GARDEN CITY, UT — Newly unsealed search warrants in the disappearance of Kylie Arellano suggest investigators questioned key parts of her mother’s account as the teen’s case moved toward its anniversary. Kylie was 15 when she vanished, and authorities have said they still have no confirmed sightings or digital traces showing where she went.
The warrants, served in April and May and later reviewed by KUTV, describe several points that investigators found troubling. Those include a prior allegation that Stephanie Coleman choked Kylie, the absence of text messages Coleman said she exchanged with her daughter, and observations in the home that appeared to show blood or blood patterns. Coleman has denied abusing her daughter and says police got the facts wrong.
Investigators questioned whether mother and daughter really texted that night
One of the central issues in the warrants is a set of text messages Coleman said she exchanged with Kylie the night before she reported her missing. According to investigators, they could not find those messages on Coleman’s phone, even though she said the two had exchanged good-night texts.
Coleman told KUTV she did have messages from around 9 p.m. on May 29, 2025, and forwarded them to the station. In those texts, Kylie is identified as the other participant, and the exchange includes expressions of affection such as “I love you” and “good night.”
The disagreement matters because investigators were trying to build a timeline for the hours before Kylie was reported missing from the family’s home in Garden City on May 30, 2025. With no confirmed sightings since then, every detail tied to that night has taken on added significance.
Earlier abuse allegation resurfaced in the search warrants
The warrants also point to a 2024 incident in which Kylie had complained that her mother choked her. Investigators included that allegation as part of their review of the family situation before Kylie disappeared.
Coleman strongly rejected that description. She told KUTV the incident was the last time Kylie ran away and said she was not choking her daughter. Instead, Coleman said she was trying to calm Kylie down and would rub her face with her thumb to soothe her.
Her account conflicts with the concerns investigators documented in the warrants. The legal filings do not resolve what happened during that earlier episode, but they show why police were looking closely at the relationship and at the statements Coleman had made about her daughter’s behavior before she vanished.
Police also noted possible blood evidence inside the home
Another detail in the warrants came from a spring walkthrough of the home, when police said they saw what looked like blood or blood patterns. That observation added to investigators’ concerns as they examined whether the missing-teen case involved something more than a runaway situation.
Coleman said she did not believe the marks were blood. She suggested Kylie’s cat could explain the scene, saying the animal had been outside searching for her, cried for her, and got into fights with other feral cats in the area. Coleman said the cat had wounds all over him.
Police have not publicly explained how they interpreted the markings or whether forensic testing tied them to Kylie. The disputed evidence is now part of the broader uncertainty surrounding what happened in the home before she disappeared.
Coleman says she has asked law enforcement to keep searching online leads
Coleman told KUTV that she has repeatedly asked law enforcement to look through Kylie’s social media accounts, although she does not know whether that has been done. She said she believes her daughter may have left with someone she met online, either willingly or against her will.
She also denied any role in the disappearance. “I have tried so hard to get every law enforcement agency to help me find my daughter,” Coleman said. “I pray every day that my daughter is still alive.”
As the days have passed, Coleman has marked the time since Kylie vanished in painful terms, saying it has been 517 nights. The case remains unresolved, and police have not reported confirmed digital evidence or sightings that would show where Kylie went after the night in question.
What happens next in the Kylie Arellano case
The Rich County sheriff did not return a message Thursday afternoon, leaving the public record to rely largely on the unsealed warrants and Coleman’s comments. The case number attached to the search is 25-R308.
For now, the most important fact remains unchanged: Kylie Arellano has not been found, and investigators say there have been no confirmed sightings or digital signs of her whereabouts since May 2025. The case has stretched past the point where her family and police first hoped for answers, but the question of what happened still has no resolution.
Anyone with information about Kylie Arellano’s whereabouts is asked to contact the Rich County Sheriff’s Office at 435-793-2285 and reference case No. 25-R308.
