Welcome to Boston Confidential, Bean Towns, True Crime Podcast.

Boston is a great city.

But there's more to it than the Freedom Trail in Fenway Park.

There's a startling underbelly to the city, and Boston Confidential will take you on a guided tour of the dark side of the Athens of America, Boston, Massachusetts.

Hey everybody, welcome back to Boston Confidential. My name is Barry McGuire and I'm your host. I'm a 20-year private investigator and I help run a company called Impact

Due Diligence Investigations. If you need anything in terms of investigative services,

feel free to give me a call or an email at Impact. And if I can't help you personally,

I'll direct you to the right agency or individual.

Okay, we've got some tough sledding on a case today.

It's an old one.

The case is Holly Peranian out of Sturbridge, Massachusetts, from 1993, believe it or not.

I remember this case vividly when it happened, and's a heartbreaker and it is pretty explicit.

So if that's not the type of episode you're looking for, you may want to skip this one.

But I think it is a good episode to listen to because it may be connected to the Molly Bish case.

It's never been established, but there's always been quite a bit of speculation on it.

If you remember from our last episode, Molly Bish disappeared nearby in Warren, Massachusetts,

and this occurred in Sturbridge, And it's relatively the same area, very close, very rural, very wooded. And both of these murders, Molly was 16, and

Holly Peranian was 10. But the circumstances were somewhat similar.

They were in an isolated area, young females, taken from the scene, case goals cold,

and I'm afraid we know the outcome.

So let me take you through the facts of the case first. Okay, so it's

August 1993 and the Peranian family has access to the grandparents' cottage on a pond in

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