Saylorsburg man arrested in woman’s death
A Ross Township man is being charged in the 2013 death of a Lower Macungie woman after state police searched his property last month.
Michael Horvath of Saylorsburg has been arrested in the death of Holly Ann Grim, who disappeared from her Lehigh County home on the morning of Nov. 22, 2013.
Troopers from the Fogelsville State Police barracks responded to the home and talked to Jeanette Grim, the victim’s mother, who said she had attempted to contact her daughter Holly that morning. When Holly didn’t answer the telephone, Jeanette Grim went to the house.
Grim’s vehicle was in the driveway and she found a spilled coffee mug and overturned ashtray in the residence.
Grim was not heard from again.
The missing person investigation continued and investigators eventually interviewed Michael Horvath, a co-worker of Grim’s from Allen Organ Company.
Horvath was initially interviewed because he was late for work on the day of Grim’s disappearance.
Horvath said he had a flat tire that day and returned home to repair it and then went on to work.
The location provided by Horvath where he got the flat tire was approximately 2.5 miles from the home of the victim.
Horvath was re-interviewed in June 2014, according to police, and he said had been at Grim’s residence to transport a clothes washer and dryer and help her carry them into the residence.
Horvath provided a DNA swab to investigators on that date which later was matched to a bloodstain found on an outside door of Grim’s residence at the time she disappeared.
On Sept. 27, police executed a search warrant on Horvath’s property at 2368 Woodhaven Drive, Saylorsburg, and investigators unearthed bones.
DNA from one of the bones has since been compared to the known DNA profile of Holly Grim and determined to be a match.
Monroe County Coroner Robert Allen has ruled the death a homicide.
An arrest warrant was secured and served on Michael Horvath on Thursday morning.
A press conference was held Oct. 13. The Press will provide additional details as they are released about the arrest.