Six days after Pheobe Bishop went missing, police were treating her disappearance as suspicious. Photo: Supplied
Police say the body of Queensland teenager Pheobe Bishop was moved several times, after she was allegedly murdered by her housemates.
James Wood, 34, and Tanika Bromley, 33, face one count each of murder and two counts each of interfering with a corpse, after their arrest on Thursday night.
Bishop, 17, from Gin Gin, north of Brisbane, has been missing since 15 May.
"Our investigation will detail the facts that we believe Pheobe was murdered and then her body was moved," Detective Inspector Craig Mansfield said.
"We will allege that Pheobe was moved more than once."
Police will allege Bishop was in a car with her housemates on the way to Bundaberg Airport, but the teenager never entered the terminal.
Six days after Bishop went missing, police said they were treating her disappearance as suspicious.
Two crime scenes were declared - the car she was believed to have been travelling to the airport in, and the house she and her flatmates shared in Gin Gin.
"We will allege that three people arrived near to the airport and that three people never left that vehicle," Detective Inspector Mansfield said.
He said they expected to find her body in the greater Gin Gin area.
"We are suspecting we may locate Pheobe, but it is a broad, unforgiving area that we're trying to narrow down."
More charges expected
Detective Inspector Mansfield confirmed dead dogs had been found at the Gin Gin home where the three lived, and more charges were expected against Wood and Bromley.
"Our primary focus was clearly Pheobe in this homicide investigation, so all of those other charges will likely follow."
Asked why police released Wood from custody earlier this week, Detective Inspector Mansfield said investigations "ebb and flow".
"We were satisfied, after the review of the culmination of the information and evidence that we collected over that three-week period, that we were in a position to make that arrest yesterday evening," he said.
Police confirm dead dogs have been found at the Gin Gin home where Pheobe Bishop lived. Photo: ABC News
'We just want her home'
Pheobe's sister, Kaylea Bishop, spoke to media outside the Bundaberg Courthouse on Friday morning.
"We just want her home," she said. "Three weeks is too long for us, as a family and all her friends.
"She was loved and she's missed dearly."
The cases against Wood and Bromley were earlier mentioned at Bundaberg Magistrates Court.
Neither accused appeared. The matters have been adjourned until 11 August.
- ABC
