COLE COUNTY - A Cole County Judge has denied a request from Alyssa Bustamante to set aside her guilty plea from a second-degree murder charge back in February of 2012. The court originally charged ...

A Missouri judge rules that the teen will be tried as an adult. Nov. 19, 2009 -- Fifteen-year-old Alyssa Bustamante aged considerably Wednesday when a Missouri judge ruled that she should be tried as ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A central Missouri teenager who confessed to strangling, cutting and stabbing a 9-year-old girl because she wanted to know how it felt to kill someone was sentenced Wednesday to ...

Prosecutors say girl strangled, stabbed young neighbor, dug ditch for body. Dec. 8, 2009— -- A 15-year-old Missouri girl pleaded not guilty today to stabbing and strangling a 9-year-old neighbor ...

JEFFERSON CITY - A prosecutor filed Supreme Court papers on October 12 detailing why Alyssa Bustamante, the Missouri teenager facing an adult murder charge, should not get a free education in jail.