Alyssa Bustamante Video

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1 secondAlyssa was 15 years old. She dug two graves in the woods behind her house a

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8 secondsweek before Halloween. Then she told police exactly why she did it. She wanted to know what it felt like to kill

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16 secondssomeone. This is the case of Alyssa Bustamante and 9-year-old Elizabeth

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23 secondsOlton. It’s one of Missouri’s most disturbing juvenile murders. not just for how it happened, but for the confession that followed. Elizabeth K.

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35 secondsOlton was born on December 15th, 1999. She was the youngest of five children,

Chapter 2: Who Is Elizabeth Olten

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43 secondsraised by her mother, Patricia, known to everyone as Patty, in the small rural town of St. Martins, Missouri, just west of the state capital, Jefferson City.

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55 secondsLiving just four houses down the road were the Bamante children, Alyssa, 15,

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1 minute, 2 secondsand her younger siblings, including six-year-old Emma. Elizabeth had become familiar with the family. She played

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1 minute, 10 secondswith the younger kids often. On a Friday, she had off from school. Alyssa walked into the woods behind her

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1 minute, 17 secondsgrandparents’ home and dug two holes in the ground, the shape and size of graves. She told investigators she just liked to dig holes. For the next week,

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1 minute, 30 secondsshe continued going to school, sitting in class, attending church. Meanwhile,

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1 minute, 36 secondsshe was waiting, watching, looking for the right moment. She tried to lure two other children into the woods that week.

Chapter 3: Elizabeth Olten Murder

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1 minute, 45 secondsThey refused. Bamante had focused on Elizabeth instead. She lured the 9-year-old into those woods. there. She

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1 minute, 54 secondsstrangled her with her hands, cut her throat, and stabbed her in the chest.

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1 minute, 59 secondsPolice later found Elizabeth buried in a shallow grave. The search for Elizabeth brought out hundreds of community

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2 minutes, 6 secondsmembers joined law enforcement in the two-day search. On October 22nd, FBI

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2 minutes, 13 secondsagents began questioning those in the neighborhood, including Alyssa Bamante.

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2 minutes, 20 secondsThe following day, October 23rd, after two days of searching in cold, rainy conditions, Alyssa led investigators

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2 minutes, 29 secondsdirectly to Elizabeth’s body. She had been hidden in a shallow grave concealed beneath leaves in the wooded area behind

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2 minutes, 38 secondstheir homes. Investigators then found her personal journal inside, dated

Chapter 4: Alyssa Bustamante Journal

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2 minutes, 44 secondsOctober 21st, 2009. The full entry later released publicly described the killing

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2 minutes, 52 secondsin disturbing detail. Alyssa wrote that it was a mazing that the experience was

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2 minutes, 59 secondsone of the best things she had ever felt. Alyssa Bostamante would first appear in court on November 17th, 2009.

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3 minutes, 8 secondsA judge ruled she would be tried as an adult. Alyssa was indicted on charges of firstdegree murder and armed criminal

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3 minutes, 17 secondsaction. The latter due to the use of a knife. In January 2012, facing a

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3 minutes, 24 secondspotential life without parole conviction at trial, Alyssa accepted a plea deal.

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3 minutes, 31 secondsShe pleaded guilty to seconddegree murder and armed criminal action. The judge sentenced Alyssa Bustamante to

Chapter 5: Alyssa Bustamante Sentencing

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3 minutes, 39 secondslife in prison with the possibility of parole plus a consecutive 30-year sentence for armed criminal action.

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3 minutes, 48 secondsAlyssa Bamante would have a parole hearing in 2024 due to a new law regarding the

Chapter 6: Alyssa Bustamante Parole Hearing

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3 minutes, 55 secondssentencing of juveniles to life in prison. However, it was denied. Even if she was granted parole on her life

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4 minutes, 3 secondssentence, she still has to serve her 30-year sentence, meaning her ear’s chance of release is 259.