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Queensland police arrest a 34-year-old man and 33-year-old woman in Bundaberg area Queensland police arrested a 34-year-old man and 33-year-old woman in Bundaberg area and charged them with murder
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Two people have been charged with the murder of missing Queensland teenager Pheobe Bishop. The housemates of missing teenager Pheobe Bishop are set to appear in court after being charged with the 17-year-old’s murder.
Detectives arrested and charged a 34-year-old man and a woman, 33, with the 17-year-old’s murder, Queensland police said on Thursday night. James Wood, 34, and Tanika Bromley, 33, were arrested in southern Queensland’s Bundaberg area on Thursday night.
Pheobe was last seen near Bundaberg airport on 15 May after booking a trip to Western Australia, police have previously said. It was three weeks to the day after Pheobe missed a flight and vanished.
She had not been seen or heard from since and CCTV footage showed she never entered the airport. Wood and Bromley were also charged with two counts each of interfering with a corpse.
Police have conducted several inquiries, including multiple searches of Good Night Scrub national park and the forensic examination of a Gin Gin property and vehicle. Pheobe’s remains were yet to be located, police said.
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The pair have each been charged with one count of murder and two counts of interfering with a corpse. Pheobe’s mother, Kylie Johnson, said on Thursday night her family had been “shattered”.
They are due to appear in Bundaberg magistrates court on Friday. Johnson had been posting on social media almost every day since her daughter’s “suspicious” disappearance, pleading for information.
The investigation continues. “Our world has just been shattered into the most horrific place I’ve ever been,” she wrote on Thursday night.
“I need my baby home to put her to rest! I’m absolutely begging anyone that knows anything to come forward.
“We need to put her to rest, we need to put her to peace.”
Wood and Bromley were due to appear in Bundaberg magistrates court on Friday.
“Detectives continue to investigate this matter, and physical searches will continue as needed as information is provided,” a Queensland police statement said.
Pheobe was last seen near Bundaberg airport about 8.30am on 15 May after booking a trip to Western Australia to see her boyfriend.
CCTV footage indicated Pheobe never arrived at the airport terminal.
Wood had previously been taken into custody on Wednesday but was released several hours later without charge.
The search for Pheobe was scaled back on Wednesday after police had spent weeks combing several areas of interest in southern Queensland.
One of those areas was a property in Gin Gin where Pheobe had lived with Wood and Bromley.
The Gin Gin property near Bundaberg and a grey Hyundai ix35, thought to have been used to take Pheobe to the airport, were declared crime scenes soon after her disappearance which police described as suspicious.
The police search at one stage focused on Good Night Scrub national park, an hour’s drive from Bundaberg airport, with homicide detectives, cadaver dogs and divers called in.
Some items believed to be linked to the investigation were seized for forensic examination.
The search revealed evidence might have been moved from the national park before police arrived.
Wood and Bromley had earlier been charged with unrelated weapons offences.