The last time anyone saw 33 year old Catlin Harp alive was around 9pm on June 19, 2025 at her home on Fairview Drive in Hemlock Township, Pennsylvania. The next day, her sister Heather Lane grew worried. Catlin wasn’t answering calls, which was unlike her and her Life360 app had stopped updating the night before. Heather called police and requested a welfare check, officially setting the investigation in motion.

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Police questioned Catelyn’s husband, 37 year old Vincent Vinnie Harp, he told them that they had argued after dinner on June 19, but when he woke up the next morning, she was gone. He claimed Catlin had left a short text message saying she needed a break, that friends were coming to pick her up. And um, as a final text she said, quote, please don’t destroy my stuff. I need my space to get out my head. From the beginning, police weren’t convinced that the messages were even written by Catelyn. Then days later, on June 25th, Vincent released, uh, a public statement insisting he had nothing to do with her disappearance and was desperate to find her. As the search intensified, Pennsylvania State Police brought in aviation units, K9s, drones, ATVs and um, SERT teams to scour the area. Investigators also found out that Vincent’s account of his movements before, during and after Catlin’s disappearance was full of inconsistencies. While the case against Vincent was building, Catlin’s family spoke of who she really was outside the tragedy. Her sister, Heather ah described her as loving and resilient. Friends remembered her humor, her fierce loyalty, and her ability to light up a room for her family. Catelyn was not just the subject of an investigation, but a daughter, a sister, and a loved one who should have been safe in her own home.

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As suspicion around Vincent grew more troubling, details about his past came forward. In 2018, court records showed allegations of domestic violence involving his ex wife, Stephanie Harp, who died in 2021. He had also faced charges for terroristic threats, reckless endangerment, simple assault and harassment. It painted the picture of a man with a volatile and violent past, adding weight to suspicions about catlin’s disappearance. By June 20, the day after Catlin vanished, police were already tracking Vincent’s movements. That morning, his phone records placed him on a remote mountain road where his GMC Yukon had gotten stuck in the mud, leaving drag marks into the woods. When questioned, Vincent couldn’t give a reason for being there. Later the same day, surveillance footage caught him driving his silver Chevy Silverado with a large green metal box in the bed of his truck. He also stopped at a gas station asking an employee if they sold gloves. When told no, he asked them for a pair from the store’s personal stock, put them in his pocket and drove away. On June 25, investigators got another break. An ATV that Vincent had sold just the day before was turned over to state police and tested positive for human blood. On the afternoon of June 29, Heather Lane and her search party guided police to a rural property on Harp Lane In Montour Township, 38 wooded acres that Vincent had previously owned before selling it. In 2023, at, uh, the base of a steep embankment, investigators found the same green metal storage box that had been seen in the back of Vincent’s truck. The box reeked of decomposition. Inside, they found human remains identified as Catlin’s due to a distinctive tattoo she had. At 3:15pm that Sunday, Columbia county coroner Jeremy Reese pronounced her dead. He described her body as being in an advanced state of decomposition, consistent with having been inside the box for over a week. While no obvious gunshot wounds or trauma were found, coroner Rees said that based on the totality of evidence, the manner of death was classified as homicide. That same day, Vincent was arrested in Hazleton and charged with criminal homicide, abuse of a corpse and tampering with evidence. He was denied bail and transferred to the Columbia county correctional facility. On July 21st, Vincent’s preliminary hearing started and only lasted two and a half hours. The defense tried to reframe the case. Vincent now claimed that he and Catlin had been inhaling nitrous oxide together when she died from an accidental overdose. A state trooper, uh, also testified that Vincent had admitted that his first story was a lie.

I made up a story that she left on her own.

Leaving court, Vincent repeated his version to reporters.

It’s all about drugs.

But the prosecution argued otherwise, laying out a trail of evidence that told a much different story. The shifting alibis, the surveillance footage, the blood on the atv, the incriminating cell phone data, and finally, the discovery of Catlin’s body in the green box on Vincent’s former property. This all told the court that this was a calculated and cold attempt to cover up a crime. Then coroner Rees testified.

I classified her death as a homicide based on the totality of the evidence. A drug overdose can still be a homicide.

The judge ruled that there was enough evidence to move forward to trial. Catlin’s grieving family sat silently in the courtroom as the ruling was handed down. What? While the exact cause of Catelyn’s death remains under testing, what began with a suspicious text and an implausible story ended with a body in a locked box in the woods. Now all that remains is the pursuit of justice.

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