By DAVID LIEB/Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A Missouri teenager who admitted stabbing, strangling and slitting the throat of a young neighbor girl wrote in her journal on the night of the killing that it was an

Eighteen-year-old Alyssa Bustamante (boost-ah-MAHN'-tay) faces the possibility of life in prison when she's sentenced Wednesday morning for the 2009 slaying of 9-year-old Elizabeth Olten. Bustamante was 15 at the time of the murder and confessed to

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Prosecutors trying to debunk a key defense theory about why a Missouri teenager killed a 9-year-old neighbor girl relied on the testimony Tuesday from a psychiatrist who said an

By Art Holliday St. Louis (KSDK) – When Alyssa Bustamante committed brutal murder she was just 15-yearsold. Some people have wondered if a juvenile committed the crime, or an adult. No parent would ever suggest that their 15-year-old is an adult.

By DAVID LIEB/Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A Missouri teenager who admitted stabbing, strangling and slitting the throat of a young neighbor girl wrote in her journal on the night of the killing that it was an