Family offers $5K to help find Yolan Miller, missing since July 191 min read

Sedona resident Yolan Miller, 38, has been missing since June 19. She was last seen on North View Road and at Safeway, where she worked in the floral department, wearing a bright teal shirt possibly with flowers on it, grey shorts and grey tennis shoes. She is 5 feet 7 inches tall, weighing 250 pounds with brown hair and blue eyes.

Her family said Miller, who is autistic, lost her brother a year ago on June 19, 2021, and may have been or is in a vulnerable state. Her family said may be near the Jerome or Camp Verde area and she said she was heading toward Jerome before she disappeared.

On Sunday, June 24, 2022, Miller’s vehicle, a 2015 grey Ford Escape, was discovered on the Hancock Ranch near the Honanki Heritage Site on Forest Service Road 525. The vehicle was parked at this location sometime around June 19. It’s common for cars to be parked there for several days.

According to her relatives, “Yolan’s cousins, friends and landlady reported she was not suicidal and was more concerned for her mom.”

Due to health issues, her family does not believe she would have hiked extensively along the trail.

There has been an extensive search and rescue effort, but no trace of her has been found. Her family has raised $5,000 toward a goal of $10,000 for a reward to help locate Miller or lead to the arrest of anyone involved in her disappearance.

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If you have any information, call the Sedona Police Department at (928) 282-3100 or the family at (520) 343-8520.

Christopher Fox Graham

Christopher Fox Graham is the managing editor of the Sedona Rock Rocks News, The Camp Verde Journal and the Cottonwood Journal Extra. Hired by Larson Newspapers as a copy editor in 2004, he became assistant manager editor in October 2009 and managing editor in August 2013. Graham has won awards for editorials, investigative news reporting, headline writing, page design and community service from the Arizona Newspapers Association. Graham has also been featured in Editor & Publisher magazine. He lectures on journalism and First Amendment law and is a nationally recognized performance aka slam poet.

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Christopher Fox Graham is the managing editor of the Sedona Rock Rocks News, The Camp Verde Journal and the Cottonwood Journal Extra. Hired by Larson Newspapers as a copy editor in 2004, he became assistant manager editor in October 2009 and managing editor in August 2013. Graham has won awards for editorials, investigative news reporting, headline writing, page design and community service from the Arizona Newspapers Association. Graham has also been featured in Editor & Publisher magazine. He lectures on journalism and First Amendment law and is a nationally recognized performance aka slam poet.