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Police successful Glynn County, Georgia, shared they’ve recovered quality remains successful a submerged conveyance that could beryllium linked to a missing persons case from 1980 involving a couple, Catherine Romer and Charles Romer, who disappeared successful Georgia connected their mode location to New York from Florida.
“The vehicle, a Lincoln Continental, was recovered by the Sunshine State Sonar Team from Florida,” the section wrote connected its Facebook page Nov. 23. “The conveyance is akin to the statement of a conveyance that Charles and Catherine Romer were believed to beryllium driving erstwhile reported missing successful April, 1980. Investigators—with the assistance of the Camden County Dive Team—found 1 quality bony successful the conveyance and the pond is being drained to spot if determination are further remains.”
The section noted that astatine this time, determination is nary decision made to the individuality of the remains.
Sunshine State Sonar, the institution identified by constabulary arsenic having discovered the car, besides shared information regarding the recovery, penning that its efforts “led to the find of a submerged conveyance containing 2 sets of skeletal remains.”
“These remains person been linked to a 44-year-old acold case,” the connection continued. “At this time, we volition not beryllium disclosing the identities of the victims oregon immoderate circumstantial details. The probe is ongoing and active. We widen our deepest sympathies to the victims' household during this hard time.”
Charles, 73, and Catherine, 75, went missing successful April of 1980 during their instrumentality location to New York from Miami Beach, per NBC Miami, aft stopping successful Brunswick, Georgia. According to the outlet, employees of the Holiday Inn (now the Royal Inn) reported the mates missing aft their furniture had not been slept in.
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Found successful their room, per a 1985 nonfiction from The New York Times, were glasses and a vessel of Scotch, arsenic good arsenic the couple’s taxation returns. Though a hunt was held astatine the clip of the couple’s disappearance, the car was ne'er located.
According to NBC News, instrumentality enforcement suspected that imaginable foul play could person been the origin of the couple’s disappearance arsenic Catherine had been wearing astir $81,000 worthy of jewelry.
Five years aft his disappearance, Charles was declared dormant successful accordance with New York State law, per The New York Times. In the 1985 article, pursuing the decision, 1 of Charles’ 2 sons Charles R. Romer Jr. declared his determination to observe what had happened to his father.
“We conscionable don't person immoderate leads close present astatine all,” helium said astatine the time, expressing his volition to sojourn Georgia annually to prosecute answers. “I'll ne'er springiness up connected it. I’ll ever effort to find retired what happened.”
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