"Asher had been partying at a house in Piha when she called police because she felt unsafe. When the police told Asher a taxi was on its way, she pleaded for them to send officers instead, telling them: I can't do this by myself. That was the last time the police spoke with her. The taxi, meanwhile, went to the wrong address."
"Sometime after 9pm, Woodhouse and her adult son picked up Asher, who was unknown to them, walking through the streets, lightly dressed, and took her home. There, Woodhouse and her late partner, Bobbie Carroll, tried to make Asher comfortable. She showered, put on Carroll's blue robe, and ate, all the while begging the couple not to call the police. Woodhouse made up the couch the same one she sits on today into a bed for Asher, and turned out the lights just after midnight."
"I hadn't even got undressed and I heard a noise on the driveway, Woodhouse says. She saw her son waving to Asher, trying to coax her back into the house. He said, Mum call the cops, there is something seriously wrong with this woman'. Then, Asher fled. Another Piha couple last saw Asher raise her naked arms towards a streetlight, kiss the ground and turn towards the roaring beach. And then, the night swallowed her whole."
On a squally winter night 21 years ago, 25-year-old Iraena Asher vanished from Piha, an isolated beach community west of Auckland. She had been partying and called police because she felt unsafe. Police told her a taxi was on its way; she pleaded for officers instead, saying 'I can't do this by myself.' The taxi went to the wrong address. Sometime after 9pm, a local couple, Julia Woodhouse and her son, picked Asher up, brought her home, and made her comfortable. Asher begged them not to call police, showered, wore a robe, and slept on the couch. Shortly after midnight she left; witnesses saw her head toward the roaring beach and then she disappeared.
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