574 // Holly Piirainen w/ Richard Price - Part 1

Missing

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True Crime, News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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In this new episode, Crawlspace Media's Tim Pilleri and Lance Reenstierna speak with Richard Price about the mysterious disappearance and tragic murder of Holly Piirainen from Sturbridge, Massachusetts on August 5th, 1993. This is part 1 of 2. Holly went missing while visiting a group of puppies at a nearby residence. Her sneaker was found on a road and the search for 10 year old Holly was on. But in October of 1993, Holly's remains were found in Brimfield, MA and the case has been unsolved ever since. Check out Richard's podcast, Holly's Been Taken: Apple: ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hollys-been-taken-a-true-crime-podcast/id1605497608⁠. Spotify: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/637b2HZHSXIeOTLEF0orH2⁠. If you have any information in the case, please contact the Hampden District Attorney at hampdenda.com. Or call the Massachusetts State Police Detective Unit at 413-505-5993 or the State Police Unresolved Cases Unit at 855-627-6583. You can also text the word Solve to 274637. Official family site: ⁠https://www.helpholly.com/⁠. Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/hollypiirainen. Main podcast theme by Kevin Macleod. Check out his work at⁠ ⁠⁠https://incompetech.com/⁠⁠⁠. Additional music by David Williams. See his work at⁠ ⁠⁠http://williamsflutes.com⁠⁠⁠. Follow Missing: IG: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/MissingCSM/⁠. TT:⁠ https://www.tiktok.com/@missingcsm⁠. FB:⁠ https://www.facebook.com/MissingCSM⁠. X:⁠ https://twitter.com/MissingCSM⁠. Spotify:⁠ https://open.spotify.com/show/0yRXkJrZC85otfT7oXMcri⁠. Youtube:⁠ https://www.youtube.com/missingcsm⁠. Apple:⁠ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/missing/id1006974447⁠. Follow Crawlspace: IG:⁠ https://www.instagram.com/Crawlspacepodcast⁠. TT:⁠ https://www.tiktok.com/@crawlspacepodcast⁠. FB:⁠ https://www.facebook.com/Crawlspacepodcast⁠. X:⁠ https://twitter.com/crawlspacepod.⁠ Spotify:⁠ https://open.spotify.com/show/7iSnqnCf27NODdz0pJ1GvJ⁠. Youtube:⁠ https://www.youtube.com/crawlspace⁠. Apple:⁠ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crawlspace-true-crime-mysteries/id1187326340⁠. Check out our entire network at⁠ http://crawlspace-media.com/⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Today on missing, we speak with Richard Price. He did quite a deep dive into the disappearance
0:39.4	and murder of Holly Perinian from Sturbridge, Massachusetts in 1993. His podcast is called
0:48.3	Holly's Been Taken, and we get deep into his coverage and the suspects surrounding Holly's murder.
0:55.9	Lance, what do you think of this conversation?
0:58.2	I love it when we have guests that come on the show and they can tackle a case that has such
1:02.7	gravity like this case has.
1:04.7	And it's always tough when you're talking about the abduction, murder, any sort of crime
1:09.9	that's perpetrated towards children, young children.
1:13.0	Holly was 10 years old when she was declared dead. So that is really tough to have a deep dive
1:19.3	conversation just for an hour about. I mean, you have to kind of steal yourself to get to that
1:24.6	point. But Richard does such a great job in his podcast. I can't recommend
1:28.8	it enough. Like, we love this podcast. And he really embraced this mystery. He's embraced the family,
1:35.6	the investigation, the media. Like, he took it all in and really just an honor to have him on.
1:41.7	Absolutely. Okay. So this is going to be broken up into two parts because this conversation was probably
1:47.3	about 90 minutes.
1:48.9	And Lance and I will return for final thoughts at the end of part two, which will be out on Friday.
1:55.0	All right, folks, be sure to follow us on social media at missing CSM.
1:59.0	And we're going to break real quick for commercial.
2:01.3	We'll be back with Richard Price to discuss the murder of Holly Perennian.
2:10.6	I've rolled out uni because I want to live at home.
2:13.5	I've ruled out uni because I want to earn money.
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