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Murder Trial Delayed For Alyssa Bustamante

August 25, 2011 at 9:00 am by Morbid

ST. MARTINS, Missouri – One trial I am looking forward to is the trial of Alyssa Bustamante, the teen accused of killing her neighbor, 9-year-old Elizabeth Olten. I had hoped it would start as scheduled, but now it looks like it won’t start until the beginning of next year.

Olten vanished while walking home from a friend’s house back in 2009. The day after she disappeared, the older sister of the friend Olten was visiting, a then 15-year-old Bustamante, led police to Olten’s dead body.

The mentally disturbed teen, with a history of cutting and a suicide attempt at 13, admitted to police that she killed the girl. After strangling, stabbing and cutting the girl’s throat, she buried her in a grave behind her house that she had dug a week prior. She told police she killed the girl because she wanted to know what it felt like.

Her attorney wanted her tried as a juvenile and kept in a juvenile facility where she would receive better treatment and increase her chances of rehabilitation. But because of the vicious nature of the crime, Bustamante would be indicted on adult charges of first-degree murder and armed criminal action. She has pleaded not guilty.

The trial was supposed to start next month, but prosecutors said that it would take six more weeks for some evidence to be tested. Afterwards, the teen’s defense attorneys would need to evaluate that evidence. So now, according to, Judge Pat Joyce, jury selection could take place Jan. 10-11 and that the trial could start immediately after.

I have always been particularly interested in juvenile murderers of the sociopathic kind, in a “why did they do it” kind of way, and Bustamante fascinates me. She was in the top third of her class and had never been in trouble before. She’s described as intelligent, sneaky, depressed and mentally disturbed. She reminds me a lot of Brenda Ann Spencer.

Tags: Alyssa Bustamante, Elizabeth Olten, Missing, Missouri, Murder, Stabbing, Strangulation

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Anonymous

“Intelligent, sneaky, depressed, and mentally disturbed”

Sounds like she was a JOY to live with. I’m sure family members kept their doors locked at all times when this sweet one was around. No wonder she had to go after a visitor.

I, too, am deeply interested in what makes these types of people tick. I know that I’ll never get a satisfactory answer even if it came directly from their own lips, because the whole “I wanted to know what it feels like” claim is so bizarre it’s hard to process.

So tragic, for both families involved.
EveryVillainIsLemons

Her reason for killing Elizabeth Olten scares the hell out of me. Something is really broken in her, and she should probably be remanded to a mental health care facility for the rest of her life. She stole Elizabeth Olten’s life just to experience what it would be like to kill someone, and she has yet to show any remorse or horror over what she did. The fact that she killed a little girl with hopes and dreams of her own seems to have been utterly meaningless to Bustamante. It’s a shame that when she was cutting herself, she didn’t go down the river instead of across.
Anonymous

she will never be rehabilitated. Not possible with a sociopath. Lock her up and throw away the key. Sad for her family, but better for anyone else she may come in contact with over the remaining years of her life.
Anonymous

I can’t get over that Alyssa dug a grave days early in anticipation of murdering this poor girl. This one fact makes me wish she takes every remaining breath locked deeply away in prison. (And in a straight-jacket in a padded room since she is suicidal – I don’t want her to get off easy by killing herself.)
Anonymous

Creepy lil bitch, there is no fixing people like this.I hope she never gets out.
Anonymous

Anxious for this trial as well. This sick shit happened an hour away from where I live. Fucking sad shit.
http://www.facebook.com/ericagieras Erica Gieras

Any word on her home life? I can’t understand why she would do something like this “just to feel what if would be like” can sociopaths come from normal parents?? If so then I am terrified!
http://www.facebook.com/ericagieras Erica Gieras

Any word on her home life? I can’t understand why she would do something like this “just to feel what if would be like” can sociopaths come from normal parents?? If so then I am terrified!
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1415881786 Tori Sheffer

can she be fixed???….well life if full of catch 22s….maybe she can be helped but then again we wont know that until we let what could be a potential physcopath run free for the rest of her life … whilst we wait with baited breath
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_D5PKUBLEDATKIOTLCOF3M7KHGI Danielle

Her reasoning for killing this little girl shows that she does not need to be on the streets. I do not see rehabilitation in her future. Lock her up for good!!
Anonymous

Yes they can. They need to be studied by the assholes learn early on in life to say & act like people want them to so that they can get what they want from them, they also lie & LIE A LOT. And they’re quite good at lying too. So they can’t get studied because they will never be honest.
http://www.facebook.com/malenda.l.mayfield Malenda L. Mayfield

Two questions….did she have this little girl in mind when she dug the grave, or was she just getting something ready should an opportunity arise? And do we know how she killed the girl???
http://www.facebook.com/malenda.l.mayfield Malenda L. Mayfield

Two questions….did she have this little girl in mind when she dug the grave, or was she just getting something ready should an opportunity arise? And do we know how she killed the girl???
Anonymous

“Intelligent, sneaky, depressed, and mentally disturbed”

Seems to me this young lady is a psychopath AND a sociopath. *See links below for what I base my statement*

I’ve been mulling over these past 4 days this particular statement:

“When a criminal is caught & he’s interrogated you can tell from the mugshot & while being interviewed by the cops whether the person is sorry & honestly remorseful for what they did.”

Crying is not a necessary sign that they are sorry & remorseful since they could be crying cause they realized what lies ahead for them not for the victim of the crime. It should be considered a factor for when they ask for mercy & leniency from the courts.

You killed a kid cause you wanted to: “See what it was like”. This one shouldn’t be kept with ANYONE unless it’s a paedophile or kiddie killer like herself. Wait, I’m gonna take that back. Why would she care about someone molesting a child if she killed one? I bet you she’s gonna whip out the whole “someone molested me when I was a kid/baby” defense. If it’s true & it DID happen to her, I hope someone goes to jail for it. However I still hope a nazy gets her ass & goes all holocaust on her ass.

For the record I don’t think she’s a Jew, there’s nothing wrong with being a Jew or anyone. There’s something wrong with being a CHILD KILLER.

http://www.mcafee.cc/Bin/sb.html

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=what-psychopath-means
shannie

I have followed this case, and have read some heated debates about Alyssa being on anti-depressants that could have caused her to think killing another girl was okay, and that Alyssa even though she was smart had been living with her grandmother because of some kind of problems at home (I don’t remember if she was taken away from her parents or they sent her to the grandmothers). I really don’t care either way, this girl knew better than to kill if she was so smart, and if she is a sociopath, than she is where she belongs and should stay there because she is really a danger to society.
http://www.facebook.com/nborreggine Nikki Borreggine

I read that her dad was in prison for stabbing someone and her mom had drug problems, but lived with her grandma from 7 on.
http://www.facebook.com/nborreggine Nikki Borreggine

There were reports saying that she dug two graves, some speculating her intended victims were her younger twin brothers. She strangled her and cut her throat and wrists i believe.
Anonymous

Poser emo bitch! You’re supposed to cut yourself, not others!
EveryVillainIsLemons

I kind of wonder why she didn’t kill herself, if she was so curious about what killing someone felt like.
http://www.dreamindemon.com Morbid

She cut herself quite regularly. In fact, in some of the pictures you can clearly see a scar running down the length of her left arm.
Anonymous

The most honest answer I have heard from a young lady that is quite similiar to this young lady was pretty chilling. She told me that she had thought out every scenario to kill a certain person and if she could have come up with a way to accomplish it without getting caught she would have done it. It all kept coming back to the fact that I would have pointed my finger straight at her and never would have let up and she knew it. I still look over my shoulder and make sure her intended victim does too.
FrikkenFrak

“She’s described as intelligent, sneaky, depressed and mentally disturbed”

In other words, she woulda fit right in with us here on DD.
Bulletproof

“..She reminds me a lot of Brenda Ann Spencer.”…. I don’t like Mondays either, but I havent shot anyone up because of it…yet. All joking aside, Brenda Spencer is on my top 5 Most Disturbing Child Killers list. Yeah that’s right, I have a list.
Athena

There’s little that creeps me out more than juvenile sociopaths. Sometimes, what kind of child you get is completely out of your hands and amounts to little more than a roll of the dice. Environments can create some monsters, but nature has always been the superior monster maker, in my opinion. It can infuse us with predatory tendencies unlike anything that can be taught.
LeaveMeBe

In nature versus nurture, nature will always win out in the end.
http://www.facebook.com/dre.mosley Dre Mosley

She’s irreparably broken. There’s no rehabbing her. She needs to join Brenda Ann Spencer.
Anonymous

If that isn’t premeditated I don’t know what would qualify…this bitch needs to get raped and beat daily until she is 99 year old.
Anonymous

Do you know if the families still live close to one another? Jesus, can you imagine?
Anonymous

Here is a video of her trying to get her brothers to touch and electric fence- what a complete bitch this girl is…
http://media.photobucket.com/video/alyssa%20bustamante/EvelynWhatHaveYouDone/Bustamante-IdiotsGettingElectrocute.mp4?o=1
Anonymous

Wow! And the parents knew none of this.Iam sure she would of had them jump off a tall building with a makeshift cape tied tightly around their necks.Deffinately a dangerous girl.
Anonymous

Still- I don’t give a flying Frigg how horrible her childhood was, there’s absolutely no excuse. Plenty of teenagers have rubbish parents and go on to lead successful and productive lives. This little toad needs to be shot in the face. She’s total trash, and she’s damn lucky it wasn’t MY kid she got a hold of because I would have never let the police arrest her.
Anonymous

my thoughts exactly!
Anonymous

my thoughts exactly!
Anonymous

woah. 15 yrs. of age and dug the holes in advance. that pretty much says it all.
if she kills “to see what it feels like”, it sure she’d kill for monetary gain as well, seeing as she’s the center of the universe and all. she must never be released. IMO she’s already dead so feels she has nothing to lose.
wishfulsinful

I haven’t been able to find her parents’ names; I share a last name with this cold, creepy bitch and wonder if we are related somehow. RIP little Olten.
http://twitter.com/leaftheweed Leaf Evans

I know this is an older article but I have to say I think it’s pretty stupid that a person can tell the cops they “killed someone to see what it felt like”, lead them to the frickin body and then still be able to plead “Not Guilty” at the trial.

I think a confession and handing over a body should take “Not Guilty” completely off the table.
http://www.dreamindemon.com Count Rackula

Alyssa Bustamante has pleaded guilty to second degree murder and armed criminal action in the 2009 killing of Elizabeth Olten:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2084779/Teen-admits-murdering-neighbor-9-wanted-know-felt-like-kill.html

I’m not going to lie, I hope she’s locked up for a long, long time.
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http://www.facebook.com/Leashaness Alicia Lynee’

“never been in trouble before” yet she was a “self mutilator” and attempted suicide in, what, 8th grade? Give me a knife and 5 minutes with this little cunt, and the tax payers of Missouri won’t have to clothe and feed her soulless ass for the rest of her useless life.
http://www.facebook.com/Leashaness Alicia Lynee’

Uh, I’d have a called the cops by now.
http://www.facebook.com/Leashaness Alicia Lynee’

She didn’t cut deep enough. What a shame.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1616336316 Mary Mahi Mahi

While on the surface your argument sounds good in practice dig deeper remanding Alyssa to a mental facility for life doesn’t mean life. She would be out in no time as soon as her insurance runs out or Medicaid if they apply for that she would be released to harm another child again. At age 13 you know right from wrong so criminal charges as an adult are appropriate with no psychiatric treatment in prison she should be sentenced to life in prison not Baker Acting her for a year.