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EXCLUSIVE Shocked owners reveal the damage left by Pheobe Bishop's housemates who turned their family home into a cesspit
All traces of the filth and rubbish left by Pheobe Bishop's housemates have been removed and dumped at a tip by the owners of the Queensland rental home where they lived.
Jacob and Milena Otto leased the three-bedroom Gin Gin property to James Wood and Tanika Bromley, who lived with Pheobe and are now accused of her murder.
Pheobe's remains were found in Good Night Scrub National Park - located about an hour from the property - on June 6.
It is alleged Wood and Bromley drove the 17-year-old to Bundaberg Regional Airport on May 15, but she never checked in for her flight to Western Australia. Days later, police declared the Gin Gin house and their car a crime scene.
Wood and Bromley were charged with Pheobe's murder, along with two counts each of interfering with a corpse, on June 5.
The Ottos, who live 900km away in the North Queensland town of Ayr, were allowed to enter their Gin Gin property earlier this month when police finished their forensic investigation.
They faced a massive clean-up with dog poo, broken furniture and rubbish throughout the property.
The couple said they took 'two skip bins and many trailer loads' to the local tip.
They added that kind-hearted locals helped them.
'While at the house these past few days, people would stop in and lend a hand for a few hours,' they said.
The couple, who were given $2,275 on a now-closed GoFundMe, have claimed the classic Queenslander-style house suffered structural damage.
They hope to restore the property to its former glory and put it back on the rental market.
'The house is almost empty now and cleaners are organised. There is some structural damage but that is something for tradies,' they said recently.
'Meanwhile, we have returned to work up north.'
Former homicide detective Charlie Bezzina told Daily Mail Australia that Queensland Police 'should be applauded' for completing their forensic work on a complex crime scene so quickly.
'You can't keep a crime scene open forever in Australia, unlike in other countries like America,' he said.
'If there was anything (forensics) needed to find, they would have found it by now.
'You can't justify holding onto a crime scene just in case something else pops up - you have to hand it back to the rightful owner. You have to be fair.'
In a previous interview with Daily Mail Australia, Mr Otto revealed that when he'd approved Bromley as a tenant, she 'ticked all the right boxes'.
It's understood only Bromley was on the lease, and that she never missed a rental payment.
Criminal psychologist Tim Watson-Munro described the crime scene as 'chronic, next-level squalor'.
'I take it (Wood and Bromley) are not going to get their bond back,' he said.
Mrs Otto also confirmed that the stench pervading the air was due to Wood's puppies, which died from a supposed worm infestation.
When the Ottos first returned to the home on June 7, their devastation was evident.
'We don't know where to start,' they admitted.
'We started a family in this home.'
