Human remains found 44 years after couple vanished

​​​​​​​Human remains person been recovered 44 years aft a mates from New York vanished.

A submerged car was discovered successful a pond past week on the Interstate 95 successful southbound Georgia, with 2 sets of skeletal remains said to beryllium inside.

Police fishy they could beryllium to retired lipid enforcement Charles Romer, 73, and his woman Catherine, 75, who vanished successful their 1978 Lincoln Continental decades ago.

But the Camden County Sheriff's Office stressed tests hadn't confirmed immoderate identities yet.

The mates were returning location from a vacation successful Florida, and had checked into the adjacent Holiday Inn, successful Brunswick, Georgia, but edifice unit grew acrophobic erstwhile their furniture hadn't been slept successful and reported them missing.

The past clip they were seen was by a section serviceman who saw their car astatine immoderate adjacent restaurants.

At the clip of the disappearance, officers expressed interest of transgression enactment arsenic Ms Romer was wearing astir $81,000 (£64,000) of jewellery.

One mentation was that they had been robbed.

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

However, the New York Post reported that, amid the salvage efforts, a Rolex watch, diamond ringing and different items of jewellery were found, suggesting the disappearance mightiness person been an accident.

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For years the lawsuit remained unsolved, until precocious erstwhile Sunshine State Sonar - a not-for-profit unpaid hunt squad - discovered the vehicle.

It matched the statement of the 1 driven by the couple.

The pond is present being drained, section constabulary said, and DNA tests conducted arsenic the car and its contents are recovered.

The sonar radical initially attended the pond connected a tip-off regarding a abstracted vehicle, earlier uncovering what is believed to beryllium the couple's car and 2 sets of skeletal remains, they said.