BRUNSWICK, Ga. — A car similar to the one driven by a wealthy New York couple missing for more than 40 years has been found in a south Georgia pond near a hotel where they were last seen, Georgia State Police say. Ta.
Retired oil company executive Charles Romer (73) and his wife Katherine (75) disappeared with their 1978 Lincoln in the spring of 1980. The couple from Scarsdale, New York, was on their way home from Miami Beach, Florida, when they checked into a Holiday Inn in Brunswick. , Georgia. Hotel employees were concerned that the bed was empty and reported the person missing.
On Friday, a team in Florida searching for missing items using sonar discovered a submerged vehicle in a pond near Interstate 95, and that it was the location of Romers’ vehicle, Glynn County police said. He said it matched the description. Human bones were also found inside the car.
The pond has been drained and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is assisting with the investigation.
“At this time, no conclusions have been reached regarding the identity of the body found,” police said in a statement.
The statement did not speculate on what happened to the Romers, but at the time of their disappearance, law officials expressed concerns about foul play. Katherine Romer was wearing about $81,000 worth of jewelry at the time, and police believe a thief broke into her motel room, the Associated Press previously reported.
George Baker, a rescue diver who searched for the car for many years, said: “We all know from experience that she was kidnapped and killed for her jewelry and that the car and body were hidden in the water.” “I felt that way,” he said in 1998. .
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