The disappearance of Jane Furlong is a mystery that has gripped the nation for nearly thirty years.

In 1993, 17-year-old Jane Furlong disappeared from Auckland's Karangahape Road.

Nineteen years later her remains were found on a beach at Port Waikato. Her killer has never been brought to justice.

Stuff journalist Kelly Dennett wrote The Short Life and Mysterious Death of Jane Furlong, a book which won a Ngiao Marsh award for Best Non-Fiction and outlines everything we know about the case.

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