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A 'significant development' in the unsolved homicide of Lisa Ziegert, which occurred in Agawam nearly a quarter-century ago, will be announced Wednesday morning by Hampden District Attorney Anthony Gulluni.
Ziegert, a teacher's assistant at Agawam Middle School, was abducted on the night of April 15, 1992, while she was at her night job at a card shop in Agawam. The following morning she was reported missing by the store's day clerk.
Upon arriving in the morning the clerk found the store open, the lights on, and the victim's car parked where it was the night before. The money in the store's cash register as well as the victim's purse and school materials appeared undisturbed.
Ziegert's body was discovered four days later in a wooded area approximately four miles from where she was abducted.
The case is one of the more notorious homicides in Western Massachusetts over the past three decades.
In 2013, then-Hampden District Attorney Mark Mastroianni told The Republican that the case remained active and that he hoped new efforts to reexamine evidence may yet bring the killer to justice. These efforts included new forensic techniques, including methods for determining DNA, he said.
At that time, investigators were also re-examining evidence, including photographs, witness statements and notes gathered over the years, he said.
Investigators, Mastroianni said, were also re-interviewing people associated with the case and had even tracked down some others who may have had new information, he said.
Gulluni will hold a press conference at 10:30 a.m. in the Hampden County Hall of Justice.
