Astonishing photos show frozen in time belongings of rich oil exec and his wife as their disappearance is finally solved

Eerie caller photos amusement the idiosyncratic belongings of a affluent mates who vanished astir 45 years agone aft their car and bodies were recovered submerged successful a pond. 

A purse, jewelry, toothpaste with Colgate inactive disposable connected the tube, and high-heel shoes were immoderate of the belongings frozen successful clip erstwhile the pond was dredged.

Crusted with mud, muck, and rust, they were painstakingly retrieved and laid retired connected sheets adjacent to the pond disconnected Interstate 95 adjacent Brunswick, Georgia.

The bodies of retired Sinclair Oil enforcement Charles Romer, 73, and his woman Catherine, 75, who abruptly disappeared connected April 8, 1980, were believed to besides beryllium successful the pond.

They were recovered wrong the rotted remains of the achromatic customized exemplary 1979 Lincoln Continental they were driving, which besides disappeared connected the aforesaid day.

Charles and Catherine were longtime friends who got joined successful 1974. They were connected their mode location to Scarsdale, New York from Miami, Florida before they vanished. 

They stopped on their way connected I-95 astatine a Holiday Inn successful Brunswick, Georgia, connected April 8 - 1 of the past places the mates was seen. 

They checked successful astatine 3.51pm and took their belongings into Room 149, and by astir 5pm, a Georgia Highway Patrol serviceman saw the car southbound of Brunswick adjacent immoderate restaurants. 

Hotel staffers raised alarm connected April 11 and reported the Romers missing erstwhile they noticed their furniture had not been slept in. 

Employees recovered unpacked bags, taxation returns and a vessel of scotch wrong the vacant room, but nary motion of them oregon their car.

Catherine was wearing $81,000 successful jewelry erstwhile she disappeared with her husband, according to the Associated Press. 

But connected Friday, the decades aged dead-end lawsuit was resurfaced erstwhile a Florida Sound Navigation and Ranging (Sonar) hunt squad recovered a car believed to beryllium theirs submerged successful a pond disconnected of the Interstate 95 successful Brunswick.

'Ultimately a lucifer indispensable beryllium determined by the VIN fig and it has not been imaginable yet to get that from the conveyance recovered successful the pond,' the Glynn County Police Department said.

Sunshine State Sonar made the find astir 10am aft a extremity astir a submerged vehicle, which was aboriginal identified arsenic a 1970s Ford sedan. 

'Further probe led to the find of an further vehicle, yet determined to beryllium the conveyance belonging to Charles and Catherine Romer,' it said.

'We promptly notified the Glynn County Police Detectives of the discovery, including the 1970s Ford sedan.'

Taking a deeper look, 1 quality bony was recovered wrong of the car, but DNA results to corroborate they beryllium to the missing mates are pending.

'At this clip determination is nary decision astir the individuality of the remains that were found,' constabulary said.

'The pond is being drained and peculiar instrumentality is being utilized to let for a thorough probe by GCPD and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.'

Although nary coagulated decision has been drawn astir the circumstances surrounding the vanished affluent couple, investigators, Brunswick locals and household members person speculated implicit the years.

'We each felt with our acquisition that these radical had been kidnapped and killed for her jewelry, and the conveyance and the bodies were hidden successful the water,' rescue diver George Baker, who searched for the car implicit the years, told the AP successful 1998.

Former Holiday Inn worker Andy Mavromat told Action News Jax: 'He was successful the lipid industry; helium was worthy a clump of money. When I worked astatine Holiday Inn, it was the large thing, and we ne'er knew happened to them. 

'We figured with each the wealth they had, idiosyncratic followed them and robbed them.'

Given the discovery, Mavromat said possibly the mates mislaid power of their car and fell into the lake.  

Charles was officially declared dormant successful 1985, leaving his 2 sons with a $1.2 cardinal estate. 

Catherine's 9 grandchildren took the find to bosom and reflected connected their precocious grandmother.

'All the investigations and psychics and everything, the police, they worked truthful hard, and Blackwater divers person been searching for years. And they thought it was foul play,' Christine Seaman Heller, Catherine's granddaughter, told ABC7.

Heller said she recovered immoderate comfortableness successful the find and is hoping to summation immoderate last closure.

'I was talking astir it yesterday with a person of excavation due to the fact that it's ever been specified a mystery. So, it would beryllium truthful fantastic to find out, conscionable person immoderate peace. You cognize possibly it wasn't a horrible ending, possibly it was conscionable an accident,' she said.