Landlords’ sickening find in property rented by couple accused of murdering Pheobe Bishop – and the brutal way they learned their house had been completely trashed
The owners of a dilapidated property rented by a couple accused of murdering teenager Pheobe Bishop have found the trashed home littered with dog faeces.
The landlords appeared stunned on Sunday as they inspected the mess left at the house on Milden Street at Gin Gin, in Queensland’s Bundaberg region.
Pheobe had been living at the premises with James Wood and Tanika Bromley before she disappeared on May 15.
Wood and Bromley have since been charged with her murder and two counts each of interfering with her corpse.
Empty bottles, clothing and rubbish surrounded the property on Sunday with the landlord couple telling Daily Mail Australia it was ‘even worse inside’.
They claimed the interior was strewn with dog faeces and confirmed that the canines Wood kept on the property had died.
The back porch is also understood to be covered in faeces along with used Covid tests.
Real estate photos of the home from 2024 and 2016 showed the property had previously been in pristine condition with tidy gardens and clean verandahs.
The owners of a dilapidated property rented out by a couple accused of murdering Pheobe Bishop claimed they seemed like ideal tenants and ‘ticked all the boxes’
The Gin Gin home (pictured) was once kept in pristine condition with a tidy yard
The house is now completely unrecognisable compared to the pristine condition seen in the real estate photos
The young couple have owned the property for several years and only found out about the disgusting state of their house when it made headlines after Pheobe disappeared.
‘It was a beautiful home,’ they said.
The couple said Wood and Bromley had ‘ticked all the boxes’ as good tenants when they applied for the rental, which is understood to have been listed for $550 a week.
It’s understood the house was rented in Bromley’s name and she never missed a payment.
The owners, from far north Queensland, returned to Gin Gin to assess the damage to their property, which was pored over by forensic police following Pheobe’s disappearance.
The home was declared a crime scene soon after the teenager vanished but was processed and closed late last month.
‘We don’t even know where to start,’ the landlords admitted while surveying the garbage-strewn property.
The male owner told Channel Seven on Saturday: ‘We started a family in this home.’
Pheobe (pictured) vanished on May 15. Her body was discovered in Good Night Scrub on Friday following a massive search effort
Wood (right) and Bromley (left) were charged with murder and two counts of interfering with a corpse
The couple hopes to ‘clean it up and make it liveable to get it back on market’.
Pheobe had moved in with Bromley and Wood in recent months, after troubles at her family home.
A local IGA worker told Daily Mail Australia Pheobe would often come in to buy food, but didn’t have enough money.
‘I would pay the rest so that child could eat,’ she said.
On May 15, Bromley and Wood drove Pheobe to Bundaberg Airport but she never made it to the terminal.
Detective Inspector Craig Mansfield said this week that police ‘will allege that three people arrived near to the airport, and that three people never left that vehicle’.
Human remains were found on Friday deep within the Good Night Scrub National Park, an hour from the Milden Street property.
The Gin Gin community will hold a vigil in her memory tonight.
