JEFFERSON CITY - Alyssa Bustamante received a sentence of life in prison Wednesday for second-degree murder and 30 years for armed criminal action in the murder of nine-year-old Elizabeth Olten on Oct ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. JEFFERSON CITY • Prosecutors trying to debunk a key defense theory about why a Missouri teenager killed a 9-year-old neighbor ...