The housemates of lacking teenager Pheobe Bishop are set to look in court docket after being charged with the 17-year-old’s homicide.
James Wooden, 34, and Tanika Bromley, 33, had been arrested in southern Queensland’s Bundaberg space on Thursday evening.
It was three weeks to the day after Pheobe missed a flight and vanished.
Wooden and Bromley had been additionally charged with two counts every of interfering with a corpse.
Pheobe’s stays had been but to be positioned, police mentioned.
Pheobe’s mom, Kylie Johnson, mentioned on Thursday evening her household had been “shattered”.
Johnson had been posting on social media nearly on daily basis since her daughter’s “suspicious” disappearance, pleading for data.
“Our world has simply been shattered into probably the most horrific place I’ve ever been,” she wrote on Thursday evening.
“I want my child dwelling to place her to relaxation! I’m completely begging anybody that is aware of something to return ahead.
“We have to put her to relaxation, we have to put her to peace.”
Wooden and Bromley had been resulting from seem in Bundaberg magistrates court docket on Friday.
“Detectives proceed to research this matter, and bodily searches will proceed as wanted as data is supplied,” a Queensland police assertion mentioned.
Pheobe was final seen close to Bundaberg airport about 8.30am on 15 Could after reserving a visit to Western Australia to see her boyfriend.
CCTV footage indicated Pheobe by no means arrived on the airport terminal.
Wooden had beforehand been taken into custody on Wednesday however was launched a number of hours later with out cost.
The seek for Pheobe was scaled again on Wednesday after police had spent weeks combing a number of areas of curiosity in southern Queensland.
A type of areas was a property in Gin Gin the place Pheobe had lived with Wooden and Bromley.
The Gin Gin property close to Bundaberg and a gray Hyundai ix35, thought to have been used to take Pheobe to the airport, had been declared crime scenes quickly after her disappearance which police described as suspicious.
The police search at one stage centered on Good Night time Scrub nationwide park, an hour’s drive from Bundaberg airport, with murder detectives, cadaver canine and divers referred to as in.
Some objects believed to be linked to the investigation had been seized for forensic examination.
The search revealed proof may need been moved from the nationwide park earlier than police arrived.
Wooden and Bromley had earlier been charged with unrelated weapons offences.
