Elizabeth Olten -- Found Deceased 10/23/09 -- Alyssa Bustamante Sentenced To Life With The Possibility Of Parole

You're so right, Estee. Like Charles Manson, Diane Downs and many others.

2035!!!! I applaud the judge, jury and parole board to let that SOB rot in prison! And to your daughter, for having the strength to see it through. It's not easy, as we all know. ~hugs~!!

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/mo-woman-undo-guilty-plea-kid-slaying-22293211
ABC News.com - 1/30/14

Mo. Woman Wants to Undo Guilty Plea in Kid Slaying

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. January 30, 2014 (AP)
By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press

http://www.kansascity.com/2014/01/30/4786280/mo-woman-wants-to-undo-guilty.html
Kansas City Star - Kansas City, Mo  - 1/3014

Mo. woman wants to undo guilty plea in kid slaying



Alyssa Bustamante - MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS File, AP Photo

Judge denies new trial in slaying of Missouri girl

The Wichita Eagle - Wichita, KS

Published Monday, March 10, 2014, at 3:17 p.m.
Updated Monday, March 10, 2014, at 5:01 p.m.



The Jefferson City News-Tribune, Julie Smith, Pool, File/AP Photo
FILE - In this Jan. 30, 2014 file photo
Alyssa Bustamante appears in a
Jefferson City, Mo., court during a
hearing on whether to set aside her
plea in the 2009 slaying of 9-year-old
Elizabeth Olten when she was 15.
A judge denied a new trial for Bustamante
on Monday, March 10, 2014 ruling she
understood what she was doing when
she pleaded guilty to second-degree
murder and did not receive ineffective
advice from her attorneys.


JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A judge has denied a new trial for a young Missouri woman who pleaded guilty to murder for the slaying of a 9-year-old neighbor girl but later sought a do-over because of a U.S. Supreme Court case invalidating mandatory life sentences for juveniles.

Alyssa Bustamante was 15 years old in 2009 when she killed Elizabeth Olten and buried her in a wooded area west of Jefferson City. Bustamante wrote in her diary that it was an "ahmazing" and "pretty enjoyable" experience.

Snipped:

Under Missouri guidelines, Bustamante must serve at least 35 years and five months before being eligible for parole.

Read more:

http://www.kansas.com/2014/03/10/3337064/judge-denies-new-trial-in-slaying.html

Suit over 'wrongful death' of Elizabeth Olten still ongoing

News Tribune - Jefferson City, MO

Saturday, March 15, 2014



In this Jan. 10, 2012 file photo, Elizabeth Olten’s mother, Patty Preiss,
in dark wind breaker center, leaves the Cole County Courthouse with
supporters after Alyssa Bustamante entered a guilty plea to
second-degree murder. In October 2009, 9-year-old Elizabeth was
found murdered near her St. Martins home. Photo by News Tribune.


Confidentiality of patient records may have doomed Patricia Preiss’ wrongful death lawsuit.

Preiss filed her nine-page lawsuit Oct. 18, 2012, three days short of the third anniversary of her daughter’s Oct. 21, 2009, murder.

Elizabeth Olten was 9 when she was killed.

Neighbor Alyssa Daileen Bustamante was 15 when Olten died, and confessed to the murder Jan. 10, 2012 — just 18 days before her 18th birthday.

Preiss sued Bustamante, Pathways Behavioral Healthcare and two of its employees — Ron Wilson, a counselor who had worked with Bustamante, and Dr. Niger Sultana, a psychiatrist.

Late last week, St. Louis County lawyer Bruce R. Bartlett, representing Preiss, dismissed Pathways, Dr. Sultana and Wilson as defendants.

And Cole County Circuit Judge Jon Beetem filed a docket entry Friday, ordering Preiss’ attorneys “to advise status of claim against Defendant Bustamante, having dismissed all others.”

Read more:

http://www.newstribune.com/news/2014/mar/15/elizabeth-olten-wrongful-death-suit-still-ongoing/