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 - 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 ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - A Missouri teenager is about to find out her sentence for murdering a young neighbor girl. Eighteen-year-old Alyssa Bustamante faces the possibility of life in prison when ...

JEFFERSON CITY — A Missouri teenager who confessed to murdering a young neighbor girl is described as a "thrill killer" by prosecutors and a mentally disturbed child by her defense attorneys. Those ...

COLE COUNTY - The sentencing of 17-year-old Alyssa Bustamante this week will end a two-year case that began when a nine-year-old Cole County girl disappeared on Oct. 21, 2009. Bustamante will appear ...

“I just f—— killed someone. I strangled them and slit their throat and stabbed them now they’re dead. I don’t know how to feel atm. It was ahmazing. As soon as you get over the “ohmygawd I can’t do ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A Missouri teenager who confessed to murdering a young neighbor girl faces the possibility of life in prison when she's sentenced Wednesday morning. Alyssa Bustamante, 18, ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – 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 ...

*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 ...

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 ...