Mystery in Piha: How six people disappeared without a trace | Missing people of Piha | Stuff.co.nz

Drowning, suicide and tragic accidents – all explanations given for the disappearances of six young people who vanished from the same small corner of Auckland’s west coast. But not everyone is so convinced.

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[TepidPeppermint]

C mon stuff, you can do better. This was an almost 8 min piece without any information except that 6 people went missing, a woman being sad next to the cliff and Bob saying irrelevant things like "they're not overweight, they're not old, kinda handsome young people". Give us more details about the people, their circumstances of disappearance etc., why is the community so secretive etc.

[phottonz]

he's spot on with that parking, we go out at least weekly on West coast and never ever left the cars unlocked. So why would all those people do that - it's bizarre.

[alexcowling]

We went away to Piha in March 2019 when Laurence Wu had just gone missing. A year later when I saw the news about Eloi Rolland, I immediately thought there's just no way! Somebody is hiding something out there.

[lanfaye]

I knew Kim. She was a classmate of mine during nursing school. I was shocked to find out she disappeared. She was going to start her job as a ED Nurse and she suspiciously vanished.

[TheVeek]

The fact that a trace is not FOUND does not mean that there is no trace THERE.

[viviannedonnelly]

It's so peaceful there. A handful of people playing with their dogs on the beach, people climbing Lion's Rock. And the community is so rural and quiet.

[KanyeKetchup]

There was a Man from Adelaide had been hiding for 18 years at Piha. He was deported back to South Australia for a murder .

[tarkin]

Definately something sinister there I hope every family gets closure, too many missing there

[phoenixkb]

Some of the locals know...how could they not? Sinister things happen out West in the Ranges and around the beaches.

[____r]

Kept in bunkers ???? Kidnapped taken by a
they cant just vanish

[ljawgtn]

In my If someone is responsible for even half of these missing people they would have to be hanging around or working around or living around the area for the opportunities to both come up and to be able to execute (the abduction) so seamlessly. So in that case others who frequent the area may have suspicions on who that person could be. Suspicions, a feeling, a gut instinct that they should trust in themselves and talk to this guy in the video about it. (sorry I'm not from Auckland I kind of recognise "the guy in the video" but can't remember his name) It affects a lot of lives when someone appears to have vanished, but people can't just vanish..

[ambercantwell]

Its obvious there is serial killer around there. I remember that young nurse jogging never to be found . I always wonderd if she saw something at the hospital and was a target knowing she goes jogging and when .

[rogerlo]

It’s trippy when I know 2 of the people personally Kim and Lawrence really weird feeling seeing their faces and names here.

[johnathansturric]

The serial killer sold his house 18 months ago, he lived on glenesk road in a small black house, check the garden

[slicktricks_takethat]

That place is a death trap, as beautiful as it is

[flexaeterna]

These beautiful young people are being kidnapped by a local. It’s like Wolfcreek

[OnlyTheSon]

unfortunately you cant expect the NZ police to assign any officers to the case.
lack of resources, lack of man power, Auckland police have their hands full already and local cops wont waste too much time on this case because they have NO idea..
now. NZ crimes unit, missing persons divisions might now have this case on their desk.
how many people in that taste force? how many missing case files do they have?
how many people are assigned to the Piha case? how many cases does that small team have as well as the piha case? I have no idea.. but im sure its not 10 detectives spending 40 hours a week soley on the PIHA missing cases.. I have no idea how many people and how many hours a week, a month are spent on this case..

so.. what could have happened?
1: they jumped... they climbed over the railing, got far to the edge as possible and just jumped. or they jumped from elsewhere, not where Sir Bob was standing..
like the life guard said, maybe all 6 of them sliced their torsos going down which kept their bodies under water and they just got ripped out into sea and became shark food.
all 6 of them.. yes unlikely but probable...
(how many suicides have taken place at Piha over the past 30 years?)
how many jumped into the ocean and bodies were recovered?
did anyone jump, someone saw them jump, and their bodies were never recovered?

yes, no trace of jumping, no shoe, no blood, no piece of clothing on a tree..
mystery yes, but missing cases are always a mystery.

maybe the police are looking at the wrong jump point..

2. they ran away... ( they just wanted to be alone )
this happens.. rememeber Olivia newtown jones husbands, he was never found and most believe he is alive and just wants to be left alone so he faked his own death etc,
thats just an example.. meaning.. PEOPLE do it. who knows why they do, , they just do..

3. murder...
ok, so lets say they were murdered.. its most likely its the same person.
of course it could be all random events, sperate killers under different situations and for different individual reasons which just all happened to take place at Piha., .
maybe a preferred location for murdering people, contract hits, the same killers are hired and they follow suspects to that location and kidnap them there and kill them..
criminals are stupid and creatures of habit..
unlikely it was 6 different killers, 6 contract kills...
so lets assume its a serial killer...
now.. what kind of killer are we dealing with here?
1st. a killer who hasnt got gender preference .. he will kidnap woman and men.
now because we dont have any bodies we dont know if he rapes them or not..
2nd. we have a killer who kidnaps adults.. not children.. adults who can run, fight, scream and put up a struggle.. a killer would have to come from behind them unknowing to them and use some sort of chemical over a rag or something to put them to sleep and then he drags them into the car without anyone seeing a thing.. (maybe he did it 2 or 3 times before so feels comfortable with this tactic) or.. he coercers them into the vehicle offering them drugs, booze or friendship? so the people just get into the car with no fuss.. then who knows what happens...

but all that seems straight of of TED BUNDYS hand book..

I think.. all these 6 people probably had some kind of mental illness
( keep in mind, I have just watched this video and did a quick google search, , so I dont know about the 6 people)
but im assuming they had mental problems first.. drugs were probably involved too..
lethal combination of drugs and mental illness..
they jumped off the cliffs, bodies never found... the ocean just swallowed them up...

[sebatianalvarado]

didnt a girt go missing abt 15yrs ago from there ? she rung police but they had no cars so rung a taxi for her ... she banged on a ladys house in distress inher underwear, young woman, but took of before police or taxi got there ... never seen again .. sure was Piha .. always thought must beensomeone listening to a police scanner ...

[natalyaroberts]

I've been to Piha once in my life as a little girl and I'm glad, I never want to go there now.

[fussypeg]

I did a lot of really splendid hiking there, always on my own. Frankly, being a woman I've been more scared to use the shower facility on the camping ground in the dark than I was worried about being alone in those marvellous forests around Piha.