A parole hearing is scheduled Monday for a woman serving a life sentence for killing a nine-year-old girl. The hearing is for Alyssa Bustamante, 30, who was sentenced to life in prison for the 2009 murder of Elizabeth Olten in central Missouri’s Cole County....
A judge has denied an appeal of the plea agreement made by the woman who when she was 15 killed nine-year-old Elizabeth Olten of St. Martins. Alyssa Bustamante is serving a sentence of life plus 30 years for murdering Olten, her neighbor, in 2009. She had asked a...
A bill has been heard in a House committee that aims to solve a problem with the sentencing of juveniles found guilty of first-degree murder in Missouri. A 2005 Missouri Supreme Court ruling eliminated the sentence of death for juveniles. Then in 2012 the U.S. Supreme...
