Mom of Missing 17-Year-Old Who Failed to Check in for Flight Shares Emotional Plea: ‘We Would Do Anything to Hear Your Voice’

The mother of a missing 17-year-old girl who disappeared over a week ago after failing to check in for a flight has issued an emotional plea amid the ongoing search for her daughter.

Pheobe Bishop has not been seen or heard from since being taken to Airport Drive in Bundaberg in Queensland, Australia, on May 15 at around 8:30 a.m. local time, Queensland Police said in a Monday, May 19 news release. 

Queensland Police Detective Acting Inspector, Ryan Thompson, previously said Pheobe had been dropped off near the airport by “associates” but didn’t enter the terminal building, per the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).

“She had a flight booked to Brisbane and then on to WA [Western Australia] to visit a friend,” the officer said, according to the outlet.

On Friday, May 23, police issued another update, revealing officers had “searched bushland and waterways in the Good Night Scrub National Park.” According to the ABC, the national park is more than an hour southwest of Bundaberg.

As the search continues, Pheobe’s mom, Kylie Johnson, shared a heartbreaking message on Facebook.

“As another day starts it’s getting harder to breath and the numbness that we feel at the not knowing is eating at us.. We would do anything just to hear your voice … to have you curl up in my lap and hold you tight with your wild crazy hair in my face annoying my nose,” she wrote, alongside a photo of the mother and daughter.

“I have no words to describe what this is doing to our family, to our friends and to our community. What we need right now from everyone is to hold your loved ones tight and tell them you love them,” Johnson added in the post.

Police said in the update on Friday, “Specialist police, including the Dive Squad, have been involved in land and waterway searches of the Good Night Scrub area but have not yet located any items of interest.”

“This is part of various searches in the wider Gin Gin and Bundaberg areas that have been ongoing this week,” the post added. “Currently, no one is in custody in relation to this investigation however police continue to speak to people who know Pheobe.”

“Police are appealing to the public for information, including any movement in the Good Night Scrub area on May 15, particularly in the Mingo Road and Gayndah Road areas,” police said.

The latest release comes after police confirmed on Thursday, May 22, that officers were “continuing to process two crime scenes” amid the search for the missing teen.

“A property in Gin Gin and a grey Hyundai ix35 are active crime scenes,” the release stated.

“Police are continuing to appeal to the public for dashcam and CCTV footage of the grey Hyundai ix35 with Queensland registration 414EW3 near the Airport Drive and Samuels Road area in Bundaberg and also the Gin Gin area on May 15,” police added.

According to a Wednesday, May 21 police post, Pheobe had been living in the Gin Gin property that has been declared a crime scene prior to her disappearance. 

Detective Thompson said she’d been living there a while, stating, “It is not a direct family member that she resides with … I believe there were currently two people that she was living with,” the ABC reported.

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Urging anybody with information to come forward, the officer added, per Thursday’s news release, “You may have the small piece of information that leads us to finding Pheobe.”

“People don’t vanish – someone knows something and we’re urging anyone with information to contact police immediately,” Thompson insisted.

Pheobe is described as approximately 180cm [around 5 feet, 9 inches], with a pale complexion, long dyed red hair and hazel eyes, police confirmed.

“She was last seen carrying luggage and wearing a green tank top and grey sweatpants,” they added.