A man serving a 45-year prison sentence for a double-murder and a string of high-rise residential burglaries in the 1980s was ordered Tuesday to stand trial for the bludgeoning death of a 79-year-old Hollywood woman more than 40 years ago.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor found sufficient evidence to require Harold Holman to proceed to trial for the Aug. 27, 1972, killing of Helen Meyler, who was found dead in her bed in her second-floor apartment.
Holman, 69, was charged earlier this year with Meyler’s murder. Deputy District Attorney Beth Silverman said DNA evidence linked him to the woman’s killing.
Holman is due back in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom for arraignment Aug. 4.
If convicted, he faces up to life in state prison, according to the District Attorney’s Office.
— City News Service