ESCALON, Calif. —

The bodies of a missing California mother and her infant daughter were pulled from a vehicle in an irrigation canal Sunday, their family told sister station KCRA.

According to the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office, its dive team began searching the canal in Escalon around noon after a vehicle that matched the description of the one the missing woman was last seen driving was spotted in the water.

Whisper Owen was headed to Sacramento from Fresno with her 8-month-old baby, Sandra McCarty, on July 15.

Investigators said earlier this week they believe Owen and her baby made it to Waterford and then traveled on Highway 120, east of Escalon. This route, which involves taking backroads, is roughly 50 miles north of Atwater in Merced County, previously reported as the last

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