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Locals Accost Missing Teen’s Housemate as Gin Gin Search Intensifies

Police have concentrated search efforts in the Gin Gin area following weeks of investigations fueled by community demands for answers.

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Overview

  • Pheobe Bishop, 17, disappeared on May 15 after her housemates said they dropped her at Bundaberg Airport but she never checked in for her flight.
  • Queensland Police declared her Gin Gin house and the grey Hyundai ix35 crime scenes and are scouring nearby bushland for clues.
  • Forensic searches of the vehicle uncovered a shortened firearm, ammunition and replica handguns, prompting unrelated weapons charges against Tanika Bromley and James Wood.
  • On May 29, an irate local confronted Wood as he slept in his car with a dog, accusing him of hiding the missing teenager.
  • Bishop’s mother has renewed her public appeal for information and urged anyone who saw the grey Hyundai between May 15 and 18 to contact Crime Stoppers.