Alyssa Bustamante sentenced in child murder case

18-year-old faces possible life prison term in 9-year-old neighbor's murder.

Eighteen-year-old Alyssa Bustamante (boost-ah-MAHN'-tay) faces the possibility of life in prison when she's sentenced Wednesday morning for the 2009 slaying of 9-year-old Elizabeth Olten. Bustamante was 15 at the time of the murder and confessed to

By Art Holliday St. Louis (KSDK) – When Alyssa Bustamante committed brutal murder she was just 15-yearsold. Some people have wondered if a juvenile committed the crime, or an adult. No parent would ever suggest that their 15-year-old is an adult.

Alyssa Bustamante was a child when she murdered her 9-year-old neighbor, but that didn't stop a judge from sentencing her to life in prison for the act. By DAVID A. LIEB, Associated Press / February 8, 2012 Alyssa Bustamante is escorted out of the Cole

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A central Missouri teenager who confessed to strangling, cutting and stabbing a 9-year-old girl because she wanted to know how it felt to kill someone was sentenced Wednesday to life in

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