The search for a missing Queensland teenager is intensifying after her disappearance five days ago.
Pheobe Bishop, 17, had been booked to travel to Western Australia via Brisbane last Thursday to visit her boyfriend but she never checked in for her flight at Bundaberg Airport.
Police are currently treating the disappearance as suspicious but detectives are investigating all scenarios.
“It’s out of character for her not to make any contact with anyone,” Detective Acting Inspector Ryan Thompson said.
Police said her housemates were the last to see her when they said they dropped her outside Bundaberg Regional Airport at 8.30am.
“Police have reviewed CCTV from the airport, which indicates that she did not enter the terminal,” Thompson said.
“We’re quite confident that Phoebe didn’t make it to the airport.”
The housemates’ grey Hyundai ix35 with registration 414EW3 has been seized by police and declared a crime scene.
The movements of that car last Thursday have formed a crucial part of the police investigation.
“That’s why we’re appealing for dash cam footage and also any businesses in the airport drive and that commercial area out towards the airport,” Thompson said.
A house in Gin Gin, where the 17-year-old lived with a couple, is also a crime scene.
Neighbours told 9News several dead dogs have been removed from the property.
“Anything at that house will be forming part of our investigation,” Thompson said.
The family of the teenager has joined the search effort, searching rivers and bushland near the airport this week as part of efforts to find her.
Family members have handed out more than 400 missing person flyers across Bundaberg and Gin Gin.
They have also appealed for the 17-year-old to make contact with her mum if she sees their efforts.
