Major update in case of 17-year-old girl reported missing after she failed to board flight to meet boyfriend
Police have given a major update in the case of a 17-year-old girl who went missing last month.
Pheobe Bishop was last seen leaving her home in Gin Gin, Queensland, Australia, on May 15, where she was due to board the 8.30am flight to travel to Brisbane and then on to Perth to meet up with her boyfriend.
However, CCTV footage shows she never entered the terminal, despite reportedly being dropped off there.
The teen was allegedly last seen 'carrying luggage' and 'wearing a green tank top and grey sweatpants', but never checked in for her flight.
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Now, Queensland Police have confirmed in a tragic update that 'human remains' were found near Good Night Scrub National Park at around 2.30pm today (June 6), though the remains are yet to be formally identified.
The force said in a statement: "Police have located what is believed to be human remains following a search of an area near Good Night Scrub National Park near Gin Gin this afternoon, June 6.
"The remains are yet to be formally identified; however, investigators are in contact with the family of missing 17-year-old Pheobe Bishop."
Earlier on today, Detective Inspector Craig Mansfield said they predicted to find Pheobe's body in the greater Gin Gin area, stating: "We are suspecting we may locate Pheobe, but it is a broad, unforgiving area that we're trying to narrow down," as per ABC News.
The detectives believe the alleged body 'was moved more than once'.
Police confirmed that a couple, identified as Tanika Bromley, 33, and James Wood, 34, have been arrested and charged with one count of murder and two counts of interfering with a corpse.
While the investigation is ongoing, detectives believe the pair drove Pheobe 40 minutes to Bundaberg Airport.
Cops initially quizzed the couple but released them without any charges on Wednesday (June 4), until new footage emerged on the day Pheobe vanished.
The footage showed a car, similar to the one the teen had allegedly been in on the way to the airport, driving through Gin Gin, two hours after she was supposedly dropped off.
Bromley is believed to be the owner of the Hyundai ix35. Not long after the footage was released, police announced that an 'item of interest' had been found in the park and that the vehicle had also become an 'active crime scene'.
Wood had previously spoken to the Daily Mail after his initial release, claiming that Pheobe had been 'complaining' on the journey to the airport.
He told the news outlet: "She gets like that sometimes and usually we can calm her down but she was escalating and then she smashed the TV."
When tensions reportedly reignited, the 34-year-old said the couple left Pheobe in the car.
"We wanted to give her five minutes, give her her own space to do what she needed to do," Wood said.
He then claimed that when he and Bromley returned, Pheobe and her bag were gone.
The teenager's mom, Kylie Johnson, said her daughter's disappearance is 'out of character'.
In the latest update of the arrests, Johnson said the news is 'ripping me apart'.
"I didn't think my heart could break anymore then it did when you went missing, or when the charges were laid but this.
"This is ripping me apart," she said.
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