Hunting Humans: Stalker Guilty of Cold Case Murder

Michael Horvath is guilty of murdering Holly Grim in 2013, a judge has decided.

Verity Partington
3 min readJun 21, 2022

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Holly Grim, murdered in 2013 (Image: Pennsylvania State Police)

A judge has found a Pennsylvania man guilty of murdering his former co-worker almost a decade ago.

Holly Grim went missing from her trailer home in 2013 and her mother Jeanette found items including her glasses, cigarettes and her car that suggested she hadn’t planned to leave for an extended period of time.

No sign of Holly could be found and she was considered a missing person for three years. However, DNA belonging to her colleague Michael Horvath was found in a bloodstain on her doorframe in 2014, despite him claiming never to have been there.

When enough evidence was collected to warrant a search of Horvath’s property in 2016, Holly’s partial remains were discovered. Forensic analysis suggested she had been killed with a gunshot wound to the chest.

Horvath was arrested and the homicide case went to trial this month. During the trial, the prosecution detailed how Holly worked with Horvath at a factory called Allen Organ in Macungie township and that he had obsessively tracked and stalked her.

Detective Raymond Judge took to the witness stand to describe how investigators had found journals at his…

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Verity Partington

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