Police compiling hundreds of documents in case against Pheobe Bishop's accused murderers
Tanika Bromley, 33, and James Wood, 34, are each charged with murder and interfering with a corpse.
The pair did not appear when their matters were mentioned in the Bundaberg Magistrates Court on Tuesday.
Pheobe went missing from Bundaberg in May, having failed to check in for a flight to Brisbane.
Her disappearance sparked a major search and police found her remains in bushland in early June.
Prosecutor Vicki Kennedy-Grills told the court police officers had been working "at length" to gather the brief of evidence, which included 135 statements.
The brief will also include CCTV footage, telephone and message data, photographs and post-mortem documents.
Sergeant Kennedy-Grills said there were delays preparing the brief as officers waited for DNA testing and a ballistics report and worked through the "sheer volume" of material and "multiple crime scenes".
Pheobe's family was in court and protested when Ms Bromley's defence lawyer Nick Larter proposed adjourning the matters to October 27.
That is the date of Pheobe's 18th birthday. The court heard her family would be unavailable on the day.
The two cases have been adjourned until November 3.
Ms Bromley and Mr Wood remain in custody.
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