BREAKING: A judge will allow a camera to record the murder trial of Kylr Yust. The camera will remain at the rear of the courtroom. No livestreaming. #yusttrial

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A jury of 13 women and three men is now in transit from St. Charles County. The jury has four alternates. Opening statements will begin this afternoon. The trial is scheduled to last three weeks.

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Now -- defense and prosecution are disputing information regarding witnesses. Specifically, regarding another man who allegedly confessed to killing Kara Kopetsky. Judge says he will hold a hearing during the trial on the witness. @kmbc #yusttrial
In addition to a broadcast camera to record the trial, Judge William Collins ruled a still camera can also take pictures inside the courtroom. @kmbc #yusttrial
Another note before the trial begins. Judge William Collins restricted access to case documents on Missouri Case Net before trial. But, once the jury is sequestered and given instructions Collins said he will allow access to case documents again. #yusttrial @kmbc
Now, arguments regarding testimony/evidence over Kylr Yust's half brother Jessep Carter. Carter was a key witness in the case, due to his alleged involvement in the death of Jessica Runions. Carter committed suicide in jail in 2018. @kmbc #yusttrial

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Prosecutors say they have 174 exhibits for trial. Opening statements are scheduled for 1:30-2:00. Done by 4. Judge says one alternate juror is not coming. Now, only 15 jurors. Judge Collins says it is a HIPAA situation he cannot tell prosecutors/defense why. @kmbc #yusttrial
Now one of Kylr Yust's defense attorneys is making a formal objection to having the families of Kara Kopetsky and Jessica Runions inside the courtroom -- just one row away from the jury. "We are already up to 30 people without family being in the courtroom." @kmbc #yusttrial
Judge: Deputy sheriffs will be in rows with family. "I have instructed that any sound. I don't even care if it's a grunt, they're out," Collins said.

On verdict day, jury will be seated in jury box for less than 15 mins, so they will not be in the audience. #yusttrial @kmbc
Court is now in recess until 1:30 when opening statements begin before the jury. @kmbc #yusttrial
Just got out of courtroom. Fascinating opening statements in the #yusttrial.

Prosecutors spoke for 5 minutes.
Defense 31.

Prosecutor Ben Butler used strong, emotional, bold language.

Defense Attorney Sharon Turlington tried to plant doubt abt investigation.

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Kopetsky and Runions family sat next to each other, behind jury, also directly behind Yust. @kmbc #yusttrial
Defense tried to plant doubt about witnesses and investigators - and seemed to pin blame for murders on Yust’s half brother Jessep Carter, who died by suicide in jail in 2018. Curious to see how Carter’s involvement plays during trial. @kmbc #yusttrial

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Dramatic moment at the end of prosecution's opening statement in the Kylr Yust trial. Prosecutor Ben Butler says "Yust also said that his neck tattoo, symbolizes his hands around Kara's throat." Yust slightly raised his hands, then talked to defense attorney #yusttrial @kmbc
Powerful courtroom moment. The families of Jessica Runions and Kara Kopetsky all sat in the same row. About 11 minutes before the trial began, as they waited for the judge, Jamie Runions, Jim Beckford and Rhonda Beckford all put their arms around each other. @kmbc #yusttrial
Yust never looked at the families of Kara Kopetsky and Jessica Runions on day one -- from what I saw. If he looks at them during trial he will have to look directly through three rows of jurors sitting socially distanced in rows in observation gallery. #yusttrial @kmbc
Jurors seemed a bit tired after traveling all morning from St. Charles. The judge gave them instructions not to read or do research about the case. They will remain sequestered in Cass County until the case is over. #yusttrial @kmbc
COMING UP TUESDAY: We will begin to hear from witnesses in the case. There are going to be a LOT of witnesses taking the stand over the next few weeks. The trial will happen on Saturdays, too. It is scheduled for three weeks. @kmbc will cover it all. #yusttrial
YUST TRIAL DAY 2: Kara Kopetsky's mother Rhonda Beckford on the stand. She is testifying about abuse by Kylr Yust before Kara disappeared. She went to sheriff's office to file a restraining order against Yust. Said Kopetsky had a cigarette burn on her. @kmbc #yusttrial
Beckford read from the restraining order looking at her daughters handwriting.

“I am not sure he will do next because the abuse has gotten worse over time,” she said as she read from the restraining order.

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"After all the pain and suffering, I am through," Beckford reads a poem written by her daughter about Yust.

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Beckford now testifying about the day Kara went missing.

She dropped Kara off at school. Took her a textbook, and her work uniform at school that day.

She went to work, got home, her husband told her Kara wasn't home.

Started calling, but no answer. #yusttrial @kmbc
Beckford: "A nightmare, when you don’t know where your teenage daughter is, and you don’t know what has happened to them. It’s a nightmare."

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Beckford said on May 4, Yust called. Her husband talked to him. Her husband asked her, "What did you do to Kara?"

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Beckford: “As the mother of a missing child, what we always said was. You get up every day that’s the day you get answers about your missing child. Days turned into weeks, weeks turned into months, months turned into years.”

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Beckford said she tried to get Kopetsky to stop dating or contacting Yust. Beckford said as she was driving Kara to get a restraining order, Yust was texting Kara.

Beckford said, "You need to not respond to him."

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Beckford's testimony is done as of 9:27 a.m. State now calls Sgt. Bruegge with Belton Police.

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Sgt. Mary Bruegge with Belton Police now testifying. Talking about responding to a kidnapping on April 28, 2007. Kara said she was working at Popeyes, planned to hang w/friends, at sometime during her shift, her ex-boyfriend, Yust came to her work... cont.

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Bruegge: He had given Kara a gift, flowers and a card, he had communicated with her back and forth via text. He asked to spend time with her after work.

When she got off work, she was waiting outside for her ride, and he asked her to hang out, she said no.

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Bruegge: He grabbed her, and put her in the truck she was driving, and locked the door and drove her from Popeyes to Grandview. At that time he drove her back and dropped her off at Dominoes, where she met Kara.

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NOTE: It is hard to hear Yust's defense attorney Matt Vigil's questions. His microphone is cutting in/out. @kmbc #yusttrial
Here are Kopetsky’s mother Rhonda Beckford and Belton Sgt. Mary Bruegge on the stand this morning. @kmbc #yusttrial ImageImage
Court is in recess for about 10 minutes.

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Court now back in session. On the stand now -- Jeff Jackson. Went to Belton High School with Kara Kopetsky. Said he used to skip classes with her. Had a good friendship with her. Jackson also knew Yust through high school.

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"There toward the end, right before she went missing," Jackson said he talked to Kara a lot about her relationship with Yust. Said he saw arguments between Yust and Kopetsky at Belton High School.

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"There was few times she showed me bruises on her arms and explained he was abusive and doesn’t know what to do," Jackson said re: his talks with Kara.

Jackson: Kara said Yust had dreams of cutting her throat and slitting her wrists.

Objection by defense.

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"She was telling me that she was really scared, that he's telling. He's held a knife to her, and he's wanting to do this, and wanting...he was saying stuff that he was wanting to hurt her, and I think she was having trouble communicating with me," Jackson said.

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Cross/ex: Molly Hastings, Yust's defense attorney.

May 4, 2007, Jackson said he saw Kopetsky walk out of the school.

"I feel like I remember seeing him waiting there," he said.

But, he cannot fully remember.

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Yust's defense attorney Molly Hastings now grilling Jackson, bringing up conflicting testimony from deposition to testimony today.

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Jackson said his memory has gotten better since his deposition after he has had more time to think.

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Hastings was grilling Jackson over whether he actually saw Yust on the day Kopetsky went missing.

"There is definitely some fragmented issues with my memory. He says as of today, maybe I might be a little more articulate and clear."

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Hastings taking Jackson to task saying he never said in depo. if he saw Yust @ school on May 4, 2007.

"I do not have the greatest memory," Jackson said. "I am a cannabis user with short term memory issues."

Some groans in overflow room with families.

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Hastings: "Thank you your honor, that's all the questions."

Jackson: "Cool."

Audience in overflow room laughs.

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After redirect, Hastings talking to Jackson again.
"The entire community seeking a conviction was not present," at deposition Hastings said. "That's the real difference today."
Jackson: "There is no difference. I am saying exactly everything I know best."
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Belton Police Detective Pat McKarnin now on the stand. McKarnin was the school resource officer at Belton High School during the disappearance of Kopetsky.

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Belton Police Detective Pat McKarnin now talking about school surveillance footage to look for Kara Kopetsky inside Belton High School on May 4, 2007. He created a DVD of the last known sighting of Kopetsky leaving school at 9:21 a.m. after second period.

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Prosecution clarifies with McKarnin to say it was actually 9:19 a.m.

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McKarnin also talked with witnesses who had contact with Kara. He said he also looked at school attendance records.

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McKarnin now talking about Kara's attendance record on 5/4/2007. She was tardy on 1st hour class. Class started at 7:35 a.m. McKarnin says her attendance record shows she was absent for the remainder of the day.

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Cross ex/ Yust's defense lawyer Molly Hastings now questioning McKarnin.

Asks if anyone came forward about Yust and Kopetsky. Says he had no reports about abuse or trouble.

McKarnin says no footage from outside school of who picked up Kara Kopetsky.

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Kyle Reynolds, Yust's friend from high school, now testifying.

They played in a death metal band, Seraphim, together.

Reynolds played bass. Yust lead singer.

"Was it singing or mostly screaming?" asks prosecutor Julie Tolle.

Reynolds: "You know the deal."

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Reynolds said he got a call at 10:25 a.m. from Kopetsky on May 4, 2007, asking to hang out with Kopetsky and Yust. He said he did not want to hang out because he had a job interview at Popeyes, the same place Kara worked. He said he went to buy pot after intvw.

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Reynolds saw Yust come to Reynolds dad's house between 1:00-2:30 p.m on 5/4. Yust smoked a cigarette and started pacing. "What's his deal, is he agitated or something?" Reynolds said.
He demonstrates to courtroom walking back and forth showing Yust's demeanor.

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Reynolds said later that night he talked to police.

Yust called him. Yust said, "Why are you talking to the cops?"

He said it caused a fracture in the relationship.

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Reynolds said he told a detective he talked to Kara on May 4, 2007, but he left out the part he went to go buy weed.
Said he got arrested for leaving out that part of story.
Said cops came to put him in jail, resisting, hindering and interfering with an officer.
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Ever seen Kara Kopetsky again after 5/4/2007?

Reynolds: "No."

The day Kopetsky went missing....

"You do know the defendant came over agitated, that it stuck in your mind," said prosecutor Julie Tolle.

Reynolds: "Yes."

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This is Kyle Reynolds, Kylr Yust's friend, on the stand.

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Hastings is now trying to poke holes in Reynolds story.

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Hastings about police questions to Reynolds...

Hastings: "You didn't tell him about pacing around?"

Reynolds: "Didn't think it was relevant."

Hastings: "You didn't tell them about him acting weird?"

Reynolds: "Didn't think it was relevant."

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Reynolds said he was nervous to talk to police because he was "a pothead, troublemaker, skateboard kid."

He said he left out information to police because he was nervous.

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Reynolds now getting questioned about his talks with the FBI. In October, he told FBI he bought drugs on day of Kara's disappearance.

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Hastings now talking about Reynolds' statements to FBI in October.

"You told them that Kara had called at 10:30, that they came over and stayed 45 minutes."

These are conflicting details about May 4 from testimony he gave earlier.

Hastings pressing Reynolds.

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Reynolds now reading from his deposition about a section where he talked to FBI.

Yust's main attorney now cross examining him about conflicting statements if Kara and Yust came to Reynolds house on May 4, 2007.

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Reynolds said the FBI got him to say he had seen Kara and Yust the morning of May 4, 2007.

Reynolds now testifies on the stand that is not true.

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Reynolds now getting questioned about his contact with KCPD Officer Joshua Meierer on October 4, 2011. Yust's defense team has seriously questioned Meierer's involvement with the investigation on his own time.

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Yust's atty., Sharon Turlington, said Reynolds' convo w/ Meierer was the 1st time Reynolds had told anyone Kopetsky was traveling with Yust in his truck during Kopetsky's phone call to Reynolds on May 4, 2007. Reynolds testified he knew the sound of Yust's truck.
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Redirect by Julie Tolle.

Reestablishing facts.

Reynolds got a call from Kopetsky on May 4, 2007 just after 10 a.m.

Yust came over to his house agitated after 1 p.m.

Said he got a phone call from Yust that night telling him "Why are you talking to cops?"

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Now breaking for lunch.

Will come back together at 1 p.m.

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Small note before we begin after lunch. Judge Collins re-opened the case file for the public. This is an important step, to ensure transparency moving forward, now the jury is seated.

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Go to the 17th circuit and search Yust's name.

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Jennifer Smith, one of Kopetsky's friends and Kyle Reynolds ex-girlfriend, is on the stand now testifying.

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Jennifer Smith said she would see Yust "screaming at the top of his lungs," when they gathered at friends' houses.

Smith said Kopetsky would come to school with bruises and bite marks on her arms.

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"I told her that she should leave him," Smith said.

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Smith said she did not go to police since Kara's parents knew about the abuse.

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Re: week of Kara's disappearance.

Smith said she talked with Kara the week she disappeared.

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She said she talked to Kara around the lockers at Belton High School on Friday morning of her disappearance, May 4, 2007.

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Sharon Turlington, Yust's attorney, now speaking on cross/ex. Hard to hear.

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Turlington is trying to understand more about what Smith told police, especially regarding previous abuse Smith saw with Kopetsky.

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A lot of rumors swirled around in community, Turlington said.

Turlington asked Smith if she talked to FBI in 2008, now showing her the report.

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Turlington asking why Smith didn't come forward with information about abuse with Kopetsky.

She doesn't recall.

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Smith done. Now, Ryan Talley (sp?) is testifying. Talley met Kylr Yust in Sept. 2007. Met at a party through friends.

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Talley says he originally thought Kara ran away.

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On Friday of disappearance, Talley said he followed Kylr Yust. Talley's father was driving, leaving a flip house in Belvidere (I believe a neighborhood in Grandview).

He spotted Yust's pickup eventually leaving Belton.

Around 12 to 1, two at the latest.

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Talley now physically drawing on a map where he saw Yust. Ben Butler asking questions -- but hard to hear now Talley is off microphone.

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Images of Ryan Talley on the stand, and drawing for Cass County Prosecuting Attorney Ben Butler where he saw Yust's pickup on May 4, 2007.

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Butler reconfirms: Talley got behind Yust's truck south of Belton somewhere between noon and 2pm.

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Cross/ex.

Turlington now asking Talley's interaction with Belton PD.

Turlington: Did you tell the officer everything you told us here today?

Talley: I did

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Turlington questioning about Talley's interaction with police in 2008. More than a year after Kopetsky went missing.

Also brought up Talley talking to KCPD Officer Meierer in 2011.

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Talley says he saw Yust driving really slow on the highway.

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Cass Co. Prosecuting Attorney Ben Butler questions Talley again.

Talley says he knows Yust's truck not just by the color, but by stickers of death metal bands.

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Courtney Osborn, one of Yust's friends, now testifying.

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Osborn and Yust dated in 2007. Now talking about a friend named Tre Monteal and visiting his house. Short and quick testimony.

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Former Belton Police Officer Jeremy Squires now testifying.

Talking about missing person report for Kara Kopetsky from Amy Clark around 5pm on 5/4/07. Clark = Kopetsky's friend. Squires then called Rhonda Beckford and learned Beckford had a protection order.
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Really hard to hear Turlington's cross examination of Squires.

Her microphone was off.

Wait -- back on!

Now able to hear, again.

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Squires steps down after questions.

State calls Afton Sanchez, best friend of Kara Kopetsky.

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Sanchez: "They fought a lot"

Sanchez said she saw bruises and bite marks on Kara's arms.

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Friday of disappearance.

Normal day.

Kara's mom came to Sanchez's house after school looking for her.

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Sanchez said she had plans to get together with Kara the weekend after disappearance.

Said went she went missing, she contacted everybody she knew, and tried to call Kara.

"No response," Sanchez said.

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Sanchez said she called Yust a few times after disappearance.

Prosecutor: "What were his answers?"

Sanchez: "That he didn't know."

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After a short cross...

Sanchez is done.

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Amy Clark, who reported Kara Kopetsky missing to Belton PD, now taking the stand.

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Clark testifies she saw signs of abuse. A choke mark around her neck and a fat lip on Kara. I missed the timeframe on this. Will try to figure out. @kmbc #yusttrial
Clark testifies she talked to Yust after abuse of Kopetsky.

Yust said to her, "If I can't have her, nobody can."

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Here is Amy Clark on the stand.

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This timeframe of abuse Clark is describing is two weeks before Kara's disappearance.

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"All of our friends couldn't get a hold of her," Clark said about the day Kara Kopetsky went missing.

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"They couldn't find her," she said. "No one had talked to her since that morning."
Clark said she went to Belton PD to report Kara missing because of her worries and the previous abuse she saw between Yust and Kopetsky. She then said she went to skate park and a couple other places around town to look for her that day.

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Cross ex.

Yust's defense attorney Turlington now questioning why Clark did not call police or mother after seeing signs of abuse.

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Clark again testifies she did not see Kara on the day she went missing.

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Clark said she told FBI in 2010 about Yust's "If I can't have her, no one can," statement. She does not know why the FBI did not include it in their report.

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Turlington is now asking about how Kopetsky's family and former KSHB journalist Russ Ptacek tried to talk to Clark.

Also -- how Officer Joshua Meierer from KCPD pulled over Clark to talk to her.

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In 2011, Clark met with Officer Brad Swanson with Belton police about a meeting with Officer Meierer, she said in cross examination by Yust's defense attorney.

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Clark said she was contacted by a lot of people on Facebook about why she reported Kara missing.

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Clark steps down.

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Afternoon recess.

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By my count, 11 witnesses have taken the stand on this first day of trial.

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A heads up, I will have to step away for afternoon live shots at some point, so I may miss some testimony.
Back from recess at 3:22 p.m.

Steve Edson(sp?) from Belton PD now on the stand.

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April 28, 2007. "Incidents that happened that I was basically put in charge of," Edson says.

Kidnapping and assault investigation of Kopetsky.

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Edson said he heard about Kopetsky's missing person report. He wanted to talk to Mr. Yust. So, he brought him in to speak with him. Says Yust came down willingly.

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Yust became emotional during PD interview. He wouldn't have harmed her, he said.

BUT...

something interesting.

"Yust was speaking of Kara in the past tense," Edson said. Edson noted the past tense in the report.

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"He said he would never have hurt her," Edson said.

But, Yust told him he would grab Kara and shake her.

Said Yust started to cry.

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This interview with Yust at Belton PD took place on 5/6/2007, two days after Kopetsky went missing.

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Here is former Belton PD supervisor Steve Edson on the stand, getting cross examined by Kylr Yust's defense attorney Matt Vigil. Image
Kylr Yust is seen here in day two of his murder trial, sitting with one of his attorneys, Molly Hastings. Yust wore a tie on Monday, but today, appears with a suit jacket and a t-shirt. His neck tattoo is more visible today than during opening statements.

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Edson done after cross examination.

Next witness is current Kansas City, Missouri police officer Matt Rittenhouse. He is a former Belton Police patrol officer who met with Kopetsky's family about video at a QT in Belton.

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He said he had information Kara visited the Quiktrip between 9-11 a.m. on 5-4-2007. More questions about this...

Unfortunately, I need to step out for a few minutes. I will return around 4:10 p.m.

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I'm back. Missed some testimony from Officer Rittenhouse. Again, apologies. Now rejoining tough cross examination of Mike Clark from Belton police. Sharon Turlington questioning Clark's tactics to investigate Yust's whereabouts.

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Turlington questions why no one from Belton PD went to Carondolet Manor, where Yust said he went to visit his great Aunt on the day Kara Kopetsky went missing.

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Clark said he corroborated with his grandfather about Yust's alibi. But, Turlington is questioning why he never went to get video, visitor logs, etc.

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Detective Clark is done.

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State calls Joel Harmon, who knew Kara Kopetsky.

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Harmon testified that Kara told him Yust had put his hands around her neck.

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Harmon said he had plans to hang out with Kara Kopetsky on 5-4-2007, the day she went missing.

He came to KC, tried to call Kara, but couldn't reach her.

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Yust's defense attorney Matt Vigil now questioning Harmon about the hands around the neck comment.

Microphone cuts out in media room.

Hard to hear.

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Harmon done.

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Trial in recess until 8:30 Wednesday morning. 15 total witnesses on the first day of testimony. Big day.
Here is a recap of today's witnesses.

Rhonda Beckford, Kara Kopetsky’s mother:



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Jennifer Smith, Kyle Reynolds’ ex-girlfriend


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Ryan Talley, saw Yust’s truck on May 4, 2007


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Amy Clark, who reported Kara missing and saw signs of abuse


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Matt Rittenhouse, Former Belton Patrol officer who investigated QT sighting of Kopetsky


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YUST TRIAL DAY 3: On the stand, now. Ret. Det. Billy Jones from the Belton Police Dept.

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Jones now talking about June 6, 2007. Jones sent search warrant for Kara Kopetsky's MySpace records.

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Jones says the MySpace records showed she was having trouble with a boyfriend name Kylr.

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Now, Jones talking about getting Kara's voicemail messages.

Says he did not discover any evidence. But, did find voicemails from family members worried about Kara.

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Jones says no activity on Kara's MySpace, phone, or Hotmail account after May 4, 2007.

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Jones says he talked to Yust. Yust said he did not know where Kara was at. Jones says he directly accused Yust of knowing what happened.

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Jones said he got billing/cellphone records for Kara.

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Retired Belton Detective Billy Jones now looking through Kara's Cingular cell phone records on the stand. Records begin April 1, 2007 end on May 4, 2007.

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Jones also reviewed cell phone records provided by Kara's mom Rhonda Beckford to police.

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Kara made phone calls on 5-4-2007, the morning she went missing.

Outgoing call at 7:27 a.m. to Rhonda Beckford.
The call was to wash work uniform and bring textbook to school

7:28 a.m. Angela Dunz - Friend of Kopetsky
9:08 a.m. Shay - Friend of Kopetsky
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9:11 a.m. - Travis, Friend of Kopetsky
9:13 a.m. - Kara to Kylr
9:17 a.m. - Incoming from Travis
9:20 a.m. - Incoming call from Yust
10:25 a.m. - Outgoing call to Kyle Reynolds

Calling people to skip school.

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Kara also texted people that morning, but Jones said investigators did not get copies of those text messages due to the technology at the time.

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About the cell companies keeping texts.

"Every company had their own way of doing things," said Jones.

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May 4, 2007 Kara text messages

1:20 a.m. outgoing to Kylr
1:24 a.m. outgoing to Kylr
1:30 a.m. outgoing to Kylr

8:00 a.m. incoming Kylr to Kara
8:03 a.m. Kara begins texting w/friends to skip school
A few more texts
1:21 incoming text from Joshua Geir (sp?)
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Jones:

Kara has no outgoing texts after 9:46 in the morning on 5-4-2007

Kara made no calls after 10:25 a.m. 5-4-2007.

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Jones:

Kara and Kylr spoke and texted frequently before 5-4-2007.

They spoke on the night of 5-3-2007

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Detective Jones:

Kylr's phone records indicate a two minute "billed" phone call from Kara at 9:13 in the morning on 5-4-2007.

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Jones:

9:21 in the morning. Kylr's phone made a 1 minute "billed" call to Kara's phone

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Prosecutor: any phone calls between 9:22 and 11:28 on 5-4-2007 made from Kylr's phone?

Jones: Incoming text message at 9:03.
Next incoming text is at 11:08.

Prosecutor: Two hour gap in time where Yust had no phone calls/texts, etc.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Prosecutor: 11:28 a.m. Kyle Reynolds, Yust's band mate, makes incoming call to Yust.

Jones did not recognize phone number. Jones said he actually wrote names of people on phone records.

@kmbc #YustTrial
Jones said during investigation he heard Yust was with his grandfather by 1 p.m.

Attention on call at 1:06 p.m. on 5-4-2007. Outgoing call to Alfred Yust.

Making call to gpa, while with gpa, prosecutor asks?

Yust, calls Kyle Reynolds at 3:35 p.m.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Alfred Yust calls later that afternoon.

4:56 on 5-4-2007. Afton Sanchez called Kylr Friend called Kara.
5:08 p.m. Yust gets a call from Nick Yeates.

7:35 p.m. Yust gets a call from Sandra Moore, Kara's grandma.

7:37 p.m. Yust gets a call from Rhonda Beckford.
A lot of calls from Beckford after the 7:37 p.m. call

8:36 p.m. Yust called Alfred Yust

8:50 p.m. Alfred Yust called Kylr

No attempts to call Kara from Kylr's cell phone record.

Jones: Yust called Kara's phone on 5-5 at 5:18 p.m.

@kmbc #yusttrial
On call to Kara on 5-5: Would that have potentially gone to voicemail? Jones: Yes.

Texts sent on 5-4-2007 from Kylr Yust's phone.

5:58 a.m. on 5-4-2007. Yust texted Kara's phone

9:02 a.m. incoming text from Kara

9:02 a.m. outgoing text to Kara

9:03 incoming text from Kara
Prosecutor: Phone records reflect ongoing communication between Kara and Kylr on morning of 5-4-2007

@kmbc #yusttrial
Jones says he talked to one of Kylr's friends who said Kylr wanted to put on a concert and go out with a bang and tell everybody what happened.

End of questions by prosecution.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Jones getting cross examined by Yust lead attorney Sharon Turlington.

Why no Yust location data on cell phone from 5-4-2007, Turlington asks.

Jones said PD requested from T-Mobile.

Location data wasn't available because of overloaded data on towers, he said.

@kmbc #yusttrial
"I did everything short of going to T-Mobile headquarters and jumping up and down on the desk," Jones said.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Turlington now questioning Jones on whether he was qualified to analyze location data.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Turlington now pressing Jones on trying "repeatedly" to get data.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Turlington now says it's possible to "recreate" location data if it's missing.

Turlington: "The location data from Mr. Yust's phone is missing, correct?"

@kmbc #yusttrial.
Jones said he made his supervisors aware of the problem trying to find location data.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Jones said he did not make any supplemental investigative reports about the failure to get missing location data.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Turlington to Jones: You made reports about psychics calling, right?

Jones: I made so many reports.

Turlington: Your efforts to obtain location data are not documented, right?

Jones: Correct.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Turlington now showing Jones faxes to T-Mobile from Belton PD.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Jones: Subpoena dated May 10, 2007 sent to T-Mobile for Kylr Yust's phone number.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Turlington: You specifically requested location data in subpoena, correct?

Jones: Yes

@kmbc #yusttrial
Turlington now asking Jones about getting location data for another case, eventually ruling out another person as a suspect in the Kylr Yust case.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Turlington: Yust told the Belton PD his location on 5-4-2007?

Jones eventually says yes.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Turlington: Kylr's grandfather Alfred Yust was talked to.

Turlington: Alfred Yust says Kylr came over and went up to KC to visit someone and then got gas.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Turlington: As a police officer you have this information, you could go to Doris Yust (grandmother), Carondolet Manor to visit Mary Jean Zanone (kylr great aunt)?

Turlington: Belton police officers could've gotten her name but never did?

Jones: Yes.

@kmbc #yusttrial
A lot of back and forth about what Belton PD could've done in the investigation.

Big point here by the defense to point out all the evidence not gathered by Belton PD.

Jones admits it was hard to know who was the lead detective in the case

@kmbc #yusttrial
Now, Turlington (Yust's attorney) turning attention to Kara Kopetsky using the name Ice Princess.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Jones said he was asked to prepare a subpoena to figure out where messages from Ice Princess came from. (Unclear on context here)

@kmbc #yusttrial
The Ice Princess details are left hanging. Unclear if jury would be able to understand much more about this.

Turlington turns her attention now to private investigators getting involved in the case.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Specifically, Turlington now asking about off-duty KCPD Joshua Meierer.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Jones says Belton PD started to have concerns about outside private investigators getting involved.

@kmbc #YustTrial
Turlington: "You don't want an individual tainting witnesses by giving them false information?

Jones: "That's correct."

@kmbc #YustTrial
Jones had meeting with Officer Meierer and KCPD Sgt. and Belton Sgt. Swanson at Belton PD. Meierer told that he needs to stop, hand over any reports.

A year went by.

Meierer started investigating again.

Belton chief went to KCPD and said this causes problems.
@kmbc #yusttrial
"This needs to stop," Jones said Meierer was told by Belton PD.

Jones: "After that, I don't recall any more information going on."

@kmbc #yusttrial
Meierer apparently secretly taped a meeting with Jones.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Now -- in the middle of Jones testimony -- judge calls for a recess.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Testimony resumes.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Turlington now questioning Jones again about transcript of secretly recorded conversation between Jones and Officer Meierer.

They are talking about Ryan Talley. Talley testified on Tuesday he saw Kylr Yust's truck going south from Belton on Y Hwy. on 5-4-2007.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Jones said he doesn't have recollection about Ryan Talley.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Didn't realize the jury was not back in. Hard to see in media room. Now -- jury is coming back.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Kylr Yust is sitting in court with his attorneys today with a yellow tie and suit jacket.

@kmbc #yusttrial Image
Jury back in. Turlington now questioning Retired Belton Police Detective Billy Jones about Kara's Cingular cell phone records.

@kmbc #yusttrial
1:00 p.m. cell tower hit. Turlington did not point out the date on these records.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Turlington and Jones now talking about tracking devices placed on Yust's pickup.

Jones also said he never recalled asking to look at Yust's phone.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Defense cross/ex stops.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Prosecution back up.

Jones testifies Kara left Belton HS 9:15.

Kara's last phone call at 10:25 in the morning.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Prosecutor: We can all agree that it would've been good if the Belton PD, had gone to Carondolet Manor.

Jones: Someone should've assigned those out for investigative leads, yes.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Prosecutor: "On the morning of 5-4-21 who was he communicating with?"

Jones: "Kara Kopetsky. Friends of Kara's."

@kmbc #yusttrial
Nick Yeates, former friend and band mate of Kylr Yust, now testifying.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Yeates played guitar in the Seraphim death metal band with Kylr Yust.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Yeates testifies he had a friendly relationship with Yust, based on music.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Yeates testifies about Kara and Kylr's relationship:

"Initially it was pretty ordinary, I feel it became a toxic relationship so to speak."

@kmbc #yusttrial
Nick Yeates was also Kylr Yust's roomate in Belton. Here is Yeates on witness stand.

@kmbc #yusttrial Image
Yeates testifies he knew Kara went missing after a text message from his friend Afton Sanchez.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Yeates testifies about a conversation he had with Kylr about Kara's disappearance. Said he doesn't have good memory of it. Now, talking about band practice that night of 5-4-2007.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Yeates lived with Yust for about a month after Kara's disappearance.

April 26, 2010.

Law enforcement and FBI talk to Yeates.

@kmbc #yusttrial
During conversation with FBI and law enforcement.

"When we had been drinking at a party, we went up to Burger King. He confessed to me that he killed Kara."

Yeates said the conversation happened 6-8 months prior with Yust.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Yeates said he killed Kara because...."She didn't love him. He didn't want anyone else to have her."

Prosecutor: Did Yust say "He just snapped, and something bad happened to Kara."

Yeates: Yes.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Yeates eventually wore an FBI wire but Yust did not go as far to confess.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Cross/ex by Sharon Turlington.

Yeates testified in deposition, he thought Yust's statement was a dream at first.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Turlington again talking to Yeates about his deposition.

@kmbc #yusttrial
On cross/ex, Yeates now questioning whether it was a Waffle House or Burger King.

Turlington: "The statement Kylr made was really vague."

Yeates: "Yes."

Turlington: "The only thing you got out of it was that he killed Kara."

Yeates: "Yes."

@kmbc #yusttrial
Turlington: "He didn't say anything about where he did it?"

Yeates: "I still don't believe he did."

@kmbc #yusttrial
Turlington really trying to pick apart Yeates statements about Kylr Yust's confession. From dream, to clearer to clearer, etc.

Turlington: "It's still not really clear to you what he said."

Yeates: "Not entirely, no."

@kmbc #yusttrial
Yeates admits Kylr told him he didn't kill Kara when he wore the FBI wire.

Talks about how Kylr talked about how the case was ruining his life because he was considered a suspect.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Yeates said there is no evidence of any damage at their house on the morning of 5-4-2007.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Turlington now questioning about death metal band and what is involved in this type of band.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Turlington now questions about how long the band Seraphim was together.

"We were together up until the day that he had raped my ex-girlfriend," Yeates testifies.

"Could we approach the bench please," Turlington asks.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Judge strikes the testimony about the rape from the case.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Turlington now done with questions.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Prosecutor: Mr. Yeates, you've always been truthful about now knowing exactly what the defendant said, right?

Yeates: Yes.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Prosecutor Julie Tolle on redirect: "What did the defendant tell you that he did?

"He told me that he killed her. He did not to my knowledge tell me anything specific."
Yeates takeaway from the conversation with Yust:

"Because of the problems he had between him and her, and that she wouldn't love him, that he had killed her," Yeates said.

@kmbc @yusttrial
State now calls Candice St. Clair (Matthews), Yust's ex-girlfriend.

St. Clair was the subject of a pre-trial motion because of the FBI wire she wore to get a confession from Yust. This testimony should be powerful.

@kmbc #yusttrial
St. Clair testifies her relationship with Yust was violent.

@kmbc #yusttrial
St. Clair testifies that "Mr. Yust found me in my home packing my bags to leave."

He then got on top of me, "To put my hands around my neck, hand over hand to crush my trachea."

"He told me that I was not allowed to leave," St. Clair said. Image
"I have killed ex-girlfriends before out of sheer jealousy," St. Clair said Yust told her. "I will kill you before you can let another scream out of your throat."

@kmbc #yusttrial
"The defendant repeatedly choked me," St. Clair said. "As soon as I would lose consciousness, he would punch me on my legs to wake me up."

@kmbc #yusttrial
Said she did not report assault to police right away.

Saying she was scared.

Says she eventually posted on Facebook about the assault, and then got interviewed by police.

St. Clair said she miscarried Yust's baby during the police interview.

@kmbc #yusttrial
St. Clair is speaking directly, and powerfully, into the microphone.

Definitely the strongest testimony we've heard so far in this trial.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Prosecutor: Did the defendant ever mention to you dragging bodies?

St. Clair: Yes.

"He told me that something bad had happened to Kara," St. Clair said, but could not remember exact details.

"...That she was heavy," she said.

@kmbc #yusttrial
"Now, Ms. Matthews," Yust's defense attorney Turlington says, as she starts cross ex of St. Clair. Matthews is her former name.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Turlington now questioning about Yust drawing a pentagram on St. Clair's head, and speaking in tongues.

He pulled out some of her hair and burned it.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Turlington now questioning more about assault and why she did not go to police originally.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Turlington now questioning why St. Clair talked about the assault to the "Find Kara" Facebook group before police.

@kmbc #yusttrial
She says the first person she talked to was KCPD Officer Joshua Meierer after he saw her post on Facebook.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Turlington now questioning why St. Clair continued to see Kylr Yust after the assault.

@kmbc #yusttrial
She says the police came to Kylr's but St. Clair did not say anything to them about the assault. Then, a week later she posted something to the Find Kara Kopetsky Facebook group.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Police took St. Clair to get an exparte order, but she dropped it.

"War is the vilest in life, and therefore people should be wise and not play at war," she wrote on the doc.

St. Clair said she and Kylr were together on and off until 2013.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Turlington: "You didn't even know until today that Kara and Jessica were found in the woods, did you?

St. Clair: "No ma'am."

Appearing to refer to St. Clair's earlier testimony about Kylr's confession to St. Clair that he dragged Kara through the woods.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Lunch break.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Court now back in session at 1:12 p.m.

@kmbc #yusttrial
On the stand now: Katelynn Farris, one of Yust's ex-girlfriends -- who wore the FBI wire.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Farris: It was a pretty easy going relationship. Normal high school relationship that lasted about a year.

Didn't know Kara Kopetsky.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Farris talks about Yust confessing to her about killing Kara Kopetsky.

"He had put her in the car, and she was never seen again," she said.

"He said he kind of like bantered with her back and forth, she didn't get in the car."

@kmbc #yusttrial
Farris talking about Yust's confession: Grabbed her by the hair and put her in the car, and she was never seen.

Farris talking about Yust's confession: He took Kara back to his apartment.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Yust made the statement to Farris at her parents house in Harrisonville, she said.

Prosecutor: the topic of this Kara's disappearance came up out of nowhere?

"It was like hey, I was dating that girl."

Farris then told one of her friends.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Farris stayed in a relationship with Yust for another six months.

Farris said she checked it up to him being "out of it" that day.

Farris testified Yust looked like he was on some substance when he made the confession.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Farris now talking about an FBI agent who contacted her. Said she moved to North Carolina, got married, and the FBI approached her again about her willingness to help in the investigation and wear a wire.

@kmbc #yusttrial Image
Farris now talking about how Yust tattooed her with a demon with wings.

Farris said Yust described his neck tattoo.

A raven with wings spread across his neck like fingers.

Like fingers on the neck. A representation of death, Farris said.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Farris talking about the FBI wire again and what the FBI agent told her.

"He basically told me that I would wear a wire and that I would drive a vehicle, and that both would be monitored for my safety," Farris said.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Farris said she came back and told Yust she was helping her parents with a dog show.

She made contact with Yust while wearing a wire.

"We were together for quite a while. We bounced around town for a while."

@kmbc #yusttrial
Farris said she told Yust she wanted to make a Ouija board.

Went to bookstore to get supplies.
Went out to eat/coffee.
Bounced around town.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Farris steps down from witness stand to sit in the front row.

Now -- they are going to play the FBI wire.

FBI wiretap is now playing.

This could get long...

@kmbc #yusttrial
Farris noticed he wasn't in a good mood after he gets in car with her.

Yust says on FBI wire he's not in a good mood to get in the car with her we're going to visit "the death spot of my ex-girlfriend."

@kmbc #yusttrial
"I really regret it," Yust said on wire. "I really didn't want to tell anybody my entire life."

@kmbc #yusttrial
FBI recording: Yust says "I'm going to be alone for the rest of my f'ing life."

"No one wants to f'ing be with me."

"The actually girl that knows about the Kara thing, doesn't want anything to do with me."

Yust talking about Farris leaving him for N. Carolina.
@kmbc #yusttrial
"I will never be loved. Never ever in my life will I be loved," Yust says on FBI recording.

"Every time I find someone I want to share my life with, I am not good enough for that person."

@kmbc #yusttrial
GRAPHIC WARNING ON TWEETS.

Farris on FBI wire: "You obsess over the littlest things."

"I don't even want to call it making love. That's not why I f'd you," he says to Farris.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Yust is saying all of this on the FBI recording as he's giving directions to Farris on where to turn and drive.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Crying in the audience of media overflow room among Kara Kopetsky's friends as they listen to the recording.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Now -- FBI wiretap recording sounds like Yust and Farris are at a restaurant.

Yust ordering a meal.

Then he starts to argue with Farris.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Hard to hear some of this conversation in the restaurant. Farris testified before the recording started playing she had a wire in a key fob and under her shirt.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Sounds like a faint heartbeat in some of this FBI recording. Wonder if it is Farris's heartbeat the recording picked up?

Hard to hear, but just an observation.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Man -- I wish we could hear more of this inside the restaurant, it's just hard to understand the recording. But Yust and Farris are going back/forth in some sort of strong conversation or argument.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Waitress comes up and asks if they want sauces. I believe I heard Yust ask for Gunslinger hot sauce.

@kmbc #yusttrial
More inaudible on the FBI recording. Still waiting for clearer audio.

@kmbc #yusttrial
"It's not you. It's everyone in general," Farris tells Yust.

Hard to tell what the context is here, but it sounds like she is talking about leaving for North Carolina.

@kmbc #yust
Kylr Yust and his defense team listening to the FBI wiretap audio on a wire worn by his former girlfriend Katelynn Farris.

@kmbc #yusttrial Image
A close-up shot of Kylr Yust and his defense team listening to the FBI wiretap audio on a wire worn by his former girlfriend Katelynn Farris.

@kmbc #yusttrial Image
ON FBI WIRE: "I'm sorry I have issues and I don't want to have sex with anyone," Katelynn Farris said. "I don't want to be with anyone," she said.

@kmbc #YustTrial
They are still talking about North Carolina and why she moved to NC. "I can't be here," Farris said. "I can't be here."

@kmbc #yusttrial
For context -- Yust's defense team made a motion on February 23, 2021 to suppress this FBI recording from the trial. They argued in motion Farris used the promise of sex to Kylr Yust's confession.
Judge over ruled the defense motion to allow the jury to hear.
@kmbc #YustTrial
The restaurant part of the FBI recording stops after they leave.

Now -- we see video inside the car. You can just see their elbows.

OK.

Here we go...

@kmbc #YustTrial
Yust leans over in car seat -- you can see he has long hair. He is just leaning over as they drive.

Interesting...

@kmbc #yusttrial
Farris on FBI recording: "Do you think you have some problems with being alone because of Kara's (inaudible)?

Yust answers.

"I don't want to be alone the rest of my f'ing life."

@kmbc #YustTrial
"All I have is a f'ing face," Yust said on recording. "All I have is a face to look at."

@kmbc #YustTrial
CONTEXT: This FBI wiretap recording in the #YustTrial happened on February 11, 2011.

@kmbc #yusttrial
"Shut up blinker," Farris said.

Then...

"You left me," Yust said to Farris. "We had so much, right? And you left me."

"And you promsied me and I waited," Yust said. "And I'm still mad. I want to be with you."

@kmbc #YustTrial
Now -- back to an audio recording done by the FBI.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Farris is coughing a lot in the recording.

Sounds like they are at a Walgreens.

@kmbc #yusttrial
OK, back to video. Farris is still coughing. Yust is patting her on her back saying do you need any whiskey?

@kmbc #yusttrial
Farris said she wants to go to book store to look up stuff about a Ouija board.

@kmbc #YustTrial
Yust leans over to give Farris a kiss.

"Mmmmm. Sweetest kisses ever," he said.

@kmbc #yusttrial
"Take it, take it. It's orange." he said as they speed through a stoplight.

Conversation has turned jovial lighthearted.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Again -- these statements/details are all coming from an FBI wire recording of a conversation between Kylr Yust and his ex-girlfriend Katelynn Farris, now being played before the jury on this third day of the trial.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Quick break.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Back again, listening to FBI recording.

@kmbc #YustTrial
ON FBI VIDEO RECORDING: Yust sounds like he is trying to get Farris to have sex with him.

He bites her finger while she's driving.

He leans over to kiss her.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Alright, everyone. I need to go talk to the TV audience. I will return around 4:15 p.m. Thanks for hanging with me today.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Just got back. Did you see me on TV?

Picking up on the FBI recording where I believe Katelynn Farris and Kylr Yust are in the woods with the Ouija board. A lot of rustling happening.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Now they are back in the car on video. Hard to tell if they were in the woods as I referenced in my previous tweet. I will pick up that context when I can understand more.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Farris is coughing so much in this video. Some of her friends here in the media room said she was sick that day.

On video just now, Farris said "I hate being sick."

@kmbc #yusttrial
Back driving in the car, Farris and Yust are talking about working out, what they eat.

Now he's showing her something either on his stomach or somewhere else??

Hard to tell from video.

@kmbc #yusttrial
"That's why your tattoos look so bad because you pick at them and have holes in them," Farris said to Yust on FBI video recording.

He leans over to kiss her again.

@kmbc #yusttrial
Yust seems like he's tried to make several advances on Farris during this whole recording as they're driving around.

@kmbc #YustTrial
"I'm just really curious what she's going to say," Farris said, presumably talking about trying to reach Kara's spirit on a Ouija board. So, they have not gotten to the woods yet.

"Are you really going to give me a chance after all this?" Yust said.

@kmbc #YustTrial
Talking about Kylr Yust's grandpa.

Farris: "He's the one that gave you the bonds, right?"

Yust: "Yeah."

@kmbc #yusttrial
I'm very curious to see how this strategy of playing the entire audio/video plays with the jury. It's just a lot of driving around and conversation.

@kmbc #YustTrial

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