After two days of false starts and dashed hopes, divers recovered a portion of the station wagon they believe carried the ...

Ken Martin and his wife Barbara tell family members and their Northeast Portland neighbors the family was going to spend the afternoon in the Columbia River Gorg ...

Ken Martin and his wife Barbara tell family members and their Northeast Portland neighbors the family was going to spend the afternoon in the Columbia River Gorge collecting Christmas greenery.

By Simon J. Levien On Dec. 7, 1958, Ken and Barbara Martin of Portland, Ore., took their three daughters on a family trip through the mountains en route to collect Christmas greenery. They stopped ...

The salvage crew hoping to recover the cream-colored Ford station wagon carrying an Oregon family who disappeared in 1958 ...

FILE - The Christmas photo of the Ken Martin family, from left, Barbara, 7; Ken, Barbara, Sue, 4; Donald, 21; and Virginia, 6; in Portland, Ore., in December 1952 ...

After two days of dredging, a crane on Friday pulled a Ford station wagon from the Columbia River that officials believe belonged to an Oregon family who disappeared while on a trip 66 years ago to ...

On December 7, it became something else entirely. Ken Martin and his wife Barbara told family members and their Northeast Portland neighbors the family was going to spend Sunday afternoon in the ...

As recently as 2019, a Portland writer published a book about ... them and pushed their car into the river near The Dalles. Kenneth Martin’s family was, by all accounts, quintessentially all ...