{"id":71972,"date":"2026-04-16T20:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T01:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/dna-analysis-identifies-members-of-oregon-family-missing-since-1958\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T20:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T01:58:13","slug":"dna-analysis-identifies-members-of-oregon-family-missing-since-1958","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/dna-analysis-identifies-members-of-oregon-family-missing-since-1958\/","title":{"rendered":"DNA analysis identifies members of Oregon family missing since 1958"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities identified Kenneth and Barbara Martin and their daughter Barbie from remains in car in Columbia River<\/p>\n<p>DNA analysis has identified the remains found in a car in the Columbia River as those of an Oregon family that went missing in 1958 while on a trip to find Christmas greenery, authorities said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The state medical examiner\u2019s office identified Kenneth and Barbara Martin and their daughter Barbie from remains located in the river within the wreckage of the car, according to the Hood River county sheriff\u2019s office. The sheriff\u2019s office said it concluded its investigation and found no evidence of a crime.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/16\/dna-analysis-oregon-family-missing-1958\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities identified Kenneth and Barbara Martin and their daughter Barbie from remains in car in Columbia River DNA analysis has identified the remains found in a car in the Columbia River as those of an Oregon family that went missing in 1958 while on a trip to find Christmas greenery, authorities said Thursday. The state &#8230; <a title=\"DNA analysis identifies members of Oregon family missing since 1958\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/dna-analysis-identifies-members-of-oregon-family-missing-since-1958\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about DNA analysis identifies members of Oregon family missing since 1958\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}