At the time of her death, Vera, 47, was living with her husband Brian, 41, on St Barnabas Road, Shinfield Rise, south Reading.
On the evening of Thursday 14 November 1996, Vera left her home at 6.10 pm to make a three-minute walk to the Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant on Shinfield Road.
Once the fire had been extinguished, Vera's body was discovered in a beige carpet on a pile of rubbish which included logs and tyres.
Traces of her blood were found on the carpet and she was partially clothed in her undergarments: a suspender belt and petticoat.
[10] In February 1997, police put up two road signs in the area where Vera's body was found, appealing for information.
In March 1997, Brian Holland threatened to take legal action against Thames Valley Police over the handling of his wife's case.
"[7] In November 2016, on the twenty year anniversary of Vera's death, two of her children made a new appeal for information alongside Thames Valley Police.
[6] When asked at the time about a possible connection of Vera's death with imprisoned serial killer, Christoper Halliwell, the head of Thames Valley police's major crime review team, Peter Beirne, responded that he would, "keep Halliwell in mind".
[20] In January 2017, Thames Valley Police announced that new witnesses had come forward leading to further investigations, but no arrests had been made.