Holly Piirainen. – Handout
The Hampden District Attorney’s Office is hosting a voluntary DNA sample collection to potentially find new leads in a 1993 murder case.
Holly Piirainen, 10, disappeared after leaving her grandparents’ house in Sturbridge to see a litter of puppies at a neighboring house near Allen and South Shore roads at around 11:45 a.m. on Aug. 5, 1993, according to the DA’s office.
After an hour, her father reported her missing, and he later found her sneaker near South Shore Road, officials said.
A subsequent search of the area by local law enforcement and officials in Rhode Island and Connecticut lasted for weeks.
Holly’s skeletal remains were found in a wooded area off Five Bridge Road in the neighboring town of Brimfield two months later on Oct. 23, the DA’s of