Dawn of Mantis: True Crime, Mysteries and More · Dawn of Mantis Podcast
DOM Ep363 - The Martin Family Disappearance
January 30, 2026·48 min·4 clips
Bullet holes were found on the Martin sisters' bodies, but their death certificates list drowning.
As heard by us
A 1958 family disappearance gets a 66-year afterlife, with a diver, a stalled mystery, and hard questions around Donnie Martin.
Dawn of Mantis takes up the Martin family disappearance as a cold case with a long, unsettling tail: five people leave Portland in a 1954 station wagon for a wilderness day trip in early December 1958, two are found in the Columbia River five months later, and the car and…
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You get a 1958 family disappearance, a 66-year car mystery, and a diver whose find helps pull the case back into view.
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