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Missouri teen admits killing neighbor, 9

Associated Press

  January 11, 2012

Alyssa Bustamante looked down, her long brown hair covering her teenage eyes, as a judge read the charges against her: murder and armed criminal action, for knowingly strangling, cutting, and stabbing her 9-year-old neighbor. For more than two years after she was arrested as a high school sophomore, Bustamante had been publicly silent about the gruesome crime, which a patrol officer testified she confessed to committing because “she wanted to know what it felt like.’’

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