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DA to announce 'significant development' in unsolved 1992 killing

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — State prosecutors say they have new information about the unsolved slaying of a middle school teacher's aide 25 years ago.

Hampden District Attorney Anthony Gulluni has scheduled a news conference for Monday to announce a "significant development" in the investigation of the April 1992 death of Lisa Ziegert.

The 24-year-old Agawam woman was working her night job at a gift shop when she disappeared.

Her body was found four days later in a wooded area about four miles away. She had been raped and stabbed.

Last year, the district attorney released a computer-generated rendering of a suspect using new technology that analyzed DNA found at the crime scene to predict the suspect's physical characteristics.