Australia Australia - Pheobe Bishop, 17, failed to board a scheduled flight from a Queensland Airport. Last seen Airport Drive, Bundaberg, 15 May 2025 #2

[SouthAussie]

Are we forgetting she’s 17. Do we know who purchased the ticket for her or who gave consent? Her mum?

This (her age) would imply that PBs legal guardian or parent would have had to consent especially travelling alone. If I knew my child was going on a plane on their own, I would be phoning them before they leave and asking to text me when they land.

I don't know how an airlines would know that Pheobe was 17. When you buy domestic airline tickets online they don't ask for your age, they only ask for payment. It is not as if she would have bought a child's ticket, everyone over 12 has to buy an adult ticket.


Children over 12 years of age will need to buy an adult airline ticket. However, parents of children aged between 12 and 15 can still flag with the airline that their child will be flying unaccompanied.
The Queensland Law Handbook - Children, Work and Other Rights - Transport

 

[Liselle]

Interesting that the numbers and letters on the car's number plate had been amateurishly altered using black texta/paint and black tape!

 

[Bigditch]

I don't see how bleaching your hair has anything to do with Phoebe's disappearance.

Possibly trying to alter his appearance.

 

[Detechtive]

"Sky News are saying he drastically changed his appearance "prior" to PB disappearance"​

How would they know this. PB wasn't reported missing until the day after she didn't turn up, JW & TB could have changed it on that day.

 

[Aussieboy]

Interesting that the numbers and letters on the car's number plate had been amateurishly altered using black texta/paint and black tape!

In QLD, we have number plate recognition cameras. QPS also have mobile vehicles that move around recording number plates for various reasons.

Automated number plate recognition cameras

 

[BreakingNews]

But if TB is back there, he cannot be there also as

oh I thought the police finished their search of it and released it

 

[BreakingNews]

Yes they have …. The car photos are not a good look for the Police, that he was being forced to live on the street in the car, might have sped up the police process of releasing the property ….

Guessing he is back at the house now that Police have cleared it.IMO

See this link in the thread
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TB and JW cannot have contact, so doubt they will both be back at the house.

 

[Liselle]

In addition to the altered number plate, the Hyundai emblem had been made to look like a Toyota emblem, All very questionable!

 

[Spectrix]

Because they changed their identity and obscured their numberplate. I think it has a lot to do with Pheobe going missing, actually.

I think the question is, are they hiding from the Police, or from the general public?

Initially it seemed as if the number plate alterations may have been made in order to reduce the chance of being spotted or identified while the pair were disposing of evidence (or moving it).

That may be the case, but we simply don't know when (or why) the alterations took place.

It seems to me that the reports of those alterations came about only after the car was released back to the owner.

And by that point, the two housemates names and photographs are all over the media and half the country are assuming their guilt.
So of course, it stands to reason that they are not wanting to be identified. The press are all over them, they're at risk of vigilantism by the general public.

 

[Skigh]

Pheobe's housemate was once a close friend of mum of missing teen

Pheobe Bishop's mum was well-acquainted with her daughter's housemate and the last person to see the teen alive, Daily Mail Australia can reveal.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[tlcya]

Police launched an intense search for Pheobe in a Good Night Scrub National Park as part of their investigation, scouring it for several days with cadaver dogs.
Pheobe's housemate was once a close friend of mum of missing teen

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Air...try=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDUyNy4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw==

 

[Snoop Sister]

Any new info regarding Pheobe? All that I can find is at least a week old.

 

[Dotta]

Exactly my thoughts re old news. Also, some journalists add a few words and regurgitate old articles as well.

It is called Updates

With summary
for those who are new to the case.

IMO
it is good that it is in the news
even when there is no info from Police.

Media are no bad guys here.
They do their job informing the public
and maintaining attention to missing Pheobe.

JMO

 

[Snoop Sister]

It is called Updates

With summary for those new to the case.

IMO
it is good that it is in the news
even when there is no info from Police.

Media are no bad guys here.

JMO

I totally agree it is good for awareness and to keep Pheobe in the news. But, the issue is more rehashing on the thread. Jmo

 

[Ingrid74]

Are we forgetting she’s 17. Do we know who purchased the ticket for her or who gave consent? Her mum?

This (her age) would imply that PBs legal guardian or parent would have had to consent especially travelling alone. If I knew my child was going on a plane on their own, I would be phoning them before they leave and asking to text me when they land.

I was wondering the same thing.
It appears that Virgin and JetStar don’t explicitly state that they require consent just a valid id.
Both airlines consider ages 12-17 to be able to fly as Young Persons Travelling Alone or YPTA

https://www.virginaustralia.com/content/dam/vaa/documents/agency-hub/policies/Virgin-Australia-Unaccompanied-Minor-Policy.pdf

https://www.jetstar.com/au/en/help/young-passengers-travelling-alone

 

[ThePineapple]

My opinion only
But with the flatmates changing their hair and the car plates/emblem - this has all happened AFTER police have processed the crime scenes.
If the plates had been changed when police took it, the public would have been given two plate numbers to look out for. However we were only given the original number. This would make me think all these changes are happening because they don’t want to be harassed.
With the hair, the police never came out asking for info on the pair, just their car. So this could mean someone else is in the mix that has access to the car, the pair are not suspects, or, they just don’t want to be harassed so changed appearances.
We have little factual information but I do firmly believe if the plates had evidence of tampering, we’d have been given both “plates” to look out for.

 

[sunspun]

"Sky News are saying he drastically changed his appearance "prior" to PB disappearance"​

How would they know this. PB wasn't reported missing until the day after she didn't turn up, JW & TB could have changed it on that day.

Sorry, but I really think you read that wrong. I can see why you took it to mean that though, because it's somewhat confusing wording.

They said, "He was also seen with his hair coloured blonde and a long grown out beard, marking a drastic change in his appearance prior to PB's disappearance."

To me, they're saying he was seen with his hair colored blonde, which was a drastic change from the way he had been wearing it before she disappeared.

Which is the opposite way you interpreted it! And I can see it both ways, but I really think they're saying he colored it AFTER she went missing. Try reading it again and see if you think the same! Of course, I could be the one reading it wrong, but that's what I understand it to say.

@Detechtive I just copied my reply to another poster who interpreted that statement the same way you did, because I think that's not what they were saying. Their whole quote was

"He was also seen with his hair coloured blonde and a long grown out beard, marking a drastic change in his appearance prior to PB's disappearance."

Then the line you quoted was from the WS poster, not Sky News.

But if you read the whole quote, they're not saying this happened before she disappeared. Their wording could've been better to avoid confusion, imo.

 

[Dotta]

Agreed

Pure speculation but I also think the phone call to the bf on the morning of the 15th could have been a pocket dial from whoever else had access to her phone

I'm not sure about this "pocket dial".

Wouldn't it be a surprising coincidence
that the number of BOYFRIEND was accidentally dialed?

And at this particular time?



I'm sure she has looooots of contacts in her phone,
like a typical teen.

But...
maybe bf's number was in Recent Dialed Calls list?

JMO

 

[touch]

Her mother posted up May 16 in the AFTERNOON, has anyone seen Pheobe.

Afternoon of May 16 Police issue a missing persons alert

This seems odd to me, as if the mother already knows she didn't get on the plane.
Ifi was told the same story from the housemates (that she was dropped off near the airport) my assumption would be that she got on the plane and was missing at the destination rather than gone missing before getting on the plane.
I wonder if she asked the boyfriend if he'd seen her first? (Presumably not, otherwise he wouldn't be thinking that Phoebe was ignoring him because of something he did)

 

[Observe_dont_Absorb]

https://analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dta.3541

Hair analysis: Assessment of homemade hair treatment effects on drug concentrations in the keratin matrix

Some hair “cleansing” procedures suggested in the Internet to negativize hair samples for drugs, demonstrated themselves to be very effective in lowering analyte concentrations

Check the tables at the bottom of the page - in the study, bleaching removed up to 96% of drug traces from hair, varying by drug.

That's what I was thinking too - to remove drug traces.

Also, if I had been involved in some sort of crime that involved killing the deceased, moving around the deceased, possibly relocating the deceased in densely planted scrub or muddy areas, I'd be worried about what evidence in terms of blood / body fluids, skin cells, fibres, and plant based matter could be on me or my clothes - give self a good head to toe scrub down with bleach. Burn the clothes and shoes, clean the car.

JMO MOO