2021/04/17 05:11 HARRISONVILLE, Mo. (AP) A jury recommended on Friday that a Kansas City man receive the maximum sentence for killing two women nearly a decade apart and leaving their bodies in the same field. The Cass County jury recommended that Kylr Yust, 32, serve life in prison for second-degree murder in the death of Jessica Runions, 21, of Raymore, and 15 years in prison for voluntary manslaughter in the killing of 17-year-old Kara Kopetsky, of Belton. Yust was charged with first-degree murder, but the Cass County jury convicted him of lesser charges on Thursday. Formal sentencing was scheduled for June 7. The two women were both seen with Yust before they disappeared. Runions left a party with him before she went missing in September 2016. Kopetsky had taken out a protection order against Yust a month before she was last seen leaving Belton High School in April 2007.
HARRISONVILLE, Mo. (AP) A Kansas City man has been found guilty of killing two women a decade apart and burying their bodies near each other in a field in western Missouri.Kylr Yust was co
Kylr Yust and his attorney Molly Hastings, left, listen to the opening statement of defense attorney Sharon Turlington, Monday, April 5, 2021 in Harrisonville, Mo. Prosecutors began to make their case that the man killed two Kansas City-area women nearly a decade apart. Selection of a jury for the trial of Kylr Yust was completed Wednesday in St. Charles County. (Jill Toyoshiba/The Kansas City Star via AP, Pool) Thursday, April 15, 2021 9:42 PM EST By The Associated Press, AP
HARRISONVILLE, Mo. (AP) A Kansas City man has been found guilty of killing two women a decade apart and burying their bodies near each other in a field in western Missouri.