23 May 2023

Beckenridge disappearance: car parked on deadly coastline

From Morning Report, 7:16 am on 23 May 2023
Police attach black floats to the car wreck in preparation for its removal from the bay.

Police attach black floats to the car wreck in preparation for its removal from the bay. Photo: RNZ / Ian Telfer

A hearing into whether Queenstown man John Beckenridge and his stepson are dead has been told the coastline where their car was found is notorious for bodies never being recovered.

On March 13 eight years ago, Mr Beckenridge picked up his 11-year-old step-son Mike from his school in Invercargill, then disappeared.

Jemima Huston reports.