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teen describes killing as amazing & enjoyable
Tue 7 Feb 2012 - 15:30
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 "ahmazing" and
"pretty enjoyable" experience — then headed off to church with a laugh.
The words written by Alyssa Bustamante were read aloud in court Monday
as part of a sentencing hearing to determine whether she should get life
in prison or something less for the October 2009 murder of her
neighbor, 9-year-old Elizabeth Olten, in a small town west of Jefferson
City.
Bustamante, 18, sat silently — occasionally glancing at those testifying
about her, often looking down or to the side — as law enforcement
officers, attorneys and forensics experts read aloud her inner most
thoughts that she had recorded as a 15-year-old high school sophomore.
The most poignant part of Monday's testimony came when a handwriting
expert described how he was able to see through the blue ink that
Bustamante had used in an attempt to cover up her original journal entry
on the night of Elizabeth's murder. He then read the entry aloud in
court:
"I just fucking killed someone. I strangled them and slit their throat
and stabbed them now they're dead. I don't know how to feel atm. It was
ahmazing.
As soon as you get over the "ohmygawd I can't do this"
feeling, it's pretty enjoyable. I'm kinda nervous and shaky though right
now. Kay, I gotta go to church now...lol."
The journal entry was presented to the judge not long after Elizabeth's
mother and other relatives pleaded with Cole County Circuit Judge Pat
Joyce to impose the maximum sentence.
Bustamante pleaded guilty to
second-degree murder and armed criminal action last month and faces at
most a sentence of life in prison with a chance for parole. The least
she could get is 10 years.
Elizabeth's mother, Patty Preiss, described her daughter as "happy,
little girl," when she left her home about 5 p.m. after begging to go
play with Bustamante's younger sister. Preiss said she told Elizabeth to
be back for dinner at 6 p.m. but never saw her again.
"So much has been lost at the hands of this evil monster," Preiss
tearfully said, with Bustamante sitting several feet away. "Elizabeth
was given a death sentence and we were given a life sentence."
With Bustamante looking at her, Preiss said: "I hate her, I hate
everything about her." The judge cut off her testimony when she
described Bustamante as "not even human."
FBI agents seized the journal from Bustamante's bedroom during a search
of her family's home the day after Elizabeth went missing as hundreds of
volunteers scoured the rural area around St. Martin's.
Bustamante suggested to FBI and the Missouri State Highway Patrol
officials that the girl had probably been kidnapped and that whoever had
done so deserved to be convicted.
At one point, law enforcement officers discovered a hole in the ground
in the shape of a shallow grave near Bustamante's home. They testified
that Bustamante acknowledged digging it but said she just liked to dig
holes.
It was only later that Elizabeth's body was found concealed under
leaves in another grave in the woods behind the Bustamante home.
At a hearing in 2009, Missouri State Highway Patrol Sgt. David Rice
testified that the teenager told him "she wanted to know what it felt
like" to kill someone.
Defense attorneys Monday highlighted Bustamante's troubled childhood as
part of their argument about why she should receive leniency. They
referred to numerous references in her journal in the two months before
the murder, describing her suicidal feelings and the urge to hurt
herself and others.
At one point Bustamante had written that she intended to burn down a
house and kill all the occupants, but she never followed through with
that.
On Oct. 14, one week before Elizabeth's slaying, Bustamante had
written that she was unable to use her cell phone because the charger
had died, which meant she couldn't talk to anyone about the depression
and rage she was feeling.
"If I don't talk about it, I bottle it up, and when I explode someone's
going to die," she wrote in a journal that was read to the court by her
defense attorney, Charlie Moreland.
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Re: teen describes killing as amazing & enjoyable
Tue 7 Feb 2012 - 15:58
41OMaXiMuS wrote:Burn the bitch alive.
we should start using sick, disgusting, crazy ways of torture on these nut cases like this bitch who kill innocent people for no reason
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