{"id":254038,"date":"2025-09-25T16:48:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T16:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/254038\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T16:48:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T16:48:15","slug":"pheobe-bishop-squalid-queensland-home-where-murdered-teen-lived-with-alleged-killer-housemates-sold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/254038\/","title":{"rendered":"Pheobe Bishop: Squalid Queensland home where murdered teen lived with alleged killer housemates sold"},"content":{"rendered":"

The squalid house where murdered teenager Pheobe Bishop lived with her alleged killers, littered with clothing, rubbish and the faeces of multiple dogs, has been sold.<\/p>\n

The body of the missing 17-year-old was found in the Good Night Scrub National Park in Queensland, approximately 40km from Gin Gin, where Pheobe was living with James Wood, 34, and Tanika Bromley, 33.<\/p>\n

Mr Wood and Ms Bromley were charged with her murder on June 6, three weeks after Pheobe failed to board a flight at Bundaberg Airport.<\/p>\n

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According to property records obtained by the Daily Mail<\/a>, the three-bedroom home was sold on June 13 for $360,000, significantly below Gin Gin\u2019s median house price of $460,000.<\/p>\n

Despite the discount, landlords Jacob and Milena Otto still reportedly made a $200,000 profit, having purchased the property for $160,000 in 2018.<\/p>\n

The house had been the focus of an intense police investigation for several weeks as authorities searched for clues in Phoebe\u2019s disappearance. What they uncovered was deeply disturbing.<\/p>\n

The Ottos allowed 7NEWS cameras inside the property, revealing the extensive damage: patched-up holes in doors and walls, broken locks, and piles of rubbish.<\/p>\n

\"InsideInside the house where Pheobe Bishop was living with her alleged killers. Credit: 7NEWS<\/p>\n

The landlords said none of the damage existed before Mr Wood and Ms Bromley moved in.<\/p>\n

Footage also showed what appears to be gel blasters – legal in Queensland – leaning against a bedroom wall.<\/p>\n

Ms Bromley had been renting the home for $550 a week since December 2024.<\/p>\n

According to the landlords, she had already been issued a notice to leave after failing an inspection.<\/p>\n

The couple said they had known her for years and initially believed she was a reliable tenant.<\/p>\n

But the state of the home told a different story.<\/p>\n

The home used to be a place of peace and joy, the Ottos said in June when the house was handed back to them once it was no longer declared a crime scene.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe air tastes dirty, and it smells just… I don\u2019t know how people can be breathing in this,\u201d the landlord told 7NEWS.<\/p>\n

\u201cA rubbish dump\u2019s probably cleaner.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just can\u2019t understand how someone can live in conditions like this.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s overwhelming what you see. Where do you even begin? What do you do?\u201d<\/p>\n

\"InsideInside the house where Pheobe Bishop was living with her alleged killers. Credit: 7NEWS\"InsideInside the house where Pheobe Bishop was living with her alleged killers. Credit: 7NEWS<\/p>\n

The landlords estimated it would cost between $10,000 and $15,000 to clean and repair the home. They even launched a GoFundMe<\/a> to help cover the costs, citing insurance excess, extensive repairs, and the sheer volume of waste left behind.<\/p>\n

Pheobe, who was last seen alive on May 15, had been missing for weeks when Queensland Police discovered a body on June 6.<\/p>\n

She was meant to fly from Bundaberg, Queensland, to Western Australia to see her boyfriend. However, she never made it to the departure terminal.<\/p>\n

Mr Wood and Ms Bromley have been charged with murder and interfering with a corpse, as police allege Pheobe\u2019s body was moved several times after her alleged murder.<\/p>\n

They are being held in custody and are due to return to court in August.<\/p>\n

Detectives also charged a third person in relation to the alleged murder, Kieran Daniel Mittelhauser.<\/p>\n

Police allege the 30-year-old was an accessory after the fact to the murder and had interfered with the investigation by using Pheobe\u2019s phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The squalid house where murdered teenager Pheobe Bishop lived with her alleged killers, littered with clothing, rubbish and…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":254039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,50,4798],"class_list":{"0":"post-254038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-queensland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115265962653484337","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}