Overview
- The Hood River County Sheriff’s Office, which announced the DNA matches Thursday, identified the remains as Kenneth and Barbara Martin and their daughter Barbie.
- Deputies said they have closed the investigation and found no evidence that a crime occurred.
- Diver Archer Mayo located the family’s Ford station wagon in 2024 about 50 feet down in the Columbia River near Cascade Locks.
- Only the frame and a few attached parts could be recovered because the car was packed in river sediment, which limited what investigators could examine.
- Later in 2025, Mayo turned human remains over to the state medical examiner, who extracted DNA and matched the profiles to relatives of the Martins.