and last updated 2021-02-18 14:32:51-05
CASS COUNTY, Mo. â New court filings provide a glimpse of how the felony murder trial involving Kylr Yust could unfold in a Cass County courtroom.
Yust is scheduled to go on trial April 5. He is charged with two counts of murder in the first degree and two counts of abandonment of a corpse in the deaths of Kara Kopetsky and Jessica Runions.
Kopetsky, 17, of Belton, was last seen walking out of Belton High School in 2007. Yust was a former boyfriend of Kopetskyâs. She had filed a restraining order against him days prior.
Runions, 21, of Raymore, disappeared in 2016. Witnesses told police they saw her leaving a party in Kansas City, Missouri, with Yust. Her burned-out SUV was found several days later.