Thrill-killing Missouri teen gets life for strangling neighbor, 9

A Missouri teenager who was 15 when she was accused of killing her 9-year-old neighbor -- just to see what it felt like -- was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison.

The case's matter-of-fact brutality rocked St. Martins, Mo., the small town in which the killing occurred. With her freckled face, large pretty eyes and shiny auburn hair, Alyssa Bustamante resembled nothing so much as the stereotypical girl next door.

But a peek inside Bustamante's diary offered a glimpse at what prosecutors described as a coldhearted killer who showed no remorse.

Bustamante pleaded guilty to killing Elizabeth Olten by strangling her, stabbing her, slitting her throat and then wrapping the body in a blanket and concealing it in a shallow grave.

She told authorities she dug the grave several days in advance, and coaxed the child outside with an invitation to go play, according to the testimony. Bustamante also admitted telling the little girl she had a surprise waiting for her in the woods, and then pulled out a knife she had concealed in her backpack.

But some of the most chilling testimony came from words that Bustamante later used to relive the October 2009 experience. Shortly after the killing, Bustamante took to the pages of her personal diary with teen shorthand, calling the killing "ahmazing" and "pretty enjoyable" and signing off with: "gotta go to church now…lol."

Prosecutor Mark Richardson said such callousness deserved the toughest sentence possible, life without the possibility of parole. "The motive has to be the most senseless, reprehensible that could be in humankind, and that is to take a life for a thrill," he said, according to the Associated Press.

Bustamante, now 18, apologized during the sentencing hearing for what she had done: "If I could give my life to bring her back, I would. I just want to say I'm sorry for what happened. I'm so sorry."

Despite those comments, much has been made of Bustamante's seeming lack of remorse during the course of the case. The news service noted that Bustamante shed tears in court Wednesday morning -- judgment day -- for the first time since the case began more than two years ago.

But her defense team said the teenager was being treated too harshly. The defense attorneys pleaded with the court to give Bustamante a chance of being released from prison one day. Bustamante was a mentally disturbed teenager who had struggled with depression for years, they said.

Her attorneys also tried to make issue of her use of the antidepressant Prozac for several years, suggesting it helped spur her to violence.

The sentencing capped several days of testimony before Cole County Circuit Judge Pat Joyce, and was marked by high emotions.

At one point, the slain girl's grandmother interrupted the court proceedings to shout out her preferred sentence: "I think Alyssa should get out of jail the same day Elizabeth gets out of the grave!" she said, according to the news service.

The judge ultimately handed down two terms -- life in prison for second-degree murder, plus an additional 30 years for armed criminal action. The judge ordered Bustamante to serve the life prison term first, a distinction that adds to the likelihood that the teen will spend the rest of her life behind bars.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Photo: Alyssa Bustamante, 18, is escorted from the Cole County Courthouse, in Jefferson City, Mo., on Wednesday morning. Credit: Julie Smith / Jefferson City News-Tribune

Natalee Holloway justice? Joran Van der Sloot gets 28 years

Natalee Holloway is a name likely to haunt a generation of U.S. parents. The teenager from Mountain Brook, Ala., went to Aruba in 2005 as part of a senior high school trip to celebrate her graduation -- and was never heard from again. Many believe she was killed by Dutch national Joran Van der Sloot or, at the very least, that he knows what happened to her.

Van der Sloot was sentenced Friday in Peru to serve 28 years in a prison for fatally beating another young woman, Stephany Flores, 21, in his hotel room in Lima. It's unusual for such a murder case in a foreign land to make headlines in America. But U.S. media have covered this case because it gives a bittersweet measure of solace to the grieving Holloway family -- and to all parents who can feel their suffering.

Flores and Holloway's parents never met. But Flores possibly met her end while trying to help Natalee Holloway's family.

Investigators have long believed that Van der Sloot violently turned on the Flores after she found something, perhaps a clue, related to Holloway on his computer.

Flores' murder took place May 30, 2010. That's precisely five years to the day that Holloway was seen leaving a nightclub in Aruba with Van der Sloot and two other men on May 30, 2005.

After that night, Holloway vanished.

Her disappearance made international headlines and triggered a massive, multiagency search that included sifting the bottom of the ocean floor off Aruba in a bid for clues.

Over the years, Van der Sloot has told law enforcement officials, as well as the media, conflicting stories about Holloway. In one scenario, he politely dropped Holloway off at her hotel. In another, he left her, alone, on the beach after she collapsed. He also claimed at one point that he sold her into sexual slavery. And, of course, he has said that he had nothing at all to do with Holloway's disappearance.

While U.S. authorities did not have the jurisdiction to charge him in Holloway's disappearance, they have not given up hope that he will someday be forced to face charges in a U.S. courtroom.

In another turn of events, Van der Sloot allegedly contacted Holloway's mother, Beth, and promised to reveal everything about his daughter's disappearance -- in exchange for $250,000.

The FBI, which became involved in the alleged 2010 extortion plot, set up a sting to capture Van der Sloot. But he fled to Peru with a down payment of several thousand dollars that was wired to him as part of the negotiations.

In a sad coincidence, Holloway's family was in court this week for a previously scheduled hearing. The matter? A formal declaration of her death, necessary so that her parents can tend to matters related to the teen's meager estate.

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Photo: Joran Van der Sloot arrives in court Friday for his sentencing. Credit: Karel Navarro / Associated Press

Arkansas grandmothers: One in bomb plot, one in murder-suicide

Today we have not one but two stories involving grandmothers, and one is stranger than the next. Did we mention that both grandmas are from Arkansas? Yep.

First up: A search is underway for a man who forced 73-year-old Betty Davis to walk into an Arvest Bank branch in Fayetteville, Ark., and demand money. The suspect had taped a device -- he said it was a bomb -- to her ankle and threatened to harm her if she didn't do what he said.

"He showed her a little detonator and said, 'All I have to do is push this button, and it will blow you up,' " the victim's granddaughter, Carly Geanolus, told KHBS-TV. Davis walked into the bank at about 10:30 a.m. and told bank employees about the device. The bank was evacuated, and the bomb squad removed the device. No one was injured.

Davis told police that she and her husband, Dean Davis, were being held hostage at their Washington County home by the man. The husband was found tied up at the home. It was not immediately clear whether the device was actually dangerous.

Then there's the case of Janice Robbins, 63, who reportedly stabbed her 7-year-old granddaughter in the chest and then set their Central Arkansas home on fire as part of a murder-suicide. 

Robbins left a suicide note that said she did not want to leave her granddaughter, Abby, behind. Robbins had assumed responsibility for the girl after her son's death in Iraq.

Faulkner County Coroner Patrick F. Moore told the Associated Press that the smoke from the fire, not the single stab wound, ultimately killed the girl, as well as her grandmother. "We can’t speculate at this point whether or not they were conscious ... but we do know they were alive during the time of the fire," he told the news service.

The little girl's father -- and Robbins' son -- was Army Staff Sgt. William T. "Terry" Robbins. He was shot and killed by a fellow soldier in Iraq in 2005 in a dispute over alcohol, according to the AP. Robbins then assumed care of the girl.

There were no immediate signs that Robbins suffered financial problems, although others said she struggled with depression in the wake of her son's death. She was a retired Army nurse, and reportedly had another son who died several years ago, the AP reported.

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Arizona council candidate may be forced to take English test

It’s nothing new for politicians to jab at their rivals’ (lack of) credentials. But their English proficiency?

Welcome to San Luis, Ariz.

The City Council recently asked for verification that activist and council candidate Alejandrina Cabrera could speak, read and write in English, as state law requires of public officials. The action was in response to allegations by Guillermina Fuentes, a former mayor of the fast-growing border city, the Yuma Sun reported.

“I interpreted everything to Alejandrina because in many cases she did not understand what was being said,” Fuentes told the paper, which could not reach Cabrera for comment.

The council’s action could mean that the city hires someone to test Cabrera’s English fluency. In San Luis, nearly all 25,000 residents are Latino and about 88% speak a language other than English at home, according to Census Bureau data.

Cabrera is one of 10 council candidates running in the city’s March primary, the Sun said.  She is considered something of a rabble-rouser, having spearheaded two failed recall attempts against the current mayor of San Luis, Juan Carlos Escamilla.

Escamilla voted in favor of testing Cabrera’s grasp of English, TV station KSWT reported. "I feel I don't dominate 100%,” he said of his English skills, “but I can still get by, I can write, read and understand it very well.”

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Photo: The desert sand east of San Luis, Ariz., is imprinted with Border Patrol tracks in this 2007 photo. Officials in the border city have recently sparred over a council candidate's English skills. Credit: Don Bartletti/Los Angeles Times

Stories that grabbed us in 2011: Rogues, thieves, porn and more

A philandering governor. An inmate, an ex-girlfriend and an accusation of rape. A sprawling hodgepodge of buildings that has neighbors up in arms. And an earthquake and tsunami that killed thousands.

Stories on these topics were the most-read of the year at latimes.com.

But before we get to the headlines that made us cheer, jeer and tear up, take a moment to slap yourself on the back, dear readers. It seems that media pundits are constantly wringing their hands and lamenting the state of long-form journalism, or complaining about the public's seemingly insatiable desire for all things Kardashian. You've proved them wrong.

The stories that were most widely read were largely hard-hitting investigative pieces or breaking news. There wasn't a Kim, Khloe or Kourtney in the bunch.

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In fact, the single most popular story on latimes.com in 2011 was the disturbing two-part tale of Louis Gonzalez III, a Las Vegas father who found himself facing life behind bars for allegedly assaulting his ex-girlfriend and mother of his child by tying her up in her Simi Valley home, burning her with matches and sexually assaulting her with a wooden hanger.

"One of the most brutal attacks I have ever seen," is the way one Simi Valley law enforcement officer described the crime scene. A dogged Simi Valley detective set out to collect the evidence to support the woman's claim -- that her ex-boyfriend attacked her -- but the evidence would end up pointing to a more surprising conclusion.

Then there was the revelation that former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his wife, Maria Shriver, had separated because she discovered that he had fathered a child with a longtime member of their household.

Readers were also drawn to our extensive coverage of Japan's worst earthquake in recorded history. The temblor occurred March 11, rocking the northeast coast of Japan and triggering a deadly tsunami, the effects of which were felt as far as the Pacific Northwest. In all, more than 15,000 people perished.

Other stories that struck a chord with readers included the tale of Alan Kimble Fahey's homemade, ramshackle labyrinth of buildings that he calls Phonehenge West. Located in Acton, the structure is Fahey's 30-year labor of love. But authorities say it violates practically every building and fire code in the book. And officials are trying to force him to tear it down.

An estimated 15 million poker-playing Americans were affected by this next story: The founders of the three largest online poker sites were indicted on charges including bank fraud and money laundering. Many poker players fretted about the fate of their bettings, and the fate of on-line poker playing. But one of the sites, Full Tilt Poker, defended its business practices and the rights of Americans everywhere to gamble away their hard-earned money. 

Rounding out the rest of our list: the colossal failure of Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2, an experimental aircraft capable of traveling at 20 times the speed of sound; a U.S. Supreme Court ruling ordering California to improve inhumane conditions for state prison inmates; an in-depth look at Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel; and the Los Angeles-based porn industry's shutdown after an adult film performer tested positive for HIV.

But we all know that readers cannot live on news alone. Here's a look at our most-viewed photo galleries of the year.

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Photo: In happier days, newly-elected California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and wife Maria Shriver celebrate at the Century Plaza Hotel in Century City. Credit: Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times

In Las Vegas, MGM Grand casino to retire its lions

The MGM Grand lions were once as prized on the Las Vegas Strip as a visit from Paris Hilton -– sightings of either one provided tourists with an only-in-Vegas moment. The few dozen lions were probably as pampered as the wealthy socialite, and they arguably worked more frequently.

The lions lived on an 8.5-acre ranch named The Cat House -- not to be confused with Cathouse, a nightclub at the Luxor hotel  -- where they snacked on horse leg bones and steaks and were trained as cubs to tolerate their own version of paparazzi. Some were said to be descendants of Leo, the original Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lion.

At least once a week since 1999, the lions were loaded into transport cages and driven to the Strip, where their golden manes were shampooed and blow-dried before their star turn. They spent hours in a $9-million, 5,000-square-foot glass habitat, so enamored with the attention that it was sometimes hard to get them to leave.

The animals even had a trust fund of sorts, a 2008 Times story said. MGM Grand managed a 401(k) for them, which would pay for food and trainers if their owner, Keith Evans, no longer could. A few years ago, the account held $1.6 million.

But time passes and tastes change. Like Hilton, the lions have fallen out of favor in Las Vegas (though it had nothing to do with cocaine possession and anemic TV ratings).

The lion habitat will permanently close Jan. 31, the Las Vegas Sun reported Wednesday. A spokeswoman for MGM Resorts International, which owns the hotel, said the closure is part of “significant changes” planned for the massive property, which has a giant lion statue on Las Vegas Boulevard.

MGM Resorts, along with other major casino companies, remains financially bruised from the recession, though in recent months tourism here has somewhat steadied. “The lion is the hotel’s logo,” owner Evans told the Sun, “but times change I guess, and we’re a free show.”

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Photo: Tourists catch a big cat resting in the soundproof lion habitat at the MGM Grand hotel-casino. Credit: Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times

Reno takes on SNL’s Seth Meyers -- but Fozzie Bear gets a pass

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Perhaps the Biggest Little City in the World is still smarting from "Reno 911," a “Cops” parody that showed the city’s officers policing chickens and trailer park denizens -- sometimes in washcloth-sized shorts.

That would explain the local reaction to a recent round of Reno-bashing that started with, of all things, the new Muppet movie.

In “The Muppets,” Jason Segel and Amy Adams rescue Fozzie Bear from a Reno casino, where he’s performing with a Muppets tribute act, the Moopets. As the Las Vegas Sun described it: In a riff off the song “The Rainbow Connection,” the Moopets tout the fictional Chulo casino’s free parking and 24-hour wedding chapel (“No marriage certificate is needed!”). Later, the gang retreats to Fozzie’s dressing room -– an alleyway where they hear the pop-pop of gunfire.

Boosters of downtown Reno, where the majority of casinos tower over the Truckee River, seemed to take the big-screen portrayal in stride. Some businesses even launched a tongue-in-cheek website called “Reno Loves Fozzie.”

Then Seth Meyers of  “Saturday Night Live” joined the pile-on.

“According to a new list, the least happiest city in America is St. Petersburg, Fla.,” Meyers said on a recent “Weekend Update” segment. “But that’s only because Reno, Nev., finally killed itself.”

Oh, and he mispronounced Nevada.

Reno was not amused.

The city has suffered tremendous misfortune this year, including a major wildfire and a plane crash at one of its top tourism events, the National Championship Air Races, which killed 11 people. Even before that, residents were sick of Reno’s hick-town image, especially because they live so close to spectacular Lake Tahoe.

So the Reno Gazette-Journal asked readers to submit their responses to Seth Meyers, which the paper published last weekend.  One reader invoked Dan Aykroyd (“Seth, you ignorant slut”); another said the zingers had actually been helpful (“Keep telling them it’s awful -- it keeps the Californians at bay”).

The paper didn’t ask for a response from Las Vegas -- the cities have a mutual antipathy akin to that of San Francisco and Los Angeles. But the Sun provided one anyway, listing Reno’s five food groups as venison, fish, berries, beer and Marlboro Reds.

There was some irony in this. On the saddest-cities list that Meyers citied, Reno was No. 9. What was No. 10? Las Vegas.

[For the record, 3:13 p.m., Dec. 21: An earlier version of this post misspelled Jason Segel's last name.]

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Photo: Fozzie Bear and Walter arrive at the premiere of "The Muppets" at El Capitan Theater in Los Angeles. Credit: Katy Winn/Associated Press

Veterans Day: What you need to know

Veterans Day is one of 10 federally recognized holidays. But if you stopped the proverbial man on the street and asked him to name all the federal holidays, it's likely he'd tick off Christmas and New Year's and the Fourth of July and a few others before he got around to Veterans Day.

That's a shame. Veterans Day is the one day a year set aside to honor military veterans, past and present. And, of course, without Veterans Day, we might not have the freedom to celebrate some of those other holidays.

So what is the history of this holiday?

Veterans Day traces its origins to World War I, when an armistice was reached between the Allied nations and Germany. It went into effect on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918. The following year, Nov. 11 became officially known as Armistice Day, a day set aside to honor those who had died in service to the country.

As part of the annual commemoration, there were parades and such. It also became habit for the country to pause at precisely 11 a.m., briefly ceasing all business in honor of the sacrifices of those World War I heroes.

Fast forward to 1954. The valor of U.S. forces in World War II led to a movement to expand the holiday to honor all soldiers, past and present. And in that year, President Dwight D. Eisenhower did just that, signing legislation that turned Armistice Day into Veterans Day.

Today, Veterans Day will compete for national attention with a quirk of the calendar. At some point today it will be 11:11:11 on 11/11/11.

Brides are rushing to Las Vegas to make it a wedding day to remember. Numerology experts are making note of its palindromic sensibilities. Hollywood is unleashing a horror film, "11-11-11," reinforcing some suspicions that the proliferation of elevens has a dark side.

But you can commemorate the day in a different fashion, if you choose.

You can look past all the "11" hoopla at 11 a.m. today and pause for a moment or two to express gratitude for all U.S. servicemen and women, past and present.

 

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Photo: Stephen Bridges, who served with the Army National Guard in Iraq in 2006-07, salutes as he and his sons watch a Veterans Day parade in South Jacksonville, Ill. Credit: Robert Leistra / Jacksonville Journal-Courier

Video: A Veterans Day video released by the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Christo's Colorado 'Over the River' project wins federal approval

There are many ways to measure the massiveness of “Over the River,” the project that artist Christo is championing for Colorado's Arkansas River Valley.

Amount of fabric: 5.9 miles.

Cost: Up to $50 million.

Size of environmental impact statement: 1,686 pages.

Or you could take note of the frenzy the project has stirred up.

Christo has proposed suspending silvery fabric in segments over 42 miles of the Arkansas River. If approved, the installation will take about two years to build and open for two weeks in the summer of 2014. Proponents said it would draw as many as 400,000 visitors to the picturesque region, some of them before the opening, the Denver Post reported.

But the proposal split the state’s environmental activists, some of whom balked at the possibilities of heavy traffic and harm to local Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep, Colorado’s state animal. Christo, who once set up 1,760 giant yellow umbrellas in California's Tejon Pass, is no stranger to the tumult that public art sometimes stirs. Last year, when asked about the "Over the River" controversy, Christo told The Times: “By discussing the work of art they become part of the work of art. They make it more important.”

This week, federal environmental regulators signed off on “Over the River,” which now awaits approval from two counties and state transportation officials, the Post said. "This is the first time in history that a work of art had an environmental impact statement — an enormous feat,” a jubilant Christo told the paper.

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Image: A drawing of a section of the Arkansas River in southern Colorado that artist Christo would drape with material.

Cleveland Slavs mourn loss of Catholic churches

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A few dozen stalwart Polish Americans gather each Sunday next to a chain-link fence on the east side of Cleveland, holding a vigil at their shuttered St. Casimir Catholic Church and hoping that one day authorities in Rome will reopen the church.

It was ordered closed by Bishop Richard Lennon in 2009, part of a massive urban retrenchment of the Cleveland Diocese, in which more than 50 churches in the region were shuttered. Most of the churches were located in the decaying core of the city.  

The St. Casimir parishioners vow they will not concede defeat, showing up at the church, Polish flags in hand. Sunday will mark the second anniversary of their crusade.

The Hungarians, Slovaks, Slovenes, Poles, Czechs and other Slavic groups were among the hardest hit in the closures, losing churches that served waves of immigrants who flooded into Cleveland over the last century and became part of the city's industrial work force.

More than a dozen church congregations have appealed Lennon's decision to authorities in Rome, who have yet to decide whether to uphold it or reopen the churches.

Robert Tayek, spokesman for the diocese, said the protesters are actually a very small group.

"They have their intent and they want to follow it through," Tayek said. "Most of the people have gotten through it.  The healing process is under way and things have settled down."

Tayek said the appeals process is a slow one and that a similar appeal in Boston took about five years to resolve.

John Juhasz spends every Sunday at a vigil outside St. Emeric, once a center of the Hungarian American community in Cleveland.

"There is no healing at all," Juhasz said. "Mr. Tayek is engaging in wishful thinking."

Before it was closed last year, services at St. Emeric were held in Hungarian. The parish had recruited their priest from Hungary. A Hungarian Boy Scout troop and school still operate in buildings separate from the church.

Joe Feckinan, who spends nearly every Sunday at St. Casimir, said Lennon deeply misunderstood the depth of emotions that were involved among Eastern Europeans, whose families fled more than a century of war and upheaval in Europe and looked at their churches as part of their ethnic identity.

"My relatives fought from the sewers of Warsaw," Feckinan said, referring to the uprising against Nazis during World War II. Feckinan's wife, Malgosia, fled Poland with her family during the Cold War.

"I can't let this fight go," Feckinan said. "We are not giving up."

Stanislav Zadnik, whose Slovene parish was shut down, said the diocese has been disrespectful toward parishioners when it closes churches. Several months ago, Zadnik got into a battle of words with Tayek over a World War II memorial plaque that was found among the debris of a demolished church. When Zadnik recovered it, Tayek alleged Zadnik had taken it "under false pretenses."

"Mr. Tayek slandered me," Zadnik said.

When the Cleveland Plain Dealer gave an account of the matter, the diocese said the paper's story was inaccurate and misleading. The author, Michael O'Malley, said the paper had not issued a correction and that it stood by the accuracy of the story.

"Bishop Lennon is ruthless," Zadnik said. "The people are disgusted."

-- Ralph Vartabedian

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Photo: A fence surrounds St. Casimir Catholic Church after it was closed by the Cleveland Diocese two years ago. Credit: Tom Sullens.

[For the Record: 11:41 a.m., Nov. 5: An earlier version of this post gave the photo credit as John Sullens.]