173 - The Vanishing of Charles and Catherine Romer

Trace Evidence

Steven Pacheco

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2021

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Charles and Catherine Romer had spent their winter in Florida, but were preparing to head home to New York. For the next few days they planned to cover 1,400 miles in four days. It was a trip they'd made dozens of times before but this time would be different. Just one day in and they would mysteriously vanish.

After checking into a hotel room in Brunswick, Georgia, the couple seemingly disappeared along with their car, a customized 1979 Lincoln Continental. By the time anyone realized something was wrong no one had seen or heard from the Romers for four days. Investigators were starting with a major disadvantage, and it was going to get worse.

Despite launching the largest search in the history of southern Georgia not a single trace of the couple could be found. They had vanished along with their car and thousands of dollars in fine jewelry. Detectives and the family theorized they'd been the victims of a robbery gone wrong, a random crime or perhaps one executed by someone they knew. For others, however, the answers may lie somewhere beneath any number of bodies of water between Florida and New York.

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0:39.0	As the sun beat down on Florida's eastern coast, Charles and Catherine Romer climbed into their black,
0:45.0	Lincoln Continental and headed north.
0:48.0	They had a long trip ahead of them, 1400 miles home to New York.
0:52.0	They'd done it dozens of times before, but this time they would never make it.
0:58.0	Crossing into Georgia, the couple stopped at the same hotel they always did, checked into their room, unpacked and settled in.
1:06.0	Sometime within the next two hours, the Romers and their car would mysteriously vanish.
1:12.0	Investigators launched the largest search effort in the history of southern Georgia, covering more than 700 square miles of land, rivers, ocean and swamp.
1:21.0	They brought in the FBI, state police, GBI, private investigators joined the search, and in desperation, even psychics were consulted.
1:31.0	Despite thousands of hours of effort, not a single trace of the Romers or their car has ever been found.
1:38.0	Some believe the couple was targeted, and they were well off, drove a brand new customized luxury car, and Catherine was decked out in platinum rings, diamonds and gold.
1:49.0	Could it have been all in accident? Their fates have merged somewhere deep beneath the water, or was it always all about the money?
1:57.0	This is Trace Evidence, episode 173, the vanishing of Charles and Catherine Romer.
2:05.0	Welcome to Trace Evidence. I'm your host, Stephen Pacheco.
2:17.0	Today we examine one of the most mysterious disappearances in the history of Georgia, before getting into the case, just a few notes about the show.
2:26.0	Trace Evidence is a weekly true crime podcast focused on unsolved murders and disappearances. You can follow the show on social media on Twitter, at Trace Ev Pod, Instagram at Trace Evidence Pod, or by searching Facebook for Trace Evidence.
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