‘We just waited and waited:’ Granddaughter of woman missing since 1980 gets break in case after 44 years [Video]

BRUNSWICK, Ga. — A New York family spent 44 years looking for answers into a couple’s disappearance, and a discovery in Brunswick may finally bring them some.

The Glynn County Police Department is searching a car found at the bottom of a pond for traces of Charles and Catherine Romer, who were last seen checking into a Brunswick hotel in 1980.

Catherine Romer’s granddaughter, Christine Seaman, says she’s spent 44 years wondering what happened to her grandmother.

“She was one of those people, a larger-than-life personality,” said Seaman. “Since there’s nine of us, she made us all feel special.”

Seaman was 15 years old when she saw her grandmother before she left with her husband Charles to spend the winter of 1980 in Miami.

The Romers …