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| Above, Kara Kopetsky, missing since 2007. |
The jury verdicts against Kylr Yust has been handed down and Yust has been found guilty in the murders of Kara Kopetsky and Jessica Runions.
According to Fox4KC:
HARRISONVILLE, Mo. — A jury has found Kylr Yust guilty of voluntary manslaughter in the death of Kara Kopetsky and second-degree murder in the death of Jessica Runions on Thursday.
After deliberating for hours and asking to review several pieces of evidence, the jury came back with the decision Thursday evening.
Seventeen-year-old Kopetsky disappeared after leaving Belton High School in 2007. Yust was suspected but not initially charged.
Then 21-year-old Runions disappeared in 2016, last seen leaving a house party. Runions’ car was found burned the next day. Yust was arrested and charged with burning the car, but that charge was dropped when murder charges were filed.
After years of searching for Kopetsky and months of searching for Runions, the women’s remains were discovered in spring 2017 in rural Cass County.
Above, Jessica Runions.
Voluntary manslaughter and second degree murder?! This, to me, is almost tantamount to a slap on the wrist. Yust can be paroled in a few years to victimize the community again.
To read more, go here.
UPDATE (04/17/21):
The jury recommended a life sentence for Yust.
