The Case of Kylr Yust

[Music] hey you and welcome my name is mike and in this whole video we are traveling as we always do virtually uh to a place called misery i think some people call it missouri though there's a guy at the center of this story and his name is kieller kealer just i mean i know it's kyler yust but spelling and this makes he makes me dislike him already but uh there will be no shortage on that in this one so i guess i should cut him some slack kyler was the if i can't then no one can kind of guy he didn't want other people to have nice things or nice people and funnily enough it'll end up that way for kyler so let's uh give it a go [Music] it is the mighty year of 2007 that we're heading off to location belton in belton like in many places there was and probably still is a popeyes but at this particular one in 2007 17 year old karakopetsky worked there caro was the daughter of mike and ronda she had a half brother eight-year-old thomas and was described as a firecracker which is a great way to describe someone she was pretty cool smoked cigarettes cook class much like myself pop's coffee but she was generally described as you know just a lovely fun person however she knew someone who was just yeah none of those things cara broke up with kyler yust one year older than her in april 2007 after being together on again off again for roughly nine months cara had enough and i mean i don't blame her kyler used he was um he was a lot of things he played in a death metal band called seraphim unfortunately i don't have any clips to show you fortunately for you because they're i just saw they're pretty good at taking you know the late naughties uh banned photos though and kyler wasn't best pleased about being dumped by kara kopetsky as cara was leaving her job at popeyes on the evening of the 28th of april 2007 kyler forced her into his car he then drove around town with a big old knife in his hand saying he was gonna slit her mother effing trout sorry about the language until after a while he finally calmed down and let her out of the car cara then understandably went to the police to report this nut job she went straight away that saturday and two days later on the 30th cara and her mother rhonda as karahina was under age filed for an order of protection against kyler charles yust he you know couldn't have any contact with her at all how well do you think that went it was four days later the fourth of may the cara was seen on security cameras at belton high school now she was seen leaving the school and that was odd because this was shortly after 9 00 am that morning and after that she disappeared [Music] she never showed up for her job of popeyes that evening nor home and her mother reported her missing after 5 p.m on may the 4th now at the time it was like did she run away was she just with friends friends maybe that her family didn't know of but friends that her friends obviously didn't know of nobody knew you know she had a paycheck she should have picked up on the 9th of may no dice so what did investigators do after that well you can guess you can even bet that they sure as [ __ ] wanted to talk with kyler eust what'd he say okay sure he had broken the order of protection on the third of may he spoke with her he saw her that afternoon and then spoke with her on the phone that evening teenagers he would later say that when he spoke with her the day before they had argued and that she told him she had a friend coming to town a friend she was planning on hanging with he didn't see her however the following day which was the fourth of may the day she disappeared he said that you know that day at around 11 a.m uh she tried calling him he missed it and when he tried to call back he got no no answer now this was untrue or at least like to an extent because when the police checked the the phone records the times were wrong the calls kyler claims you know happened at 11 actually happened two hours earlier shortly after nine am the same time this happened the cops have said you've been very cooperative i have been because i don't have anything i don't know anything about where she is or about what happened i wish i did you threatened to slit or throw no didn't what happened that didn't happen that night that was before he said that i wasn't that i was a suspect because of prior because of prior happenings not because of anything that would point to me having anything to do with her just paying now the search continued on the 1st of june the police searched her locker at high school which seems uh maybe they should have searched out a bit earlier there they found her debit card but no activity on her bank account regardless and so it stayed for a few years which is kind of amazing because over the next four years three separate people would contact the police telling the police that kyler confessed to them that he killed cara [ __ ] three times incredible and he would do what i get out here i'm getting a bit ahead of myself better slow my roll in april 2010 so three years later a band made of kylers another rock star from seraphim contacted the police and told them that a year earlier in 2009 kyler told him he killed cara that fella nick yates was his name he said that you know he was crashing with kyler for a bit and well one night they stayed up drinking and kyler just told him that um he killed cara because she wouldn't love him anymore he strangled her because he didn't want anyone else to have her and this wasn't the only person kyler told us too about nine months later another person contacted the police this is in january 2011 saying that kyler uh knew exactly what happened to cara because he did it this was a woman named caitlin farris and she was dating kyler at the time he told her a little bit more than he told his bandmate nick yates he told caitlyn he watched her last breath and how he put her body in the woods the fbi then got in on this and wired up caitlyn now this part is weird a hidden camera was placed in caitlyn's car and an audio recorder also hoping to catch kyler's confession so this day early 2011 kaitlyn and kyler drove around kansas city and then drove where kyler said karakopetsky's body was the gobshite they even brought a homemade ouija board oh my god i just like felt her hand on my shoulder and i heard like she didn't say anything it was just like her voice like she's just like like ah just like or something like she just said like just made the moments it was her voice i promise i will come back and see you because i killed him from his spirit just run the voice this really turns you on that i killed a girl it doesn't really turn me off yeah well you're saying all that [ __ ] just because you're trying to get me to confess no yeah no he really uh really thinks that he is uh hot [ __ ] for reports of a confession and a witness who says he was ignored by belton police serious missteps on this investigation i just don't know what belton thinks that they're doing it would be six months later that another witness would contact the police and this would actually lead to kyler's arrests just not for um you know these police reports led to today's guilty plea for choking and striking a new girlfriend in them the victim's mother told police used drew a pentagram on the girlfriend's forehead and warned her he'd seen bodies hidden in barrels of acid or where pigs would devour the dead in august 2011 candice matthews had been dating kyler she had been in an on-again-off-again relationship with him she was pregnant and she told the police kyler had tried to kill her by strangling her to death exactly like previous witnesses said he did to cara not just once by the way she said he was insanely jealous and boasted of murdering previous girlfriends and that he would do the same to her he also murdered her kittens in front of her by drowning and smashing he should be drowned and smashed kyler was arrested and pled guilty and none of this was lost on the family of cara or the community you played guilty can you tell us what happened in the karkapetsky case i know there was a case the judge specifically said don't kill any more cats the allegation was that you killed cats is that true you know there would actually be a total of seven different people who told the police that kyler told them confessed that he strangled karakopetsky to death wonder how they cracked this case in november 2011 kyler was arrested yet again this time for stealing to two supplies from eight to two parlor where kyler had apprenticed the previous charges the assault animal abuse and theft wouldn't really go anywhere because let me tell you in february 2012 kyler was arrested for drugs trafficking and for that he was sentenced to four years the search for cara continued i mean if we can have her back alive i mean i would consider that to be a miracle kyler would be questioned in prison well questioned but uh wouldn't answer kyler was released from prison in february 2016. and then another woman would go missing on the 8th of september 2016 a party was held in grandview missouri once again really just on the outskirts of kansas city near belton at that party was 21 year old jessica runions also at this party was kyler yust kyler was a childhood friend of jessica's fella and jessica and kyler were last seen leaving the party together that night the next day the 9th of september jessica was supposed to meet her mother for a doctor's appointment and she never showed a missing person report was then filed and the police investigation began and they determined that jessica and kyler were seen leaving together at about 11 p.m in jessica's car which was a black 2012 chevy equinox and neither them nor the car were seen again not only that people who were there witnesses you know said that at the party kyler was down a booze left and right he was getting pissed and he was also getting pissed off at basically everybody at the park he was acting like super aggressive and [ __ ] also super possessive towards jessica who had a fella on september 10th so the early morning after she was reported missing at 1 40 am there was a fire and the kansas city fire department were on the scene it was jessica's black chevy equinox burnt to shite that same day hours after jessica's burning car was found someone else contacted the police this guy was named jessup carter he was kyler's half-brother and once again we have another witness to kyler he told the police he was there when he saw kyle set fire to jessica's car and he also told the police that kylo had told him he had strangled jessica and dumped her body in the woods he said that during the car setting on fire business kyler dumb dildo had burned himself so jessup took him to his place to heal and that's when jessup contacted the police the next day the police rocked up to jessup's mobile home and took kyler in for knowingly burning jessica's car he was arrested but but there was still no sign of jessica and kyler was not talking kyla where's jessica i have no idea sir what happened to your face did you get burned what happened to your face did you kill jessica did you got him he wasn't so busy you know killing people stand-up career for you my friend justin talk to you kind of just think about tyler why you did in fact call the police and tell them where he was but a lot of people in kansas city are at least having kind of crediting you for getting him caught right or the allegations of what he faces uh do you have anything to say to those folks to the family of cara or jessica uh we just want cara and jessica we want those families to have some justice served and he's found to be guilty you know we just want we want them to be i just want them to feel better and that he's finally been away it was just a matter of time before i mean because kyler isn't going to change jessica runions has been missing for six months it was seven months later in april 2017 that a mushroom hunter out on the fields of rural cass county missouri found remains he contacted the police and the very next day a second set of remains were found older than the first they were identified as jessica runions and kara kopetsky they had been dumped right next to each other breaking news at six o'clock law enforcement sources confirming to 41 action news human remains found in cass county belong to missing woman kara kopetsky kopetsky was last seen back in 2007. two sets of human remains were discovered in a cass county field back in april one set already identified as another missing woman jessica runions two families that have been waiting for years for some sort of resolution some answers behind bars the man linked to two women who disappeared nearly a decade apart now charged with both of their murders kyler yust was charged with two counts of murder on october 5th 2017. you know he'd only been like happily yapping away at it you know for for more than a decade who could have known cases like this sometimes you wait because you hope that time is your friend and that that case might get better if you're too quick on the trigger and you file charges and you can't make that and that person gets acquitted what good have you done according to court documents over the years since cara went missing in 2007 yust confessed to at least six people that he had choked cara to death and dumped her body in the woods those people told police so that raises the question why didn't police charge used with murder sooner that's a judgment it's always going to come down to is that person that's saying they heard this is that person credible [Music] now jessup carter who was you know the witness to kyler setting jessica's car on fire and also allegedly kyler told him he killed jessica runions he would be you know an important witness obviously as you can imagine in the upcoming trial for kyler upcoming would never come for jessop jessup was in jail on charges of fleeing a traffic stop a traffic stop by the way from the day before kylo was arrested so on the 10th of september what happened was that the morning after kyler set the car on fire something jesus witnessed basically uh jessup and kyler were driving around jess was driving erratically he was pulled over and have just legged it from the scene this was before you know jessica called the police saying what he had seen kyler do so kylo was in the car just there and uh apparently kyler pissed his pants off the side of a cop again probably because he had just set fire to her car and killed jessica runyon something he would be arrested for the next day i feel like this is important for you to know that he pissed his pants anyways jess was in jail because in the summer of 2018 yeah he also said uh said a big old house on fire yeah it's pretty pretty serious it's a big one as you can see from these images jessup had a um a change in diet [Music] and on the 19th of september 2018 jessup was found dead in his cell it's understood that he took his own life this was quite a blow to the prosecution you know i was mounting up for the trial and there would be a number of delays kylo's attorney tried to get him ruled incompetent to stand trial he was ultimately ruled competent you know and these were findings the defense objected to and in april 2021 the trial began the defense alleged that jessop character not kyler was actually the one responsible for both kara kopetsky's death and jessica runyon's death as he had a few errors unaccounted for at the time jessica went missing now of course you know jessa being dead makes this a hell of a lot easier the defense actually tried to point the finger at a few people jessup also left a coded note in his cell when he died um something new defense wanted to bring in his evidence you know hoping that it would magically say he had killed jessica and cara the judge wouldn't allow it because it was coded there was like apparently there was like 11 different meanings for what it said they also took aim what they called a mismanaged investigation and that no actual physical evidence pointed to kyler as the culprit none of them are supported by physical evidence there's not one hair one drop of blood or one fingerprint in this case connecting kyler to either of these homicides during the trial nearly all the witnesses came forward telling of kyler's various confessions these were all well used by the prosecution as was the secret recording made a decade previous after he killed jessica he went back to this spot his spot you stumped jessica's body in the same woods that he said he threw cara all those years before and kyler's jealousy possessiveness if i can't have you then nobody can type head kyler used himself also took the sand so you want the jury to believe that as you sit here right now as you sit here right now that the boy that the man that is dead is the one that's responsible for this kyler i think that's why he killed himself it's really convenient isn't it that he killed himself i don't think anything about the situation is convenient well it's convenient for you because you get to sit up here and say my brother did it and your brother's not here to speak for himself right i think he killed himself because i said i wasn't guilty sure and when you found out actually that if that uh jessup had killed himself your response was i don't [ __ ] care right i did not say those exact words but i think i did say that he deserved a lot worse than to be able to take the easy way out sure um and you know what's interesting about this too is not only is this the first time that we're hearing about jessup um quote unquote being with you on 5 4 2007 but you were interviewed so many times over the years weren't you i was and you wait until this very moment to tell your version of the truth no i told miss hastings years ago i understand that and you know what's interesting about it in fact that's why she's doing my case for free now because she believes in my defense how thoughtful of her this has been so hard for you hasn't it kyler it has been you were the target of this investigation for quite frankly almost 14 years right yes people were putting signs outside of your apartment complex saying we know what you did right yes and testified about how you were acting on the night that you were pulled over you remember his testimony i do ma'am and you have peed yourself that wasn't me making that up kyler you reiterated it several times with several different witnesses the jury remembers well they should because you feed your pants because you were scared about getting pulled over you didn't get burned until you went in literally jessica's car and gasoline and that gasoline flashed in your face right no and that gasoline flashed in your face and it burned your face it burned your hair and it burned your hands didn't it the burn barrel yes right and you actually tell the jury that it hurt it did hurt you know what else would hurt to have the life strangled out of you right i believe that is true were you asking for some kind of empathy because you burned yourself when you were torturing jessica's car no so you would rather sit in jail and be charged with two counts of murder in the first degree than to tell law enforcement that your brother allegedly was the one that did this i knew that i was getting blamed and i knew that i'd have my chance to speak my piece right here on the stand and that's what i do you wait until a criminal trial until a jury is literally sitting here deciding your fate to tell your truth i mean this is the only chance i have right when it went to the jury they deliberated on it for about two days before returning their verdict they found kyler used guilty of voluntary manslaughter in the death of karakopetsky and guilty of second-degree murder in the death of jessica runions on the 16th of april 2021 the jury recommended a sentence of life in prison on the murder conviction and a sentence of 15 years for the manslaughter charge he should be eligible for parole uh juror number one is this your verdict jury number two is this your verdict uh juror number three is this your verdict jury number four is this your verdict uh jury number five is this your verdict your number six is this your verdict jury number seven is this your verdict juror number eight is this your verdict juror number nine is this your verdict juror number ten is this your verdict and we're just thankful we're thankful to be where we are today because there were days where we didn't know if our girls would ever be found and we're just so thankful that they were founded and we have them back now and after almost a decade and a half the case of color used comes to a close now the actual sentencing won't be until june but i mean i'd say it's very like very likely that the judge will take the jury's recommendation from the menu so that's that all about uh color use and what uh what a busy busy little bee he's been uh quite as i like to say real piece of [ __ ] i mean his name he sounds like a star wars character and not a very good one it makes sense though because his head is certainly in another galaxy [Music] thank you so much for watching i really appreciate it and i appreciate you here go on um shall see as always real soon in the next video and until then please look after yourself thanks again mike out [Music]

Channel: That Chapter

Views: 1,767,431

Keywords: that chapter, kylr yust, kara kopetsky, jessica runions

Id: zDd1gH_u8dE

Length: 25min 36sec (1536 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 27 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/wagswag]

"i love this woman". Great job Mike.

[u/middleclassslut22]

I live in KC and have followed this case for years. I am the same age of Kara. I can say as a city we cried for joy when that bastard finally got what he deserved.

[u/Astrotheater]

This dude was absolutely sick. Nice guy that couldn’t handle rejection. Great video as always, Mike

[u/ParsleyPalace]

With all the cats and stuff, this monster was a serial killer in the making. He would not have stopped had he not been stopped.

[u/Temptat10n]

So excited to see an update! Watching now!