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Morbidology

178: Holly Piirainen

Morbidology

Morbidology

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Documentary

4.41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

It was summer of 1993 in Sturbridge, Massachusetts. Sturbridge is a quaint community of around 7,800 people, located on the state’s border with Connecticut, and it consists of mostly summer-homes. One afternoon, however, the tranquility of the area was shattered when a little girl failed to return to her grandparents’ summer cottage.

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Evening of Chaos - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Polyperenian was a 10-year-old girl from Grafton in Massachusetts.

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She was born on the 19th of January, 1983.

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It's a parents, Christine Harrington Cooper and Richard Perenian.

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The couple had two other children together.

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Five-year-old Zachary and eight-year-old Andrew.

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Richard worked at Comtec in Worcester, a medical supply firm, while Christine was a stay-at-home mother.

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Unfortunately, the immensely love of the couple had for their children just wasn't enough to make the marriage work,

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and the couple separated, and the children divided their time between both parents.

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Poly was a very active girl.

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She loved participating in the girl's skirts.

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She was a fourth grader at the South Grafton Elementary School, where she had a number of friends and participated in the school choir.

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Despite being only 10-years-old, Holly had already planned out her adult life,

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often telling her parents that she wanted to be a marine biologist and live in either Florida or California.

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Holly was described by her parents as being something of a perfectionist.

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