The Story Of Alyssa Bustamante, The 15-Year-Old Who Slaughtered Her Nine-Year-Old Neighbor Just For The Thrill Of It
The Story Of Alyssa Bustamante, The 15-Year-Old Who Slaughtered Her Nine-Year-Old Neighbor Just For The Thrill Of It
Alyssa Bustamante seemed to be a rebellious yet normal teenager in rural St. Martins, Missouri — until she murdered her neighbor Elizabeth Olten in cold blood in 2009.
Alyssa Bustamante seemed like an ordinary teenage girl. Friends said, “She was just always so sweet and everybody loved her… she was just amazing!”
But inside her mind — and as her internet persona revealed — there was a much darker person lurking beneath the surface of this 15-year-old girl.
It may have surprised her friends and family, but Alyssa Bustamante’s virtual alter-ego would foreshadow her most heinous act: the killing of nine-year-old Elizabeth Olten.
Alyssa Bustamante And Her Troubled Childhood
Between 2002 and 2009, Alyssa Bustamante was raised by her grandparents. Her mother, Michelle Bustamante, had a history of drug and alcohol abuse, which led to criminal charges and jail time. Her father, Caesar Bustamante, was serving jail time for assault.
Alyssa’s grandparents consequently took legal custody of her and her three younger siblings in California. To escape their former lives, the kids moved to a rural, ranch-like property in St. Martins, Missouri, just west of the state capital of Jefferson City.
Despite the setbacks of her parents, Alyssa became an A and B student in high school.
Alyssa Bustamante was a normal kid by all appearances, and her grandparents provided a stable home where Alyssa’s parents could not. Friends said she would write poems and joke around. She regularly attended church at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, where she participated in several youth activities.
But in 2007, Alyssa tried to kill herself. After spending 10 days at a psychiatric hospital St. Martins, the teen went on anti-depressants. Despite her medication, Alyssa practiced cutting herself several times. Friends said she frequently showed them the scars on her wrists.
“Well she was obviously on the anti-depressants,” her friend told KRCG-TV. “We always would go upstairs and she’d be like, ‘Oh I need to take my medicine.'”
Online Alyssa was an entirely different person.
Alyssa Bustamante’s Twitter feed talked about how she hated authority. One post read, “Bad decisions make great stories,” according to KRCG-TV. She listed her hobbies on YouTube and MySpace as “killing people” and “cutting.” She also posted a YouTube video where she tried to get two of her brothers to try to touch an electrified fence.
Then, on October 21, 2009, Alyssa Bustamante brought her darkest fantasies to light.
The Murder Of Elizabeth Olten
Four houses down from the Bustamante family lived nine-year-old Elizabeth Olten. She often came over to play with Alyssa and her siblings. On the night Olten was killed, her mother, Patricia Preiss, says she begged to go to Alyssa’s house to play.
This was at 5 p.m., the last time Preiss saw her daughter alive. By 6 p.m., when Elizabeth didn’t come home, her mom knew something was wrong.
The day after Elizabeth’s disappearance, FBI agents questioned Alyssa and seized her diary. Authorities found a shallow hole behind Alyssa’s house that seemed to be in the shape of a grave. The teenager told the FBI she just liked to dig holes.
Later in the investigation, authorities found another shallow grave covered with leaves behind the Bustamante house. Elizabeth’s body was inside.
Prosecutors charged Alyssa with first-degree murder and arrested her. Everyone was shocked.
“Before this, before all of this, she was a normal 15-year-old girl,” a friend told KRCG-TV. “This really isn’t her. This was not the Alyssa that I knew.”
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