Today, a worthless creature named Alyssa Bustamante is back in court, in Cole County, Missouri, because in October of 2009, when she was fifteen years old, she violently murdered nine year old Elizabeth Olten, dumped her into a hole which she had already dug, and left her for two days, before finally telling authorities what had happened to Elizabeth. The court has already accepted her guilty plea to second degree murder, although this murder was obviously planned and therefore first degree murder, and today's appearance in court is for sentencing.
It's pretty much going as could be expected......the defense wants as much mercy and leniency as possible because their client has a mental illness and was on prozac at the time of the murder. The prosecution wants to put Bustamante away for life. It's a shame Bustamante is not eligable for the death penalty. She was fifteen when she murdered a nine year old, so she can only get life with a possibility of parole after eighty-five percent of her sentence is served. Elizabeth Olten's mother, Patty Preiss, stated while testifying, that Bustamante is an "evil monster". That statement seems pretty logical and accurate, since prozac does not incite murder, despite what the defense would purport. But the defense objected to a grieving mom calling a murderer a monster, because insane killers are obviously just misunderstood, not monsters.
Well golly gee! She's not a monster.......and it's all the prozac's fault! In that case, here's an idea: why not make the prescribing physician take responsibility for what happened to Elizabeth? If mental illness and the drugs used to treat it are that dangerous, shouldn't a responsible doctor have ordered Bustamante into a locked facility? She did, after all, have a history of violent behavior. No? That's not practical or possible? Ok, then; Bustamante must be an evil monster, and it should be okay to say so in court. Or perhaps, since she has a mental illness and is just "misunderstood", we should call her a mentally invalid monster. Maybe even an unsupervised spoiled brat.
Since I do not think Bustamante deserves any more attention, I will not post any pictures of her here. Below are some pictures of Elizabeth Olten, and of the funeral.
Update: the monster in question was sentenced today to life with the possibility of parole.
It's pretty much going as could be expected......the defense wants as much mercy and leniency as possible because their client has a mental illness and was on prozac at the time of the murder. The prosecution wants to put Bustamante away for life. It's a shame Bustamante is not eligable for the death penalty. She was fifteen when she murdered a nine year old, so she can only get life with a possibility of parole after eighty-five percent of her sentence is served. Elizabeth Olten's mother, Patty Preiss, stated while testifying, that Bustamante is an "evil monster". That statement seems pretty logical and accurate, since prozac does not incite murder, despite what the defense would purport. But the defense objected to a grieving mom calling a murderer a monster, because insane killers are obviously just misunderstood, not monsters.
Well golly gee! She's not a monster.......and it's all the prozac's fault! In that case, here's an idea: why not make the prescribing physician take responsibility for what happened to Elizabeth? If mental illness and the drugs used to treat it are that dangerous, shouldn't a responsible doctor have ordered Bustamante into a locked facility? She did, after all, have a history of violent behavior. No? That's not practical or possible? Ok, then; Bustamante must be an evil monster, and it should be okay to say so in court. Or perhaps, since she has a mental illness and is just "misunderstood", we should call her a mentally invalid monster. Maybe even an unsupervised spoiled brat.
Since I do not think Bustamante deserves any more attention, I will not post any pictures of her here. Below are some pictures of Elizabeth Olten, and of the funeral.
Update: the monster in question was sentenced today to life with the possibility of parole.
Thank you for remembering Alyssa.
ReplyDeleteGod bless that little girl. Snuffed out at 9... Stories like this make me feel a lot of anxiety for the civilized world. And God bless everyone out there that would NEVER do anything like that in their lives.
DeleteHow can someone said that Alyssa had a history of violent behaviour when she never did??? Alyssa was loved and was nice to everyone! The int. that her fake friend named Jennifer were lies as well as Alyssa never raise her hands against her sibling which is a fact!!! There is more to the story......find and ask a certain Dustin.......
ReplyDeleteAlyssa knew exactly where to find Elizabeth, and Alyssa also texted someone stating that she did it. I actually don't care what her history prior to the murder was; her plea was guilty, and I believe she is. Elizabeth did not deserve to die.
ReplyDeleteBefore moving to Missouri she was a mother to her siblings in California, since theirs was on drugs and drunk. She was actually overprotective and didn’t hurt them at all. I’m also sure her boyfriend Dustin at the time of the crime had a major part in it. Maybe not directly, but as an accomplice getting rid of her bloody clothes and murder knife, as well as covering up for her in school. Probably he made a deal with the FBI to talk about her behavior and his part, and in return would be free (he moved to another state a week after). Not surprisingly he is never mentioned in any official report, even though being questioned around 10 times. Regarding the 2 holes dug, which people say she intended to bury her brothers, it actually had nothing to do with that. She tried to dig one, but couldn’t due to tree roots on the way. She then just left it there, and proceeded to dig a second one without roots, which was the one used (rectangular in shape). The first one was round in shape and clearly rushed and not finished.
ReplyDeleteWow; that's a lot of knowledge you have about all this.
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