Kyle was reported missing on Saturday, February 22, after he did not return home from a camping trip with his 21-year-old friend James Coleman (not related).  

Police initially believed the teen lost his way while walking home from James’s Skewes Street home in the early hours of Saturday morning, but after a strange twist of events emergency service moved their search efforts to Undilla Station, 100 kilometres north-east of Camooweal, where Kyle and James were last seen camping.

On February 26, only four days into the search, James Coleman took his own life. 

Late last week, the Coleman family offered up the newest piece of information from the investigation through a post on the Please Help Find Kyle Coleman Facebook page. 

The message said investigations made it clear Kyle never left Undilla Station with James on Friday, February 21, and they believed it was not Kyle’s choice to remain there. 

Mount Isa Police Acting Inspector Guy Harvey said since Kyle’s disappearance, evidence linking Kyle back to an area at Undilla Station had been found by police and Coleman family search crews. 

“We found bits and pieces of evidence from these different searches and we can identify things that would have come from the two persons involved,’’ he said.

“These different items we can confirm belonged to them, or they would have been in possession of them.”

Acting Inspector Harvey said it was difficult to tell how long it would take to finalise the report for the coroner.

Hundreds of statements will be summarised into the report to assist the coroner in the difficult task of deciding whether or not to launch a formal inquest.