Following forensic examination, police have confirmed the human remains found two weeks ago near the Good Night Scrub National Park area are those of missing teenager Pheobe Bishop.
The 17-year-old 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.
Her housemates James Wood, 34, and Tanika Bromley, 33, have since been charged with one count each of murder, and two counts each of interfering with a corpse.
Queensland Police found the remains at around 2:30pm on June 6 during a search of an area near Good Night Scrub National Park, less than an hour away from Gin Gin.
At the time, police said they were unable to formally identify the remains, but that they were in contact with Pheobe’s family.
After the devastating discovery, Bishop’s mother, Kylie Johnson, took to Facebook, expressing the news was “ripping me apart”.
“I didn’t think my heart could break anymore than it did when you went missing, or when the charges were laid, but this! This is ripping me apart,” she wrote.
In a statement released on Tuesday, they confirmed the remains belonged to the missing teenager.
“Investigations into locating more items of interest in relation to this matter remain ongoing,” it said.
Bundaberg mayor Helen Blackburn said the formal identification was a “relief”.
“We’ve been waiting to have the confirmation that it was Pheobe that was found … to have this now confirmed just means that we can move forward together,” she said on Tuesday, per ABC News.
“The family will be able to lay her to rest in a respectful manner.”
Over a week after Pheobe first went missing, her disappearance was declared suspicious on May 21. The house she had been living in with Wood and Bromley, as well as the housemates’ grey Hyundai ix35, were identified as crime scenes.
On May 23, police began searching Good Night Scrub National Park. State Emergency Services, drones, and cadaver dogs combed through the area, and items of interest were collected for forensic examination.
Wood and Bromley were charged on Thursday, June 5.
Police allege all three were in the car on the way to the airport, but the teen never made it into the terminal or onto the plane.
Police allege 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.
They are due back in court in August.
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