A Missouri woman who as a teenager wrote that killing a young neighbor was an "ahmazing" thrill asked a judge on Thursday to overturn her guilty plea, saying she made it under the fear of spending a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alyssa Bustamante admitted to killing a 9-year-old girl in 2009, and the reason why shocked police Cole County Sheriffs Department ...

JEFFERSON CITY - Cole County Judge Patricia Joyce released an order Tuesday imposing strict limitations on access to the sentencing of 17-year-old Alyssa Bustamante on Monday. Despite the mass public ...

In 2009, 15 year old Alyssa Bustamante became the focus of a shocking criminal case in Missouri after the disappearance of 9 year old Elizabeth Olten. What began as a missing child investigation ...

Bustamante has already tried to kill herself twice, once a couple of years ago and once since her arrest, according to court testimony. That's where the real hole in the system is, Wilson said. Long ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (CN) – A woman who was 15 when she wrote that it was an “ahmazing” thrill to kill her 9-year-old neighbor wants her guilty plea thrown out. Alyssa Bustamante appeared in Cole ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (CN) – A psychiatrist ignored the “well-documented” violent propensities of a teenager who murdered her neighbor, a mother claims in court. Alyssa Bustamante was 15 when she killed ...

The brutal 2009 murder of Elizabeth Olten has continued to haunt a Missouri community, partly for the crime itself but also for the motive. The reason Elizabeth's teenage killer committed the crime, ...