This morning it has been confirmed that Kayla Mueller is dead, as the family says that pictures confirming her death were sent in a private message to the family by the save demons in ISIS.
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JUST IN: Over the weekend, the family received a private message from Kayla’s ISIS captors containing additional information -NSC
— Vaughn Sterling (@vplus) February 10, 2015
WH says that over the weekend, Mueller family received a private message from ISIS "containing additional information" re: her death
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 10, 2015
ISIS sent Mueller family pictures of their daughter over the weekend showing her death. So sad. Thoughts and prayers w/ family
— Pamela Brown (@PamelaBrownCNN) February 10, 2015
More from CNN:
The family of Kayla Mueller, an American woman held captive by the Islamist terror group ISIS, said Tuesday it has received confirmation that she is dead.
“We are heartbroken to share that we’ve received confirmation that Kayla Jean Mueller, has lost her life,” a statement from the family reads.
“Kayla was a compassionate and devoted humanitarian. She dedicated the whole of her young life to helping those in need of freedom, justice, and peace,” the family said.
On Friday, ISIS claimed that Mueller — captured in northern Syria in 2013 — had been killed in a building that was hit during a Jordanian airstrike on Raqqa, the militants’ de facto capital in Syria. At the time, ISIS offered no proof to back up its claim, other than an image of a building in rubble.
Over the weekend, ISIS sent the family a private message, National Security Council spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan said Tuesday.
“Once this information was authenticated by the intelligence community, they concluded that Kayla was deceased,” Meehan said.
The new information does not clarify how Mueller died, a law enforcement source familiar with the case said on condition of anonymity.