Teen Girl Disappeared on Way to Airport — and Police Say Those Closest to Her May Be Involved

An Australian teen’s housemates reportedly have been charged with murder nearly a month after she vanished on her way to board a flight across the country.

The Queensland Police Service said in a press release on Thursday that a 34-year-old man and a 33-year-old woman have been charged in connection with 17-year-old Pheobe Bishop’s death.

Australia’s ABC News, SBS World News and news.com.au report the suspects are Bishop’s housemates James Wood, 34, and Tanika Kristan Bromley, 33.

“They have been charged with one count each of murder and two counts each of interfering with a corpse,” police said, adding that they are both due to appear in the Bundaberg Magistrates Court on Friday.

The news comes one day after it was reported that Wood had been arrested and questioned regarding Bishop’s disappearance, according to Australia’s ABC News and news.com.au.

The Bundaberg girl has been missing since Thursday, May 15, according to the Queensland Police Service.

“The remains of Pheobe Bishop have not been located to date,” Queensland Police said Thursday. “Detectives continue to investigate this matter, and physical searches will continue as needed as information is provided.”

Police say investigators “have conducted several enquiries during their investigations, including multiple searches of Good Night Scrub National Park, forensic examinations of a Gin Gin property and vehicle.”

Wood was initially released on Thursday, June 5, with no charges filed, according to ABC News and news.com.au.

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Bishop was last seen leaving a property in Gin Gin, where she lived with two housemates, in a grey Hyundai, according to news.com.au.

Wood spoke with The Daily Mail this week and said Bishop was experiencing “heightened emotions” prior to her trip to visit her boyfriend, adding that she “smashed” a TV prior to her disappearance.

“She does have a temper but she is not a bad kid, she is actually a great kid,” Wood told the outlet. “She is kind and smart and has good manners but she was living with us because she couldn’t live at home anymore.”

Wood told the outlet he and Bromley drove Bishop to the airport but then ended up stopping the car on Airport Drive, just over half a mile from the terminal in order to “give her five minutes – give her her own space to do what she needed to do” to get ready for the flight. The 34-year-old man told The Daily Mail that Bishop was allegedly gone by the time he and Bromley returned to the car and they assumed she had gotten on her flight.

“It was maybe five minutes, maybe it was three minutes or maybe it was eight but that’s about how long we were gone,” Wood claimed in the interview.

Police said the missing teen was spotted “carrying luggage” that morning on Airport Drive, but “did not check in for a flight and has not been seen or heard from since.”

In a previous update, police revealed that some items had been “located during the search and have been seized for forensic examination” that they believed were “linked to the investigation.”

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Meanwhile, Bishop’s mother, Kylie Johnson, has posted multiple updates on Facebook amid her daughter’s disappearance. She also read an official family statement in a video recently released by police, PEOPLE previously reported.

“Hi, I’m Kylie. I’m Pheobe’s mom. Our lives have been changed for the worse after the sudden disappearance of my daughter, who was last seen on May 15,” Johnson said in the video, which was posted on a crime watch Facebook group for the Queensland area on Saturday, May 31.

“This is a pain no person or family should ever have to experience,” the mother continued. “Pheobe was a beautiful, loving, kind person, and every day not knowing where she has been is devastating for us.”