The Hood River Sheriff’s Office announced early Thursday it will attempt to recover a nine-passenger Ford station wagon from the Columbia River that could be linked to a Portland family missing since 1958.
In December of that year, Ken and Barbara Martin and their three daughters headed east for the mountains to collect Christmas greenery. The family never returned.
The Portland family’s disappearance was major news at the time and for years baffled investigators. A year after the family vanished, the bodies of the two youngest Martin girls were found near Bonneville Dam. They had drowned…