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. Archer Mayo, the White Salmon diver who discovered the vehicle after a yearslong search, was holding his breath Friday as he and Hood River County Sheriff Matt English watched from a footbridge crossing the canal where the car had been hidden for years. But the object that emerged from the water was a piece of black twisted metal — not an intact car. Read more at the link in our bio. 📸: bethnakamura #missingmartinfamily #martinfamily #martinfamilycar #columbiarivergorge #coldcase #missingpersonscase #missingpersons #missingfamily #oregon #theoregonian