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Podcast: Newsable
Episode: Introducing: The Lost Boy - The disappearance of Mike Zhao-Beckenridge
Description: It’s one of the most intriguing and harrowing unsolved mysteries in New Zealand’s modern history.In 2015, 11 year-old Mike Zhao-Beckenridge and his stepfather, John Beckenridge, disappeared in a remote part of Southland, leaving Mike’s mother and John’s former partner desperate for answers.John’s car was found two months later, having plunged into the ocean from an 80-metre cliff, but there was no sign of John or Mike. Now a coroner is being asked to decide whether the pair are dead.To give you a sample of this new true cr...