Eighteen years after a 10-year-old girl’s body was found just over the border in Massachusetts, police said they found DNA near the site that links to a Springfield man.
Holly Piirainen was last seen alive on Aug. 5, 1993 in Sturbridge, Massachusetts while she was visiting her grandmother. Holly and her 5-year-old brother went to see a neighbor's puppies. The brother returned without Holly.
Her remains were found on Oct. 23, 1993, five miles away in Brimfield, Massachusetts.
It was a case that Connecticut residents paid attention to because it happened so close to the border.
Investigators said DNA found matched David Pouliot, who died in 2003 at the age of 49, according to the Telegram.com.
The Boston Globe reports that the district attorney said Pouliot was not a suspect in Piirainen’s death, but that he “frequented the Brimfield area” to hunt and fish. The Globe reports that he or people he knew were in the area.
“We linked him forensically to the scene,’’ Mastroianni said, according to the Globe. “But he is not a suspect.’
Police did not say what evidence matched Pouliot.
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They hope the information will lead people who knew the man to come forward with more information.
