Yust was questioned in 2007 after his ex-girlfriend, then-17-year-old Kara Kopetsky also disappeared.
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The last time family and friends saw Runions, she was at a party with her boyfriend – and Yust was there too.
Yust was never arrested or charged in connection to Kopetsky’s disappearance. It alleged that Yust kidnapped and restrained her, choked her and threatened to cut her throat during their nine-month relationship.
Police and court records show the 18-year-old woman in the 2011 incident won a protection order against Kylr Yust who was accused of drunkenly choking her. That April 30, 2007, filing alleged Yust kidnapped and restrained the teenager, choked her and threatened to cut her throat during their nine-month relationship.
Runions’ mother, Jamie, said she is doing all she can to get the word out about her daughter on social media and plans to put up posters across the Kansas City area.
Kylr Yust, 27, was arrested on a KCPD warrant for burning the vehicle, which was found abandoned by a road in southern Kansas City on Saturday.
Authorities say a man has been taken into custody on charges that he burned the vehicle of a suburban Kansas City woman who hasn’t been seen since Thursday. Police said they are treating her disappearance as a suspicious missing-person case, and he remained jailed Tuesday in Benton County on a $50,000 cash-only bond. Police said it was unclear whether he had an attorney who could speak on his behalf.
“I’m unsure what he will do next, because the abuse has gotten worse over time”, the application for the court intervention read, alleging Yust stalked Kopetsky and inflicted emotional and physical abuse. He pleaded guilty and served 120 days in jail.
Kopetsky was never found, and Yust never faced charges. He is also the same man who dated Kara Kopetsky before she vanished in 2007.
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Kopetsky was last seen near her school at Belton High, leaving behind her debit card which hasn’t “been touch since her disappearance”. Kopetsky filed a restraining order against Yust shortly before she went missing. She remembered him as manipulative and abusive. On Sept. 2, he was ordered to spend a weekend in confinement for an unspecified probation violation.
