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What you missed in the search for missing Queensland teenager Pheobe Bishop

The search for missing teen Pheobe Bishop has gripped Queensland for two weeks. Here are 7 explosive details you probably missed.

Pheobe Bishop's flatmate shows face in public

The search for missing Queensland teenager Pheobe Bishop has entered its second week as the investigation continues to take massive twists and turns.

Here’s seven explosive details in the search for the 17-year-old Gin Gin girl that you may have missed.

Use of cadaver dogs

Police with a cadaver dog search the Good Night Scrub National Park. Picture: Adam Head
Police with a cadaver dog search the Good Night Scrub National Park. Picture: Adam Head

Police used three cadaver dogs – specifically trained to pick up on the scent of human remains – during the four-day search of Good Night Scrub National Park.

Police using shovels at the house

Evidence is removed from the Gin Gin home where Pheobe Bishop was living before her disappearance. Picture: Adam Head
Evidence is removed from the Gin Gin home where Pheobe Bishop was living before her disappearance. Picture: Adam Head

During the first day of the search at Pheobe’s Gin Gin home, forensic police took shovels from their vehicles into the crime scene.

Evidence was moved

An evidence marker in the Good Night Scrub National Park. Picture: Adam Head
An evidence marker in the Good Night Scrub National Park. Picture: Adam Head

Police believe evidence was moved from Good Night Scrub National Park before they began searching in the dense bushland area.

The search was stopped

The search of the Good Night Scrub National Park was called off on Wednesday after a thorough four-day search of the area, which included SES crews, police divers, helicopters, and cadaver dogs.

The phone call to her boyfriend

Pheobe Bishop.
Pheobe Bishop.

Pheobe made a phone call to her boyfriend on May 15, who she was meant to be flying to visit in Western Australia on May 15.

Her confronting final text messages

Pheobe sent text messages to multiple people in the days before she vanished, including messages to her aunty saying she was living in a “hell hole” and hoped to never return from her trip to Western Australia to see her boyfriend.

Police find items in scrub

Police announced they had found several items of interest in the search of Good Night Scrub National Park, but wouldn’t elaborate on exactly what had been found.

Originally published as What you missed in the search for missing Queensland teenager Pheobe Bishop

Original URL: https://www.thechronicle.com.au/news/queensland/what-you-missed-in-the-search-for-missing-queensland-teenager-pheobe-bishop/news-story/9d4a5e7e3b910c0a5a8682331f49680e