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    Kylr Yust Sentenced to 45 Years in 2007 and 2016 MO Slayings of Kara Kopetsky and Jessica Runions


    Jessica Runions was last seen about 9:30 p.m. Thursday.


    Kara Kopetsky disappeared on May 4, 2007, one week after she filed a protection order against Yust.




    Police seek help locating missing 21-year-old woman

    KANSAS CITY, MO (KCTV) - Police have discovered a missing woman's car abandoned and set on fire, but she is nowhere to be found.

    The car belongs 21-year-old Jessica Runions who hasn't been seen since 9:30 p.m. Thursday.

    Just before 2 a.m. Saturday, a tip led police to her 2012 Chevy Equinox in the area of 95th Street and Blue River Road. The vehicle was later towed to the Kansas City Police Department's processing facility.

    "We are very concerned for her safety. It's suspicious circumstances, her vehicle unoccupied, burned in a remote area ... just asking anyone who has had contact with her to call the police," police spokeswoman Capt. Stacey Graves said.

    Missouri Search and Rescue were called to the area where her car was found to conduct a field search for her. After several hours, crews called off their search due to darkness but plan to resume Sunday morning.

    Runions works in a retirement home and is close to her parents and extended family, especially her aunt, Michele Runions.

    “She is just a sweetheart,” Michele Runions said.

    Jessica Runions’ family says she was last seen by her friends at a party in Kansas City. The host of that party told her family she left with a friend of her boyfriend. That man she left with was Kylr Yust, the ex-boyfriend of Kara Kopetsky who went missing on May 4, 2007.

    Kopetsky has never been found. She disappeared one week after she filed a protection order against Yust, who was a person of interest in her disappearance case but never charged. There is a $90,000 reward in Kopetsky's case.

    Police say detectives are not naming any suspects at this time in Runions' missing person's case.

    “They are aware of those leads and will continue to investigate them,” Graves said.

    Michele Runions hopes her niece is safe and that police can find her soon with help from the public.

    “We love her. We want her home safe. We just want her home safe,” she said.

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    Arrest made in connection to investigation of missing Raymore woman


    Jessica Runions' vehicle burned, abandoned along Blue River Road


    KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A person of interest in the investigation of a missing Raymore woman was arrested Sunday morning.

    Authorities with the Kansas City police and Missouri State Highway Patrol arrested 28-year-old Kylr Yust in Edwards, Missouri, on an arrest warrant for charges of knowingly burning Jessica Runion’s vehicle.
    Runions, 21, was last seen Thursday evening.

    The woman’s vehicle, a black Chevrolet Equinox, was found burned and abandoned in a wooded area along Blue River Road, north of Bannister Road, early Saturday.

    Kansas City police and the Missouri Search and Rescue team has searched several areas with negative results in connection to the woman’s disappearance.

    http://www.kmbc.com/news/search-goes...th-kc/41618958
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    Ex-boyfriend of Kara Kopestky arrested on animal abuse charges


    The ex-boyfriend of missing Belton teen Kara Kopetsky is under arrest again, charged with two counts of animal abuse, including smashing a kitten against a bathroom floor.

    Kylr Yust, 22, who last week pleaded guilty to beating and choking his pregnant girlfriend, was arrested on Sunday in south Kansas City in connection to the animal abuse charges.

    According to prosecutors, Yust allegedly smashed the head of a kitten against a bathroom floor on July 5, and then allegedly drowned two kittens in a bag in an area creek on July 20.

    Kara Kopetsky disappeared in 2007. Yust has never been charged in her disappearance, but she and her mother, Rhonda Beckford, filed a restraining order against him shortly before she vanished. The order wasn’t officially granted until after she disappeared.

    “She really didn’t know what to expect from him, what he would do next, and she was fearful of him,” said Rhonda Beckford.

    Last week, Yust was placed on two years of probation after pleading guilty to abusing his 18-year-old current girlfriend. According to police reports, Yust allegedly told the teen that he could dispose of body parts in a pig pen on a family ranch. He also claimed he killed former girlfriends.

    Parents and friends are still searching for Kopetsky. Her disappearance was featured Saturday, Sept. 10 on the show “Vanished” on the Lifetime network.

    http://fox4kc.com/2011/09/12/ex-boyf...abuse-charges/
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    Kylr Yust, questioned in woman’s disappearance, to appear in court Thursday

    By Laura Bauer
    The Kansas City Star

    The man questioned in the disappearance of a Raymore woman was transported Wednesday from Benton County, Mo., to Kansas City, where authorities searched his grandfather’s home.

    Authorities moved Kylr Yust, 28, from the county jail in Warsaw, Mo., where he had been held since Sunday. Police arrested him on charges of “knowingly burning” the vehicle of Jessica Runions, 21, of Raymore.

    He will make his first court appearance Thursday afternoon.

    Runions was last seen Sept. 8 leaving a gathering in south Kansas City with Yust, the ex-boyfriend of Kara Kopetsky, who disappeared in May 2007. Yust was questioned more than once in that case.

    Wednesday afternoon, police spent about three hours searching the home of Yust’s grandfather in the 8700 block of Crescent Avenue in southeast Kansas City. Kylr had been living with his grandfather in the months since he got out of prison earlier this year.

    Alfred Yust, who will be 85 later this month, walked through the home showing how closets were emptied and dressers gone through. He raised Kylr.

    “When he was with me, he was a good boy,” said Yust, who got a phone call from his grandson Wednesday morning while he was still in Benton County. “The things he’s showing now, he’s never showed here. But things change, I guess.”

    According to Benton County records obtained by The Star, authorities served two warrants there, one for a residence at 30551 Pecan Drive in Edwards, Mo., and another for Kylr Yust himself.

    “There may be evidence in relation to a knowingly burning or exploding and missing person’s investigation,” the warrants said.

    The search of the Pecan Drive residence, where relatives of Kylr Yust live, sought weapons, any evidence of an accelerant, blood, clothing, shoes and “any other items critical to the case and any other items of illegal nature.”

    Authorities took photographs of the residence and collected a red and black shirt and two 9 mm bullets.

    The warrant requesting evidence from Kylr Yust sought similar evidence, plus hair samples, fingernail scrapings and swabs from his body.

    Officers obtained several swabs, fingernail scrapings and hair, as well as jeans, a tank top, tennis shoes and underwear.

    Police continue to search for Runions, whose boyfriend is a longtime friend of Yust. Her family and friends have posted fliers across the Kansas City area asking for help in finding her.

    Alfred Yust, who has met Jessica Runions and seen her more than once, said he doesn’t know what to think about everything that’s unfolded in the past week. When Kylr called Wednesday morning, he wished his grandfather an early happy birthday.

    Wednesday was Kylr’s 28th birthday so the two talked about birthdays, and that was about it, Alfred Yust said.

    “He did say he’d be coming up here today,” Yust said.

    When his grandson got out of prison earlier this year and served his home confinement at Yust’s split level home, Alfred Yust said, it seemed Kylr was starting to get his life together.

    “I thought he might have,” Yust said. “But I don’t know.”

    http://www.kansascity.com/news/local...101787882.html

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    Yust in court, partygoer talks about missing woman

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    Kylr Yust of Kansas City, the man with connections to two missing women, was in a Jackson County courtroom Thursday.

    Yust, 28, was shackled and wearing jailhouse blues when he listened to the reading of the felony charge of torching a car. Yust is accused of knowingly burning the Chevrolet SUV of Jessica Runions of Raymore, who has not been seen in more than a week.

    Runions, 21, had been in a relationship with Yust, who was questioned in 2007 about the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend Kara Kopetsky, a Belton High School student. Yust was never charged in Kopetsky's case. Yust is held on a $50-thousand cash only bond. His next court appearance is Sept. 29.

    A woman who was at the party where Runions was last seen Sept. 8 says the 21-year-old showed up with Yust, who appeared to be visibly drunk. The woman said Yust poured out his feeling for Runions.

    "He was kind of slurring a little bit but he was telling me how he really loved her and he wants to marry her," the woman said. "He was, like, I'm trying to have kids with her."

    The woman who talked with Yust at the party in Grandview said Yust became loud just before midnight, and the host told him to leave.

    http://www.kmbz.com/Yust-in-court-pa...woman/22878539
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    Kylr Yust, man accused of burning missing woman's car, has history of abuse in prior relationships

    By Andrew Gutierrez
    KSHB News

    KANSAS CITY, Mo. - As the search for Jessica Runions continues 41 Action News uncovered new accusations against the man at who burned her car.

    Police arrested Kylr Yust, 28, inside a Edwards, Missouri trailer Sunday morning.

    While the owners does even know how Yust got inside, they gave 41 Action News exclusive access.

    It's in a child's bedroom Yust slept. His snacks, water, pills, ashtray and a baseball bat were all left behind.

    When detectives arrested Yust, they swabbed his hands and took DNA from his fingernails.

    On Monday, investigators collected additional evidence including photographs, a red and black shirt and ammunition for a nine millimeter handgun.

    Yust is notorious to law enforcement.

    In a 2011 Kansas City Police Department report, a former girlfriend told police she suffered abuse at his hands.

    In one instance, she told officers, "Yust held her down and choked her one night until she threw up all over herself."

    She also said Yust told her he had a family who owned pigs that, "would eat anything including bones and had seen people dropped in barrels of acid to destroy evidence."

    Police arrested him for killing one of her kittens and tossing the others in a creek.

    His ex-girlfriend said he made a chilling statement: "I've killed people before even ex-girlfriends out of sheer jealousy. I will kill you."

    Yust is being on a $50,000 cash only bond. His next court hearing is Sept. 29.

    http://www.kshb.com/news/crime/kylr-...-relationships
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    Jessica Runions: Remains identified as missing Missouri woman

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    One of two sets of remains found in western Missouri has been identified as 21-year-old Jessica Runions, who disappeared last September, investigators said Wednesday.

    Runions, of Raymore, Mo., was last seen the night of Sept. 8, when she left a party in south Kansas City with a friend of her boyfriend's, 27-year-old Kylr Yust.

    Yust was later charged with burning Runions' vehicle, which was found two days later. A judge entered a not guilty plea on his behalf. Yust is set to go to trial in October.

    Yust has not been charged in Runions' disappearance, though police are investigating the case as a homicide.

    A mushroom hunter found the remains identified as Runions Monday in an area south of Belton, 20 miles south of Kansas City, and a second skull was found nearby Tuesday. The remains of the second person have not been identified.

    After they were discovered, authorities notified the family of Runions and Kara Kopetsky, a former girlfriend of Yust who was last seen at Belton High School in May 2007 when she was 17.

    Yust also has been questioned in Kopetsky's disappearance. Court records indicated Kopetsky filed for a protection order against Yust in April 2007. A hearing was scheduled for May 10, 2007 but Kopetsky vanished six days before the hearing. Yust has not been charged in that case, either.

    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/04/05...uri-woman.html
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    Ten years later, the wait for answers to Kara Kopetsky’s disappearance doesn’t get easier

    By Laura Bauer
    The Kansas City Star

    On the day Kara Kopetsky’s mother saw her for the last time, it felt like few people paid attention.

    As that day turned to night and her worries mounted, eyes focused on Greensburg, Kan., and the killer tornado that had just ripped through the town.

    For days, that rerouted news crews 300 miles southwest to report on the utter devastation of a small town when they might otherwise have led their coverage with the story of a missing teenager.

    Yet the same day, the brown-haired teenager with hazel eyes and a toothy smile had disappeared.

    On May 4, 2007, Kara Kopetsky walked out of Belton High School before her afternoon classes and didn’t return home or show up for her 4 p.m. shift at a nearby Popeye’s restaurant.

    In the days before her disappearance, Kopetsky had filed for an order of protection against her on-again, off-again boyfriend Kylr Yust, who reportedly had tried to abduct her the month before. On that spring day, the 17-year-old’s family immediately thought she was in danger and wanted help getting the word out.

    “We were trying to get media attention, and there was no one in town,” Rhonda Beckford, Kopetsky’s mother, says now. “Everyone was in Greensburg. We didn’t get any attention that first week.”

    That frustration would be the first in a long procession of frustrations for Kopetsky’s family and friends as they worked and prayed to bring Kara home. Days of yearning for answers eventually turned to weeks and years. Ten years next month.

    Even now, with the most promising hope for answers uncovered this past week, the frustration never truly goes away. Neither does the agony of waiting, which they’ve been forced to do yet again.

    In recent months, Rhonda Beckford and her husband, Jim, have connected with another mother who also has been forced to wait for answers. And they’re convinced Yust is the cause for her pain, as well.

    Seven months ago
    , Jamie Runions’ daughter Jessica disappeared. The 21-year-old Raymore woman was last seen leaving a gathering of friends with Yust, and he’s now charged with burning Jessica Runions’ SUV, which was found two days after she disappeared.

    When the Beckfords heard about Jessica, “we were angry, we were bitter,” Jim Beckford said. “We fell apart because it happened to somebody else.”

    Early on in Kopetsky’s case, her family felt police were slow to recognize that the teen hadn’t run away. Citizens even circulated a petition in late June that year demanding the state step in and take the case away from Belton police.

    Promising leads, from strangers saying they saw a girl who looked like Kopetsky in various parts of the country, eventually fizzled. Over and over again, news would break of bodies and remains being discovered in the area, and the Beckfords would wait for an identity to be released.

    None of them ever their girl.

    “With Kara, she’s been gone 10 years, and people think, ‘Well, after 10 years, your life goes on and you move on,” Jim Beckford told The Star this past week.

    “You can’t move on,” his wife piped in.

    Said Jim: “Whether it’s six months, seven months, or 10 years, it’s like Day 1.”

    Not a ‘runaway’


    Kopetsky walked to school that May day, a sunny Friday where late spring temperatures rose to near 80.

    The teen had called home once she got to school and told her mom she’d forgotten a textbook. Rhonda Beckford soon dropped it off at the front desk, and her daughter picked it up.

    Surveillance video from Belton High School captured Kopetsky walking down the hall at 10:30 a.m. Another video, which police would release a month after she vanished, showed her leaving the school soon after.

    “We knew that Kylr had done something with her,” Beckford says, thinking back to those first hours with no sign of her daughter. “That’s where our suspicion lied from the very beginning. But (police) thought since she was 17 years old, a teenager, she was mad and she would show back up.

    “I never thought my daughter was a runaway.”

    Kopetsky and Yust had a tumultuous relationship.

    On April 24, about 10 days before she vanished, Kopetsky wrote about Yust on her MySpace page.

    “So life hasn’t been the greatest for me lately, over the last 9 months of my life iv dedicated my life to kylr … I made no other time for any of my friends nor my family. Over those 9 months I forgot the person that I was. Im trying to find that person again.”

    It was around that time that Yust had reportedly shown up at Popeye’s after Kopetsky’s shift one night, grabbed her and tossed her into his truck. She was eventually able to jump out and run to safety. That incident led Kopetsky to file for a protection order against Yust.

    She was scheduled in court on May 10, six days after she disappeared.

    Rhonda Beckford went to court that day and spoke for her daughter. The judge granted the protection order.

    Weeks after Kopetsky disappeared, Yust talked to a reporter with The Star about the girl he said wanted to have fun and experience life. He said he kept a picture of her on his cellphone and that she had talked about running away to Mexico the next time she was punished at home.

    “Lately I’ve been kind of depressed about the whole thing,” Yust said then. “I have no idea where she is.”

    ‘Is it Kara?’


    On the second-to-last day of school in 2007, a rumor spread that a body had been found in Louisburg.

    People wondered aloud if it was Kopetsky. Even kids at her younger brother’s school heard it and told him it was his sister’s body. They told Thomas — who was 8 when Kopetsky disappeared — that his sister was dead.

    The next month, in June, a young woman close to Kopetsky’s age also disappeared. Authorities soon discovered that Kelsey Smith, an 18-year-old from Overland Park who had just graduated from high school, had been shoved into her car by a stranger and abducted from a Target parking lot.

    Four days later, authorities discovered a body near Longview Lake, 6 miles from Kopetsky’s home.

    Again, could it be Kara?

    Belton police soon let the Beckfords know it wasn’t their daughter, but Smith.

    In October 2007, another body was found. As Belton gathered that Friday evening for Homecoming — with a parade float earlier that day dedicated to finding Kopetsky, who would be in her senior year — the whispers started again.

    “Is it Kara?”

    This time, a crew surveying for the Missouri Department of Transportation had found the decomposed body in thick underbrush near Route Y and U.S. 71, less than 2 miles from Belton High School where Kopetsky was last seen.

    It wasn’t until the next day that Rhonda and Jim Beckford, as they sat at home with their daughter’s youth pastor, got the call. Authorities hadn’t identified the body yet, but because of dental records, they knew it wasn’t their girl.

    A Star article about that day said the Beckfords held each other after the call, and their bodies heaved as they cried.

    Back then, Jim Beckford described it as a “sweet and sour moment” for the family. They felt relief for themselves but pain for the family who would eventually learn the body of their loved one had been found.

    “People talk about closure and stuff, but we don’t want that kind of closure,” he said then. “Faith and hope have gotten us through five months. We’re happy to hear it’s not her, and it keeps hope alive.”

    Hopes dashed


    The waiting — the hardest part, Rhonda Beckford says — never got easier. But they expect it now.

    They also know Kara isn’t coming back alive. They’ve faced that realization over the years.

    “Kara has come to me several times in dreams,” her mother says. “And I know she’s on the other side waiting for all of us to be with her.”

    Now when remains are found, they hope they’ll finally be able to put their daughter to rest.

    Kopetsky’s mother, though, has learned not to get her hopes up. Too often she’s been disappointed.

    “That’s an emotional roller coaster,” she says.

    But this time, almost a full 10 years after her daughter disappeared, was different. She couldn’t help but be hopeful.

    This time, on Tuesday as she sat on her couch with Jamie Runions, Rhonda Beckford heard Lt. Brad Swanson’s voice on a cellphone speaker. The Belton police commander talked about a gut feeling.

    Swanson, who had investigated her daughter’s 2007 disappearance longer than anyone, was hopeful himself. Maybe, he said, they’d all finally get the resolution they’d waited a decade to get.

    “They told us that we may have answers,” Beckford said, her voice starting to break that afternoon, as she headed to the police station.

    The day before, a mushroom hunter had stumbled upon human bones in rural Cass County by a quarry near 233rd and Y Highway. Swanson called her family that Monday evening and told them about the discovery. The family of Jessica Runions, last seen Sept. 8, also got the news.

    And now, less than 24 hours later, authorities had found a second skull.

    It was easy to get her hopes up now.

    Yet an hour or so later, Beckford stood before reporters, gripping the hand of Jamie Runions. All emotion drained from her face. Kopetsky’s mother had felt this kind of frustration, letdown before.

    “It’s still just skeletal remains,” Beckford said. No identification yet. No answers. More waiting.

    What she didn’t know then was how true those words would ring in the next day or two. By Wednesday evening, she was talking to Swanson again. One set of remains had been identified.

    But they weren’t Kara’s. They were Jessica’s.

    Beckford listened as police explained that the second skull needed to be tested for mitochondrial DNA. She heard words like “lab backlog.” And “up to a year.”

    “Those words pass through your head,” Beckford said later. “I was like, ‘I don’t know if I can wait another year.’ ”

    A couple days later, she had thought it through and felt more hopeful. She feels that an answer could come a lot sooner.

    Maybe even before next month’s 10th anniversary of her daughter’s disappearance.

    Deep down, she says, she feels that Kara and Jessica were there in that Cass County field together. All she needs now is the confirmation.

    “I’m at the position now where I kind of have to take it one day at a time,” Beckford says. “And believe and think that, OK, every day I got to get up and it’s, like, OK maybe today’s the day that that car is going to pull up out front, and I’m going to get the answers that Jamie Runions got — that they have positively identified your daughter.

    “It’s the day I’ve been waiting for for 10 years. But it’s close. I can feel it, it’s close. You know, we’re a lot closer now than we were May 4, 2007.”

    http://www.kansascity.com/news/local...143471034.html


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    Identification of skeletal remains could come much sooner than expected

    A second set of bones was found with Jessica Runions' remains in Cass Co.

    By Bill Grady
    KMBZ News

    Investigators say a preliminary timeline for a high-profile Kansas City criminal case has changed.

    Shortly after a mushroom hunter found skeletal remains in a rural, wooded area in Cass County, oficials said it could be up to a year before the older skeleton would be identified.

    Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters-Baker has since told KMBZ the identification process could actually take two months.

    Jessica Runions' remains were found in the same field. Runions, who was 21, had been missing about six months. Many believe the second set could belong to Kara Kopetsky, 17, who was last seen leaving Belton High School in 2007.

    Runions and Kopetsky were linked by their relationships with Kylr Yust, who is jailed in Jackson County, awaiting trial for allegedly setting fire to Runions' abandoned SUV on a remote road.

    Peters-Baker declined to reveal to KMBZ whether there were any new developments in either case. Nothing would be released until after Jessica Runions' memorial service, which is scheduled to take place on Saturday.

    http://www.kmbz.com/articles/identif...ooner-expected
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    Second set of Cass County remains positively identified as Kara Kopetsky

    Those remains had been sent to the FBI for identification

    By KMBC 9 News Staff

    BELTON, Mo. — Family members of Kara Kopetsky say the second set of remains found earlier this year in a Cass County field have been positively identified as the missing Belton teen.

    The Belton Police Department has confirmed remains sent to the FBI to be identified were those of Kara Kopetsky.

    Police say this is an ongoing investigation.

    Authorities identified the first set of remains as belonging to Jessica Runions back in April.

    At that time, Kara's mother, Rhonda Beckford, told reporters she knew the second set found belonged to her daughter.

    "In my heart of hearts I believe it's Kara," said Beckford.

    A mushroom hunter first stumbled upon bones he believed to be human in early April.

    "I was just looking to see if I could find any mushrooms growing along the fence line," said the man who only wanted to be identified as Keith.

    "I was not scared, I was a bit more shocked than anything. I knew it was a big thing."

    Keith said his thoughts immediately went to Kara Kopetsky.

    Authorities closed the area and searched for several days, eventually uncovering a second set of remains - a partial skull.

    The first set of remains was identified as missing woman Jessica Runions days later.

    Her death is being investigated as a homicide.

    Authorities said that second set would be more difficult to identify because it was only a partial skull. The skull was sent to the FBI labs in Quantico for specialized DNA identification.

    Kara was just 17-years-old when she disappeared back in May of 2007.

    Days before her disappearance, Kopetsky filed a restraining order against her on-again-off-again boyfriend - a man named Kylr Yust.

    Yust remains behind bars charged with burning the vehicle belonging to Jessica Runions.

    Witnesses said the last time Runions was seen was leaving a party with Yust.

    We reached out to the Jackson County Prosecutor's Office - as of Wednesday night, no additional charges had been filed against Yust.

    http://www.kmbc.com/article/family-s...etsky/12022086
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