Short Life & Mysterious Death of Jane Furlong, The

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Jane Furlong was seventeen when she disappeared off Auckland's Karangahape Road in 1993. She was a friend, a girlfriend, a daughter, the mother of a young baby, and a sex worker. Her disappearance became a media frenzy, with Jane's face and halo of fiery red hair emblazoned on newspapers and television screens across the country. it soon emerged she was to have been a witness at the trial of a wealthy businessman charged with sex crimes. Other rumours abounded. The police identified a number of suspects. No one was charged. Jane was lost without trace. Nineteen years later a woman walking her dog on a beach an hour's drive from Auckland make a gruesome discovery: a skull was poking through the sand. The body in the windswept dunes was found to be that of Jane Furlong.