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|hobby = Posting on social media<br>Making YouTube videos}} | |hobby = Posting on social media<br>Making YouTube videos}} | ||
{{Quote|All I want in life is a reason for all this pain.|Alyssa in a Twitter post.}} | {{Quote|All I want in life is a reason for all this pain.|Alyssa in a Twitter post.}} | ||
'''Alyssa Bustamante''' (January 28, 1994-) is a woman from Missouri who beat, strangled, and slit the throat of nine-year-old, Elizabeth Olten. | '''Alyssa Bustamante''' (January 28, 1994-) is a woman from Missouri who beat, strangled, and slit the throat of nine-year-old girl, Elizabeth Olten. | ||
==A Dark and Troubled Mind== | ==A Dark and Troubled Mind== | ||
Bustamante had reveled in her bad girl image. Her Facebook page bore images of her with red smeared lipstick, designed to look ominously bloody paired with black kabuki style makeup over her eyes. She gritted her teeth, and made faces when she wasn't pouting like a sexpot. She was known around town as a bit of a bully. | Bustamante had reveled in her bad girl image. Her Facebook page bore images of her with red smeared lipstick, designed to look ominously bloody paired with black kabuki style makeup over her eyes. She gritted her teeth, and made faces when she wasn't pouting like a sexpot. She was known around town as a bit of a bully. | ||
Like many teens, she was deeply involved with social media and had pages on Myspace, Twitter, and Facebook | Like many teens, she was deeply involved with social media and had pages on Myspace, Twitter, and Facebook | ||
She had a YouTube account under the name Okami Kage (Japanese for “Wolf Shadow”) and filled out her profile. Under her hobbies, she listed killing people and cutting. | She had a YouTube account under the name Okami Kage (Japanese for “Wolf Shadow”) and filled out her profile. Under her hobbies, she listed killing people and cutting. | ||
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==Trial, Verdict, and Sentencing== | ==Trial, Verdict, and Sentencing== | ||
Alyssa was arrested and charged with first-degree murder in the death of Elizabeth Olten. She appeared in court on November | Alyssa was arrested and charged with first-degree murder in the death of Elizabeth Olten. She appeared in court on November 17th, 2009, where the judge ruled that she should be tried as an adult. Despite her confession to the crime, and having led the police to Elizabeth's body, she has entered a plea of Not Guilty. She is being held without bond. | ||
While in custody, it has been reported that Alyssa has tried to harm herself by cutting herself with her own fingernails. It is said she has been exhibiting signs of anxiety and severe depression in jail, and has been under suicide watch. Due to a motion filed by her lawyer, she has been remanded to a psychiatric institution to undergo evaluation, and receive immediate psychiatric treatment. | While in custody, it has been reported that Alyssa has tried to harm herself by cutting herself with her own fingernails. It is said she has been exhibiting signs of anxiety and severe depression in jail, and has been under suicide watch. Due to a motion filed by her lawyer, she has been remanded to a psychiatric institution to undergo evaluation, and receive immediate psychiatric treatment. | ||
A trial start date of May 16, 2011, has been set for Alyssa Bustamante. There, she will stand trial charged as an adult with first-degree murder for the horrific slaying of her young neighbor, Elizabeth Olten. | A trial start date of May 16, 2011, has been set for Alyssa Bustamante. There, she will stand trial charged as an adult with first-degree murder for the horrific slaying of her young neighbor, nine-year-old Elizabeth Olten. | ||
==Mental Health and Psychological Profile== | ==Mental Health and Psychological Profile== | ||
After previous issues that delayed the trial of Alyssa Bustamante, she was finally set to face the murder charges, with a trial due to start on January | After previous issues that delayed the trial of Alyssa Bustamante, she was finally set to face the murder charges, with a trial due to start on January 30th, 2012. Instead, Alyssa pleaded guilty to the charge of 2nd degree murder and armed criminal action. | ||
There was an audible gasp heard in the courtroom when the now 18-year-old Alyssa admitted to taking a knife to the throat of Elizabeth Olten and slitting it, then strangling her with her bare hands afterward. Her defense team tried to offer several excuses for what cause Alyssa to perform this horrid, haunting act, including the fact that she was on the anti-depressant Prozac as being a contributor which she had begun taking in 2007 after a suicide attempt, and had started an increased dosage just two weeks prior to Elizabeth's murder. They recounted a family history of drug abuse, suicide attempts, and mental disorders, and said that her mother had abandoned her and her father was in prison, to explain the mental state Alyssa was in when she brutally murdered Elizabeth Olten. | There was an audible gasp heard in the courtroom when the now 18-year-old Alyssa admitted to taking a knife to the throat of Elizabeth Olten and slitting it, then strangling her with her bare hands afterward. Her defense team tried to offer several excuses for what cause Alyssa to perform this horrid, haunting act, including the fact that she was on the anti-depressant Prozac as being a contributor which she had begun taking in 2007 after a suicide attempt, and had started an increased dosage just two weeks prior to Elizabeth's murder. They recounted a family history of drug abuse, suicide attempts, and mental disorders, and said that her mother had abandoned her and her father was in prison, to explain the mental state Alyssa was in when she brutally murdered Elizabeth Olten. | ||