A man serving a 45-year prison sentence for a double-murder and a string of high-rise residential burglaries in the 1980s has been charged with murdering a 79-year-old woman in 1972, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced Thursday.
Harold Holman, 68, pleaded not guilty Wednesday in connection with the Aug. 27, 1972, killing of Helen Meyler, who was found bludgeoned to death in her bed in her Los Angeles apartment.
DNA evidence connected Holman to the woman’s killing, according to Deputy District Attorney Beth Silverman.
Holman is being held without bail. He is due back in Los Angeles Superior Court March 2, when a date is scheduled to be set for a hearing to determine if there is enough evidence to require him to stand trial.
If convicted, he faces up to life in state prison, according to the District Attorney’s Office.
— City News Service