Pheobe Bishop, 17, was living at a Gin Gin, Queensland property with the couple before she vanished shortly before she was set to board a flight to see her boyfriend.
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Former friend of couple who were the last to see missing teen Pheobe Bishop reveals why she cut off contact - as new pictures reveal the critical forensic clues police are collecting
A former friend of the last people to see missing teenager Pheobe Bishop before she disappeared has revealed why she recently cut off contact with the couple.
Questions remain over exactly why she was living at the house with the pair, but final posts she made to social media before she disappeared suggested the troubled teen had fallen out with her mother and would not return home.
A woman who lives near the couple and has known Mr Wood since childhood told Daily Mail Australia she stopped speaking to him because she didn't like how he was allegedly treating his dogs.
The woman said she also became friendly with Ms Bromley until she was once in the car with her and allegedly 'reached under the seat and pulled out a [sawn off] shot gun' which had been stored there.
'She just laughed and said ''don't worry about it babe it's for self-protection''. I didn't talk to her much after that. It was a few months ago.'
The pair have been questioned by police and were released. No charges have been laid over Pheobe's disappearance and Daily Mail Australia does not suggest Mr Wood and Ms Bromley were involved.
The woman said James wasn't the 'quiet and shy' boy she knew from years ago.
'He was home schooled by his parents. He used to live in that bus that's out the front of his house,' she said.
'I stopped talking to him because I was worried about how he was treating his dogs.'
The search resumed on Saturday morning with a cry of Heigh-Ho, off we go, as about 40 SES volunteers entered thick bushland in the Good Night Scrub National Park.
Daily Mail Australia can reveal a drone expert from Queensland Fire and Rescue is being deployed above the area to assist the search for the missing teen.
It will be focused on the river.
Specialist police were pictured searching for the missing teen at Good Night Scrub Park on Saturday about an hour's drive from the airport as part of ongoing search efforts involving homicide detectives and divers.
Investigators returned to the national park on Saturday after discovering an item of potential interest in the area on Friday night. They did not state whether the item was connected to Pheobe.
