EXCLUSIVE The shocking two-word message Pheobe's housemate sent his ex after his new lover fled to live in their ramshackle BUS
The flatmates at the centre of Pheobe Bishop's mystery disappearance were having relationship problems weeks before the teen went missing, an ex has revealed.
The 17-year-old had moved into the run down Gin Gin property with James Wood and his partner Tanika Bromley, 33, following a reported falling out with her mother.
It's understood that Wood and Bromley had been in a relationship since the end of last year.
But Daily Mail Australia can reveal that Wood was in contact with other women just last month, claiming he had split with Bromley.
He even begged an ex to 'send nudes,' while Bromley was banished from the home and living in the ramshackle bus parked outside of the property.
Pheobe, 17, was last seen on Thursday May 15, leaving the share house near Bundaberg.
Queensland Police believe the pair drove her the 40 minutes to Bundaberg Airport, where she was supposed to board an 8.30am flight to Brisbane and then onto West Australia, where she planned to meet up with her boyfriend.
Pheobe never checked in for the flight and has not been seen since.
Bromley's 2011 silver Hyundai ix35 hatchback with registration 414-EW3 - the car Pheobe travelled to Airport Drive in - has been declared a crime scene along with the Gin Gin house.
Neighbours claim the pair moved to the house in October last year, which is the same time they announced their relationship on Facebook.
But an ex-girlfriend told Daily Mail Australia that she'd been intimate with Wood around February this year and that he reached out again a month ago.
'James and I were mates after we were last together but he was hitting me up again a few weeks ago,' the woman said.
'He was asking me to send nudes, and I said no because he is with her but James said he wasn't with Tanika, that he left her.'
His ex recalled her shock of reading the news reports regarding the missing teen and the removal of 11 dead dogs from the property.
She claims Wood was always a 'good guy,' during their relationship.
'He loved his dogs, that's what I can't understand how they all died. 11 of them. Like wow,' she said.
'I don't know what to think. He got kicked out of his place in Emerald because the landlord was selling it and that's when he moved with her around the end of 2024.'
The ex admitted there was a period across some months that Wood was seeing both her and Bromley, but insisted she was unaware she was being two timed back then.
'I didn't know that or else I wouldn't have had anything to do with him,' she say
She also recalled Wood driving the grey Hyundi iX35 at the centre of Phoebe's disappearance the last time she saw him.
'He packed up and came and said goodbye to me and was driving that car then,' she said.
While it is not clear why Pheobe was living at the house, which is now a crime scene, it is believed that her mother, Kylie Johnson, was friends with the pair and a former workmate of Bromley.
Final posts Pheobe made to social media before she disappeared suggested the troubled teen had fallen out with her mother and would not return home.
Ms Johnson has faced online backlash online for allowing the unconventional living arrangements, with many holding her partly responsible for her daughter's disappearance.
Ms Johnson took to social media to hit back at the accusations on Tuesday.
'Finding it hard to get out of bed today,' she wrote.
'To find the strength to put one foot in front of the other and know what to do., what to think or what to say.
'People have judgments, accusations and continue to say untruths. I'm not going to correct you or be investing what little strength I have to be correcting these statements or people.
'We as a family are just trying to go through the motions of waiting for Phee to come home.'
He Facebook comments were flooded with words of support.
'We have your back Kylie, we know the truth,' one friend wrote.
Another added: 'I love you Kylie, people need to remember they don't know you or the family.
Police continue to search bushland in Good Night Scrub National Park, about an hour away from where she was last seen over the weekend and had cadaver dogs at the scene.
Wood and Bromley were questioned by police and released without charge.
Daily Mail Australia does not suggest either were involved in Pheobe's disappearance
Wood was at Bundaberg Magistrates Court on Monday to support Bromley with separate firearms charges,
Bromley was remanded in custody overnight before returning to court on Tuesday for another bail hearing.
Bromley was charged with two counts of authority required to possess explosives and one count each of possessing/acquiring restricted items and unlawful possession of weapons.
Wood did not attend court on Tuesday, where Bromley was granted bail.
She must adhere to a strict 9pm-6am curfew at a Gin Gin address and must report to Gin Gin police station three days a week, starting from Wednesday.
She is also restricted from having any contact with Wood.
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