Car was pulled out of a pond. It may have solved a 44-year-old murder case

A murder case involving a 44-year-old man has hope of closure after two skeletal remains were found in a car submerged in a murky pond in the United States last week. The car is believed to have belonged to a Scarsdale couple who disappeared in 1980.

Charles Romer, a retired oil company executive from Scarsdale, and his wife, Catherine, drove from their home in Florida to suburban Westchester County in the spring of 1980. They stopped at a Holiday Inn, now called the Royal Inn, in Georgia. However, they could not be found after that day, although police found some of their unpacked belongings at the hotel, The New York Times reported.

The incident left her family searching for answers for decades. Police suspected the couple may have been killed in a robbery because Ms. Romer was carrying a large amount of jewelry.

Now, nearly 44 years later, the discovery of bones and a trove of jewelry, including a Rolex watch and a diamond ring, from the sunken car gives hope that the cold case could be solved.

According to Georgia police spokesman Lawton Dodd, the human remains in the car “conclusively prove that the bodies of two individuals were in the vehicle.”

It remains to be determined whether the remains belong to the Romans.

Police also found a license plate with the couple’s initials, Ms. Romer’s granddaughter told The New York Times.

Investigators are also reportedly looking for the car’s VIN number to see if it matches the couple’s 1979 Lincoln Continental that they were traveling in the day they disappeared.

Further investigation is underway to determine whether the remains belong to the Romers – who were in their second marriage, officials said.

“Although the investigation will take months to complete, this development offers a far better solution than the endless questions we have faced for so long,” another granddaughter of Ms. Romer told the New York Post.

Police also found another car in the same pond, but it is reportedly not related to the Romers’ missing person case.