Breanna Muriwai's family describe her as outgoing and vibrant.
Breanna Muriwai's family describe her as outgoing and vibrant.
The mum of missing woman Breanna Muriwai has issued an emotional appeal to the two men deemed persons-of-interest in her disappearance last year.
“I’m just giving you one last chance, one more opportunity to tell me where my daughter is,” Jasmin Gray said in a video on to her Facebook page this week.
“We just want her home.”
Muriwai, aged 22, was last seen early on Sunday, August 28 at Te Horo Beach on the Kāpiti Coast. The Herald sought and was granted permission to quote Gray’s video via an intermediary.
“All you have to do is just tell us where she is,” Gray said.
Breanna Muriwai's family describe her as outgoing and vibrant.
Police say the chances of her walking back through her family’s door are now “incredibly remote”.
Investigators believe the two men who were with Muriwai before she disappeared hold the key to what happened.
But several interviews with the pair have raised more questions than answers, according to Detective Senior Sergeant Dave Thompson.
Muriwai, who lived on the Kāpiti Coast, was picked up on the Friday before her disappearance by a male friend from Wellington. They travelled to Palmerston North where they stayed until Saturday night.
The last CCTV images of Muriwai were captured at a liquor store in Palmerston North about 11.15am Saturday.
Breanna Muriwai was captured with a male associate on the CCTV of a Palmerston North liquor store at 11.30am on Saturday. Photo / NZ Police
That evening, police say she wanted to return home to Paraparaumu and her friend from Wellington agreed to take her.
They began to head back, picking up another man on the way and continuing south.
They stopped shortly before 1am at Kimberley Reserve near Levin for a short time before continuing to Ōtaki, where her friend withdrew money from Muriwai’s bank account.
The trio then drove a short distance before parking outside Hunting and Fishing in Ōtaki’s main street, police believe.
They then travelled to meet a fourth person at Hyde Park on the corner of State Highway 1 and Te Horo Beach Rd.
Investigators are keeping an open mind as to what happened and continue to treat her death as unexplained, Detective Senior Sergeant Thompson said.
He earlier told the Herald police have still not found the purple suitcase that was seen with Muriwai’s waterlogged phone and handbag by the beach access of Te Horo on the same day she disappeared.
The suitcase was opened by a member of the public, who took photographs of its contents. But by the time this information reached the police, the suitcase had been removed and it has not been seen since.
The purple suitcase police are seeking. Photo / NZ Police
Police continue to seek sightings of two vehicles – a silver Peugeot on the night of August 27, or the early hours of August 28, in the area of Kimberley Reserve, Otaki Main Rd, Hyde Park, Te Horo Sea Rd beach access, Peka Peka and the former Marycrest school area.
They also want to hear from anyone who saw a green, early-model Honda in the early hours of Monday, August 29, 2022.
In a post accompanying the video, Gray said it was the last time she would address the two “main suspects, their associates and the people who played a role in the clean up of my daughters disappearance”.
