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Kayla Mueller in 2013 in Prescott, Arizona.
Obama confirms U.S. hostage Kayla Mueller killed by ISIS , 1
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For over a year and a half the family of Kayla Jean Mueller, a 26-year-old aid worker from Arizona, kept the fact that she was being held in ISIS captivity in Syria a secret from most everyone. While it was known the terrorist organization was holding a young female American among their hostages, the hope of both the U.S. government and Mueller’s family seems to have been that not making her identity public...