Pheobe Bishop: Missing teen’s last phone call, estranged aunt reveals her belief ‘she won’t be found alive’

Details of the last phone call missing teen Pheobe Bishop made before she disappeared have emerged, while her estranged aunt has revealed her belief that “she won’t be found alive”.

As the search for 17-year-old closes out its second week, police are still looking for clues about what happened to Pheobe on the day she failed to check in for a flight at Bundaberg airport.

She had been due to visit her boyfriend in WA on May 15 but she never arrived. Pheobe’s bank and social media accounts have not been touched since she vanished and police say her disappearance is “suspicious”.

Last phone call

Pheobe phoned her boyfriend as she was being driven to the airport but he couldn’t hear anything before the call was cut off, he told the Daily Mail.

Unaware anything was wrong, he went to the Perth airport and waited hours in vain for her to arrive.

The day after Pheobe vanished, he posted on social media “Maybe I deserve all the pain I am feeling right now, I mean it is my fault, I should have done better”.

“Me staring at her dry texts wondering if I did something wrong and not asking cuz I don’t wanna be annoying.”

Pheobe’s housemates, James Wood and Tanika Kristan Bromley, told police they dropped her off at Bundaberg airport, however, after reviewing CCTV, detectives say they are confident that she never made it and never checked-in for her 8.30am flight.

The teenager had been living with the couple at their garbage-strewn Gin Gin property after moving out of her mother’s home. The home was declared a crime scene by police in the early days of the investigation.

There is no suggestion that Mr Wood, 34, or Ms Bromley, 33, are involved in Pheobe’s disappearance.

Housemates weapons charges

Both are facing unrelated weapons charges, stemming from a police search of their grey Hyundai ix35 during the investigation into Pheobe’s whereabouts.

Police allegedly found a shortened firearm, ammunition and two replica handguns during a search of the vehicle.

Mr Wood and Ms Bromley have both been released on bail, with conditions including that they do not contact each other. They are due to appear in court again in June.

‘She won’t be found alive’

Pheobe’s mother, who has been regularly posting on social media pleading for her help to find her daughter, hit back at her sister Carolea ‘Caz’ Johnson, after her appearance on The Project on Wednesday night.

She claimed her sister had not spoken to her children or herself for years and knew nothing about Pheobe or her family.

Carolea, who told The Project she believes Pheobe won’t be found alive, revealed texts Pheobe had sent her on April 26.

In the text exchange, when Carolea asked her how she was, Pheobe responded: “Up sh*t creek but sh*t happens”.

Pheobe then revealed her mum had “told me to get out”, saying the reason why was “a long story”.

She then wrote that she was “flying the f**k out of here to see my boyfriend”.

“If it goes to plan I’m not coming back. I can’t do sh*t anymore.

“I need to get out of this hellhole.”

Carolea said she hadn’t spoken to Pheobe for a long time and the texts came out of the blue.

She said the texts were puzzling and it made her worried, “It was just strange”.

Police search

On Wednesday, police announced they had suspended a search of the Good Night Scrub National Park, an hour’s drive from the airport, but that the investigation into Pheobe’s disappearance would continue.

The area had been a focus for investigators with homicide detectives, police divers and cadaver dogs scouring the bushland.

In a breakthrough, some items believed to be linked to the investigation were seized for forensic examination. Police also revealed their belief that some items might have been moved from the national park before officers arrived.

The Gin Gin area remains a focus of the investigation, police say.

Anyone with information, footage, or sightings of Pheobe or the grey Hyundai between May 15 and May 18 in the Gin Gin area has been urged to contact police.

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