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Montour Twp., Pa. ÐÔÊӽ紫ý” State police have charged the husband of a missing woman with murder following a search on a property in Columbia County Sunday afternoon.

Police blocked off a rural Montour Township road and called for the coroner and a crime scene unit to search the property, where they found the body of 33-year-old Katlyn Harp. Columbia County Coroner Jeremy Reese arrived on scene at 3:15 p.m. and pronounced her deceased. The cause of death is pending a forensic autopsy, scheduled for Monday, June 30, but the manner of death is homicide, based on "observations and evidence at the scene," Reese said. 

Police called to former Harp property

Officers were dispatched to 86 Harp Lane, Bloomsburg, around 12:30 p.m., for reports of a suspicious person. Local police say a group of about 15 people were at the top of an embankment off the rural road when they arrived and were directing attention to the bottom of the embankment.

Below, state police were conducting a search of the property.

Fire police blocked access to Harp Lane for regular traffic, but were letting in a stream of first responders to the site throughout the afternoon. The Columbia County Coroner arrived at the area around 1:45 p.m., according to officials on scene.

The property police searched previously belonged to Vincent Harp, the husband of Katlyn Harp. Vincent Harp sold the property in 2023, according to county records. 

Katlyn Harp had been missing since June 19. She was last seen at her home on Fairview Drive in Bloomsburg.

Vincent Harp was charged with murder, abuse of a corpse, and tampering with evidence. He will be arraigned before District Judge Brenda Hess and is set to appear for a preliminary hearing on July 14 at District Judge Doug Brewer's office.