Posted on 11/18/2009 11:23:31 AM PST by freespirited
Alyssa Bustamante, 15, has been certified as an adult and will stand trial for the murder of Elizabeth Olten, 9, of rural Cole County.
Cole County Circuit Judge Jon Beetem ruled today the crime was vicious and the state’s juvenile facilities are inadequate to deal with someone who would commit such a crime.
Law enforcement testified that Bustamante had led them to the shallow grave in the woods where Olten’s body was found two days after she went missing. One officer testified in court today that Bustamante had told investigators she did it “because she wanted to know what it felt like to kill someone.”
The grand jury indictment accuses Bustamante of killing Olten by strangling her, cutting her throat and stabbing her. She’s also charged with armed criminal action for using a knife in the attack.
The charges were shortly after Bustamante had been certified to stand trial as an adult. She’s being held in the Cole County jail with no bond.
Records show the suspect has attempted suicide in the past and has had ongoing mental evaluations.
Olten’s family members attending the hearing wore pink T-shirts with her picture.
Bustamante’s defense attorney asked the judge to let her stand trial as a juvenile, saying trying her as an adult would be a death sentence.
Olten disappeared Oct. 21, when she was on her way home from a friend’s house about a half a mile from her home.
I would like to know what it feels like to sentence this girl to the max.
Alyssa is such a sweet name for such a monster. Agreed, she needs the max.
I thought that the media didn’t ever give out the identities of suspects under age 18.
Short rope long step!!!
Sounds like a future SCOTUS case. Then the “wise Latina”
can help out her La Raza comrade.
Maybe it’s because she’s being tried as an adult.
Now that she knows “what it is like to kill someone” let get to the things she will never know are like. Getting laid on a consistent basis by a spouse who loves her and the dregs she has been bedding with. What it is like to drive. What it is like to travel. What it is like raise a kid a parent can be proud of. Even corny stuff like knowing what it is like to have happy birthday sung to you by the waitstaff at Logan’s Roadhouse. A lifetime of things she will never experience. But she knows what it is like to kill someone. Big whoop!
Only if the court is treating them as juveniles. Once certified as an adult, no more protection.
Same desire of the ‘pizza killings’ murderer Koskovich years ago, 1997, happened in my old backyard in NJ. It was the thrill of the kill for this animal, hope he’s enjoying his life now.
RIP George and Jeremy
There is a whole subculture of them running around. They try to look and act as antisocial as possible. Grotesque is cool to them.
what an absolute sick kid
humanity horrifies me every so often
She could not possibly have gotten that idea from all the serial-killer trash on TV and in the movies, some of which have even used that exact line.
Just like no young girl ever became a prostitute because of Julia Robert's fairy-tale whore who winds up with multi-millionaire Richard Gere in "Pretty Woman."
This is what I would call a
“feral human”.
Any word on the status of her “father”?
I’m betting that would tell a big part of the story.
Words fail me.
And lefties wonder why we “cling to our guns” and want concealed carry.
Too bad the monster failed!
And the downside would be...
There’s going to be some interesting backstory on this one. I cannot believe that there were no warning signs that people (parents!) missed. Someone this messed up has got to be sending big signals that things are not right.
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