reason.

Sheesh. They make you read every word

[V_TWIN]

Terribly sad story.....whole family lost right at the holidays. SMH

[Steely Tom]

The group of five went missing in December 1958 in a case that gripped America.

I don't remember it. But I was three years old at the time.

The first thing I remember that "gripped America" was the kid who fell into the open vertical pipe. I think that was before the Kennedy assassination.

[MayflowerMadam]

Maybe Dad was a family annihilator and drove into the river on purpose.

[Inyo-Mono]

I saw a video on YouTube about finding their car in the river about nine months ago.

[Steely Tom]

Another thing I remember "gripping the country" (other than assassinations) was the Oven Forks Mine Disaster. But that was in 1976, and I wasn't a child anymore.

Funny how things like that seem to have happened earlier in life than they did.

[jerod]

So what you're saying is that they weren't abducted by aliens? So...

Because it wasn't aliens.

[goodnesswins]

Columbia River in December can be wicked, as well as weather in the Columbia Gorge.

[mass55th]

I was wondering if their son Donald was still alive. Did a search and found him on "Find-a-Grave." He died in 2004:

Donald Kenneth Martin

[SunkenCiv]

After the two bodies washed up, the car should have been easy to locate, but there was clearly some ball-dropping (not in the British sense) with the whole thing.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/168921487/barbara-lee-martin

[Twotone]

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