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Whisper Owen, 36, and her 8-month-old daughter were last seen on July 15.

The mother and daughter were on their way home to Elk Grove from Fresno when they went missing, investigators said.

The bodies of the mother and baby were found on Sunday in San Joaquin County.

OAKDALE, Calif. - The bodies of a 36-year-old Northern California woman and her infant daughter, who had been missing for more than a month, have been found in a vehicle submerged in a waterway.

What we know:

Whisper Owen’s 2006 Chevrolet Trailblazer was pulled from a canal in the area of Highway 120 and Victory Road, west of Oakdale in San Joaquin County, on Sunday.

Fresno police said Owen and her 8-month-old baby, Sandra McCarty, were last seen on July 15. As part of the search, investigators had issued a

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