The family of a New York couple who disappeared without a trace in 1980 until their remains were found last week say they are pleased with answers to the cold case.
Charles and Catherine Romer were declared missing in April 1980 after a trip to Brunswick. The case had been dormant for 44 years, until a car was found submerged in a pond last week. Inside, investigators found human remains.
“All these investigations and everything, psychics and police, they worked so hard that they thought it was foul play,” said Christine Seaman Heller, Catherine Romer’s granddaughter.
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Heller says she and the rest of her family thought this was a day that would never come.
Until a Florida-based dive team alerted police to the pond last week, no one had any idea what had happened to the Charles and Catherine Romer since 1980.
In the lake they found a car, believed to be a Lincoln Continental, similar to the car the couple was driving when they disappeared.
The wealthy couple were returning to Scarsdale, New York, after a vacation in Florida when they disappeared.
They were last seen carrying their belongings to a hotel room in Brunswick. Their belongings were found, but they were nowhere to be seen.
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The Romer family says the mystery has consumed them, but they’re glad they finally have answers.
“That’s all we were doing until today,” Heller said. “It’s always been such a mystery, so it would be so great to find out, to just have some peace and maybe it wasn’t a horrible ending and it was just an accident.”
Investigators say it’s not clear if the pond has been searched in the 44 years since the couple disappeared.
The family says they are happy with answers, but it remains an emotional time.
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