Post by WOLVERETT on Sept 8, 2013 15:03:44 GMT -5
The 10-year-old Grafton girl disappeared on Aug. 5, 1993, after she and her younger brother went to a neighbor's house to play with a litter of puppies. When her brother returned without her after 20 minutes, an investigation was launched.
All that was found that summer afternoon was one of Holly's red sneakers, down the road from the family's vacation home. On Oct. 23, 1993, her skeletal remains were found by hunters in Brimfield, 5 miles from where she was last seen. The case is still open and is being investigated as a homicide, said State Police.
"We want to keep the story open, and it is an unsolved crime, and someone is out there looking for kids," Karen Jolin of Oakham, Piirainen's aunt, said yesterday in a telephone interview. "She would have been 25; you just wonder what she would have been like after all these years." www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2008/08/03/family_still_hopes_to_find_girls_killer/
All that was found that summer afternoon was one of Holly's red sneakers, down the road from the family's vacation home. On Oct. 23, 1993, her skeletal remains were found by hunters in Brimfield, 5 miles from where she was last seen. The case is still open and is being investigated as a homicide, said State Police.
"We want to keep the story open, and it is an unsolved crime, and someone is out there looking for kids," Karen Jolin of Oakham, Piirainen's aunt, said yesterday in a telephone interview. "She would have been 25; you just wonder what she would have been like after all these years." www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2008/08/03/family_still_hopes_to_find_girls_killer/