Under The Bridge: the true story of Canadian teen killers who beat and drowned their friend

Reena Virk knew something was off that Friday night. There had been friction with another teen she had been hanging out with, and she knew trouble lay ahead.

She promised her increasingly concerned parents that she would be home for 10pm as she headed to meet her friends at the field behind the school. But she never returned.

After hanging out for a while with a group of teenagers, the 14-year-old would be attacked – beaten so badly the pathologist said it was as if her body had been run over by a car. She was found eight days later, drowned in the nearby river.

Now the story of this terrible crime – told partly through the eyes of journalist Rebecca Godfrey who investigated the story for her 2005 book Under the Bridge – has being turned into a series, which is available on Disney+.

Drawing on the memoir written by Reena's father, and Godfrey’s award-winning work, the series ask how a group of young people could do such a terrible thing.

Reena Virk

Things were not always easy for Reena Virk.’s capital, Victoria.