Police have shared further details following the arrest of missing teen Phoebe Bishop‘s two housemates, who have been charged with her murder.
Police arrested James Wood, 34, and Tanika Bromley, 33, in relation to the 17-year-old’s disappearance on Thursday evening, three weeks to the day after she missed a flight and vanished. The pair have been charged with one count each of murder and two counts of interfering with a corpse.
Police also released bodycam vision on Friday of the moment Bishop’s male housemate was arrested at a property in the Bundaberg area. Dressed in tracksuit pants and t-shirt, Wood can be seen being taken into custody in the kitchen, and then led outside by detectives to a waiting police car.
“Just listen to me,” one of the detectives said.
“I’m placing you under arrest for the homicide of Pheobe Bishop.”
Detective Inspector Craig Mansfield said police will allege in court the pair killed Pheobe and moved her body “more than once,” with one of those locations believed to be in the Good Night Scrub National Park, per 9News.
Crews searched the national park after telephone data led detectives there. Police believe the teen was in the Hyundai that drove near the Bundaberg Regional Airport on the day she went missing, but no one exited the car.
Detectives have not yet found her body or her luggage.
“This part of our investigation has culminated in the arrest,” Mansfield said.
Pheobe’s sister Kaylea Bishop issued a plea for information on Friday as she addressed reporters outside the Bundaberg Magistrates Court on Friday.
She said her younger sister was loved and “missed dearly” by her family and friends.
“If you’ve got any information about Pheobe or the car or anything like that, just come forward,” she said, per 9News.
“Three weeks is too long for us as a family and all of her friends, we just want her home.”
It’s understood police are not currently looking for a weapon although they are now concentrating search efforts on trying to narrow down a particular location for Bishop. Mansfield said police suspect it will be in the greater Gin Gin area.
“It is a vast area with unforgiving terrain, we do rely on information to assist us with that further search,” Mansfield said.
“If we do locate Pheobe, we expect to find further evidence.”
The teen was last seen near Bundaberg airport on May 15. She had booked a trip to Western Australia, but CCTV footage revealed that she never entered the airport.
So far, police have undertaken multiple searches of Good Night Scrub National Park and a forensic examination of a Gin Gin property and a grey Hyundai.
On June 4, detectives said they had suspended physical searches for the teen, although they confirmed items linked to the investigation had been found during a search in the national park.
In a Facebook post on Thursday following the arrests, Bishop’s mother Kylie Johnson said the family’s world “has just been shattered”.
“I need my baby home to put her to rest! I’m absolutely begging anyone that knows anything to come forward,” she wrote.
“My heart is holding onto every little memory and hope that you come home to us Phee Phee. The little internal family jokes, the little digs at your siblings and the love you all unconditionally shared. The fierceness of that was beyond beautiful and unique.”
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