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 ...

In 2009, 15 year old Alyssa Bustamante became the focus of a shocking criminal case in Missouri after the disappearance of 9 ...

Stories about Alyssa Bustamante, an 18-year-old from central Missouri who confessed to killing a 9-year-old girl and was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison with the possibility of parole, ...

COLE COUNTY - In the week since a judge sentenced 18-year-old Alyssa Bustamante to life in prison for second-degree murder, the community of Cole County has reflected on the end of a two-year case.

JEFFERSON CITY - Two nine-hours days of testimony preceded teenager Alyssa Bustamante's life in prison sentence last week for the 2009 murder of nine-year-old Elizabeth Olten. Amid the emotional ...

JEFFERSON CITY — 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 ...