Candida Beveridge remembers the night Iraena Asher went missing at Piha. She had been up all night dealing with the death of her father, who like her, was a resident of the beach community.
On October 10, 2004, Asher, a 25-year-old part-time model and student teacher, disappeared from the blacksand wild-surf town, and Beveridge witnessed the shock and impact of the woman’s disappearance on the 1000-strong community.
Years later, the Auckland director of shows like The Bachelor and Down for Love has co-directed a true-crime series, Black Coast Vanishings, about the six people who have gone missing from Piha since 1992.
Co-director Megan Jones also lived in Piha forand Jones was aware of how Asher’s disappearance haunted the community –and that few people were satisfied by the police investigation or the coroner’s findings.
