GUILTY MO - Elizabeth Olten, 9, St Martin's, 21 Oct 2009 #15

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It will take people remembering this case and reminding folks down the road the exact heinousness of her crimes, getting the case back in the news at the time near consideration.

How many of us can ever forget?

I will be watching for that day.
 
Patricia Preiss filed the wrongful death lawsuit against Pathways Behavioral Healthcare, two employees and 18-year-old Alyssa Bustamante, who was convicted in Elizabeth Olten's death. Bustamante was 15 years old at the time of the October 2009 slaying in St. Martins, a small community just west of Jefferson City. She was sentenced in February to life in prison with the possibility of parole after pleading guilty to killing Elizabeth.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/...-mental-health-provider-17591019#.UJFxu4aefec
 
Was there ever any more information about the teacher who comitted suicide shortly before the murder? It's been so long since I read up on this case, no idea what I have missed.
 
Pathways' employees "were aware of the same violent propensities of Bustamante, as well as the specific, identifiable threats to harm Olten," the lawsuit says. But "none of these defendants took actions to detain Bustamante" and "none warned Olten or Preiss of the specific threat on Olten, nor did they take any action that might have prevented Bustamante from harming Olten."

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/10/2...uit-against-mental-health-care/#ixzz2FWbidqeV
 
Preiss previously filed a separate wrongful death lawsuit against Karen and Gary Brooke, who are Bustamante's grandparents and were her legal guardians at the time of Elizabeth's slaying. St. Louis County Circuit Judge Gloria Reno ordered a $400,000 judgment in that case, after an Oct. 3 hearing.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/10/2...uit-against-mental-health-care/#ixzz2FWboKbMX

October 21st marked the three-year anniversary of Olten's murder. The wrongful death suit was filed on October 18th.

http://www.abc17news.com/news.php?id=8015
 
bigflaw said:
Was there ever any more information about the teacher who comitted suicide shortly before the murder? It's been so long since I read up on this case, no idea what I have missed.
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A Jefferson City High School teacher, Bill Currie, committed suicide the Monday after Olten's body was found.

Citing student privacy laws, school spokesman David Luther would not confirm whether Bustamante was in his class or if the incidents are connected.

http://www.mdn.org/2009/STORIES/TRIAL.HTM
 
11/17/09 article snip- http://www.connectmidmissouri.com/news/story.aspx?id=378610

RUMORS & QUESTIONS
With little information being released, mid-Missouri is left to speculate on the rest of the story.

One popular blogoshpere theory is that Jefferson City High School teacher Bill Currie committed suicide just days after the 15 year old's arrest because he knew of her plans to commit murder.

In fact checking this possibility, we ran into problems because the school district will not even confirm that the murder suspect is a student at JCHS.
However, the Cole County Sheriff's Department and Jefferson City Police both say Currie did not teach the suspect and that his suicide in not connected.


Here is a case archive for Elizabeth Olten:
http://s296.photobucket.com/albums/mm166/crankycrankerson/Elizabeth%20Olten%20%20-MO-/
 
Joyce to hear arguments for Bustamante appeal

Twenty-one months after accepting her guilty plea and sentencing Alyssa Bustamante to life in prison plus 30 years, Cole County Presiding Circuit Judge Patricia Joyce on Friday will listen to arguments on a motion to set aside Bustamante’s conviction and sentences.

Bustamante was 15 on Oct. 21, 2009, when — she later admitted — she strangled and stabbed neighbor Elizabeth Olten, 9, then cut her throat.

Just four weeks after the murder, Circuit Judge Jon Beetem certified Bustamante as an adult, allowing the case to go to the open-to-the-public circuit court system rather than keeping it in the closed juvenile system.

http://www.newstribune.com/news/2013/nov/12/joyce-hear-arguments-bustamante-appeal/
 
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2548679/Woman-wrote-journal-ahmazing-kill-neighbor-9-15-wants-guilty-plea.html

A woman who wrote in her journal that it was 'ahmazing' to kill her nine-year-old neighbor when she was 15 has said she wants a judge to overturn her guilty plea...

After admitting to authorities that she strangled and stabbed her neighbor because she wanted to know what it felt like to kill someone, she was charged as an adult with first-degree murder, which carries a mandatory prison sentence of life without the possibility of parole...

But five months after Bustamante pleaded guilty, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a separate case that juveniles cannot face automatic life sentences without the possibility of parole.
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with additional written arguments as to why the court should set aside her guilty plea.

http://www.columbiamissourian.com/a...do-guilty-plea-in-9-year-old-neighbors-death/

Bustamante only describes feeling hopeless when she was asked to consider the original plea bargain. She doesn't mention any feelings of remorse or regret for her actions.

It sounds as if they're trying to come up with grounds to dismiss the plea on a technicality. I hope they don't let her off, she's a dangerous person.
 
Thankful the Judge did not grant her a new trial.

Alyssa dug a grave days prior to killing Elizabeth then Alyssa had her younger sister lured her there. She's evil, pure evil. RIH
 
Suit over 'wrongful death' of Elizabeth Olten still ongoing

News Tribune - Jefferson City, MO

Saturday, March 15, 2014

Patty_Preiss_t670.jpg

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/
 
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.



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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
 
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