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Pennsylvania man Michael Horvath charged in Holly Grim’s death, cops found DVD about ‘hunting humans’ in his home and Grim’s remains in his yard

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><h4><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;240303&semi;"><strong>A Pennsylvania man who had a &&num;8220&semi;hunting humans&&num;8221&semi; DVD in his home has been charged with murder after remains of his missing co-worker were found in his yard<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h4>&NewLine;<h4><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;240303&semi;"><strong>Michael Horvath&comma; 49 of Ross Township man is charged with killing Holly Grim&comma; missing since 2013<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h4>&NewLine;<h4><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;240303&semi;"><strong>Authorities say they recovered one of her rib bones from his backyard <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h4>&NewLine;<h4><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;240303&semi;"><strong>Horvath&comma; was arraigned Thursday on one count of homicide&comma; abuse of a corpse&comma; tampering with evidence and obstruction of the administration of law<br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;strong><&sol;span><strong><br &sol;>&NewLine;<span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;240303&semi;">He is charged with homicide in the killing of Holly Grim&comma; he was denied bail<&sol;span><br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;strong><&sol;h4>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"teads-inread sm-screen">&NewLine;<div id&equals;"teads1" class&equals;"teads-player"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"teads-ui-components-credits"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-82655" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;10&sol;michael-horvath2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"michael-horvath2" width&equals;"1200" height&equals;"1352" &sol;><&sol;div>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"teads-ui-components-credits"><strong>Michael Horvath&comma; charged with kidnap and murder of his co-worker&comma; Holly Grim<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"teads-ui-components-credits">A Pennsylvania man who had a &&num;8220&semi;hunting humans&&num;8221&semi; DVD in his home has been charged with murder after remains of his missing co-worker were found in his yard&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>Michael Horvath&comma; 49 of Ross Township man is charged with killing Holly Grim&comma; a Lower Macungie woman who has been missing since 2013&comma; after authorities say they recovered one of her rib bones from his backyard and a DVD about &&num;8220&semi;hunting humans&&num;8221&semi; from inside his home&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Horvath&comma; a cabinet maker&comma; worked with Holly Grim and her mother at the Allen Organ Company&comma; Macungie&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Horvath&comma; was arraigned Thursday morning in Monroe County on one count of homicide&comma; abuse of a corpse&comma; tampering with evidence and obstruction of the administration of law&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Authorities allege Horvath killed Grim in Monroe County&comma; but will also be charged in Lehigh County with two counts of kidnapping&period; Prosecutors plan to consolidated the trial in Monroe County&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-82656" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;10&sol;holly-grim2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"holly-grim2" width&equals;"1200" height&equals;"1604" &sol;><strong> <&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><strong>Holly Grim&comma; missing since 2013 and her remains was found in her c0-worker&&num;8217&semi;s yard<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>Authorities did not present possible motives in the killing&comma; but said they only knew of a &&num;8220&semi;working relationship&&num;8221&semi; between Grim and Horvath&comma; who both worked at Allen Organ Co&period; in Macungie&period; Police also said it &&num;8220&semi;didn&&num;8217&semi;t appear&&num;8221&semi; that Horvath&&num;8217&semi;s wife&comma; Cathy&comma; knew anything about Grim&&num;8217&semi;s kidnapping or alleged murder&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Police said there is a &&num;8220&semi;possibility&&num;8221&semi; of other victims&comma; but had no firm proof&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;According to state police Lt&period; Joseph Sokolofski&colon; &&num;8220&semi;We followed where the evidence led us&comma; and it led us here today&&num;8221&semi;&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Holly&&num;8217&semi;s mother&comma; Jeanette Grim&comma; reported her missing on the morning of Nov&period; 22&comma; 2013&comma; when she was unable to reach her daughter&period; Grim was last seen between 6&colon;34 and 7 a&period;m&period;&comma; after dropping her son off at his bus stop in the Red Maples development in Lower Macungie&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Jeanette Grim said she found her daughter&&num;8217&semi;s car in the driveway and inside the home&comma; she found a spilled coffee mug and overturned ashtray&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Investigators also discovered a wet coffee stain&comma; an overturned ashtray and a black button &&num;8220&semi;in plain sight&&num;8221&semi; on the floor&period; On the exterior of the unlocked back door&comma; investigators found a &&num;8220&semi;bright&comma; reddish&&num;8221&semi; stain and sent it to a lab for DNA testing&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Police interviewed her co-workers at Allen Organ Co&comma; including Michael Horvath because they worked in the same department and he was one of several employees &&num;8220&semi;absent from or late for work&&num;8221&semi; the morning of her disappearance&period;Horvath&comma; investigators re-interviewed him at his home and he claimed he&&num;8221&semi;did not know the victim well&&num;8221&semi;&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Horvath told cops he got a flat tire on his way to work and returned home to repair it before heading back to work&period;  The location of the flat tire was about two-and-a-half miles from Grim&&num;8217&semi;s home&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;When police interviewed Cathy Horvath&comma; she told them she discovered her husband&&num;8217&semi;s &&num;8220&semi;dirty shoes&&num;8221&semi; in their bedroom on the day Grim disappeared&period; She said the shoes had not been there when she left for work&comma; so she knew her husband had returned home that day&comma; acknowledging he told her about his flat tire&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Cathy Horvath told police that after her husband &&num;8220&semi;kills and guts the wild game he hunts&comma; he disposes of the entrails in the woods around their home&period;&&num;8221&semi; She also mentioned she suspected her husband was having an affair&comma; and gave investigators the phone number of &&num;8216&semi;Nicole&&num;8217&semi;  &lbrack;Wagenbauer&rsqb;&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Wagenbauer told investigators she met Horvath on AdultFriendFinder&period;com&comma; they met for lunch once in December 2013&comma; but then she backed out of another meeting&period; When she told Horvath she was meeting her boyfriend at a mall&comma; he told her &&num;8220&semi;he would also go to the same mall and follow her&period; Wagenbauer said she found this &&num;8220&semi;disturbing&&num;8221&semi; and met her boyfriend at a different mall&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;When investigators reviewed Horvath&&num;8217&semi;s cell phone records&comma; they found he had attempted to call &&num;8220&semi;Nicole&&num;8221&semi; about 30 minutes before&comma; at 6&colon;07 a&period;m&period; the morning of Grim&&num;8217&semi;s disappearance&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Cops interviewed Michael Horvath again&comma; this time&comma; he admitted knowing Wagenbauer and &&num;8220&semi;acknowledged that he would have called her on the way to work&&num;8221&semi; the morning of Grim&&num;8217&semi;s disappearance&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<aside class&equals;"trb&lowbar;embed">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"trb&lowbar;embed&lowbar;media">&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"trb&lowbar;embed&lowbar;imageContainer&lowbar;figure"><a title&equals;"michael-horvath-criminal-complaint" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;10&sol;michael-horvath-criminal-complaint&period;pdf">michael-horvath-criminal-complaint<&sol;a><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"trb&lowbar;embed&lowbar;imageContainer&lowbar;figure"><img class&equals;"trb&lowbar;embed&lowbar;imageContainer&lowbar;img" title&equals;"READ&colon; Criminal Complaint Against Michael Horvath" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;trbimg&period;com&sol;img-57ff9a83&sol;turbine&sol;mc-read-criminal-complaint-against-michael-horvath-20161013&sol;400&sol;400x225" alt&equals;"READ&colon; Criminal Complaint Against Michael Horvath" &sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"trb&lowbar;embed&lowbar;related"><strong><span class&equals;"trb&lowbar;embed&lowbar;related&lowbar;title">Criminal Complaint Against Michael Horva<&sol;span><span class&equals;"trb&lowbar;embed&lowbar;related&lowbar;title">t<&sol;span><span class&equals;"trb&lowbar;embed&lowbar;related&lowbar;title">h<&sol;span><&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"trb&lowbar;embed&lowbar;related">Troopers checked which cell phone towers Grim&&num;8217&semi;s phone connected with that morning and found a trail headed north and east&comma; which last &&num;8220&semi;pinged&&num;8221&semi; off a tower near I-78 in Salisbury Township&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;aside>&NewLine;<aside class&equals;"trb&lowbar;embed ">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"trb&lowbar;embed&lowbar;modalBox">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"trb&lowbar;embed&lowbar;media">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"trb&lowbar;embed&lowbar;related">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"trb&lowbar;embed&lowbar;related&lowbar;credit&lowbar;and&lowbar;caption">&NewLine;<p>Although Horvath&comma;  worked with Holly Grim and her mother at the Allen Organ Company&comma;  Jeanette Grim said she knew Horvath&comma; but had only spoken with her daughter&&num;8217&semi;s alleged killer three or four times&period; Michael Horvath and Holly Grim worked the same schedule in the same department&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;aside>&NewLine;<aside class&equals;"trb&lowbar;embed ">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"trb&lowbar;embed&lowbar;modalBox">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"trb&lowbar;embed&lowbar;media">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"trb&lowbar;video&lowbar;embeddedvideo"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"trb&lowbar;embed&lowbar;related">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"trb&lowbar;embed&lowbar;related&lowbar;credit&lowbar;and&lowbar;caption">&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-82666" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;10&sol;jeanette-grim&period;png" alt&equals;"Jeanette Grim&period;png" width&equals;"601" height&equals;"342" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;aside>&NewLine;<h6><strong>Holly Grim&&num;8217&semi;s mother&comma; Jeanette Grim holds up photos of her daughter<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>Investigators interviewed Horvath again in June 2014&comma; authorities said&period; This time he told state police he went there twice&comma; that he transported and helped carry a clothes washer and dryer into Grim&&num;8217&semi;s home about a year before her disappearance&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Horvath said he used the back door both times&comma; but did not recall injuring himself&comma;  police took a DNA swab from Horvath which matched a bloodstain found in Grim&&num;8217&semi;s home at the time of her disappearance&period;&comma; but they noted that the timeline was &&num;8220&semi;not consistent with the condition of the blood&&num;8221&semi; found on the back door&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The spot of blood found on Grim&&num;8217&semi;s rear door found the day she was reported missing had been  tested and proved to be a match to Horvath&&num;8217&semi;s DNA&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In late September state police went to Horvath&&num;8217&semi;s home with a search warrant prepared to dig&period; For more than a week state troopers dug day and night at the rear of the property tucked in a wooded area on the northern slope of Blue Mountain&period; Early in the dig&comma; state troopers recovered human bones&comma; including the one now determined to be Grim&&num;8217&semi;s&comma; authorities said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In the arrest affidavit filed Thursday morning&comma; investigators said their search of Horvath&&num;8217&semi;s home uncovered DVDs depicting murder&comma; deviant sex and &&num;8220&semi;hunting humans&period;&&num;8221&semi; Sex toys&comma; restraints&comma; stun guns and notes depicting stalking were also seized&comma; police said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Monroe County authorities said Michael Horvath is charged with homicide in the killing of Holly Grim&period; He was arraigned Thursday morning&comma; bail has been denied and a preliminary hearing is scheduled for Oct&period; 24&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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