'I just f***ing killed someone and it was ahmazing': The sick diary entries of teen who strangled and stabbed neighbor, aged 9 Alyssa Bustamante was 15 when she killed Elizabeth Olten in 2009 She wrote: 'As soon as you get over the "ohmygawd I can't do this" feeling, it's pretty enjoyable... Kay, I gotta go to church now' Olten's mother called killer 'not even human' at hearing on Monday
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 7:45 AM on 7th February 2012
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 as little as ten years 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 f***ing killed someone. I strangled them and slit their throat and stabbed them now they're dead. I don't know how to feel atm [at the moment]. 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.
Prosecutors said Bustamante plotted Elizabeth's death, even digging two holes to be used as graves, then attended school for about a week while waiting for the right time to kill.
Hundreds of volunteers searched for two days for Elizabeth before her body was found.
Juvenile justice officials testified at an earlier hearing that Bustamante had attempted to commit suicide in 2007 and had been receiving mental health treatment for depression and cutting herself.
On a now-defunct YouTube page in her name, one of Bustamante's hobbies were listed as 'killing people'.
A few weeks before the murder she tweeted: 'This is all I want in life; a reason for all this pain
The victim's mother called the teen, seen here in 2009, 'less than human' at the sentencing hearing
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2097307/Alyssa-Bustamante-s...
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And to think, not only are the people running the country mass murders, but the people they are going to bring in to police it when martial law is declared are just like the killers you see in the pictures on this blog.
Much like the antagonists in this movie.
I have to ask, would locking up this "animal" for life make it any less of an animal? Would decades in a cage and hours upon hours of psychotherapy correct whatever crossed signals cause this thing to do what it did. How many taxpayer dollars should be used to turn this animal back into something even resembling a human being? Is this even possible? At what point do animals in human form need to just be eliminated rather than coddled? I know I preach love and positive energy but cancer needs to be removed for the body to thrive.
See what I mean. Hollywood's post only confirms what I'm saying. Look at that kid's dead fish eyes. Then look at the eyes of his victim. Her eyes shine with life like a freakin lighthouse beacon.
Damn Hollywood. I read the wiki page you linked up...
I didn't need to (read the whole thing). On the one hand, I can see your point Krypeke-- in the interest of public good and safety, go ahead and lock her up for life. I will now retort--
At what point should the taxpayers be forced to feed, house, and guard that kid for the rest of her life? Public Execution would be much cheaper. Hell, we can't even pay for the healthcare alone for the geriatrics that have been incarcerated for most of their lives. You know the ones-- they now need chemotherapy and other expensive life-preserving drugs because some pinhead who passed the bar exam can make ungodly amounts of money to defend the rights of the criminal before the rights of the victim.
Did I miss anything?
I'm just glad they got her early on. With her cutting habit I am reminded of America's first serial killer (plus rapist/cannibal/sado-masochist with religious psychosis) Albert Fish. An Albert Fish style life could very easily be the direction in which this girl was headed. Albert Fish didn't actually cut himself as I remember but he did push pins into his pelvic region and engage in self flagellation.
This girl, Albert Fish, and the green river killer Gary Ridgeway (who I met briefly shortly before he was arrested) all seem to have that same souless dead fish stare. The eyes really are the windows to the soul. If it looks like there's nobody home, there probably isn't. When I met Ridgeway I didn't know him from Adam (let alone that I'd be seeing him all over the news in a few months) but I thought immediately that he looked like a serial killer. Pay attention to your senses and instincts. First impressions are sometimes painfully correct.
This hit close to home, happened here to a close friend of mine in '09. Whole family wiped out by this 20 year old insane clown punk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmville_murders
wiki correction: She actually HATED the BS Boys
Emma was a beautiful Soul, although 16, I didn't know, thought she was like 23-25 somewhere. thats how intelligent she was, also home schooled by her Prof Mom ;)
She used to call me her "husband"...lol Nothing serious of course, when she get in fights w/ da folks she come over and spend bout 2 hours 'bitchin bout life and toke up ;) Emma had issues, she was a cutter because of Mom & Dad issues, a loner. She was pure of heart and had an old soul. A 160 IQ in HS. I remember telling her to be very careful of meeting dudes online.I met the lil turd the day he showed up here, and thought he was just a poser, non threatening type chunky kid. Never saw that coming. He gets life in jail.....nice...now we gotta pay for this assholes rent for the rest of his life.
Friggin kids today are screwed anymore imo.
Miss you Emma, and hope your spreading your infectious smile wherever you are!!!
Minimum of ten years? No way, lock her up for life. Read the whole article and tell me this piece of trash shouldn't be locked up for the rest of here life.
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