Charles and Catherine Romer were northerners. The powerful pair who enjoyed an active social life in their home of Scarsdale, New York, did leave to their house in Bal Harbour, Florida, every time to take advantage of the Sunshine State’s warm seasons. But in April 1980, the two previously made it back home.  ,
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The pair, who was in their sixties at the time, packed up their dark Lincoln Continental and made a long drive northeast in Brunswick, Georgia, where they stayed the night that day. They checked into their space, unpacked their things, and after that, they were not heard from afterwards.  ,
A servant entered the vacant hotel room the following morning to stretch herself. She saw a novel and spectacles next to the bed, clothes lying in the bedroom, and a a jug of Scotch, along with the child’s tax types on a table. The hotel staff became aware that the pair had not returned to their place since the couple checked into it a few days later.  ,
Never once did Charles and Catherine hear from them. Both on their next relationships, they’d just been married for six times. Charles was a retired oil administrative who had two children, Charles Jr. and Richard. Prior to meeting and marrying business Frank Heller, Catherine had previously worked as a translator. They had a brother, Frank Jr. Both people ran in the same social circles in New York, but unfortunately, Frank and Charles’s second woman, Jane, died decades before.  ,
Charles Romer Jr. last heard from his father and stepmother on Easter Sunday that year, but he started to worry when they did n’t hear back on the day they were supposed to arrive home in New York. He attempted the South Carolina hotel they were planning to visit along the way home when they did n’t return his calls, but they never arrived.  ,
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The Romers were not discovered despite what a police officer described as” the biggest all-out research in the history of southwestern Georgia,” despite widespread speculation about what might have transpired. Some say it was just a freak injury. After a long day of driving, the older couple just ran off the road into the ocean. Glynn County, where Brunswick is located, has “over 400 square kilometers of coastline, swamp, and timber”, according to a police commander who was involved with the event.  ,  ,
Some believe anyone targeted the pair, as they were n’t anxious to show off their wealth. Catherine reportedly wore hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of jewelry at any given time while they were driving a brand-new vehicle with a specialty license plate. The vehicle was allegedly seen by some Georgia position soldiers in Glynn County that night. Some claim to have witnessed the Romers and another pair dealing with one another exterior of their hotel room. One man said he talked to the Romers that evening at a local business, and they told him they were heading to nearby Jekyll Island to do some sightseeing, a story Charles Romer, Jr. did n’t believe.  ,
Police received many suggestions, most of which led nowhere. A deliveryman claims that the pair vanished while being nearly thrown off the road by a black Lincoln Continental on the day of their disappearance.  ,
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A Lincoln Continental was discovered in a lake off New Jesup Highway near the Royal Inn Hotel ( formerly the Holiday Inn ) in Glynn County by Florida’s Sunshine State Sonar Team, a party that searches for missing persons in bodies of water. The vehicle resembles the one the Romers were driving when they vanished. A human spine was discovered inside the car, which is even more impressive, though it is not known whether either of the Romers had any ownership of the bones.  , The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is then involved, and regulators are draining the water to look for more information.  ,
‘” I’ll not give up on it. I’ll often try to find out what happened”, Charles Romer, Jr. told the New York Times a few years after the removal. Ideally, this new discovery may help the Romer relatives find some closing.  ,
