Major development in search for missing teen Pheobe
Police have had a breakthrough in the search for missing teen Pheobe Bishop, revealing items linked to the investigation have been located and are now being forensically examined.
Officers, including from the dog squad and the SES, have been combing the greater Good Night Scrub National Park and Gin Gin in Bundaberg in the search for the 17-year-old who vanished on May 15.
She was due to catch a flight from Bundaberg Airport to visit an old friend in WA, but never checked in, which her family say is completely out of character.
On Monday, police said some items, believed to be linked to the investigation, had been located during the search and 'seized for forensic examination'.
'Police have now expanded the search area and have renewed their appeal for information after recent investigations show some evidence may have been moved from the Good Night Scrub area, prior to police arrival.'
Detectives have appealed for anyone with information, vision or sightings of a grey Hyundai ix35 between May 15 to 18 in the greater Gin Gin area to contact police. The grey Hyundai ix35. Credit: QPS
Over the weekend footage of the vehicle she was reportedly travelling in before her suspicious disappearance emerged online.
The video showed a grey Hyundai ix35 – the same car model police allege Ms Bishop travelled in on the day of her disappearance – driving along a backstreet of Gin Gin.
Pheobe is described as approximately 180cm tall, with a pale complexion, long dyed red hair, and hazel eyes. Pheobe with her mother Kylie Johnson. Credit: Facebook
Pheobe's mother Kylie Johnson, who has been posting regular pleas on social media to help find her daughter, wrote on Monday 'our hearts breaking and this hell is heavy'.
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