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.

Last seen on July 15

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 missing persons alert, saying the pair had been in Fresno earlier that day and were supposed to be heading home to Elk Grove in Sacramento County.

But they never made it back.

A traffic camera last spotted Owen’s vehicle on July 15 in the city of Atwater in

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