Cole County sheriff via AP
Alyssa Bustamante confessed to murdering a young neighbor.
JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri — A teenager who confessed to strangling, cutting and stabbing a 9-year-old neighbor because she wanted to know how it felt to kill someone was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison with the possibility of parole.Alyssa Bustamante, 18, had pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and armed criminal action in the October 2009 slaying of Elizabeth Olten in their small Missouri town. In her diary, she described the experience as “pretty enjoyable.”
via U.S. News – Teen gets life for strangling, stabbing girl, 9, in thrill kill.
