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Retired oil executive Charles Romer, 73, and his wife Catherine,
75, vanished with their 1978 Lincoln in the spring of 1980. The
Scarsdale, New York, couple were returning home from Miami
Beach, Florida, and checked into a Holiday Inn in Brunswick,
Georgia. Hotel employees were concerned that their bed had not
been slept in and reported them missing.
On Friday, a team from Florida that uses sonar to find missing
objects discovered a vehicle submerged in a pond near Interstate
95 that matched the description of the Romers' vehicle, Glynn
County police said. A human bone was also found inside the
vehicle, they said.
The pond is being drained, and the Georgia Bureau of
Investigation is assisting in the investigation.
At this time there is no conclusion about the identity of the
remains that were found, police said in a statement.
The statement did not speculate on what might have happened to
the Romers, but at the time of their disappearance, law officers
expressed concerns about foul play. Catherine Romer was wearing
about $81,000 worth of jewelry at the time, and police said one
theory was that thieves burglarized their motel room, The
Associated Press reported previously.
We all felt with our experience that these people had been
kidnapped and killed for her jewelry, and the vehicle and the
bodies were hidden in the water, rescue diver George Baker, who
searched for the car over the years, told the AP in 1998.
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