- As you guys know, we're normally out here pulling out cars. And today we hope to do the same thing. However, it's a little
bit different level today, because Nate, Scott, and I, we're working on a 30 year old cold case of a woman that went missing. - A young mother up and vanished after her best friend's wedding
in a small community out on the coast near Astoria. - We're out here in Brownsmead,
near Astoria, Oregon. Stay tuned, you are not gonna
wanna miss this story today. (upbeat music) We're here to look for a 30 year old missing persons cold case, because some of our
viewers saw it on the news and said, "If anybody can
solve this, Jared can." They said nothing about you. - Nothing, yeah I wouldn't expect that. - But here's what happened. I chose Scott. I chose you. - Well, that's 'cause I'm Jay Leno's, Jay Leno's brother.
- To come with me. - And you wanted that type of angle. Her name is Marty. 30 years ago she was a bridesmaid. So she's actually still
in her bridesmaid attire. - I know for me it's sort of like I can't put myself in the position of you're missing a family member. So to be able to come out
here and use our skills, we are very good at getting
in these nasty places where people don't wanna dive. - We're looking for a
old Ford, Ford Ranger. Just a small pickup.
- Brown Ford Ranger. - So, anyway, Scott
and I are gonna be here for the next two days. So hang tight as we introduce you to Linda and see if we can solve
a missing persons case. - Hi there, how are you? - [Jared] Hi Linda. I'm Jared.
- Nice to meet you. - Yes, thank you. Linda, we're actually
here to discuss Marty. - Yes, my sister.
- And the case we understand you have
quite the story for us. - This was one of the last
places she was ever seen. We were in at a wedding at that church when you drive by down there, the church. She was a bridesmaid
in a wedding that day. It was about 2 o'clock in the afternoon, went over to Sally's parent's, Sally was the one getting married. Around the corner, her mom's
house there was a reception. There was probably 100 people there. Marty then proceeded to
get a little bit tipsy. But we were going to watch
a Buster Douglas fight, my husband and I. And I told her, I said, you can go with us or we'll meet you in town. "Well, I'm gonna stay
here," and I thought that was kind of a good choice, probably. The wedding was at 2:30pm
I believe and by the time we got over to the reception, it was probably 4 or 5 o'clock. - Okay.
- Everyone gets to partying and stuff by then, it was about 7:00pm because it's February so at 7
o'clock it was getting dark. - Okay.
- And we headed to town to watch the Buster Douglas fight with my husband's good friend. Marty was supposed to meet
us at the Hong Kong Astoria. Well, in the meantime, I'm gone. I didn't know this was even going on. She went from the reception to my mom's to borrow a little bit of money,
she didn't have any money. Still had her wedding dress
on, her bridesmaid dress. My mom gave her four bucks, $4, $4. And she came back, went to the logger, she was seen at the logger, talking on the phone with
her hideous boyfriend. And crying and upset and everything because she was half thwacked
and I don't think anybody tried to stop her from
driving, I'm not sure why. - Right - She left from there, went to D&D Market to get a couple bucks worth
gas, which was a little store but now it's called
Browning's Logging Office. Got her gas, got one beer, one. Her truck wouldn't start. It was my brother's 84 Ford
Ranger, it wouldn't start. So, my other brother
Mike came to jump her. He was the last one to see her. She got in the truck,
took off on Highway 30 and headed toward Astoria, on Highway 30. I don't think she got past Svensen. Her ex-husband and her
place that she was married and lived in was right
there off the highway. - So, do you think that within two miles? So, it's we have an ex-husband involved, we have an ex-boyfriend? Or boyfriend at the time?
- No, the boyfriend, his name was Tim Barrett. He was the manager of Fred
Meyer where she worked. - Okay. - But he didn't want her
out there for some reason, I'm not sure what was going on. I don't know, I wasn't here. - And he was in Warrenton? - Mm-hmm.
- Okay. - This was back before
IDs and you can track anything and all that, 1990. - Right.
- You know. So, we had my brother seen her drive off at probably 9:30, 10 o'clock. Somewhere in that time frame 'cause the store was still open, I think they close at 10:00pm. - We're talking the gas station? - Yeah and it was a store,
the one that she left was D&D Market, it was called. She just had her wedding,
bridesmaid dress on, a little leather jacket. We thought she had her purse, we didn't know she didn't have it until her friend got home from the wedding and she had it in her trunk. And then until she got home I don't think we were that worried. She'd taken off a couple
days before, she's single. Two days after the wedding,
that would be Monday when we reported to the police. They didn't really want to
do much, she's an adult. So, we went looking and it snowed. So, we had to go in a foot
of snow all over the place to see if she drove off somewhere. We looked along the
slew, looking for tracks and stuff like that. Now, it hadn't snowed Saturday or Sunday. It snowed on Monday, so it made it harder to kind of follow her stuff. - Okay, so, if there
were tracks going off, we couldn't see them because
now they're under the snow. - And I know when I saw, fast
forward to five years ago when that giant truck went
off in that same spot. (engine roaring) So it was a big giant lift like my truck, only lifted three feet. And he was completely under that water, you couldn't even tell. We had Shannon from
Astoria Clatsop Rescue Dive get a hold of me right after
that happened with the truck because he heard from that diver that they seen what
appeared to be the frame of an old truck down
there, tractor or tires, all kinds of stuff and he was like, "Has anyone ever looked down there?" So, of course it got back
to us, well we called Rescue in about six months later and they never. - We find that there's a
lot of excuses in the whole. I never wanna throw law enforcement under the bus with any of this. - No, they do everything by a timeframe and they do everything they
think they're supposed to do but they really did
not look for her, ever. There was never even any media. We released everything to the news, there was one thing in the paper. Nowadays, it would have been a blown-up, - Weird.
- Well, the good news is our viewers reached out to us and they said, "Hey, here is another case for you. We saw what you did over in Missouri, can you
get a hold of the family?" - That's pretty amazing.
- Can you help them out? I'm like, I'm down to. - And there's been other
ones too kind of similar that were found by divers that same thing and one was like 40 something years ago. - Yeah, think we're fighting the light a little bit so let's. - Yeah, let's go.
- So, let's get down there and then we'll formulate a game plan of what we're gonna do from there so. - I think it would be really cool to solve a mystery like this. Maybe if she was really angry and drinking and came into some slight corner. That's all it would take
'cause hit the brakes and the car flips and right over the guardrail into the water. So, I guess we'll find out. - Drop me an email, the
email's in the description and let us know if there's
a cold case in your area that you would like us
to check out as well. - Okay, this is it, Brownshead. Oh, look at all the, so first of all if she was upset late at
night, you could have gone straight off on that one. - Well, anywhere along
here, you can easily, like right here is the
perfect spot to just and you wouldn't really
leave much of a track. (upbeat music) - She went this way twice that
night, that we know about. - [Jared] So, she could have just. - She could have easily come back. - [Jared] So, she might just be like, "I'm not even going to
Astoria, to the Hong Kong. - Maybe, nobody knows.
- I'm just going home." - [Jared] Now, why this
road and not the road we were just on where that one T-ed? 'Cause that one looked like a perfect spot as well.
- It does and that's why there's always been a guardrail there but like you said, it doesn't matter. But when they pulled
the truck out that day, they pulled it out like here. - Well...
- The diver went down and took that big truck out. You couldn't believe it.
- If somebody was doing 40 miles an hour they pretty much, they'd go semi-airborne
and then they'd go whoosh. - But like he said, I mean all the way along here can be a possibility. I mean, that's a long spread. - I have a little boat
with a little side scan. We can see everything in the bottom here. If there was a car, we'd find
it for sure at this depth. - [Jared] So, we really
have two T-intersections but there's no reason she
would have been on this road. - I wouldn't say for any reason, I don't. - [Jared] So, the only
reason why we're looking here is 'cause there was a
truck that did go off here. - And it just occurred to
us that when that guy who was diving said there's something down, there's other things down there. - [Jared] Right. - It's really low tide
right now, really low. - [Jared] What's the visibility
look like over there, Scott? - This is not a time
to make kind of a joke or anything but that's,
we need to get that to the lab for some evidence, for sure. - [Jared] I think it has
your fingerprints on it, now. - Ah, yes it does. - [Linda] That is weird,
that's a bread knife. When she left that night, she
went straight down Highway 30. From where the logger is, straight. And that store is to the right, you don't hardly even have
to go off the highway. And then Highway 30 just
keeps right on going. - All right, going home
to get my boat, come back. - [Jared] That's what I was thinking. Can you take us down to that
ramp, let's go check that out. - Yeah. (upbeat music) It was, there was a ramp there. I don't know if nobody's
used it for a few years. But right there's the ramp but
I don't know where it went. It should have been like in between where that little orifice or whatever. Just on the other side of them two logs, there's a ramp right there somewhere. - I mean, it's horrible
that you lost your sister but to not know and not be
able to find the closure. - And imagine, just imagine. - And that's why I, that's why I do this. I mean, Jared's got the
YouTube, I'm a volunteer. - It's something I don't wish on anybody. - Yeah, I just, I don't know.
- And I'm her sister. My mom's lost two children now. She won't ever get over it. I never got the feeling that
she ever left this area. She's in the Knappa-Svensen-Brownsmead
area somewhere. - If we can figure out a
way to put a boat in here with the side scan, there's
no doubt that we will find everything that's ever been lost. - Oh, I can imagine there's
gonna be some treasures in here. - [Jared] If we can just get a clear-cut, yes, you guys can go on the property and do whatever you need to from here. - For a search. - [Jared] Yeah.
- Yeah. I'll get right on it, I'll
go home and research it and I'll talk to somebody. - [Jared] Okay. Linda, thank you, it was
great meeting you today. Here, right, right, left.
- I'm okay with it. - You know what the new
thing is, you go like this, your foot, see you go like this. (laughing) - [Jared] Scott, this is a
straight shot right there. - Well, yeah, I mean there's almost, you can see where there's been tire tracks down here in the past. Something was drug up or drug down. - [Jared] All right,
let's just grab a magnet and just start tossing it
for a few minutes here. - [Scott] We're gonna call this site one. And the reason it's
one is because it looks like the most obvious. We just watched the UPS driver
do mock speed around here so people know that there's
not a lot of cops and they don't tend to worry about the speed limit, as I would imagine. - Well, and in a small
town too, you never worry about the speed limits anyway especially 30 years ago, 40 years ago, 50 years ago, I mean, you just didn't. Brute Magnetics has been one of our sponsors since the beginning. This one is 600 pounds per
side, so 1,200 pounds total. If there is anything of
metal under there, I mean it's going to latch on, do
you want me to show you? On your car? My whole goal is where
that guardrail is at. We just kinda wanna toss
to the other side of it and just kind of work from the water out. Probably about halfway
out would be my guess. - [Scott] All right, let it rip. - I like that spot. Right now, I attached
to the side of that log. - [Scott] You're gonna have
to try that little ramp, oh, there you go. - Oh, I think it's flung
it around a log though. - [Scott] Hey, this is the part where we hope that Jared catches
his shoe and slides. - That thing's stuck pretty good already. That's only our first throw. - [Scott] Please fall, please fall. You have to just bail back
into the bushes there. It'll only hurts for a
minute, oh, that's a bad move. - Whoa-ho. The good news is I'm almost to that log. This is actually a better
spot down here for me anyway. (water splashing) I'm attached to something. - [Scott] Oh, you're pulling
something out of the mud. (water splashing) - Scott, I'm gonna say there's
no metal in here, no car. Just on a brief preliminary scan. - [Scott] You still think
it's worth to dive it? - Not really, I mean, because
I'm not feeling anything. It's a soft bottom here. I don't think she's at the other one because that's not a road
she would have been on. But let's go toss it for a few
minutes before it gets dark. Or we just need to make a
plan to bring a boat in here. (upbeat music) - [Scott] Where we at? - We're in Astoria. - Yesterday, we spent
the night in Astoria, that way we can continue the case today. We ended up not finding anything
with the magnets yesterday. We really need a boat to get
into that slew but the boat ramp that we didn't locate.
- We need a small, portable, inflatable, one or two person
pick-it-up-put-it-in-the-slew and motor around with our high-end sonar. We can definitely
eliminate that whole area as a possibility, right?
- Yep. So the good news, good news
is we actually have Nate, he's been in a couple of our videos. We're meeting him at the
logger in about 15, 20 minutes. He has his little kayak, has a little fish-finder sonar on it so he'll be able to do some
down-scanning from that. And with any luck today,
let's go see what we can do. Just because we're going
after cold cases doesn't mean we can't...
- We can't have fun. - We can't have fun. We are still out here having a good time. - Zoinks. - [Jared] Morning, Nate.
- Morning. - [Scott] Top of the morning to you. - Sweet, all right, I'm right behind you. - [Jared] Hey, thanks for coming. - No problem. - So the thought is if
you're coming out here and you're upset and you
wanna go to your mom's house, this is the perfect spot where you'd come flying down
here, into this area. Jared did the magnet-pendulum thing here and an arc and didn't
come up with anything. And I mean there's
another spot down there. - [Jared] We can just put you in end. - Sit the kayak here and
I'll rush us down there. - [Jared] Yeah, we'll
just push you right on it. - [Scott] If you got a
dry seat on, why not? - Yeah, there's an easy spot for you to launch half a mile down the road. - Got my magnet, got my
sounder, hopefully it works. - [Jared] See anything in the spot? - Hard to say, there's a tire
floating right over there. (cow mooing) It's an angry cow. I wonder how much this bank has
eroded in the last 30 years. - [Jared] They said that,
Linda said that they actually raised this levee up about 10 feet. He didn't find anything at this location. I'm gonna search this entire levee bank up to the kind of where
towards mom's house is what we're gonna do next. - You know what's interesting
about the magnet theory too is if you just drop that thing hits say the windshield or maybe even a really, really rusty
spot, does it still stick? - You'd expect it to slide down the windshield on to the hood. If you hit a rusty spot, you're gonna pull up a bunch of rust. - That's true, yeah. - [Jared] All right, well we'll keep following you down the levee then. - Yep, carry on. - [Jared] I actually got the drone. Let's put the drone in the air. So, Nate's checking out a
couple of suspicious spots. He's trying the big magnet here. Since this thing has been
missing for 30 years, looking at the obvious spots is probably not where it's gonna be. The less obvious spots are
just anywhere on the levee. I mean if you as much as
view your car four feet off, you're gonna be in the levee here. And we've got a few
about 10 miles of levee that the truck could be located in. We're back here at the second intersection that Linda showed us yesterday. This is the intersection
where another young man about five years ago ended
up running this intersection, plowed his truck in and
ended up losing his life. The divers that actually
went in there said that they saw some other stuff, possible tractor. Possible other vehicle but for
some reason I don't know why, but it sounds like they didn't
investigate it any further. - We're doing this as volunteers. I wouldn't want anyone to think that we're not taking this very seriously. We are very serious about
this most of the time. Occasionally, we're making
jokes and having fun but we certainly have complete respect for Linda and for Marty. - [Jared] Morning, Linda. - Morning, who's that down there? - [Jared] That's Nate, he's another search and recovery diver with us. - Nice kayak. - [Jared] And he's found
multiple cars for us just not here in the slew today. - Really, really? - [Scott] Yeah, he's good at what he does. - Well, my son sent me a
message, the one who is very familiar with these slews around here. - [Jared] Uh-huh. - He knows every slew from
that mountain to that mountain. - [Scott] Oh, really? - Yeah. So you need to really
look where Jackson Road meets a dyke, that's right here. Between here and Hippie Jim's
place, which is that house. So, he said there's some really deep holes right in front of his house too. - [Jared] So, we're really
searching heavy on both intersections and then
we're doing bank searches all the way down to where
this levee actually ends. - Right. - [Jared] We're gonna let you
finish checking the dyke here. - Okay. - [Jared] We're gonna
head towards mom's house, which is across the way but
there's a 90 degree corner that we understand, that we're gonna toss some magnets in there
and go check that out. - All right, just go to the end and then turn around and
search on the way back. - [Jared] All right, sounds good. (branches crunching) - Wow. Anyway, the reason why we're
here is because just up here past this red stocking cap
here, the top of the road is a 90 and I'll show you
that in just a moment, where she could have been,
come flying past that, flew over the edge and
into this pond here. Hey, we can't rule this
one out but, you know what, I might have an underwater
drone with a sonar on it soon and this
would be a perfect spot to drop it in to check. Then you come over here and take a nap. All right, let's go see how Nate's doing. - How ya doing? Any hits of any sort? No? You should be fishing
while you're doing that. We'll meet you back at base camp. I'll have tea and crumpets, something. - [Jared] Probably not. - Get a picture of my spitting on him. - Anyway, at this point
as they're wrapping up, pulling the kayak out of the water, unfortunately, we were not
able to solve this case today. Scott and I have actually
been over here for two days. We are going to have to come back and work on this mission even more, Scott. - I think the thing today is
that we weren't successful but in reality, we now know
in places that we don't need to search as intensely. We got a better lay of the land and I think with a little more time, we should be able to maybe
even get some targets and get in the water. - [Jared] Nate, thanks for your
time today, for coming out. Tune in and be sure to subscribe because we are going to be
coming back out on this mission. And you're not gonna wanna miss
the other stuff that we do, like pull more cars out
of the river coming up. Thanks again, later later, bye-bye. (upbeat music)
