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

[Herat]

Yes, understood. Knowing this now and given the distance, I wonder if Pheobe intended on returning? I wonder if she actually had a one way ticket, and the housemates realized this as they neared the airport--maybe after the call with the boyfriend--and that caused some sort of rage event?

If the housemates expected Pheobe to chip in, and Pheobe was trying to have some money for travel, then that really goes a long way towards explaining her unkempt and starving appearance at the grocery. I don't think it has to involve drugs at all. It really could just be a struggling kid trying to break free, and an adult (adults?) with a violent anger problem furious that someone else was "getting away" instead of being under their thumb.

From the little information we know from her statements and appearance, and the dreadful living situation at the place where TB and FW were living, I would not have expected her to return there, but to try to cash in the return ticket and make her own way in Perth.

 

[TMich6811]

IMO the cost doesn’t matter as ANY cost seems to be more than she could afford based on known information

 

[charminglane]

From the little information we know from her statements and appearance, and the dreadful living situation at the place where TB and FW were living, I would not have expected her to return there, but to try to cash in the return ticket and make her own way in Perth.

And maybe she made her decision known to her flatmates, which did not go over well...

 

[Snoop Sister]

I don’t believe police have confirmed it is in fact a boyfriend though? I’ve read in different threads a boyfriend or just a friend from school.

Quoted as “high school sweetheart”. Not sure if police said that but mom and friend said such. And they would know that type of background information.
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“He was her high school sweetheart that moved away,” they said.

Another relative told the outlet Pheobe was on the phone with her boyfriend not long before she disappeared.

”She didn’t check in for her flight to visit her boyfriend who she spoke to on the phone at 8.30am,” they said.

Major update after teen girl goes missing near airport

Pheobe Bishop was due to board a flight but never checked in.

7news.com.au

 

[Spectrix]

Yes, understood. Knowing this now and given the distance, I wonder if Pheobe intended on returning? I wonder if she actually had a one way ticket, and the housemates realized this as they neared the airport--maybe after the call with the boyfriend--and that caused some sort of rage event?

If the housemates expected Pheobe to chip in, and Pheobe was trying to have some money for travel, then that really goes a long way towards explaining her unkempt and starving appearance at the grocery. I don't think it has to involve drugs at all. It really could just be a struggling kid trying to break free, and an adult (adults?) with a violent anger problem furious that someone else was "getting away" instead of being under their thumb.

It's hard to know the situation and I don't like to speculate, but I think your theory is a possibility.

Were this couple exploiting Pheobe by overcharging her for rent, or... had they possibly lent her some money for the ticket... or both - and they flipped out when they realised she'd booked a one way ticket out of there?

.

 

[Snoop Sister]

It's hard to know the situation but I think your theory is a possibility. Were this couple exploiting Pheobe by overcharging her for rent, and flipped out when they realised she'd booked a one way ticket out of there?

I thought she was only going for 10 days. Do you have a link for the one way ticket?
I do agree maybe an argument about money and rental status.

 

[Snoop Sister]

IMO the cost doesn’t matter as ANY cost seems to be more than she could afford based on known information

“A family member told The Daily Mail she had saved up to purchase the airfare herself to see her boyfriend.”

Major update after teen girl goes missing near airport

Pheobe Bishop was due to board a flight but never checked in.

7news.com.au

 

[Spectrix]

I thought she was only going for 10 days. Do you have a link for the one way ticket?
I do agree maybe an argument about money and rental status.

We don't know the situation with the ticket. It's only speculation but yeah... Possibility.

 

[TMich6811]

“A family member told The Daily Mail she had saved up to purchase the airfare herself to see her boyfriend.”

Major update after teen girl goes missing near airport

Pheobe Bishop was due to board a flight but never checked in.

7news.com.au

That’s fair but doesn’t match what was reportedly observed about her behavior and health

 

[TMich6811]

Question - how old you have to be to purchase a plane ticket? I feel like it’s 18 here

 

[Spectrix]

Question - how old you have to be to purchase a plane ticket? I feel like it’s 18 here

In Australia 16 years old is considered an Adult. One can get a driver's licence, move out of home, book flights without permission from a parent or guardian etc.

 

[Herat]

It's extremely telling that the first capture of the vehicle PB was observed in had the correct registered license plate and after she was reported missing and LEO started investigating, the license plate number was rather crudely altered. Maybe enough to fool an automatic scanner? Maybe not.

 

[Herat]

I'd believe TB and FW would be skint enough to demand some kind of rent payment, especially if they found out she had only booked a one-way ticket out of there.

 

[Dre]

To think that a 17 or 18 year old boyfriend should have the adult wisdom and resources to pull her out of a living situation does not feel realistic to me. He could have thought buying her a plane ticket to get her to him was a the smartest thing to do, at this point him being thousands of miles away and being the one to report her missing makes him the ONE person in this case that I am NOT side-eyeing.

obviously the police seized their car AFTER they changed the license plates and emblem, those license plates were changed for nefarious reasons, being worried about being spotted on camera, probably when their car was seen going back into the area late night after she went missing, I would guess to collect her body or other evidence to put in a new location, perhaps with their phones turned off this time, unlike last time which obviously led the police there.

the text where he uses the phrase "last seen alive" is a total give-away to me, that indication of her previous state is quite a signifier to his knowledge.

The fact that they have only been renting that place and together since October, and their house looks like that squalor, with multiple dead dogs and the like, is indicative of a VERY unhealthy couple, both of them. I am so sad that PB believed that being there, even if temporarily, was a better fit than being around her mother. did her mom know where they were living? did she ever visit to drop anything off or help her move in?

I would think that she was hurt in the home, but due to someone having seen her in the car and possibly arguing, I'm wondering if on the way to the airport, something happened in the car (knocked out/hit in the head) and they went back home to finish/plan etc. making both the car and the home a crime scene. I can't imagine the fatal blow being in the car as there would be blood evidence and a quick arrest even without the body.

Only a matter of time....

My opinions only!

 

[Tealgrove]

It's hard to know the situation and I don't like to speculate, but I think your theory is a possibility.

Were this couple exploiting Pheobe by overcharging her for rent, or... had they possibly lent her some money for the ticket... or both - and they flipped out when they realised she'd booked a one way ticket out of there?

.

Or she had to “earn” her keep?

 

[Firstsnow4]

To think that a 17 or 18 year old boyfriend should have the adult wisdom and resources to pull her out of a living situation does not feel realistic to me. He could have thought buying her a plane ticket to get her to him was a the smartest thing to do, at this point him being thousands of miles away and being the one to report her missing makes him the ONE person in this case that I am NOT side-eyeing.

obviously the police seized their car AFTER they changed the license plates and emblem, those license plates were changed for nefarious reasons, being worried about being spotted on camera, probably when their car was seen going back into the area late night after she went missing, I would guess to collect her body or other evidence to put in a new location, perhaps with their phones turned off this time, unlike last time which obviously led the police there.

the text where he uses the phrase "last seen alive" is a total give-away to me, that indication of her previous state is quite a signifier to his knowledge.

The fact that they have only been renting that place and together since October, and their house looks like that squalor, with multiple dead dogs and the like, is indicative of a VERY unhealthy couple, both of them. I am so sad that PB believed that being there, even if temporarily, was a better fit than being around her mother. did her mom know where they were living? did she ever visit to drop anything off or help her move in?

I would think that she was hurt in the home, but due to someone having seen her in the car and possibly arguing, I'm wondering if on the way to the airport, something happened in the car (knocked out/hit in the head) and they went back home to finish/plan etc. making both the car and the home a crime scene. I can't imagine the fatal blow being in the car as there would be blood evidence and a quick arrest even without the body.

Only a matter of time....

My opinions only!

Yes the ‘last seen alive’ text message is very telling! A big slip up there….how could he know that? JMO.

 

[ThePineapple]

To think that a 17 or 18 year old boyfriend should have the adult wisdom and resources to pull her out of a living situation does not feel realistic to me. He could have thought buying her a plane ticket to get her to him was a the smartest thing to do, at this point him being thousands of miles away and being the one to report her missing makes him the ONE person in this case that I am NOT side-eyeing.

obviously the police seized their car AFTER they changed the license plates and emblem, those license plates were changed for nefarious reasons, being worried about being spotted on camera, probably when their car was seen going back into the area late night after she went missing, I would guess to collect her body or other evidence to put in a new location, perhaps with their phones turned off this time, unlike last time which obviously led the police there.

the text where he uses the phrase "last seen alive" is a total give-away to me, that indication of her previous state is quite a signifier to his knowledge.

The fact that they have only been renting that place and together since October, and their house looks like that squalor, with multiple dead dogs and the like, is indicative of a VERY unhealthy couple, both of them. I am so sad that PB believed that being there, even if temporarily, was a better fit than being around her mother. did her mom know where they were living? did she ever visit to drop anything off or help her move in?

I would think that she was hurt in the home, but due to someone having seen her in the car and possibly arguing, I'm wondering if on the way to the airport, something happened in the car (knocked out/hit in the head) and they went back home to finish/plan etc. making both the car and the home a crime scene. I can't imagine the fatal blow being in the car as there would be blood evidence and a quick arrest even without the body.

Only a matter of time....

My opinions only!

I think from the photo released of the vehicle - it looks like the plates are the original.
I believe the photo the police released is the airport one so there’s roughly a week in which they’ve changed the plates/vehicle badge.
Sorry no link but if you look at the police released photo you will see the plate.

 

[Spectrix]

It's extremely telling that the first capture of the vehicle PB was observed in had the correct registered license plate and after she was reported missing and LEO started investigating, the license plate number was rather crudely altered. Maybe enough to fool an automatic scanner? Maybe not.

Yep.

• Pheobe went missing May 14th.
• Police began searching the area around Airport Drive on May 20th.
• Police declared the house and the car crime scenes on May 21st.

I gather the number plates were altered during that time, possibly once things started heating up with repeated questions from the police about Phoebe's supposed journey to the airport.

Particularly if the police's theory about the perpetrator(s) moving/removing evidence is correct. They did not want to be spotted or recorded on dashcam while finding a better hiding spot for a body.

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[Dotta]

"She was last seen on Airport Drive
at Bundaberg Airport around 8:30 a.m. on May 15,
carrying a suitcase."

So,
It seems PB left the car unhurt.

Search intensifies after Australian teen vanishes without a trace - National | Globalnews.ca

Pheobe Bishop, 17, was dropped off at an airport to catch a flight, but never checked in with the airline.

globalnews.ca

 

[ThePineapple]

Yep.

• Pheobe went missing May 14th.
• Police began searching the area around Airport Drive on May 20th.
• Police declared the house and the car crime scenes on May 21st.

I gather the number plates were altered during that time, possibly once things started heating up with repeated questions from the police about Phoebe's supposed journey to the airport.

Particularly if the police's theory about the perpetrator(s) moving/removing evidence is correct. They did not want to be spotted or recorded on dashcam while finding a better hiding spot for a body.

.

Although, the police would have come out and said the plate number is this but could have been this? If they’re appealing for information on the car, they’d want to make sure they had given the public both plate numbers and makes?
Possibly they changed it once they received the car back? Maybe the car has been cleared as a crime scene and returned to TB & JW and they have changed it so they don’t get harassed.
Just another opinion- as i previously mentioned, there’s different types of crime scenes and in missing cases, the last place known can be deemed a crime scene until investigations are done.
JMO