Girl, 15, dug grave anticipating killing

[frostyj]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Blessed with a Friday off school, 15-year-old Alyssa Bustamante dug two holes in the ground to be used as a grave, authorities said. For the next week, she attended classes, all the while plotting the right time for a murder, they said.
That time arrived the evening of Oct. 21, when Bustamante strangled 9-year-old neighbor Elizabeth Olten without provocation, cut the girl's throat and stabbed her, prosecutors said.
Why?
"Ultimately, she stated she wanted to know what it felt like," Missouri State Highway Patrol Sgt. David Rice testified Wednesday during a court hearing over the slaying.
Rice, who interviewed Bustamante in the days after Elizabeth's disappearance, said she confessed to investigators and led them to the fourth-grader's well-concealed body in a wooded area near their neighborhood in St. Martins, a small town west of Jefferson City.

Link (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34016501/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts)

just insane - loss of words really.

[Destino]

Psychopath or sociopath found early. They don't have a conscience but learn early (as children) in life to fake it once they realize they are different than others. It's almost like they aren't human. If you want to freak yourself out read up on it...

[21cents]

thats a shame. She was a cute girlhttp://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/v228/1850/6/n100000017544887_5439.jpg

[Toe Jam]

I'm surprised she stopped at just one.

Don't psychos like this usually go for mass murder?

[Destino]

I'm surprised she stopped at just one.

Don't psychos like this usually go for mass murder?
Some are just con men, others serial killes, others mass murders, and others never do any serious crimes at all.

[Kosher Ham]

And they say kids are lazy these days. Pfffttt.

[SkinsTerps26]

kosher with the miserable joke

[Capt Rich Fla]

Holy Cow.:(

[Kosher Ham]

kosher with the miserable joke

Was it that bad ? Ugh. I will work on it, sorry.

I figured, her digging ditches was pretty impressive for a 15 year old girl.

The crime on the other hand is disgusting and sad.

[SnyderShrugged]

my God.. "wanted to see what it felt like?" WTF?

[twa]

my God.. "wanted to see what it felt like?" WTF?

Probably more along the lines of wanted to 'feel' anything,in the search you go to the extremes.

[Drop]

15 years old....wow.

[USS Redskins]

I am rapidly losing faith in life... seems every week there is another story about a child being murdered. Where is this world headed?

[Mark The Homer]

I'm surprised she stopped at just one.

Don't psychos like this usually go for mass murder?Well, she did dig two holes....


I am rapidly losing faith in life... ...uhh, you mean you're losing faith in society or something... right?

[SnyderShrugged]

Probably more along the lines of wanted to 'feel' anything,in the search you go to the extremes.


I had flashes of Dexter when I read the OP.

[I_Bleed_B&G]

thats a shame. She was a cute girl

From the link above, she looks busted.

[JonsieRB34]

I am rapidly losing faith in life... seems every week there is another story about a child being murdered. Where is this world headed?

Where is the world headed? I'm no history scholar, but I think there have been terrible incidents for quite some time now. Rape, muder, torture, etc. seem more like a constant trend than a trend on the rise, IMO.

[Zguy28]

I am rapidly losing faith in life... seems every week there is another story about a child being murdered. Where is this world headed?That hasn't really changed. Children have always been the victims of killing since ancient times.

[desioreo87]

Probably more along the lines of wanted to 'feel' anything,in the search you go to the extremes.

this. I used to be interested in serial killers and how they became that way. serial killers aren't born, they are made. Over time, they usualy suffer some sort of physical abuse which causes them to distrust people, lose their compasion, which leads them to lose their capacity for empathy.

They have no emotion and they have no feeling. Its why they kill, to attempt to feel something.

[desioreo87]

I am rapidly losing faith in life... seems every week there is another story about a child being murdered. Where is this world headed?

This seemingly downward spiral only appears worse than earlier times because of the internet and rapid, rapid dissemination of information. Stuff like this happens all the time, but now we are hearing about it almost immediately.