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Holly Piirainen Killing: Tank Top At Center Of 30-Year-Old Cold Case, Hampden DA Says Holly Piirainen Killing: Tank Top At Center Of 30-Year-Old Cold Case, Hampden DA Says
Holly Piirainen Killing: Tank Top At Center Of 30-Year-Old Cold Case, Hampden DA Says The Hampden County District Attorney is asking the public to help police identify who owned a white tank top found near the body of 10-year-old Holly Piirainen in 1993.  The shirt has the word Boston written across the chest in purple, pink, and blue letters, District Attorney Anthony Gulluni showed during a press conference on Wednesday morning, Feb. 1. Though the tank top lacks a tag or any identifying marks that could help investigators figure out if it belonged to a man or woman or where it was manufactured. He hopes someone will recognize it and reach out to police.  Hampden Distri…

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by Josh Lanier
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Cold Case: Body Exhumed In Relation To Missing 10-Year-Old Girl Cold Case: Body Exhumed In Relation To Missing 10-Year-Old Girl
Cold Case: Body Exhumed In Relation To Missing 10-Year-Old Girl Law enforcement officials exhumed a body this week as part of a cold case investigation into a missing 10-year-old girl. Holly Piirainen, 10, of Grafton, was killed in the summer fo 1993. She was kidnapped from Sturbridge on Aug. 5 while visiting her grandparents. Police said her remains were discovered in Brimfield by two hunters in about two months after her death. It is not clear whose body was exhumed in Sturbridge sometime during the week of Sept. Sept.. 27, according to Boston 25 News. However, police said it is not that of David Pouliot, a 49-year-old Springfield man who was a sus…

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by Kristin Palpini