Housemates Charged with Murder in Missing Teen's Case

Almost a month after 17-year-old Phoebe Bishop mysteriously vanished, her housemates have been charged with her murder. James Wood, 34, and Tanika Bromley, 33, both face one count of murder and two counts of interfering with a corpse in connection with the teenager's disappearance, Daily Dazzling Dawn understands.

The charges follow an extensive police investigation that saw initial search efforts called off just days ago. Phoebe, from Gin Gin, north of Brisbane, was last seen on Thursday, May 15. Despite the charges, her body has yet to be discovered.

Wood, who was the last person known to have seen Phoebe alive, was initially arrested on Wednesday before being released hours later. However, he and his partner, Bromley, were re-arrested and formally charged three weeks after Phoebe was last sighted.

Police have confirmed that detectives are continuing to investigate the matter and that physical searches will persist as new information becomes available. The arrests were made in the Bundaberg area, and both Wood and Bromley are expected to appear in court on Friday.

The trio had been residing together in a derelict property, which authorities have now declared a crime scene as part of their ongoing inquiry.

Prior to the charges, Wood had spoken to the Daily Mail, offering an account of Phoebe's last known moments. He claimed that Phoebe had been "complaining" and experiencing emotional outbursts before they were due to take her to the airport. "She gets like that sometimes and usually we can calm her down but she was escalating and then she smashed the TV," Wood told the publication.

He further alleged that tensions escalated during the drive to the airport because Phoebe insisted on stopping the car to do her makeup, despite airport bathrooms being available. Wood claimed he pulled over less than a kilometre from the airport to give her space. "We wanted to give her five minutes, give her her own space to do what she needed to do," he stated.

According to Wood, he and Bromley left Phoebe alone with the car for five minutes. Upon their return, he claimed, Phoebe and her bag had vanished. Wood insisted he had nothing to do with her disappearance, assuming she had boarded her flight after failing to locate her.

However, authorities have confirmed that Phoebe never entered the airport and never checked in for her scheduled flight to Perth, where she was due to visit her boyfriend. A family member highlighted the abrupt silence, stating, "Her phone has been switched off from this point. She hasn't contacted anyone at all, no one has seen her."

Phoebe's mother, Kylie Johnson, has made several emotional appeals to the public, desperately begging anyone with information to come forward and emphasizing that her daughter's disappearance is entirely out of character.