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

[arrogantcat]

Total speculation:

Police are charging TB with another weapons offence to increase the pressure and incentive to give up JW.

Both seem like throughly shady characters from what we’re hearing but it’s unusual for police to charge for a lower offence at this stage; those are normally added in with all the other charges at a later point.

Seems unlikely they’d do it just to hold her, as surveillance could keep her from fleeing, and the weapons would all have been seized during the search.

If the weapons were specifically linked to the crime here, you’d expect they would have been disposed of with the other evidence and not left in the car.

JMO.

 

[arrogantcat]

If this is true then my question would be how did PB go from starving and broke to having money for flights and presumably spending money too? Did she get involved in something nefarious to make money

Perhaps the boyfriend purchased the flights for her. I’ve seen that happens a lot in LDRs.

 

[KeenSleuth17]

I’m sure they’ve been recording/ listening to their conversations for a while now.
Unfortunately, it’s common knowledge now that during questioning and/ or search of these premises, listening devices will be planted.
Hence the reason for advertising the evidence found in the forest.
Let’s hope they’ve been talking.

Yep but I think they’d have seized their phones a long time ago which makes it a bit more difficult…. and they are staying elsewhere, not at the crime scene, so Police will want to capture those intimate conversations.
Hoping this separation adds an extra layer of fear for this couple and they slip up.

 

[essareem]

Have just caught up and didn't see this article come up in the thread (might have missed it) from the Courier Mail:

https://www.couriermail.com.au/truecrimeaustralia/police-courts-qld/shock-find-as-pheobe-bishops-flatmates-hyundai-spotted-in-bundaberg/news-story/0ac6f23cbb2d03aa221ae87030f6ab8f

Paraphrasing:

A Hyundai ix35 linked to the disappearance of 17-year-old PB, who went missing on May 15 in Bundaberg, was found on Monday with altered number plates. The car, owned by Bishop’s flatmate TB, had its original Queensland plate (414 EW3) modified with tape and paint to appear as a NSW plate (474 BW8), and the Hyundai symbol changed to a Toyota one.

 

[Detechtive]

Wow, this is unsettling - a still taken from a video of JW at a "ute muster" video on the DT.

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/queensland/flatmate-of-missing-teen-pheobe-bishop-in-video/video/de7a8f5971e41fa64294b946cb74bbda

 

[findmollie]

Link offers connecting flights to Perth via Virgin.

Link offers connecting flights to Perth via Virgin Australia. I think it's a lot more feasible to assume this was the flight. This is part of the critical timeline as the hour in between the Link and Qantas flight is possibly when the crime occured in accordance with the report that PB was sighted the morning of the flight. I also find it EXTREMELY suspicious that a person would drive all the way from Gin Gin to BDB only to drop the passenger off on Airport Drive. There are no footpaths along this road and dropping someone off would require performing a U turn to get back to the main road or utilizing the roundabout right in front of the drop off zone-which is about 50m long with plenty of room to drop off and rarely busy. Again, it is important to acknowledge this as it is not possible to exit the airport in a vehicle once making the turn into the airport without being captured on CCTV. Either the drivers knew this and fabricated the Airport Dr dropoff story as a cover-up. Or, they never made it to Airport drive at all. Effectively, this could mean the difference between murder that is premeditated or murder which was reactionary (not that there is any legal difference in QLD).

There’s a path along the entire road.

The drop off zone is frequently busy. Maybe you’ve gotten lucky.

 

[Beekarina]

Yes but don't you have to check in at the counter if you have luggage? I know you can get those tags printed now and DIY at the kiosks, but they never work for me and I always have to go to the counter with checked non carry on luggage.

It can be both, depending. i.e. you check in for the flight, but then still go to the counter and check your bags manually.

Pheobe would have still been seen entering the airport, on camera, doing something IF she was ever at or even near, the airport. It remains possible there was some kind of blow up in the car just before they arrived, or something else happened ?

One thing that has crossed my mind and it is PURELY speculation: could Pheobe have been nervous about flying, and could one of the housemates have offered her something and she OD'd/it went wrong? They panicked, and disposed of her and her luggage somewhere--i.e. the park where LE is searching?

I lean more towards violence if one or both housemates are involved given what we know, but other scenarios are possible. Since we have a police spokesperson saying Pheobe's last known location was on Airport Drive, I think that lends some credibility to Pheobe herself actually having been alive and en route to the airport that morning. So what happened after she was in contact with her boyfriend around 8:30?

 

[Lucy6226]

I'm fully aware of the statistics of DV but I don't think we can rule out that she wasn't the perpetrator. Women can be perps against men, even big burly strong men. Her criminal history is interesting.

I think jealousy will play a part in what ever happened to PB, maybe even some modern day slavery. All speculation obviously. Either way I suspect they are both involved in the crime and subsequent cover up. All MOO.

 

[Cartie]

Leaked message reveals what Pheobe's flatmate said after she vanished

Leaked messages from the housemate of missing teen Pheobe Bishop have emerged after she vanished without a trace in Queensland.

www.dailymail.co.uk

The worried friend said they had their 'fingers crossed for her' and questioned the whereabouts of any CCTV that may help with the investigation.

'Surely the airport has footage,' they asked, before Mr Wood replied the following morning.

'I don't know ayy but how's this cause I was one of the last people to see her alive cops basically asked me if I did her in or hurt her at all ayy,' he said.

Mr Wood was questioned by police last week after Phoebe vanished, but was released without charge.

Daily Mail Australia is not suggesting he was involved or considered a suspect - only that police had spoken to Mr Wood after Pheobe went missing.

Mr Wood told the friend he was frustrated that the police asked those questions.

'I was like WTF, so yeah that's nice to know that purely because I'm a male and look the way I do.'

Mr Wood has offered a reward for anyone who can reveal her location.

'Any little bit of information can help, please if you know something, please contact her family,' Mr Wood wrote on social media.

That is a big red flag IMO, how does he know she's not alive.

don't know ayy but how's this cause I was one of the last people to see her alive cops basically asked me if I did her in or hurt her at all ayy,' he said.

 

[Beekarina]

Were TB's children also living in this home? Apologies, but I am unclear on this. I remember reading she had a couple of younger kids, and hope they are safe? She does not seem in any way a fit or stable parent. I was also wondering if that may have been an explanation for Pheobe living there--to help care for kids and animals? It could also be a motivation for violence. i.e. "How dare you leave, you better get back soon and do X, Y and Z... or I will kill this dog next" that kind of thing.

Again, just theories/opinion/speculation.

 

[essareem]

That is a big red flag IMO, how does he know she's not alive.

don't know ayy but how's this cause I was one of the last people to see her alive cops basically asked me if I did her in or hurt her at all ayy,' he said.

I didn't catch that the first time I read it... that's a bit of a tell

 

[Lukey2121]

Yep but I think they’d have seized their phones a long time ago which makes it a bit more difficult…. and they are staying elsewhere, not at the crime scene, so Police will want to capture those intimate conversations.
Hoping this separation adds an extra layer of fear for this couple and they slip up.

Thank you, I didn’t know they’d been on the move. It would definitely add difficulties trying to ease drop.

 

[essareem]

Thank you, I didn’t know they’d been on the move. It would definitely add difficulties trying to ease drop.

DBM

 

[nf987]

I drove past the house this evening and the porch light was on and a window open. I assume someone is there

They probably need someone there to make sure someone else doesn't come and torch the place/destroy whatever evidence might be there.

 

[cheetojones]

The altered number plates all but confirm who did it. My guess is they layed on these new lesser charges on TB to get pressure an admission of guilt and importantly, the location of poor PB

 

[essareem]

The altered number plates all but confirm who did it. My guess is they layed on these new lesser charges on TB to get pressure an admission of guilt and importantly, the location of poor PB

Playing devil's advocate, hypothetically, if they were innocent, they might disguise the number plate out of fear of repercussions from the public. Still, highly illegal.

 

[Mercina]

Playing devil's advocate, hypothetically, if they were innocent, they might disguise the number plate out of fear of repercussions from the public. Still, highly illegal.

If the car was a crime scene why would the police let them have it back ? And when did the police give it back to them ?

 

[cheetojones]

Playing devil's advocate, hypothetically, if they were innocent, they might disguise the number plate out of fear of repercussions from the public. Still, highly illegal.

The car was seized by police very early on at the same time the house was declared a crime scene, they'd not have the car back in their possession.

 

[Detechtive]

Playing devil's advocate, hypothetically, if they were innocent, they might disguise the number plate out of fear of repercussions from the public. Still, highly illegal.

Mmm literally nobody innocent would do this.

 

[Detechtive]

Have just caught up and didn't see this article come up in the thread (might have missed it) from the Courier Mail:

https://www.couriermail.com.au/truecrimeaustralia/police-courts-qld/shock-find-as-pheobe-bishops-flatmates-hyundai-spotted-in-bundaberg/news-story/0ac6f23cbb2d03aa221ae87030f6ab8f

Paraphrasing:

A Hyundai ix35 linked to the disappearance of 17-year-old PB, who went missing on May 15 in Bundaberg, was found on Monday with altered number plates. The car, owned by Bishop’s flatmate TB, had its original Queensland plate (414 EW3) modified with tape and paint to appear as a NSW plate (474 BW8), and the Hyundai symbol changed to a Toyota one.

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Wow what a terrible job. Especially the "NSW" part.