Kin of Scarsdale couple feared murdered 44 years ago relieved after pairs suspected car pulled from pond near Ga. hotel

The family of an affluent Scarsdale couple feared murdered for the past 44 years was relieved after the elderly pair’s car was likely found in a Georgia pond just a stone’s throw from their hotel — offering fresh insight into the mysterious cold case.When Charles and Catherine Romer vanished in April 1980 on their way back from a sunny winter in Florida, investigators and locals suspected the wealthy couple from the posh New York suburb were possibly targeted in a violent robbery, Catherine’s granddaughter, Christine Seaman Heller, said this week.But a car similar to the 1979 Lincoln Continental owned by the Romers was found in a pond Friday coincidentally just 70 yards from the then-Holiday Inn in Brunswick where the two were staying, giving the family a sense of closure and new hope their deaths were simply a “terrible accident,” Seaman Heller told The Post.“So just the thought that it wasn’t a violent act, but just a terrible accident, you know, it’s just unbelievable how relieving it feels,” she explained after talking with police on Monday.“You don’t want anything to happen to anyone you love, but just the fact that they didn’t have an ending where it was violent or scary or horrible — as horrible as it was — but not the ending that we were all led to believe all these years.”Glynn County police said Wednesday the car was finally pulled from the pond Tuesday night after the body of water was drained, and human remains in the vehicle indicate two bodies were inside.Investigators still need to identify the remains and confirm the car found is the one owned by the Romers.A manner of death has also not been determined.The car also had jewelry, including a Rolex watch and diamond ring inside of it, the family revealed.Seaman Heller, who was around 15 years old in 1980 and is one of nine sisters, recalled investigators telling the family they believed Charles and Catherine, both in their mid-70s, were possibly the victims of “someth...