NEED TO KNOW
- Pheobe Bishop’s mom Kylie Johnson shared an emotional plea for information about her missing daughter, more than two weeks after she first went missing on May 15
- “If the worst-case scenario has happened, I at least need to know where she is resting,” Johnson said while giving an official family statement
- Bishop disappeared after failing to check in for a flight at the Bundaberg Regional Airport in Queensland, Australia
It’s been more than two weeks since 17-year-old Pheobe Bishop vanished, and her mom wants to know where she is — even if it’s the “worst-case scenario.”
In a new video released by the Queensland Police in Australia, Kylie Johnson got visibly emotional while reading an official family statement about the missing Australian teen, who disappeared after failing to check in for a flight earlier this month.
“Hi, I’m Kylie. I’m Pheobe’s mom. Our lives have been changed for the worse after the sudden disappearance of our daughter, who was last seen on May 15,” she began in the video, which was posted on a crime watch Facebook group for the Queensland area on Saturday, May 31.
“This is a pain no person or family should ever have to experience,” she continued. “Pheobe was a beautiful, loving, kind person, and every day not knowing where she has been is devastating for us.”
Johnson went on to echo investigators’ previous pleas for information, stating, “This is why we are appealing for any information that may help to bring Pheobe home to contact the police. Even the smallest bit of information may be all the police need to find Pheobe.”
After thanking police for their investigation and her community for its support, Johnson made a final, emotional plea, and publicly considered the chance that her daughter is no longer alive.
“I still hold hope that Pheobe will come home, but I have to consider the possibility that she also won’t,” she said in the video. “If the worst-case scenario has happened, I at least need to know where she is resting. I need to know where Pheobe is. My daughter wouldn’t just disappear.”
“Someone knows something and as a mom, I am asking you to come forward with your information,” Johnson finished.
Bishop has not been seen or heard from since she was taken to Airport Drive at the Bundaberg Regional Airport in Queensland on May 15 at around 8:30 a.m. local time, according to Queensland Police.
Queensland Police Detective Acting Inspector Ryan Thompson previously said the teen was visiting somebody close to her, and that the people who dropped her off did not enter the terminal with her, per the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Prior to her disappearance, the teenager had been living in a property in the town of Gin Gin, which has since been declared a crime scene, according to police.
A gray Hyundai ix35 is also an active crime scene, with police previously asking the public for help finding dashcam and CCTV footage of the car, license plate number 414EW3, “near the Airport Drive and Samuels Road area in Bundaberg and also the Gin Gin area on May 15.”
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Amid the search for Bishop, Johnson has shared several posts about the situation on Facebook, most recently a message alongside the official police video of her addressing the public.
“Today is the hardest,” she wrote. “It’s cold and raining and to know that one of your children is out there and you have NO IDEA where! You have no answers, every day you’re living in Limbo. We just need answers, someone has to have seen something or know something.”
“Pheobe would never do this, she would never not contact us,” Johnson added of the teen. “I know my daughter, her siblings and her family are her world. Her [niece] is her everything and she would hate this media presence and her photos being posted everywhere.”
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