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Nov. 18: This picture provided by the Cole County Sheriff's Department shows Alyssa Bustamante.Nov. 18: This picture provided by the Cole County Sheriff's Department shows Alyssa Bustamante.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Blessed with a Friday off school, 15-year-old Alyssa Bustamante dug two holes in the ground to be used as a grave, authorities said. For the next week, she attended classes, all the while plotting the right time for a murder, they said.
That time arrived the evening of Oct. 21, when Bustamante strangled 9-year-old neighbor Elizabeth Olten without provocation, cut the girl's throat and stabbed her, prosecutors said. Why?
'Ultimately, she stated she wanted to know what it felt like,' Missouri State Highway Patrol Sgt. David Rice testified Wednesday during a court hearing over the slaying.
Rice, who interviewed Bustamante in the days after Elizabeth's disappearance, said she confessed to investigators and led them to the fourth grader's well-concealed body in a wooded area near their neighborhood in St. Martins, a small town west of Jefferson City.
A Cole County judge ruled Wednesday that Bustamante, who has been held in Missouri's juvenile justice system, should be tried as an adult."
Thursday, November 19, 2009
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What a sad story. All I can say is, where did her parents go wrong ? Obviously, there was a serious lack of attention and love within this girl's childhood, otherwise this act of pure evil could have been avoided altogether. It is bad enough to have an adult's reason for killing be to know what it felt like, but for a teenager to commit such a gruesome act of violence it just plain horrible. There is no doubt in my mind that the girl was suffering from some type of emotional issues, whether that be depression, emotional abuse from her parents/guardians, or some mental illness. This should have been prevented from happening.
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