Former Sedona resident David Wile reported missing1 min read

If you have seen or had contact with 30-year-old David Ian Wile since he was reported missing Saturday, Aug. 14, please contact local law enforcement immediately.
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Glendale police are searching for a  30-year-old former Sedona resident reported missing by his family over the weekend.

David Ian Wile, 30, a resident of Sedona from 1995 to 2006, was last seen at his home in Glendale on the morning of Saturday, Aug. 14.

Wile was scheduled to attend and photograph a competition later that afternoon at Paragon Dance Studio in Tempe.

Wile is believed to have gone missing, along with his 2003 silver Honda Accord sedan, after 11:30 a.m. He has family and friends in the Sedona area.

Wile is a white male, 5 feet, 10 inches tall, with brown eyes and brown hair, weighing 180 to 190 pounds.

If you have any information regarding Wile’s disappearance or whereabouts, contact the Glendale Police Department at (623) 930-3100 or local law enforcement.

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Christopher Fox Graham

Christopher Fox Graham is the managing editor of the Sedona Rock Rock 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 a guest contributor in Editor & Publisher magazine and featured in the LA Times, New York Post and San Francisco Chronicle. He lectures on journalism, media law and the First Amendment and is a nationally recognized performance aka slam poet. In January 2025, the International Astronomical Union formally named asteroid 29722 Chrisgraham (1999 AQ23) in his honor at the behest of Lowell Observatory, citing him as "an American journalist and longtime managing editor of Sedona Red Rock News. He is a nationally-recognized slam poet who has written and performed multiple poems about Pluto and other space themes."

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