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

[Spectrix]

Update 3: Missing girl, Bundaberg - Queensland Police News

Police have searched bushland and waterways in the Good Night Scrub National Park today, May 23, as the search for a missing 17-year-old girl

mypolice.qld.gov.au

Police have searched bushland and waterways in the Good Night Scrub National Park today, May 23, as the search for a missing 17-year-old girl continues.

Specialist police, including the Dive Squad, have been involved in land and waterway searches of the Good Night Scrub area but have not yet located any items of interest.

This is part of various searches in the wider Gin Gin and Bundaberg areas that have been ongoing this week.

Police are appealing to the public for information, including any movement in the Good Night Scrub area on May 15, particularly in the Mingo Road and Gayndah Road areas.

Thanks, that's a quite different area to the previously reported area near Bundaberg Airport.
Good Night Scrub is approximately 30km South of Gin Gin - Map Reference

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I’m sure police are all over it, but would be super interesting to know what was said to (and by) the boyfriend on the phone at 8:30am, if it was verified that it was Phoebe on her end.

Being that close to the missed flight you’d have to imagine it’s either her telling the boyfriend she’s missed the flight and maybe why - which could give an insight into what has happened next - or perhaps he’s given her a reason not get on the flight. If they’ve got that from her call log you’d imagine they’d have any calls or texts afterwards to the flatmates (‘come pick me back up’, or if she really was kicked out in the middle of the road an ‘I hate you’)

It seems without that call to the boyfriend, it would be much easier to place her as never leaving the home that morning. But if she has spoken to him at 8:30am then police should be able to tell by the closest cell tower if she made it near the airport. Obviously something hasn’t gone according to plan, but if she was still alive at that point then maybe she was able to give a reason why

Yeah, it would. It's not particularly clear when this call happened. It had been reported that she spoke to her boyfriend at 8:30am, and elsewhere reported that her departing flight was at 8:30am, and elsewhere that she was dropped at the airport at 8:30am.

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"Police said her housemates were the last to see her when they said they dropped her outside Bundaberg Regional Airport at 8.30am."

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

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"However, the teen did not board her 8:30am flight and there has been no sign of her, or her luggage, since"

 

[BreakingNews]

I saw that also, it said that, a neighbour rang the Police at 5am after they heard a man yelling and a girl screaming, but I also cannot find it anywhere. Maybe the article has been edited now.

What date? Do you remember?

 

[Marg944]

What a crock of manure !
He posts that 2 days ago >>? he offered the boat because he knows no one is going to claim it!!!

Methinks he offered the boat because it has “Tender for New ?Views” proudly emblazoned on it! Some big yacht is prob stuck out in the ocean somewhere, missing their tender……

Also it is a row boat…..with vintage timber oars.

 

[Marg944]

What date? Do you remember?

Was only in the past 2 days I think. It could have even been yesterday. I have read so many things that I really can’t be sure.

 

[findmollie]

Thanks, that's a quite different area to the previously reported area near Bundaberg Airport.
Good Night Scrub is approximately 30km South of Gin Gin - Map Reference

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Yeah, it would. It's not particularly clear when this call happened. It had been reported that she spoke to her boyfriend at 8:30am, and elsewhere reported that her departing flight was at 8:30am, and elsewhere that she was dropped at the airport at 8:30am.

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"Police said her housemates were the last to see her when they said they dropped her outside Bundaberg Regional Airport at 8.30am."

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

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"However, the teen did not board her 8:30am flight and there has been no sign of her, or her luggage, since"

There's no flight at 8:30am. The next flight on a Saturday is 10:10am. Most people would arrive between 9am-9:30am for a 10:10am flight.

 

[findmollie]

Eerie unanswered question lingers near Bundaberg as shocking new details emerge about a rotting stench coming from the home where Pheobe Bishop was last seen before she vanished without a trace​

“Questions remain over exactly why she was living there, but final posts she made to social media before she disappeared suggested the troubled teen had fallen out with her mother and would not return home.

Ms Bromley's 2011 silver Hyundai ix35 hatchback with registration 414-EW3 - believed to be the car she travelled to Airport Drive in - has also been declared a crime scene.

Detectives said believe Ms Bromley and Mr Wood were the two people who drove her the 40 minutes to the airport.

Early reports suggested police had discovered and removed four dead dogs from the scene, but one neighbour told Daily Mail Australia she believed as many as 13 of the animals had been found.

Horrified residents watched from their windows and from the street as a forensics team scoured the location, with local police keeping careful watch.”

Foul smelling home where Pheobe Bishop was living a police focus

Police have made shock discoveries at a Queensland property, believed to be one of the last places 17-year-old Pheobe Bishop was seen.

www.dailymail.co.uk

The story about the dogs has been debunked by Detective Acting Inspector Ryan Thompson.

He also said Airport Drive is considered Phoebe's last known location.

 

[findmollie]

I’m sure police are all over it, but would be super interesting to know what was said to (and by) the boyfriend on the phone at 8:30am, if it was verified that it was Phoebe on her end.

Being that close to the missed flight you’d have to imagine it’s either her telling the boyfriend she’s missed the flight and maybe why - which could give an insight into what has happened next - or perhaps he’s given her a reason not get on the flight. If they’ve got that from her call log you’d imagine they’d have any calls or texts afterwards to the flatmates (‘come pick me back up’, or if she really was kicked out in the middle of the road an ‘I hate you’)

It seems without that call to the boyfriend, it would be much easier to place her as never leaving the home that morning. But if she has spoken to him at 8:30am then police should be able to tell by the closest cell tower if she made it near the airport. Obviously something hasn’t gone according to plan, but if she was still alive at that point then maybe she was able to give a reason why

The available flights were 6:45am or 10:10am. It's my understanding she was dropped near the airport around 8:30am to catch the 10:10am flight.

 

[BreakingNews]

I believe that Pheobe was heading for Kalgoorlie.


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What makes you say that? And how is this relevant to her disappearance?

 

[Marg944]

Search for missing Queensland girl expanded to nearby national park, waterways​

“Homicide detectives have been called in to join the investigation into the disappearance of Queensland girl Pheobe Bishop, but police say they are not giving up hope she will be found alive.

Thompson said police were "keeping all options open" when asked if the case had become a homicide investigation.

There have been no arrests and Thompson said police had no specific persons of interest.

Thompson said "versions that have been provided to police" had led investigators to consider Airport Drive as Pheobe's last known location.

Thompson would not reveal where or when Pheobe's phone was last used but said that was also part of the investigation.”

Potential breakthrough in search for missing Queensland girl Pheobe Bishop

www.9news.com.au

 

[findmollie]

Update: Missing girl, Bundaberg

Update 1: Missing girl, Bundaberg

Update 2: Missing girl, Bundaberg

Updates directly from QLD police news - the reference number is QP2500844872

 

[HoneyBunOne]

I'm still playing catch up so apologies if I cover stuff again.

Missing teen Pheobe Bishop’s family make public appeal after chilling details emerge around her disappearance​

Missing teen Pheobe Bishop’s family make public appeal after chilling details emerge

Reports emerge of dead dogs taken out from the rural property where she was staying

www.independent.co.uk

The site appeared abandoned, with bags of rubbish, a large bus, and a boat seen out front, according to Sky News Australia.

Ms Bishop had reportedly been staying there with several people, but no one was present when authorities checked. Her phone, social media, and bank accounts have all been inactive since 14 May – the day before she vanished.

Bold by me.
What happened to the phone call at 8.30am on May 15th?

Last woman to see missing 17-year-old missing Pheobe Bishop before she vanished in Queensland is facing sawn-off shotgun and flick knife charges​

“But Daily Mail Australia can now reveal Bromley was out on bail at the time after she appeared at Bundaberg Magistrates Court on March 28 over the weapon charges.

Court documents reveal Bromley was charged after police allegedly disocvered the shotgun and flick knife on her on the Capricorn Highway in Emerald, Queensland.

Bromley was charged at Emerald Police Station on February 24.

She is facing three charges: unlawful possession of a sawn off shotgun and without reasonable excuse to possess a short firearm; unlawful possession of a category M flick knife; and unlawful possession of a knife in a public place or school.

Bromley is due to appear again in Bundaberg Courthouse on June 23.

Revelations about her criminal past came as detectives zeroed in on the rural Avoca and Branyan areas in Bundaberg during their probe into Pheobe's disappearance on Thursday afternoon.

Police specifically asked the public for information on Samuels Road, a street bordered by bushland, a dump, and rural homes just west of the airport. “

Last woman to see missing teen alive is facing serious weapon charges

Tanika Bromley was on bail for weapon charges when she lived with 17-year-old Pheobe Bishop and gave her a lift to the airport.

www.dailymail.co.uk

If this turns out to be yet another case of someone being out on bail for major offences and then doing something highly illegal, possibly causing someone their life, I will be livid!!

 

[BreakingNews]

The story about the dogs has been debunked by Detective Acting Inspector Ryan Thompson.

He also said Airport Drive is considered Phoebe's last known location.

I can only find where DAI Ryan Thompson said about finding 4 dead dogs. I can't find anywhere he debunks neighbours reports of there being 13 dogs. Wonder how they died?

 

[Marg944]

What makes you say that? And how is this relevant to her disappearance?

Pheobe had that image on her TT acc. Seems she was tracing out where “he” was.

 

[Marg944]

Snipped by me:

Trying to get my head around the abandoned house and KB car there when the police show up.

I wondered if that is why the dogs were dead at the property? I wondered if JW and TB had abandoned the property and just left the dogs there - hate to say it - but to starve? I can’t imagine the dogs were shot, the neighbours would have reported that. The neighbours had reported the dogs continually barking, so the neighbours were close enough to hear noise from the property.

IMO

 

[Lucy6226]

I wondered if that is why the dogs were dead at the property? I wondered if JW and TB had abandoned the property and just left the dogs there - hate to say it - but to starve? I can’t imagine the dogs were shot, the neighbours would have reported that. The neighbours had reported the dogs continually barking, so the neighbours were close enough to hear noise from the property.

IMO

That was my first thought, that maybe no one had been living there for a few weeks. That people started asking questions and thus the airport drop off story was given. But not sure how that fits in with contact with the boyfriend and if neighbours had seen them all recently??

All moo

 

[HoneyBunOne]

I believe that Pheobe was heading for Kalgoorlie.


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Do we know when she posted that?

If she was worried that "he", whoever "he" is, would go looking for her in Gin Gin, then why post the route to Kalgoorlie? Is Kalgoorlie where her boyfriend is, and meant to imply he'd be looking for her? Why would he come looking for her if she'd planned to travel to him? I'm not quite getting her meaning here. That "he" would look for her there but not find her? With a sad face. "I miss seeing ur face, and I miss seeing you in random places" Is she talking the boyfriend? A different love interest? Was she planning a new life, without the boyfriend, in WA somewhere? I'm assuming she definitely had a flight connection from Brisbane to Perth? Was it Perth, or was it regional WA somewhere? Was it a return ticket?

Make it make sense to me, please.

The song she chose to accompany that post is:
The Man Who Can't Be Moved
Song by The Script ‧ 2008

Lyrics

Going back to the corner where I first saw you
Gonna camp in my sleeping bag, I'm not gonna move
Got some words on cardboard, got your picture in my hand
Saying, "If you see this girl, can you tell her where I am?"
Some try to hand me money, they don't understand
I'm not broke, I'm just a broken hearted man
I know it makes no sense but what else can I do
How can I move on when I'm still in love with you
'Cause if one day you wake up and find that you're missing me
And your heart starts to wonder where on this Earth I could be
Thinkin' maybe you'll come back here to the place that we'd meet
And you'll see me waiting for you on the corner of the street
So I'm not moving, I'm not moving
Policeman says, "Son, you can't stay here"
I said, "There's someone I'm waiting for if it's a day, a month, a year"
Gotta stand my ground even if it rains or snows
If she changes her mind, this is the first place she will go
'Cause if one day you wake up and find that you're missing me
And your heart starts to wonder where on this Earth I could be
Thinking maybe you'll come back here to the place that we'd meet
And you'll see me waiting for you on the corner of the street
So I'm not moving, I'm not moving
I'm not moving, I'm not moving
People talk about the guy that's waiting on a girl
There are no holes in his shoes but a big hole in his world
Maybe I'll get famous as the man who can't be moved
Maybe you won't mean to, but you'll see me on the news
And you'll come running to the corner
'Cause you'll know it's just for you
I'm the man who can't be moved
I'm the man who can't be moved
'Cause if one day you wake up and find that you're missing me (find that you're missing me)
And your heart starts to wonder where on this Earth I could be (where on this Earth I could be)
Thinkin' maybe you'll come back here to the place that we'd meet (to the place that we'd meet)
And you'll see me waiting for you on the corner of the street
'cause if one day you wake up and find that you're missing me
(I'm not moving) and your heart starts to wonder where on this Earth I could be
(I'm not moving) thinkin' maybe you'll come back here to the place that we'd meet
(I'm not moving) and you'll see me waiting for you on the corner of the street
Going back to the corner where I first saw you
Gonna camp in my sleeping bag, I'm not gonna move

 

[Marg944]

Do we know when she posted that?

Date posted 12/04/24

 

[HoneyBunOne]

DBM

 

[Marg944]

Town rumour mill in overdrive as missing teen mystery deepens​

“With scant information from police on the disappearance of a teenage girl, a small central Queensland town is filling the vacuum with rumour and innuendo.

The local rumour mill has gone into overdrive since. Residents have flooded online forums with unsubstantiated claims about past incidents at the property.

A 33-year-old woman media outlets have identified as a housemate faced court on serious charges just days before the disappearance, this masthead has confirmed.

Tanika Kristan Bromley was accused of carrying a shortened firearm and knife in public in late February.

She faced Bundaberg Magistrates Court on May 12, and remains on bail ahead of another hearing on June 23.

This masthead is not suggesting she was in any way linked to the disappearance.

The revelation came after reports emerged multiple dogs were found dead by investigators at the Gin Gin home.

Detective Acting Inspector Ryan Thompson said on Wednesday he did not have any information on the alleged discovery, and declined to comment on why Bishop had not been living with family.”

Police search bushland for missing teen as homicide detectives called in

“I have no words to describe what this is doing to our family, to our friends and to our community,” the girl’s mum said.

www.brisbanetimes.com.au

 

[findmollie]

There's no flight at 8:30am. The next flight on a Saturday is 10:10am. Most people would arrive between 9am-9:30am for a 10:10am flight.

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