102: Eloi Rolland: Auckland, New Zealand
In March 2020, 18 year old Eloi Rolland left his homestay on Auckland’s North Shore
just before dawn. He was a French exchange student - curious, soft-spoken,
and enchanted by New Zealand’s beauty. That morning he opened Google Maps and searched the word Piha. A remote black-sand beach known for its cliffs, its isolation… and its danger.
He caught a bus, then a train. CCTV caught him walking alone as the city woke up. By 9:18am, his phone pinged one final time along Piha Road in Waitakere Ranges -
and then… nothing.No more messages. No more movement. No more Eloi. Police scoured the bushland…
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