Kansas City police have asked the public for help locating a missing woman after her burned-out car was found Saturday.

Jessica Runions, 21, of Raymore, Mo., was last seen at a house party Thursday evening. KSHB reported that she attended the party with her boyfriend.

At around 2 a.m. Saturday, authorities discovered Runions' black 2012 Chevy Equinox near an overpass in south Kansas City. Search teams canvassed the area near where the car was found for several hours before halting due to darkness.

"We are very concerned for her safety. It's suspicious circumstances, her vehicle unoccupied, burned in a remote area ... [we are] just asking anyone who has had contact with her to call the police," police spokeswoman Capt. Stacey Graves said.

Jessica's aunt, Michelle Runions, told the station that the missing woman left the party with her boyfriend's childhood friend, Kylr Yust. Local media reported that Yust's ex-girlfriend, Kara Kopetsky, disappeared in May 2007, a week after filing a protection order against him. Kopetsky has never been found.

KSHB also reported that Yust has been convicted of assault, theft and animal cruelty.

So far, police have not named any suspects or persons of interest in Runions' case.

"They are aware of those leads and will continue to investigate them," Graves said of the possible connection between Runions and Yust.

Fox4KC reported that police officers would be stationed in the area overnight Saturday before the search resumed Sunday.

Anyone with information about Runions' whereabouts is asked to call the Kansas City Police Department's Missing Persons hotline at (816) 234-5136, or the TIPS hotline at (816) 474-TIPS.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/09/11/fears-for-missing-missouri-woman-after-police-find-burned-out-car.html

In a couple of weeks, it will be seven years since Kara Kopetsky disappeared from her high school in Belton, Missouri (May 4, 2007). You can find out about the case here, but essentially she went missing from her high school — about a week after filing a restraining order against her then-boyfriend, Kylr Yust, who had apparently forcibly abducted her from her job at Popeye’s on April 30, 2007. Yust appeared in the news in 2011 again — because he battered his then-girlfriend, who was pregnant, and…

“I’ve killed people before, even ex-girlfriends out of sheer jealousy,” Yust allegedly told the victim. “I will kill you.”

Yust allegedly added that he knew “where there were pigs that would eat anything including bones, that he had seen arms ripped off people while they were still alive, and he had seen people dropped in barrels of acid to destroy evidence.”

OK. Then in 2013, Yust got sent away for a drug-related conviction, apparently telling the judge to “eat a steak for me” at his sentencing. There’s a little bit more on Yust and Kopetsky here and here, but he certainly seems connected to Kopetsky’s disappearance in some way. I can’t actually find him in the Missouri and/or Kansas inmate search functions, but he does appear to currently be in prison. (Correction: he’s in federal prison in Oklahoma, with a release date of July 2016.)

The Kopetsky case has been big news in true crime/disappearance/48 Hours/Dateline circles, and the timeline has been bungled by local police (people were unclear whether she disappeared on May 2, 2007 or May 4, 2007, for example), confessions have been logged and possibly ignored, and there’s this report around a confession that also notes someone involved was using drugs (again, a tie back to Yust, who is now ultimately in federal prison on drug charges). There have been “secret sleuth groups” in the area dedicated to finding out what happened — and apparently getting cadaver dogs to register something in an abandoned house — and a box of her possessions was turned over to police two years after her disappearance. In short, the whole thing’s a mess. (At the time of initial disappearance, it should be noted that Kara had run away from home a few times, so that could have delayed the beginnings of the investigation.)

It definitely seems like Yust is involved, and even Kara Kopetsky’s mom believes that.

The “pig farm” allegation is literally straight out of an episode of Criminal Minds, but it would explain the lack of a body seven years hence — as you probably know from most TV crime shows, it’s much harder to prosecute without a body, which is why Yust has only been popped for abusing another girlfriend and drugs (things that are easier to prove).

Here are some more ideas around Kara Kopetsky’s disappearance — take them with a grain of salt, as these are not law enforcement professionals — including some text messages with Yust’s friends claiming he’s a good guy (and others claiming he’s a total disaster and likely did it). There’s this sequence, which — if true — could showcase Yust as not a suspect, but someone whose run of bad luck possibly started with his girlfriend disappearing:

“You want something for your story, check this out,” Yust said Friday as he rolled up his sleeve and showed a large, healing scar across his forearm *(sounds more like a struggle to me). “I tried to kill myself twice. There you go. That’s the night I did it ’cause I wanted her to leave the room so I could do that,” Yust said as he ended the interview and walked into a no-alcohol bar where his band was performing Friday night. Police say there was no evidence to support kidnapping charges in connection to the night Yust would not let Kara out of his truck. He does, however, face misdemeanor disorderly conduct and assault charges.

Yust had an alibi for May 4, 2007, but has apparently taken three lie detector tests which were ultimately inconclusive.

Again, I think it’s most likely that Kylr Yust is involved — although again, I’m not any kind of law-enforcement professional or anything. Kara Kopetsky’s mom even said that at his drug conviction (the one that sent him to federal prison), she was hoping he would confide in a cellmate about what happened to Kara, etc. Clearly the focus is on him and should be there — he’s definitely a bit of a “bad egg,” if not significantly worse than that. Problem is, it’s been seven years and there’s still all these theories, so we may never conclusively solve this. (To make it more confusing, some believe there could be a police cover-up.) There is a seven-year walk scheduled, as there has been every year since the disappearance.

Hopefully this case is ultimately conclusively solved. There’s too much intrigue out there about it for it not to be.

http://www.kctv5.com/story/33065069/police-seek-help-locating-missing-21-year-old-woman

So two women last seen with this guy disappears and he threatens to kill a different pregnant girl saying he has done it before.

I have read a bunch of articles on both girls and it sounds like the Law Enforcement Agency investigating this is a joke. They have gotten dates wrong and missed several crucial things so far.

Kylr Yust:

Who is he related to ?

Small town ?

* This reminds me of #JusticeForJessica, case. (Which is solved)... but, 2 years ago, there were young women in 2-3 states, all in their early 20's. All set on fire or their cars were *