A hiker found skeletal remains in State Game Lands in Rye Township, Pennsylvania, on May 27, 2014. Forensic examination determined the bones belonged to a white male, estimated 45 to 70 years old, who had died of a gunshot wound to the head; the death was ruled a homicide. The man had surgical screws in an ankle but no identifying documents or personal effects, and the case remained a John Doe for years.

In 2022 investigators used advanced DNA testing and forensic genetic genealogy to develop a lead. DNA comparison identified the victim in February 2023 as 45-year-old Michael Allen Holober of Strasburg, Virginia, who had been reported missing in 2012. Attention then shifted to an acquaintance, James Edgar Callahan, who investigators say killed Holober in Virginia in 2012 and transported the body to Pennsylvania for disposal. Callahan was indicted in Virginia and arrested in September 2023.

Does anyone have information about Michael Holober’s last known movements in 2012 or about his connections in Strasburg?