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, ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (CN) - A teenager confessed Tuesday that she strangled her 9-year-old neighbor to know what it would feel like. Alyssa Bustamante's confession is part of plea deal to second-degree ...

JEFFERSON CITY - One day after Ryan Ferguson was released, Jefferson City killer Alyssa Bustamante wants out of prison. But unlike Ferguson, a Cole County Sheriff's Department officer said the case ...

Bustamante described the experience as "ahmazing" and "pretty enjoyable" in a diary entry written the night of the murder.After hundreds of volunteers searched for two days for Elizabeth, Bustamante ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (CN) - The Missouri Supreme Court will not get involved in deciding whether a 16-year-old girl accused of murder can continue her education while awaiting trial - for now. The ...

ST. LOUIS — A friend says 15-year-old murder suspect Alyssa Bustamante mentioned in January that she wondered what it would be like to kill someone. Jennifer Meyer told St. Louis TV station KMOV that ...

JEFFERSON CITY — A judge has denied a new trial for a young Missouri woman who pleaded guilty to murder for the slaying of a 9-year-old neighbor girl. Alyssa Bustamante was 15 years old in 2009 when ...