Australia Australia - Pheobe Bishop, 17, failed to board a flight from Queensland, Bundaberg, 15 May 2025 *Arrests* #3

[Cleety_]

This is so unbearably sad. My heart breaks for a young girl whose life should have just been starting to blossom into all its potential. And my heart breaks for her family as they have to try to deal with not only the fact that she is gone forever, but also the horrific circumstances of her demise.

I’m interested where these 2 were when arrested. …noting they were under court orders Not to Be in Each Others Presence following the weapons charges .

It looked like JW may have been in a caravan when he was charged last night.

Were they together when arrested, or was there a ‘raid’ on TB’s location at the same time .

They have both been charged with identical offences, however I wonder if she’ll roll over on the basis of the ‘Coercion & DV’…. I thought it was quite telling that the Magistrate commented on that when she appeared in court on the recent weapons charges.

Police are still saying that all 3 of them were in the car going to the airport that morning, so I’m so confused as to how 2 so-called friends go from taking some one to the airport > suddenly

This is so unbearably sad. My heart breaks for a young girl whose life should have just been starting to blossom into all its potential. And my heart breaks for her family as they have to try to deal with not only the fact that she is gone forever, but also the horrific circumstances of her demise.

I’m interested where these 2 were when arrested. …noting they were under court orders Not to Be in Each Others Presence following the weapons charges .

It looked like JW may have been in a caravan when he was charged last night.

Were they together when arrested, or was there a ‘raid’ on TB’s location at the same time .

They have both been charged with identical offences, however I wonder if she’ll roll over on the basis of the ‘Coercion & DV’…. I thought it was quite telling that the Magistrate commented on that when she appeared in court on the recent weapons charges.

Police are still saying that all 3 of them were in the car going to the airport that morning, so I’m so confused as to how 2 so-called friends go from taking some one to the airport > suddenly killing her !

 

[Cleety_]

This is so unbearably sad. My heart breaks for a young girl whose life should have just been starting to blossom into all its potential. And my heart breaks for her family as they have to try to deal with not only the fact that she is gone forever, but also the horrific circumstances of her demise.

I’m interested where these 2 were when arrested. …noting they were under court orders Not to Be in Each Others Presence following the weapons charges .

It looked like JW may have been in a caravan when he was charged last night.

Were they together when arrested, or was there a ‘raid’ on TB’s location at the same time .

They have both been charged with identical offences, however I wonder if she’ll roll over on the basis of the ‘Coercion & DV’…. I thought it was quite telling that the Magistrate commented on that when she appeared in court on the recent weapons charges.

Police are still saying that all 3 of them were in the car going to the airport that morning, so I’m so confused as to how 2 so-called friends go from taking some one to the airport > suddenly

It says he was arrested at his parents house.
His mum is heard crying in the background of the video. There is a possibility his mum got wired up and he confessed to her after getting out of interrogation yesterday.
Probably abit far fetched, but still a possibility

 

[cheetojones]

was it or are you assuming that?

The articles that were posted with the security camera footage of that car have mysteriously disappeared, so I don't think I'm assuming that. It was very obviously to people in all the threads on here since she disappeared that it was a kia carnival and not an ix35. Someone got a grey car on their CCTV and sent it to the daily fail and channel 9 and they ran with it.

 

[sapphire blue]

The articles that were posted with the security camera footage of that car have mysteriously disappeared, so I don't think I'm assuming that. It was very obviously to people in all the threads on here since she disappeared that it was a kia carnival and not an ix35. Someone got a grey car on their CCTV and sent it to the daily fail and channel 9 and they ran with it.

I’m well aware that it wasn’t the ix35, and that articles have disappeared, but that doesn’t mean that the vehicle wasn’t relevant.

 

[Daphne_Blake]

The 'call to the police' at 5am is not confirmed. I don't think she died at the house. I believe she was killed on Samuel's road. IMO.

In your opinion, why did the accused drive her close to the airport and then kill her? Argument got worse in the car maybe and that's why they lost it? but why so close the airport? I like your previous comments and think your on track with what might have happened

 

[Daphne_Blake]

It says he was arrested at his parents house.
His mum is heard crying in the background of the video. There is a possibility his mum got wired up and he confessed to her after getting out of interrogation yesterday.
Probably abit far fetched, but still a possibility

MOO, no way. The mums of criminal men always cry when their 'innocent babies' are arrested and make excuses. If she actually asked him to tell the truth I will be very very surprised as its so rare.

 

[cheetojones]

I’m well aware that it wasn’t the ix35, and that articles have disappeared, but that doesn’t mean that the vehicle wasn’t relevant.

It may well be, but I'll go out on a limb and say police wouldn't ignore a licence plate of that car if they thought it was potentially involved. They mentioned JW's and TB's car registration immediately. If the random kia carnival was a car of interest we would have known. The story or that car was nothing more than awful reactive journalism trying to be the first to get a story and a failure to recognise an entirely different car. A kia carnival won't be involved in anyway

 

[Detechtive]

In your opinion, why did the accused drive her close to the airport and then kill her? Argument got worse in the car maybe and that's why they lost it? but why so close the airport? I like your previous comments and think your on track with what might have happened

Definitely wasn’t premeditated. IMO
Very disorganised and impulsive.

I think something triggered the housemates on the drive and they hit her with the butt of the gun in the car which accidentally killed her. They then freaked out, drove onto Samuel’s road off the road to figure out what to do next. They then took her to Good night Scrub to dispose of her body.
Then they retrieved her body and put her into her duffle bag and put her into water somewhere close.

Just based on profiling and offender patterns. My opinion only.

 

[cheetojones]

Seems very obvious that Tanika had spilled it all just after her scheduled bail check in on Friday Morning. Cops took James in for "questioning". They could only hold him for 8hrs, by the time he got out around 11pm tanika was asleep, but she has assumed he was with the cops all day maybe throwing her under the bus. She had to report to the police the next day due to her bail conditions for the weapons charges. Absolutely stressing as she would have heard James was been talked to, confessed it all as she knew she was done. Gave what happened up, gave the location of Pheobe's body up thinking she might get out in 15-20 years because she told them where the body is.

 

[Sasskee]

Definitely wasn’t premeditated. IMO
Very disorganised and impulsive.

I think something triggered the housemates on the drive and they hit her with the butt of the gun in the car which accidentally killed her. They then freaked out, drove onto Samuel’s road off the road to figure out what to do next. They then took her to Good night Scrub to dispose of her body.
Then they retrieved her body and put her into her duffle bag and put her into water somewhere close.

Just based on profiling and offender patterns. My opinion only.

This is what I’m thinking too. The impulsive and accidental nature on the way to the airport. The weapons charges against T were “unrelated” though so would they have taken the gun in for testing? Or maybe they were unrelated at that particular moment, until more evidence was gathered.

 

[cheetojones]

Definitely wasn’t premeditated. IMO
Very disorganised and impulsive.

I think something triggered the housemates on the drive and they hit her with the butt of the gun in the car which accidentally killed her. They then freaked out, drove onto Samuel’s road off the road to figure out what to do next. They then took her to Good night Scrub to dispose of her body.
Then they retrieved her body and put her into her duffle bag and put her into water somewhere close.

Just based on profiling and offender patterns. My opinion only.

I still can't help but think the murder occurred in the house, everything else was a ruse to try to cover their tracks. They never tried to drop her at the airport. Its only been us against the word of the two people now on murder charges.
There was no argument on the way to the airport. Pheobe was already dead IMO

 

[Observe_dont_Absorb]

Definitely wasn’t premeditated. IMO
Very disorganised and impulsive.

I think something triggered the housemates on the drive and they hit her with the butt of the gun in the car which accidentally killed her. They then freaked out, drove onto Samuel’s road off the road to figure out what to do next. They then took her to Good night Scrub to dispose of her body.
Then they retrieved her body and put her into her duffle bag and put her into water somewhere close.

Just based on profiling and offender patterns. My opinion only.

LE would not have declared the car a crime scene but then released it back to perpetrators if they believed that. If a violent crime happened inside the car they'd need to keep it for all sorts of evidence.

If they already realised the vehicle was simply used to transport the deceased wrapped up in all sorts of layers, they would have a completely different focus IMO - such as locating the victim. JMO MOO.

 

[cheetojones]

James's broken TV story is interesting. Nothing about it from police (possibly evidence they don't want a possible jury to know of), or in the media like the other questions he tried to answer. The broken TV was information he introduced himself, possibly something that was mentioned to him by police but not to the public.James was very quick to have a story or excuse for everything else, but the TV was just "phoebe did it". I cant find an article about a broke tv. As far I can remember the police mentioned nothing about a smashed tv. Did he accidentally leak details in the daily mail interview that not even the police knew about

 

[cheetojones]

I don't normally get sucked in to murders or disappearances but this one has got me. Her social media posts suggested that she was self aware and knew nothing was going to change unless she made it happen. I dont think her plan was to simply visit Western Australia, judging by her social media posts I feel like she saw it as a fresh start. The rest of the life of a 17 year old that was mature and self aware enough to realise where she was was a bad place, only to "allegedly" be stopped by two people in their 30's when she was nearly free.

 

[Alli1982]

DBM

 

[Alli1982]

Welcome to regional Australia. Police stations close at 12pm and its assumed most things just get resolved amongst the parties involved, because everyone knows. Eye for an eye or a fight in the street. Having lived in Mt Isa for a decent amount of my 35 years I've seen it all. I guess it's rare for things to escalate to where they have with Pheobe unfortunately.

Except for the fact that on average one woman per week is murdered by a man in this country, it often escalates to murder.

 

[cheetojones]

Except for the fact that on average one woman per week is murdered by a man in this country, it often escalates to murder.

I'm aware, and it's horrendous, but not what I was alluding to in regard what i was talking about. What I was saying wasn't in relation to the national toll of dv, which I do acknowledge is horrendous. More what I was alluding to in Regional areas is that there is a very limited amount of trust in law enforcement so they'd rather take it in to their own hands, regardless if male on female, male on male, they sort it themselves. There is a disdain for law enforcement outside of the big cities

 

[Dotta]

IMO

All signs indicate that something terrible happened in the he house early in the morning.

The noise was so frightening that a neighbour,
who was already used to weird ppl next door (or is it next house?),
decided to call Police.

Now,
add smashed TV to the mix,
a missing girl,
and the picture becomes clearer.

I don't think anybody saw poor PB alive this day outside the house.

And I also don't believe the argument
(which woke the neighborhood)
was about pre flight nerves
or someone angry of being woken up too early.

Nope.

The motive seems to be something that made somebody to commit the unthinkable.

Besides,
Police claim the motive is more or less known to them.

JMO

 

[Dreamcherry]

The rest of the life of a 17 year old that was mature and self aware enough to realise where she was was a bad place, only to "allegedly" be stopped by two people in their 30's when she was nearly free.

It's so infuriating!!! I wanted so badly for this poor girl to be found alive so she could move on from what looked like a pretty troubled past and make a decent life for herself. It makes me so blindingly mad that these two @!#$%ing degenerate losers destroyed any chance of that for her permanently, just wiped her off the face of the planet, and for what, even? Why? It's going to be something petty and stupid, because it always is, and that's going to be even more infuriating. She deserved so much better than living with trash grown-a$$ adults surrounded by trash.

 

[cheetojones]

IMO

All signs indicate that something terrible happened in the he house early in the morning.

The noise was so frightening that a neighbour,
who was already used to weird ppl next door (or is it next house?),
decided to call Police.

Now,
add smashed TV to the mix,
a missing girl,
and the picture becomes clearer.

I don't think anybody saw poor PB alive this day outside the house.

And I also don't believe the argument
(which woke the neighborhood)
was about pre flight nerves
or someone angry of being woken up too early.

Nope.

The motive seems to be something that made somebody to commit the unthinkable.

JMO

Yep, something happened in the house. Two counts of interfering with a corpse. I think she died in the house somehow, James's story about the broken TV makes me think she was thrown across the room and hit her head. They panicked dumped her in the first location at GNS (1 count) where "evidence was removed" and they moved her to where she was now found today (2 counts).