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00:00Music, musicooooo
00:00Bubsy krai
00:02And music during it
00:11Transferred to
00:14coeur
00:15two girls, one in
00:18school, the other in high
00:20their lives would collide
00:22that no one could have
00:27Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
00:30old Elizabeth Alton walks
00:33residential Street in St.
00:35Missouri to play with her
00:37Old line immigrant๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ๋ผ
00:40Alyssa's younger sister up
00:42But we will not follow Lubna Bayda, we will not follow you.
00:45I had dinner at a new place.
00:50She wanted to follow and she was going down with a rug
00:52She wanted us to solve all the problems.
00:57And follow the vision of the follower
00:59And I followed her by reading and following them
00:59He followed because he had no experience of following them.
01:09Thank you, why do they buy it? I asked, trying it out, but they tried us for a moment in the field and filled it, and yet on my mother.
01:16I continue with the Ford, there are many 60 acres, and it needs to be clear when you are finished. We find inspiration in your work, and we find that we need to learn.
01:24Bigral devices where they fry them Bigab
01:25Visit or issue the radiant one bitterly, and say issue the clear one at any moment of the time of the worries, and what you see is secret, the earth does not issue
01:35Balqati undermined this test to deal with the termite in something that does work
01:42And a room and a room, a job that puts me in charge of creating it.
01:47And a wig, why are you putting us there? I said it's a wig.
01:51And I lost to the foundation, and it is not the oppression we know.
01:54land grabbing
01:56And they respectfully benefited
02:01And the listeners started
02:05Thank you, Track
02:07How much was the transaction?
02:08How much do you want, Mana?
02:10They became poor.
02:11In their youth
02:22My photographer.
02:23On the city of air, we have become a center for translators.
02:27And when she returned from the translators, and when she had to become ill
02:34For the sake of my two years, the translators said that it was closer to money, really, at home.
02:40We don't go, we don't go, fuel to that house.
02:46There were many other doctors, and the prescriptions were numerous.
02:49The translator is greatly modified
02:51signaling to avoid it
02:55The stable one from the Bajana
02:58Avoidances
02:59Translator to travel
02:59Translator to travel
03:01Translator to travel
03:02Avoidances
03:02Two companies
03:03I'm live
03:05Under purchase
03:07We travel
03:07Good news
03:08By the grace of God
03:09Bahra
03:10they
03:11It was
03:12for him
03:13They wanted us
03:13they
03:13what
03:14Intend
03:18Rightfully
03:19In the translator, including what happens in the translator.
03:23Firstly, what happens in any transitional situation now,
03:26Whoever has experience in a particular place, and whoever has experience in a particular place,
03:31And with much deliberation, I postponed it until it was in the same position.
03:35And what about her friends? What is she doing beside her?
03:37We know that it is found in the translated works of the Haniza.
03:40She just had her friends with her, and the female translator was with her.
03:44And with it, we will be inclined to what happened to someone, and what was in it?
03:49Balanced to the best of my recollections said that when it was time for Elizabeth to go home
03:56She said she'd walk with her.
03:58Alissa said that she left her walking towards her home and that was the last time that she alleged to
04:03have seen her.
04:06Search and rescue teams press on through the night, despite the storm.
04:10At that point we're looking at perhaps she got lost in the woods or she fell and hurt herself.
04:15We set up a grid search with teams.
04:18We put electronic trackers on them
04:20so we knew that we'd covered every square inch
04:22At least twice that night.
04:25A profound thanks to the people that were working
04:28in extremely difficult circumstances.
04:31But we didn't find her or any indication of her.
04:35And we had to eventually call for that night
04:38because it simply became too dangerous to be in the woods.
04:40Reducing the amount of space available in the place is important; you will find it within a month.
04:49Then inside itself in a group in 2009
04:53Since the lighter the circle around it, the brighter the circle around it will be.
05:00Now it is possible to reduce the opening slightly around it
05:04And the key to understanding what is in that is important.
05:07So, by erecting this flag, we make a back, we mean to encircle it with people, with people inside it, with people in its power.
05:13Looking at him, with his personality and sense of the duration of his energy, presented to him by people, by people, with his personality, with his personality.
05:29Completely, with people, with someone, with a fear of me. Attempts to diagnose people with people, as much as a person, buy anshan
05:37state highway patrol and they set up checkpoints and literally stopped every vehicle that came
05:41through and asked what people had seen that type of thing the search had become a race against time
05:48with every hour that passed making the outcome feel more uncertain as the effort to find elizabeth
05:55drags into a second day investigators begin to focus on the last person known to have seen her
06:0215-year-old Alyssa Bustamante.
06:06We used the FBI's evidence recovery team to execute the search warrant
06:11and they went through with a fine-tooth comb.
06:15What they find behind Alyssa's bedroom door
06:18was far from the ordinary clutter of a teenager's life.
06:23When you think of a child writing something on the wall,
06:26you think of a little kid with a crayon or a paintbrush or a magic marker,
06:31you don't think of a teenager immortalizing that which is aberrant to society,
06:38talking about, you know, looking like there's blood on the wall
06:42or writing horrific statements on the wall.
06:45And her room reflects all of that worst of society, not the best.
06:51And yet when investigators speak with Alyssa herself,
06:54She seems calm, even engaged.
06:57I had met her briefly that first night.
07:01She appeared to be concerned that Elizabeth did not make it to her home.
07:07She was willing to engage with adults.
07:10She could carry on conversation.
07:11She wasn't intimidated by it.
07:13To make sense of the contradictions, investigators widened their scope,
07:18Looking to her friends, her church, her school, for any clues.
07:23Who are her friends at school?
07:25Who does she hang out with?
07:26Go to her church.
07:27Who does she hang out with?
07:27Talked to her grandparents, her parents.
07:30She hides so much of herself from even her closest contacts.
07:36But she surely shared her heart in her journal.
07:40It turns out that that was absolutely crucial to the case.
07:44She wrote,
07:59That single diary entry changes everything.
08:04Investigators no longer just have suspicion, they have a confession in her own handwriting.
08:1215-year-old Alyssa Bustamante is taken into custody and prepared for questioning.
08:19She's going to be taken to an interview room.
08:22She's going to be advised of her rights.
08:26And in her case, she immediately has an advocate present in the person of her grandmother
08:32and in the person of the juvenile officer.
08:35They're there as much to make sure her rights are protected as anything else.
08:39We really want to know, did you do it?
08:43Which the diary gave it to us, but we want to hear her say it.
08:47But we also, we also want to know why.
08:53Before anyone knew Alyssa Bustamante's name, she was just a teenager living in rural Missouri.
09:00Alyssa was smart and active.
09:02She was, I guess she'd call her a tomboy.
09:05She liked playing outside.
09:08She liked climbing trees.
09:09And we had quite a few trees around, and she climbed them all.
09:14Well, I was there when she was born, so I got to cut the cord when she was delivered.
09:19Her mother was just 16, and she was the teeniest little baby.
09:25So sweet.
09:26Alyssa was the oldest of four children.
09:28She lived with her younger twin brothers and her little sister, Emma,
09:33In the care of their grandparents, Gary and Karen Brooke.
09:36The arrangement came after years of instability with their birth mother.
09:41When Alyssa was seven, and right before the boys, her younger brothers turned three years old,
09:47Her mother came to California because she split up with her husband and didn't have anywhere to go.
09:55But we soon discovered that her mother was a drug addict, and what she had been going on in Missouri was
10:02not good.
10:03The kids were not very well cared for.
10:05The sheriff's department there advised us to get custody of the children, and that's when we did.
10:11Alyssa was quiet when she first came.
10:15And we just acted as if it was normal, and then she was fine.
10:21I know she was really happy with the school.
10:24Her mother had moved her around.
10:25At that time, she had probably moved eight times.
10:28And so she got to be in one home and have one school,
10:32And she was so happy to have that in her life, some stability.
10:37And so we got to see her blossom.
10:40We realized that she really did have a gift.
10:43She was, intellectually, she was gifted, and we didn't, nobody knew about it until now.
10:49And they tested her, and she was, and they put her in some of the gifted programs.
10:53And she was just doing really, really well.
10:56She was on the yard duty where they did the bus,
11:00And she would help kids that needed help or, you know, somebody's picking on them or whatever.
11:05She would help them.
11:06And so she was acknowledged with this award.
11:10And so we were proud of her, you know, proud of her growth and where she was coming from.
11:15To her younger brother, Nathaniel, Alyssa was more than a sister.
11:20Alyssa was about four years older than me.
11:22So it was kind of like, you know, she was kind of like our leader, I guess you would say,
11:26or not a mother per se, but just like, you know, someone is there to help us as a guide.
11:32But Alyssa was also a child carrying wounds most couldn't see.
11:38She was guarded.
11:42Before the incident, I called her, I only saw her cry once, one time.
11:50And it was after one of the times her mother had left.
11:53Her mother had left us around January, just before her birthday.
11:59And so she was very distracted about that.
12:03I mean, we didn't realize to the level that she was distracted.
12:07Her mother wasn't coming back.
12:09And I guess she decided that it was more than she could handle.
12:13She was in the downstairs bathroom, of course, completely unconscious.
12:17And we called the, we called the paramedics.
12:20They came and, and so she actually was very fortunate to make a, at least physically, she made a full
12:29recovery.
12:30That crisis put Alyssa in the hospital.
12:33But even after she came home, the signs of her pain were written on her body.
12:38You could definitely see the scars and, and she would definitely get in like dark moods where she wouldn't really
12:44talk.
12:45Or, you know, you could tell that something was bothering her.
12:49Unfortunately, it wasn't just a phase.
12:51It escalated until Alyssa's life was in danger and it forced the family to seek medical help.
12:58And that's when we started our, our time with the, um, counselors here.
13:04And that's when they first started putting her on Prozac.
13:07She went on 20 milligrams at that time when she was 12, in between 12 and 13.
13:15She was truly troubled and truly, uh, at that time had been prescribed Prozac for her, her mental illness.
13:27And, um, the prescription was not done properly.
13:32It was an adult dose and she was, you know, 15 years old and, and a small 15 year old
13:40at that.
13:41She only weighed about 110 pounds.
13:43So the dose was too much.
13:46Um, it made her wild, I guess you would say.
13:55When Alyssa is brought into the interview room, detectives press her to recount her day.
14:00We're going to start from Wednesday morning.
14:04Let's just kind of start there.
14:05Okay.
14:06Walk me through from the time you woke up in the morning.
14:09Okay.
14:10Woke up in the morning and walk me through exactly what happened.
14:13So I went to school.
14:15Okay.
14:17And I was there all day and then I came home on the bus and I got home around three.
14:25No, four, three, three, three, three, four.
14:30I get home around then and I just hung out my room for a little while.
14:33And then I went for a walk around five, four, 30, five, something like that.
14:42And I was just walking around the porch for a while.
14:45And I was supposed to take my little sister with me, but I ditched her because she's annoying.
14:51Once detectives have her version of the day laid out, they turn to the girl at the center of the
14:57search, Elizabeth Olten.
14:59What, what can you tell me about Elizabeth?
15:02I don't know other than her name and her date of birth here.
15:06I don't know anything about this girl.
15:07Tell me about Elizabeth.
15:09Um, well, she's nine.
15:16Okay.
15:17I don't really know that much about her either.
15:19I mean, tell me what you do know about her.
15:22Okay.
15:23She'd come over and swim.
15:25She's kind of girly.
15:29She can be annoying.
15:32After letting her talk around the edges, investigators steer the conversation to the questions that really matter.
15:40Did you do anything to Elizabeth?
15:42No.
15:43Did you cause her disappearance?
15:45No.
15:46Did you kill her?
15:47No.
15:48Do you know where she's at right now?
15:50No.
15:51What do you think happened to Elizabeth?
15:55Well, I really don't think she would run away because she's nine.
16:04And the way that they've been searching for two days, never got any sign of her.
16:09So I think that maybe someone kidnapped her or something.
16:14It's a terrible thing.
16:16But I don't know what else to assume.
16:19Then come questions about the holes Alyssa had been seen digging.
16:25Why did you dig that hole?
16:28Because I was bored and I felt like doing something.
16:34Tell me about that hole, though.
16:36It's a very specific hole.
16:38I mean, very, it's a very unique hole, I should say.
16:42Are all of your holes like that?
16:43No.
16:44Okay.
16:44But why, you dug the hole, so you know what I'm talking about.
16:49Yes.
16:49That was a very, very unique hole.
16:55I guess.
16:57I was digging.
16:59I mean, whatever shape comes to mind.
17:03I was just entertaining myself.
17:08The reason I'm asking, it just seems like a...
17:12And you can understand why, as if people were out in the woods looking for...
17:18Yeah.
17:18If looking for a person, if they were lost, or God forbid, looking for, if they thought
17:23It was, you know, God forbid a body, why they would be alarmed by that hole.
17:28Because they're, you know, come along a hole, a freshly dog โโhole that was, we're talking about
17:37a perfect rectangle hole that is three by about four and a half, five feet, perfect rectangle.
17:46I mean, perfect size of what would be a grave or, well, if you think of a small coffin.
17:53Do you see what I mean?
17:54Yeah.
17:55And so that's why so many people, I think, were alarmed by that hole, because that's the
18:01kind of hole that we as investigators typically see when we find a body underneath it.
18:09For a 15-year-old girl to dig a perfectly rectangle, three by four or five square rectangle hole.
18:19It just caught a lot of people, and it's very odd.
18:25Yeah, it makes sense.
18:26It does.
18:27What do you think about that?
18:29Well, I guess, you know, the timing for digging that hole was definitely not good.
18:35Have you ever dug a hole like that before?
18:37I have.
18:38Where at?
18:39Um, I've buried animals.
18:42They're up in, behind the house, there's like a little hill that goes up, and there's trees,
18:47and there's like a little gravestite.
18:49We dug holes for dead cats.
18:51Okay.
18:53Okay.
18:55We have your diary.
18:57We've read your diary.
18:59Mm-hmm.
19:00Including the last entry.
19:02Mm-hmm.
19:06We both know what we're talking about.
19:08Mm-hmm.
19:14Where's she at?
19:16I don't know.
19:18You need to tell us the truth.
19:20You need to tell us what happened.
19:25If this was an accident, that's fine, but we need the truth.
19:31We have to know the truth.
19:33That's all I'm asking for, is whatever happened.
19:36I have to know the truth.
19:40This is not going away.
19:42All I'm asking for is the truth.
19:46If this was an accident, that's fine.
19:48We can deal with that.
19:52But I have to know what happened.
19:55I have to know what the truth was.
19:57I have to know how this happened.
19:59And the most important thing is, we have to know where she's at.
20:04We have to give this family some closure.
20:08Just like if this was your little sister, you would want closure.
20:16This family needs closure.
20:19Mm-hmm.
20:21Let's start at the beginning.
20:25Is this something that was planned out, or was this just an accident?
20:32It was an accident.
20:35With that word, investigators seize the opening.
20:39If she's willing to admit it was an accident, then they can push her further.
20:44Why don't we start with what happened?
20:49You got home at 3:30?
20:51Mm-hmm.
20:53And then what happened from there?
20:55I was in the forest.
20:57Like I said.
21:01And Elizabeth was in there.
21:04Was she alone?
21:07Yeah.
21:10We decided to go hang out.
21:13Because it was a nice day.
21:21We were just mentioned around.
21:28She fell.
21:33She died.
21:39So, I burned her body.
21:44Investigators don't buy it.
21:45An accident.
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