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Alyssa Bustamante

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    February 6, 2012

    Alyssa Bustamante: Her Confession Was Off-Limits, But Her Journal Is A Different Matter

    ​Alyssa Bustamante, the young woman who killed Elizabeth Olten, her nine-year-old neighbor, had a sentencing hearing today in Jefferson City. Although Bustamante, now eighteen, confessed to police, the confession was ruled inadmissible in court because the police who questioned her used "deceptive ... More >>

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    January 11, 2012

    Alyssa Bustamante: Teen Describes How She Murdered Neighbor

    ​Alyssa Bustamante, the mid-Missouri teenager in jail for two years on charges that she murdered her 9-year-old neighbor because she "wanted to know what it felt like" to kill someone, pleaded guilty yesterday. The confession came as prosecutors reduced their first-degree murder charge to second-d ... More >>

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    June 23, 2011

    Alyssa Bustamante: Prosecutors Can't Use Part of Killer Teen's Confession

    Alyssa Bustamante: The jury may not hear some of her most chilling statements to police.​Alyssa Bustamante, the then-15-year-old Missouri kid who allegedly strangled and stabbed her nine-year-old neighbor to death in 2009, told police she'd committed the crime because she "wanted to know what it f ... More >>

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    April 29, 2010

    Teen Murder Suspect Alyssa Bustamante Won't Wear Prison Garb to Trial

    Alyssa Bustamante​Last month 16-year-old Alyssa Bustamante's requested that she be allowed to wear her "regular clothes" to trial instead of her prison uniform. Yesterday a judge in central Missouri approved Bustamante's request. The teen is accused of the horrific murder last fall of her nine-yea ... More >>

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    April 20, 2010

    "Emo" Teen Killer Begs to Return to School

    Image sourceBustamante all ready for some larnin'.​Remember Alyssa Bustamante? She's the fifteen-year-old from outside Jefferson City who is accused of murdering her nine-year-old neighbor Elizabeth Olten last fall because she "wanted to know what it felt like." Her arrest led to an amusing at ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2009

    Alyssa Bustamante: Violence! LOLz!

    Earlier this month, Youtube apparently disabled videos posted by Alyssa Bustamante, the 15-year-old Missouri girl accused of killing her nine-year-old neighbor, Elizabeth Olten. But a clever techie who uses the handle Archivist2001 has, um, resurrected the footage.In the clip below, Bustamante gets ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 20, 2009

    Alyssa Bustamante: A Case Study in Why Not to Let Your Kids Go "Emo"?

    connectmidmissouri.comAlyssa Bustamante​By now you've heard the story of Alyssa Bustamante. The 15-year-old from outside Jefferson City is accused of digging a grave and then strangling and stabbing to death her nine-year-old neighbor because, according to police, Bustamante "wanted to know what i ... More >>

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    November 20, 2009

    What Is this Emo of Which the Kids Speak? TV News Knows

    The Daily RFT linked a video from last night's KSDK broadcast about the apparently dangers of the "emo lifestyle." The story's tied to the case of Alyssa Bustamante, a 15-year-old from outside of Jefferson City charged with killing her 9-year-old neighbor: Reporter: "For young people, the world 'e ... More >>

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