GLYNN COUNTY, Ga. – A decades-old thriller has been solved in Glynn County after a 1979 Lincoln Continental was found submerged in a pond last week.
Investigators believed the automotive with human stays inside was doubtlessly linked to a lacking couple from 1980.
On Thursday, ABC 7 in New York spoke to the household of the lacking couple and so they confirmed that the stays discovered on the backside of the Georgia pond are Charles and Catherine Romer, who disappeared 44 years in the past.
The Romer household launched an announcement saying:
“We’re deeply saddened and equally relieved that our grandparents Charles and Catherine Romer’s 44-year thriller disappearance has been solved. Whereas this discovery brings closure, it nonetheless has been very emotional. Sadly, Charles Romer Jr, Jim Romer and Frank Heller will not be with us to share this momentous flip of occasions and to know their mother and father will lastly be laid to relaxation in peace. We need to specific our gratitude to Glynn County Police, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and Sunshine State Sonar for his or her time dedication and experience. A particular appreciation and thanks goes out to Jason Souhrada Myrtle Seashore, SC. Jason pinpointed the precise location of the car and shared his findings with all of the companies concerned.”
The breakthrough started with chilly case fanatic Jason Souhrada, who used sonar tools to establish the car. Sunshine State Sonar, a volunteer diving staff, confirmed the invention, and Glynn County Police, together with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI), reopened the case.
“It’s a great feeling figuring out they could lastly get some solutions,” Mike Sullivan of Sunshine State Sonar informed News4JAX this week. “You are feeling for the household.”
The pond, close to I-95, was drained to permit investigators entry to the car.
“All of the investigations and psychics and all the pieces, the police, they labored so onerous, and Blackwater divers have been trying to find years. And so they thought it was foul play,” Christine Seaman Heller, granddaughter of the lacking lady, informed ABC 7.
Charles, an oil firm government, and his spouse Catherine have been on their method again to New York following a trip in Miami after they disappeared after staying at Brunswick Vacation Inn, which is now known as the Royal Inn.
The automotive was present in a retention pond proper by the motel, main some to assume the couple might have by accident put the automotive in reverse and drove into the pond.
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