Feb. 3, 2026

The Thrill Kill: Alyssa Bustamante

The Thrill Kill: Alyssa Bustamante
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Season 9

In this episode of Unspeakable, KJ  dives into the case of Alyssa Bustamante, a Missouri teenager who shocked the world with her brutal “thrill kill” murder of 9-year-old neighbor Elizabeth Olten in 2009. At just 15 years old, Bustamante lured the young girl into the woods, strangled her, slit her throat, and buried her in a pre-dug grave—all while documenting the horrific act in her diary as “amazing” and “pretty enjoyable.”

Timestamps
03:02 The Case of Elizabeth Olten
08:23 Childhood Friends and Their Struggles
11:58 The Day of Disappearance
25:37 The Community Rallies
42:21 The Discovery of the Hole
46:46 The Journal 
52:25 Alyssa's Confession
1:10:23 The Aftermath

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you're getting me all natural. But before I jump into

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this case, which you're gonna love, I'm gonna give a

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is hi, Justin? How are things over in Ohio? I've

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Now what we're going to do today is we're going

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to go to Missouri. Now. I have my childhood friends

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actually live in Missouri, and I haven't seen them in

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a long, long, long time. But this case it resonated

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with me because of how the people involved and how

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it came to be, and it really made me think

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about them in when I was writing this, because our

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childhood friends, don't They really build who you are and

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they're just a huge part of when you think back

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about being a kid. Of course you think about your

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family and all of that, but the kids you spent

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the time with in the neighborhood. I can tell you

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right now. It was Justin and Jordan and Elijah and

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David and Brian and Mallory and Morgan, like I can

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tell you all of their names, and I have a

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lot of good memories with those kids. We knew all

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about each other's lives and all of our ups and

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downs and good and bad, and they just mattered so much. Well,

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that's going to come into play here because we're going

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to go specifically to the town of Saint Martin's which

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is near Jefferson City, and this was where the home

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of the Olton family was as well as the Brook family. Now,

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their homes were situated on this rural tract of land

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that extended many acres, but they would be considered neighbors now.

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They lived roughly four houses apart, but it was walking

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distance even though it was spread out. And this worked

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out really well because both of these households had young

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girls who became friends. It was like the neighborhood buddies

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and the little girls had not only had their ages

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in common, but also some of their life situations would

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make them more alike than you would expect. So I'm

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gonna start with nine year old Elizabeth Olton. She was

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a fourth grader at Pioneer Trails Elementary School. And this

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little girl, she's a funny, little tomboy. She loved play

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outdoors and swim in the creek that ran behind the house.

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Very rough and tumble for sure, but she also had

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a girly side to her. She liked princesses and she

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liked to, you know, tread both sides of that. And

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the thought here became princesses that could kick butt, and

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I was like, hell, yeah, that's what I'm talking about.

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Beauty and grace, but also willing to punch somebody if

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they needed it. But there were limits to that kick

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butt mentality because she was deathly afraid of the dark,

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deathly so scary movies were fun, but when she watched them,

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she had to have the light on, so she knew

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that she did not want to be in the dark ever,

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and all butt kicking would have to take place before

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the sun went down, too, because if it was dark,

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there was no way that she could do what she

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had to do. As a little rough and tumble princess,

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she liked to bake and do puzzles. She was a girl,

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if you're picking up on this, that really loved to

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be busy, and while being busy, she loved to jam

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out to her favorite music. And I know a lot

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of us are going to be able to identify with this,

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but Taylor Swift to be precise, and of course Disney's

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Hannah Montana, those were her jam Now. Her bestie, at

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least in the neighborhood, was Emma, and Emma lived in

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the Brook household. She lived with her grandparents. Their names

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were Gary and Karen Brooke. And this is where I

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mentioned that both little girls had a similarity in terms

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of hard times in their lives because Emma lived with

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her parents because her biological parents had really failed her.

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Her mom was Michelle, her dad's name was Caesar, and

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they were both just teenagers when they began having kids,

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and I believe they were fifteen whenever they had their

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first child together. And on top of that, both of

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them had substance abuse issues and her father was currently

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even serving time in prison for assault charges. I mean

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that alone tells you that life didn't start out too

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well for this little girl. Now, they were clearly not

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worthy of being parents and unable to provide any sort

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of stability. So Michelle's parents stepped in and they took

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over control of their children. And by the way, there

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were three children that they had once they started at

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age fifteen, even though they could not care for any

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of them properly. And the reason that I said that

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this would be a similarity to little Elizabeth is because

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both Elizabeth's father and her older brother were also in prison.

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So we have two little girls that have experienced the

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loss of their father and that they were behind bars.

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And so the deal with Elizabeth was that her dad,

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his name was Dale. He was charged with things like

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drug possession and he had been sentenced to four years

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in prison for that. On top of that, he also

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pled guilty to illegally possessing twenty nine rifles, shotguns and handguns.

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This was in February of two thousand and nine, and

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seventeen of those firearms were confirmed to be stolen. He

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was busted basically when there was a series of burglaries

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that were being investigated in the area and it eventually

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led to the search of the Olton residence. And so

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now he was facing a minimum sentence of fifteen years

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in federal prison without parole plus a fine of up

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to five hundred thousand dollars. The brothers charges, I honestly,

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I didn't spend a lot of time on this. I'm

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unsure what they were. I would assume this is allegedly.

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I don't know, but I would assume it's something similar

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in nature. But either way, both of the male, older

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male figures in her life were locked up. Now, both girls,

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as you know, because I've told you they're about nine

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years old, they were both still little and while it's

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sad to not see your dad, they were still doing

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well in life. Okay, they were still hanging in there. Basically,

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Emma's grandparents stepped in after doing all that they could

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to bring food and to help care for the children.

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But it was obvious to them very soon on that

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their daughter and son in law were inept parents. And

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so while Emma's parents grandparents were watching from afar, they

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were seeing that these poor kids were getting drug around everywhere.

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They were constantly being evicted from where they were living

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and not paying rent. So those parents, grandparents' parents, everyone

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to look at it. They went the extra mile, and

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they eventually went and petitioned the courts for full custody

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of the three children. So Emma had actually is four

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children now that I think about it, because Emma had

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an older sister and she had twin older brothers. So yeah, wow,

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math it's hard, Okay, that would actually be four. So

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in order to get a fresh start in life after

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they were a to obtain custody of all of these kids,

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they moved completely, up ended their lives and moved to

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some land that they bought in Saint Martin's and the

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kids were doing really well adjusted, well, they were happy.

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Of course, there were some struggles. I mean, they didn't

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have their parents. Of course there were struggles. But this

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stability was a beautiful thing that these two grandparents provided

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to them. And it's a wonderful thing. And God blessed

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those grandparents and all grandparents in this world who step

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in and recognize when their own kids are not doing

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a good job, and they take on these kids, even

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at an age whenever they should be relaxing. You know,

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they raise their own kids. And I know plenty of

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people that have done this and they now have custody

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of their grandchildren and they're doing a wonderful job. If

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that is you, Please know that your job here is unmatched,

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and you deserve all the best foreseeing that these kids

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need so much help. So these grandparents were no different,

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and they took in all these children. So as you

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can tell, both of these little girls had experienced parental

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failure in one way or another, but they had adjusted well.

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They were getting along, and they were doing pretty good

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as far as little nine year old girls saw the world.

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And now they were friends that loved to play together.

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So it was October twenty first, two thousand and nine,

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when it was just like every other day. And I

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know podcasts and true crime shows always start like that,

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but that's the truth. It's a normal day. The leaves

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were changing. It was a windy, yet beautiful afternoon when

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Emma trotted down to see if Elizabeth could play. And

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I did read somewhere that Emma's grandmother had initially told her, no,

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don't go down there to play, but she did it anyway.

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Whether that's true or not, I believe that's true, but

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it's just a small fun fact I'll add there. But

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she wanted to go play with her friend, and so

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she took off trotten down the road. Now it only

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took her about five minutes to get from her house

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down to Elizabeth's house, and when she knocked on the door,

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it was opened, and she was greeted with a smile,

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and she was said, hey, can Elizabeth come and play?

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But Elizabeth's mama intervened and said, no, I'm sorry, girls,

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not today. Because Elizabeth she loved a theater and theatrix

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and she was at the table practicing her lines for

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an upcoming show that she was going to be starring in.

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And from what I understand, the name of that show

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was called Noteworthy. Now I'm a nerd. I want to

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let y'all know this. I'm a nerd, and I wanted

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to know what the show was about, and so there

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wasn't much info when I tried to figure out what

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the show was about. But it does seem to be

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that that is a program for a musical theater in

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some way for young children. So I really don't know

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what her position in that story would have been, but

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either way, she needed to practice what her lines. But

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when your bestie's at the front door smiling and waving

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and wanting you to come play, practice can wait? You

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want to go play? But mama said, well, at that point,

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both of the girls are going please Mama, please see begging, begging, bagging.

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Please Miss Olton, please, can she come play just for

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a minute? And she said no, no, girls, dinner's almost

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ready and we've got to and you know the mama,

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please just for a little bit, please. So her mama

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looked at her for just a moment and then gave

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in and said, Okay, I will let you go play,

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but you have to be home for six o'clock sharp,

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no questions asked. Well, as y'all know, Elizabeth was terrified

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of the dark, so this would not be an issue

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for her. She was going to beat the sun going

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down if it was the last thing she did. So

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the girls were like, yeah, okay, yes, yes, we'll do that.

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I'll be back, I promise. So she jumped down from

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the chair and she ran out the door. Now Mama

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watched the girls as they ran down the driveway together

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and took off for whatever little adventure they would go

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on before she returned home for the evening. Now, she

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did stop her at one point and say, wait, Elizabeth, wait, wait, wait,

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wait wait, I want you to take the cell phone

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with you. Take the cell phone so that I can

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make sure you get home on time, and she said, okay, Mama,

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she grabbed the cell phone, and then they took off

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to go do whatever they were going to go do.

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And like I said, this is where it's nice to

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have your little neighborhood buddies, your little friends, and my

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little friends growing up. Their names were Natasha and Melissa,

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the two that I'm thinking of that now live in Missouri,

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and I was always begging for them to come and play,

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but they always had to do their chores first, and

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I can remember I'd pace back and forth in front

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of their house on the road until they were done,

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and they would come bounding out. We would have the

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time of our lives just doing the stupidest little adventures.

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But it was so much fun. And these two little

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girls were no different. They're out near kind of wildernessy

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type of area. They have woods, they have creeks, they

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have just basic dirt road gravel road type fun going on.

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So some time passed and it was just about six

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o'clock when Elizabeth's mom looked outside to see where she was.

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Was she coming up the driveway, was she down the road?

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But Elizabeth wasn't there, So a little bit annoyed she

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yelled out for her, but Elizabeth did not answer. So

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that's whenever she went to the phone and she tried

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to call Elizabeth on the cell phone, but Elizabeth wouldn't

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pick up the phone. So this was a little bit alarming,

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as you can imagine. And that's whenever mom decided to

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make a phone call down to the brook household to

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see if the girls were down there and had lost

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track of time. Maybe she set the cell phone down

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outside and they were inside. Whatever. Well, when miss Karen answered,

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she was a bit confused because at first she told

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the mom, Elizabeth's mom, that she hadn't seen Elizabeth at

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all that afternoon. She hadn't been here. So in a

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complete and total panic, Elizabeth's mom died nine to one

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one and said, oh my god, my baby girl went

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down to go play the neighbor's house. She never made

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it down there. And it was just the sickest feeling

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in the world to not know where where your child

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is and nobody claims to have seen her. I mean,

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I know, I've lost my child lost quote unquote, but

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lost my children to the clothing racks at Walmart. And

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it's because that little youngest one's a little tyrant, and

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she'll go hide underneath the clothing racks, you know, and

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that's enough to make your heart skip a beat, but

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you know they pop back out and you don't do that.

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You scared me, and then you move on about your day.

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But now here we are, the sun is going down.

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Your child, who's deathly afraid of the dark, is nowhere

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to be found. And now that home she was supposed

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to go to, they say she never was there. You've

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got to know that that had to be just a

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your heart drop into your butthole type of moment, that,

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oh my god, where could my baby be? So the

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police arrived and they began taking hold of and trying

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to build a picture of Elizabeth's last known moments when

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she was actually seen. Well, obviously this was going to

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be with young Emma, so it led right on down

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to that house. Now, after just a brief moment, it

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was realized that miss Karen was simply mistaken. Now I

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know you're right now, you're like, huh, how are you mistaken? Well,

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she actually was, because remember she had told Emma not

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to go down there and play. Well, she I guess

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assumed that Emma was just playing outside around the house,

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but Emma went down there anyway and got Elizabeth. So

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when the girls came back and they were outside playing

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in the driveway, Miss Karen just did not know she

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was in the house doing whatever. So it made sense

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why she was mistaken in the beginning. And whenever they

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spoke to a little young Emma, she was able to

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clear up what happened as well as a nine year

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old little girl could be expected to do. She said, yes,

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Elizabeth was here. She was playing with me. We played

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a board game for a little while, and then we

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decided to go outside and play some hopscotch in the driveway.

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And she said that was about six o'clock and then

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Emma said that she had to go. It was time

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to go home. Okay, well did you see her leave?

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I mean, what happened you were outside with her? And

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she said, well, yeah, there was this big rock in

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their driveway. Now I don't have a picture of the

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rock per se, but I don't think this is a

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rock like, you know, like a big stone. This is

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more like, I think, like a boulder, almost like a

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small boulder type thing. Because she said that there's a

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big rock in the driveway, and she said she climbed

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on top of it, and she watched Emma go all

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the way down her driveway, turn on the road until

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she went out of sight. Okay, so what happened after that?

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And she They were like, did you hear anything? Did

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you see anything out of the norm? And she said no, nothing.

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She said, I'd jumped down off the rock and I

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just kind of continued playing alone in the yard. So

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remember it's a more rural area. The houses are not

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stacked one upon the other. There was distance between the homes.

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So it's absolutely believable that the little girl would have

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started down the road and then her friend not see

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her again. All right, well, what else you know? Tell

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us more? Did you remain outside? Did you go in?

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And she said, oh, yeah, definitely. I kept playing outside.

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She said, I was over there by those bushes. These

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bushes were kind of like lining the driveway. She said,

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I was over there playing by the bushes. And she

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said at one point her ponytail holder had gotten pulled

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or like stuck in some thorns while she was playing

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near the bushes, and so she had to kind of

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work to get her hair out of those thorn bushes.

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And while she was doing that, she said, she got

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really scratched up, and the more that she moved trying

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to get her hair untangled, the worse it really got.

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And then she found that her feet were kind of

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stuck underneath those bushes too, and then her foot got stuck,

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so whenever she would try to move her foot, she

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was getting like cut even more by these damn thorns.

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So damn being my words, not the little girls. So

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at that point she started freaking out, and so she

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started screaming, somebody helped me, Please help me. I can't

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get my leg out. She's calling for her grandma whatever. Well,

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luckily for her, her older sister Alissa heard her screaming

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for help, and she said that Alyssa came out and

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helped her unstick her foot and then they were able

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to untangle her hair from the bush and then they

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went inside together and they got cleaned up. So while

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this was great for establishing a timeline, it didn't really

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help to locate Elizabeth. And like I said, the sun

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was setting, I mean, the it's getting dark, and that's

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going to be a problem when we're trying to figure

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out where where she is. So they said, okay, well, look,

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would she have gone into the woods to go home,

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like maybe gone through a path in the woods. Emma

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immediately said absolutely not. She said we would never go

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in the woods. And her exact words were, it's just

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too scary. It's too scary. So the last known location

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of the child was going to be the edge of

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the Brook family's driveway around six pm, and then poof,

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she's gone, not seen again. So of course I think

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we all probably go the same route here and we go,

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oh my god, she's been kidnapped. Everyone else goes that way.

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I mean, I know I did. Someone had to have

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picked her up off this road. And this is going

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to be, in my opinion, a young child's worst nightmare,

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aside from your child being found dead, is the fact

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that someone may have taken them and there's no way

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of knowing. So, on that same note of this being horrific,

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the police are basically begging this nine year old girl

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for more information. I mean they're asking her again and

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again and again to try to see if it elicits

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more information. But every time she's asked, she recites the

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same thing over and over because it was true. There

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was nothing more for her to tell, and there was

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no fluctuation in the story. But by ten pm that night,

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everyone in town was looking for little Elizabeth. And when

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I tell you everyone in town, I want you to

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know hundreds of peace people came out looking for this

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little girl. They were searching the woods, they were searching

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the area around the homes nearby. Police had even set

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up checkpoints. They were stopping cars, and everyone in the

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area was notified to be on the lookout for this

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little girl. They were even also looking in the vehicles

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to see if maybe she was in a car. Basically,

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a full scale search was on for this child. But

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realizing at that point that Elizabeth had a cell phone

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on her, police then did their due diligence and they

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tried to ping the signal from that cell phone, and

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thank god, but it came back with a relative location

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and near the home. This was great. It was registering

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in the woods behind the tract of homes right there. Whew. Okay,

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hopefully she just went up in the woods and she

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got lost or she got hurt, and we're gonna go

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find her and we're gonna bring her home and we've

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got this is going to be great. Okay. But while

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this was a good lead, I need to let you

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know that this isn't the movies, this is real life, okay.

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And the area behind the houses was roughly sixty acres

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of land, so pinging a cell phone at best may

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get you within one hundred square yards of where that

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phone is. But it's not like a direct spot like

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you see in the movies, like, oh, she's right here,

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sitting in a blue chair. It's not like that, okay.

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So while they may have gotten a location, y'all, you

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still have to walk it out. You still have to

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go inch by inch, foot by foot to look for

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this phone. And the wooded area at that time was

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full of debris, full of fallen leaves, and it just

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made it that much harder. But if Elizabeth was lost

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in the woods, hello, they could yell out to her

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and that would be a whole lot easier to locate her.

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But that was if she answered, because Elizabeth wasn't answering

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calling out for her yelling looking nowhere. So for people

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under the age of twenty one, okay, if they go missing,

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the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children is going

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to be contacted relatively quickly and a photo is going

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to be given for dissemination and other case assistants, because

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obviously children are a different animal. They can't go missing,

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especially when they're nine years old. There's never a valid reason,

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and they can't support themselves nor take care of themselves.

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So they were trying to determine here if outside help

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would be needed. And so when you go to the

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National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, there's collaboration here

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and they can utilize local, state, and federal resources for

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these specialized investigative needs. But this includes available search and

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rescue resources. And the FBI was brought in on this

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since so much time had passed and they had not

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located this little girl, So the FBI is now involved.

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Everybody is looking for her, and with advanced search opportunities

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here outside the local police, So immediately a command post

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was set up to coordinate and direct all search activities.

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And this is way more detailed than the average person

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would probably think, and without boring you, I want to

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talk about what this means for just a minute. So

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when you're trying to search for a kid that is

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up and missing, obviously you're going to be looking in

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the area physically where the child was last seen. But

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there's other things that have to be taken into account,

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and unfortunately that's going to be sex offenders in the area,

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and it's not uncommon, it's actually practice that when these

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children go missing, the police are going to compile a

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quick list of the known sex offenders in that area

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and see if maybe they are involved in this somehow.

467
00:25:56.359 --> 00:26:00.240
And in cases again involving children, they're also going to

468
00:26:00.319 --> 00:26:05.519
see if there was any child protective custody type records,

469
00:26:06.160 --> 00:26:10.240
any reports of child abuse of those children that maybe

470
00:26:10.279 --> 00:26:12.440
someone might need to be looked at or targeted as

471
00:26:12.480 --> 00:26:16.440
having wanted to take the children. You know, custodial abductions happen.

472
00:26:16.799 --> 00:26:19.039
Parents who lose custody of their children will go and

473
00:26:19.240 --> 00:26:22.759
take the kids and leave. So they're going to review

474
00:26:22.799 --> 00:26:26.880
their records for previous incidences related to that child, prior

475
00:26:26.960 --> 00:26:30.480
police activity in the area and at that home. This

476
00:26:30.519 --> 00:26:33.359
is going to include looking at prowler reports and decent

477
00:26:33.559 --> 00:26:38.720
exposure reports, attempted abductions, all of that is going to

478
00:26:38.799 --> 00:26:42.440
be looked at because the same people in our communities

479
00:26:42.480 --> 00:26:46.599
are committing eighty percent of the crime. You should look

480
00:26:46.640 --> 00:26:49.400
that up. It's absolutely incredible. It's the same people doing

481
00:26:49.440 --> 00:26:52.759
all the same shit in our areas. So they also

482
00:26:53.799 --> 00:26:57.759
are going to go interview any delivery personnel, any employees

483
00:26:57.799 --> 00:27:02.480
of the gas water Electric company, these cable companies, taxi drivers,

484
00:27:02.880 --> 00:27:07.880
post office personnel, sanitation workers, anybody that might have been

485
00:27:07.920 --> 00:27:10.279
in that area. So, as you can imagine, this is

486
00:27:10.319 --> 00:27:14.160
a massive undertaking that's got to be well organized and

487
00:27:14.440 --> 00:27:17.720
structured so everybody knows what job that you're doing. So

488
00:27:17.920 --> 00:27:19.920
at this time, as all of this is going on,

489
00:27:20.039 --> 00:27:24.839
Elizabeth's mother was in complete shock. She was grief stricken,

490
00:27:25.519 --> 00:27:28.680
and so an officer had to be and should have

491
00:27:28.680 --> 00:27:32.319
been and was. But an officer was specifically appointed to

492
00:27:32.680 --> 00:27:35.759
be their communications source and to be their point of

493
00:27:35.759 --> 00:27:39.279
contact should anything come about that they could directly get

494
00:27:39.279 --> 00:27:44.200
the information to that officer. Plus the media was now

495
00:27:44.319 --> 00:27:47.680
coming into play. Double edged sword here, y'all. It is

496
00:27:47.720 --> 00:27:50.759
such a double edged sword because they're going to put

497
00:27:50.759 --> 00:27:55.680
out whatever information they want to put out, and the

498
00:27:56.000 --> 00:27:59.319
law enforcement agencies now have to determine what to disclose,

499
00:27:59.359 --> 00:28:03.480
if anything which would not adversarily affect the ability to

500
00:28:03.599 --> 00:28:07.559
locate her or to apprehend and prosecute anyone who might

501
00:28:07.599 --> 00:28:10.519
be involved. They can't just tell you everything because it

502
00:28:10.640 --> 00:28:15.559
might give up important information. But people crave, they crave

503
00:28:16.119 --> 00:28:20.359
this information, but it's just not always okay to share everything.

504
00:28:20.680 --> 00:28:24.319
You have to protect the investigation, and long term thinking

505
00:28:25.000 --> 00:28:28.079
is going to be applied here, and it sucks for

506
00:28:28.119 --> 00:28:29.880
people who want all the information, but you got to

507
00:28:29.880 --> 00:28:33.920
protect the investigation. So regardless of all of this effort,

508
00:28:34.240 --> 00:28:37.200
all of this thought, all of this searching and digging,

509
00:28:37.440 --> 00:28:41.920
Elizabeth was not located. And the night seemed like a

510
00:28:42.000 --> 00:28:46.680
year as the moon rose and her mother awaited any

511
00:28:46.720 --> 00:28:50.200
word of her being found. And you can imagine what

512
00:28:50.279 --> 00:28:53.079
was going through her mama's mind. You can just imagine.

513
00:28:53.119 --> 00:28:57.480
It's dark, Is she cold? Is she crying? Is she

514
00:28:57.640 --> 00:29:00.240
scared out of her mind? Of course she is. She's

515
00:29:00.359 --> 00:29:03.359
terrified of the dark. Her mama is pacing the floor,

516
00:29:03.599 --> 00:29:06.079
and that's not helping. It doesn't help when your mind

517
00:29:06.160 --> 00:29:10.200
is going wild. I'm sure the panic was just unmanageable.

518
00:29:10.240 --> 00:29:13.240
I think I would have to be medicated. I don't

519
00:29:13.359 --> 00:29:16.240
you know, my god, the night must have taken forever.

520
00:29:16.559 --> 00:29:20.480
But finally the sun came back up on Thursday, October

521
00:29:20.519 --> 00:29:26.480
twenty second. So this brought about three hundred volunteers and

522
00:29:26.559 --> 00:29:31.279
one hundred officers to search and even more people showed up.

523
00:29:31.279 --> 00:29:35.519
The community continued to show up. They cared, they wanted

524
00:29:35.640 --> 00:29:38.759
to find her. So many people came that they had

525
00:29:38.759 --> 00:29:41.000
to turn away people by the afternoon because it was

526
00:29:41.039 --> 00:29:44.839
just too many people to manage. And I believe that

527
00:29:45.200 --> 00:29:47.640
we had a local child by the way, sidestep, We

528
00:29:47.680 --> 00:29:51.039
had a local child go missing last year and it

529
00:29:51.119 --> 00:29:54.319
was right near my home, and I, as a mother,

530
00:29:55.079 --> 00:29:58.000
could not go home when this child had been missing

531
00:29:58.000 --> 00:30:01.680
for a very long time. I couldn't go home and

532
00:30:01.799 --> 00:30:04.680
just know that someone's kid was missing in our community,

533
00:30:04.759 --> 00:30:07.240
No way. I loaded up my children in my car

534
00:30:07.519 --> 00:30:10.599
and we went for at least two hours, and we

535
00:30:10.720 --> 00:30:14.960
drove up and down every road within the area that

536
00:30:15.000 --> 00:30:16.640
we could think of, and I told him look out

537
00:30:16.680 --> 00:30:19.799
the windows, see if you see him, because if he's

538
00:30:19.839 --> 00:30:22.680
out here, let's go help try to find him. You know.

539
00:30:22.960 --> 00:30:24.799
Of course, we didn't find him. They did find the child.

540
00:30:24.880 --> 00:30:26.960
He was found, Okay, he was just being a little

541
00:30:27.000 --> 00:30:30.559
turd and was hiding, believe it or not. But the

542
00:30:30.640 --> 00:30:32.960
fear there, even if it's not your kid, you want

543
00:30:32.960 --> 00:30:37.640
to help. So as if all of this wasn't bad

544
00:30:37.759 --> 00:30:41.079
enough that she hadn't been located overnight, now mother nature

545
00:30:41.400 --> 00:30:44.440
got in the way. It had begun to rain, a

546
00:30:44.440 --> 00:30:47.599
lot of rain, which made searching the area even more

547
00:30:47.640 --> 00:30:51.440
difficult with the mud and the terrain and all of that. Well,

548
00:30:51.519 --> 00:30:56.480
that day came and went without any new leads or findings,

549
00:30:56.920 --> 00:31:02.279
so genuine desperation is setting in at this point. But

550
00:31:02.359 --> 00:31:06.799
by Friday, October twenty third, this would bring about new

551
00:31:06.880 --> 00:31:10.960
search opportunities, including a helicopter that was employed and that

552
00:31:11.000 --> 00:31:13.200
went up in the air and it's searching by air

553
00:31:13.319 --> 00:31:16.240
now to see and you know, they have special resources

554
00:31:16.279 --> 00:31:19.880
on some of these helicopters, depending on what agency has it,

555
00:31:19.960 --> 00:31:22.240
but they have like the flear that they can shoot

556
00:31:23.119 --> 00:31:25.759
to look for body heat, so even if they're under

557
00:31:25.759 --> 00:31:28.799
brush or something, they can pick them out. But the

558
00:31:28.839 --> 00:31:32.200
family of Elizabeth, they needed to be busy. They needed

559
00:31:32.200 --> 00:31:34.440
something to do. They had to feel like they were

560
00:31:34.480 --> 00:31:38.559
assisting in some way, something practical, something that could build

561
00:31:38.640 --> 00:31:42.319
hope in the process. They couldn't just sit there. So

562
00:31:42.359 --> 00:31:46.400
the family began making buttons to share and to keep

563
00:31:46.440 --> 00:31:49.720
Elizabeth's face in the forefront of everyone's mind, you know,

564
00:31:49.720 --> 00:31:51.880
the buttons like you put on your shirt, and so

565
00:31:52.759 --> 00:31:56.599
more questioning was done while they're working on that more

566
00:31:56.680 --> 00:31:59.720
questioning was done of the families that lived near the woods,

567
00:32:00.079 --> 00:32:04.160
and it was determined through a bunch of interviews and

568
00:32:04.359 --> 00:32:09.240
things that were done that Emma's older sister, Alissa, was

569
00:32:09.279 --> 00:32:13.640
at school the day Elizabeth went missing, but the day

570
00:32:13.839 --> 00:32:20.039
after Elizabeth went missing, she had skipped school, and so

571
00:32:20.279 --> 00:32:23.599
while that doesn't mean anything, it was of interest to

572
00:32:23.799 --> 00:32:27.839
investigators who wanted to ask her some more in depth

573
00:32:27.880 --> 00:32:31.680
information about what she did that day and why she

574
00:32:31.799 --> 00:32:36.640
skipped school. So Alissa was brought in for an interrogation. Now,

575
00:32:36.720 --> 00:32:40.480
I watched all of the interrogation, by the way, and

576
00:32:41.079 --> 00:32:45.039
she was very calm, very calm and confident in her demeanor.

577
00:32:45.400 --> 00:32:48.640
She did not come across as like freaking out. She

578
00:32:48.680 --> 00:32:53.400
didn't seem stressed. She just seemed like a regular teenager

579
00:32:54.000 --> 00:32:58.039
being questioned about whatever. She was wearing blue jeans, She

580
00:32:58.079 --> 00:33:02.920
had a plaid like long sleeve shirt over another T shirt.

581
00:33:03.359 --> 00:33:07.559
She has black hair in this short cut, and she

582
00:33:07.720 --> 00:33:11.160
has like her hairs to her shoulders. She kind of

583
00:33:11.200 --> 00:33:13.400
has some lip piercings in her lips, and her bangs

584
00:33:13.400 --> 00:33:16.279
are cut where they like kind of cover one eye,

585
00:33:16.920 --> 00:33:20.079
and she wears really dark eyeliner. She wears like van

586
00:33:20.240 --> 00:33:23.079
type shoes. And the whole reason I'm explaining this to

587
00:33:23.079 --> 00:33:25.240
you is you kind of get the goth vibe from

588
00:33:25.240 --> 00:33:27.880
her if you remember being goth, you know the goth

589
00:33:27.960 --> 00:33:31.359
kids as a teen, and it's really giving like Avril

590
00:33:31.480 --> 00:33:36.400
Levine vibes, but darker. Okay. Now, Elissa was fifteen years old,

591
00:33:36.720 --> 00:33:40.519
looking into her all about her. She was a good student,

592
00:33:40.599 --> 00:33:44.039
she made a's and b's, she had no behavioral issues

593
00:33:44.079 --> 00:33:48.400
at school, she was smart, and she had friends. But

594
00:33:48.880 --> 00:33:51.640
she was still a teen. And so in questioning, she

595
00:33:51.720 --> 00:33:54.960
finally did admit, Okay, yeah, I skipped school, but I

596
00:33:55.079 --> 00:33:58.359
wasn't home when I skip school. Okay, we then where

597
00:33:58.359 --> 00:34:01.279
were you? And she says, well, I went to my

598
00:34:01.319 --> 00:34:03.880
boyfriend's house and I spent the day with him because

599
00:34:03.920 --> 00:34:07.079
he also stayed home from school. So I guess you

600
00:34:07.160 --> 00:34:11.480
can just work your imagination on that. So to verify this,

601
00:34:11.920 --> 00:34:15.840
the boyfriend was also questioned, and it did seem to

602
00:34:15.880 --> 00:34:19.440
be legit. Whatever he was saying to them was seeming

603
00:34:19.440 --> 00:34:22.639
to to line up. Now he even added this, He

604
00:34:22.719 --> 00:34:25.599
said that, yes, we hung out, and he said my

605
00:34:25.719 --> 00:34:29.679
mom actually came home unexpectedly and it scared us. So

606
00:34:30.239 --> 00:34:33.079
Alissa was forced. He said, you got to get in

607
00:34:33.159 --> 00:34:35.639
my closet, and so he shoves her in the closet, well,

608
00:34:35.679 --> 00:34:37.719
not shoves her, but says get in the closet. And

609
00:34:37.760 --> 00:34:40.320
then she's hiding in the closet the whole time the

610
00:34:40.360 --> 00:34:42.480
mom is home. And then when the mom goes to

611
00:34:42.519 --> 00:34:44.639
get into the shower, they're like, all right, this is

612
00:34:44.639 --> 00:34:46.519
the point you can go. And so she gets out

613
00:34:46.519 --> 00:34:49.039
of the closet and she jets and she goes back

614
00:34:49.159 --> 00:34:52.079
to the house. So, okay, that does seem to line

615
00:34:52.159 --> 00:34:56.440
up pretty well. So Alissa, though, needed to be questioned

616
00:34:56.559 --> 00:35:01.199
some more. So they asked her a about Elizabeth and

617
00:35:01.320 --> 00:35:04.599
because she had known Elizabeth for years. Okay, so because

618
00:35:04.639 --> 00:35:07.760
when Elizabeth moved in or excuse me, when Alyssa moved

619
00:35:07.800 --> 00:35:10.480
in with her grandmother. She was eight years old at

620
00:35:10.519 --> 00:35:13.800
that time, so she had known Elizabeth for quite a

621
00:35:13.840 --> 00:35:17.239
while as her sister's little friend. And they asked her,

622
00:35:17.239 --> 00:35:20.280
you know, how do you feel about Elizabeth being missing?

623
00:35:20.719 --> 00:35:24.880
And she said, I can't believe it. You know, this

624
00:35:24.920 --> 00:35:27.760
is something that doesn't really happen in real life. You know.

625
00:35:28.679 --> 00:35:32.119
She said, Elizabeth was a girly girl. She would come

626
00:35:32.159 --> 00:35:34.800
over and she would play and she would swim. She

627
00:35:34.960 --> 00:35:37.679
said that, you know, she's kind of annoying to like

628
00:35:37.719 --> 00:35:41.599
my sister, a little young girls get annoying. And again

629
00:35:41.639 --> 00:35:44.480
the whole time just very matter of fact, very calm.

630
00:35:45.079 --> 00:35:47.760
And so they asked her in this interrogation, what do

631
00:35:47.800 --> 00:35:50.239
you think might have happened to Elizabeth? And so she

632
00:35:50.360 --> 00:35:52.440
thought about it for a second and she's like, well,

633
00:35:52.480 --> 00:35:55.280
I mean she's nine. I mean she wouldn't run away.

634
00:35:55.360 --> 00:35:58.239
Nine year olds don't run away. And she said, they've

635
00:35:58.239 --> 00:36:01.159
been searching for her for days, they haven't found her.

636
00:36:01.559 --> 00:36:05.320
So I mean, my only guess is that she she

637
00:36:05.400 --> 00:36:08.119
must have been kidnapped. I mean, where else would she be,

638
00:36:08.599 --> 00:36:11.519
I mean, she doesn't have anywhere else to go. And

639
00:36:11.639 --> 00:36:13.960
she said, but the reason I think she had to

640
00:36:13.960 --> 00:36:16.119
have been kidnapped, too, is because she's not the type

641
00:36:16.119 --> 00:36:19.280
of kid that would hide or stay out all night.

642
00:36:20.079 --> 00:36:21.639
So it would have had to have been a really

643
00:36:21.679 --> 00:36:25.639
sick person who put aside their morals to just up

644
00:36:25.639 --> 00:36:29.719
and take a nine year old. That's wild. So I

645
00:36:29.719 --> 00:36:31.880
would have to agree with her on that. So Alissa

646
00:36:32.239 --> 00:36:35.239
did recount what she did the day Elizabeth went missing,

647
00:36:35.760 --> 00:36:38.920
and she was really clear and upfront about all of it.

648
00:36:39.000 --> 00:36:42.039
She said, I missed the bus that morning. My grandpa

649
00:36:42.159 --> 00:36:44.360
ended up having to take me to school. So I

650
00:36:44.400 --> 00:36:47.360
went to school. Then I got home around three point thirty,

651
00:36:47.719 --> 00:36:50.159
she said. About five o'clock, I went for a walk,

652
00:36:50.639 --> 00:36:53.480
like probably for an hour or so. She said, I

653
00:36:53.519 --> 00:36:55.119
was going to take my little sister with me, but

654
00:36:55.239 --> 00:36:57.440
she was being frickin annoying, so she said, I just

655
00:36:57.480 --> 00:37:00.960
ditched her and went about my business. So after she

656
00:37:01.000 --> 00:37:03.679
went on her little walk through the woods, and there's

657
00:37:03.719 --> 00:37:05.559
a creek back there. She liked to talk about that creek.

658
00:37:05.800 --> 00:37:08.559
She said. She got home, she went into her room,

659
00:37:08.920 --> 00:37:12.039
and then she had opened her window and she heard

660
00:37:12.119 --> 00:37:16.039
yelling and it caught her attention. So her bedroom window

661
00:37:16.159 --> 00:37:18.599
overlooked kind of like the yard. It looks to be

662
00:37:18.599 --> 00:37:23.159
an upstairs window, and so she kind of could hear

663
00:37:23.199 --> 00:37:25.480
the screaming. And when she looks out, she realizes, oh

664
00:37:25.480 --> 00:37:27.360
my god, her sister was stuck in a bush, and

665
00:37:27.440 --> 00:37:29.880
so she went to help her. Now all of this

666
00:37:30.039 --> 00:37:32.639
lines up with what everybody was saying. She said, After

667
00:37:32.679 --> 00:37:34.800
I helped my sister get unstuck, then we had to

668
00:37:34.800 --> 00:37:36.679
get ready because we had church that night. They did

669
00:37:36.719 --> 00:37:41.760
Wednesday night activities. At their church, and she said after

670
00:37:41.840 --> 00:37:45.719
that or about that time, Elizabeth's brother came knocking and

671
00:37:45.760 --> 00:37:48.159
looking for her, saying that they couldn't find her. But

672
00:37:48.239 --> 00:37:51.079
she said, I wasn't worried about it. I mean, it

673
00:37:51.119 --> 00:37:53.559
wasn't until I got home from church that I realized,

674
00:37:53.880 --> 00:37:56.679
Oh my god, because multiple sheriffs were at our house

675
00:37:56.920 --> 00:37:59.159
and we're in the area and they were looking for her.

676
00:37:59.519 --> 00:38:02.480
It was very unnerving, and she said, I just could

677
00:38:02.480 --> 00:38:05.440
not believe it, you know, that she went missing, she said,

678
00:38:05.480 --> 00:38:07.719
But I mean eventually we had to go to bed

679
00:38:07.800 --> 00:38:10.960
because we had school the next day. So they asked

680
00:38:10.960 --> 00:38:13.960
her a little bit more about herself, and she said that,

681
00:38:14.360 --> 00:38:17.039
you know, I like nature, I like being outside, and

682
00:38:17.079 --> 00:38:20.679
I get really bored really easy. So when she was

683
00:38:20.760 --> 00:38:25.159
pressed about what she did to fill her boredom, she

684
00:38:25.360 --> 00:38:28.400
mentioned that there wasn't much to do, and she said,

685
00:38:28.400 --> 00:38:30.760
that's why I go on my walks, because there's nothing

686
00:38:30.800 --> 00:38:32.079
to do here. It's like we're in the middle of

687
00:38:32.119 --> 00:38:35.400
nowhere and it's boring, she said. And sometimes I dig

688
00:38:35.440 --> 00:38:41.280
holes or something like that, but there's I just go outside. Well,

689
00:38:41.440 --> 00:38:44.760
the hole digging really caught their attention, and so they

690
00:38:44.760 --> 00:38:47.440
asked her to expand on it, and she says she

691
00:38:47.440 --> 00:38:49.039
didn't really have a rhyme or reason to it. It

692
00:38:49.119 --> 00:38:51.880
was just something she did while she was bored and

693
00:38:52.000 --> 00:38:55.320
to see what she could possibly find in the dirt.

694
00:38:55.519 --> 00:38:57.119
And he's like, all right, so you're not afraid of

695
00:38:57.159 --> 00:39:00.639
like arms or anything like that, and she's like, no,

696
00:39:00.800 --> 00:39:03.960
she played rugby and she's used to getting dirtied. Her

697
00:39:04.039 --> 00:39:06.440
didn't bother her. And she said, you know, when I

698
00:39:06.480 --> 00:39:08.519
dig these holes, like if I find a dead animal

699
00:39:08.639 --> 00:39:10.880
or something like that, I like to bury them. She said,

700
00:39:10.920 --> 00:39:13.519
it's just I think respectful of the animal, and so

701
00:39:13.719 --> 00:39:15.880
sometimes I would dig the holes to bury the animals.

702
00:39:16.440 --> 00:39:20.000
And so while I'm hearing this, I don't know about you,

703
00:39:20.039 --> 00:39:23.360
but at this point the interrogate interrogation, I'm kind of like, Okay, bullshit.

704
00:39:23.599 --> 00:39:26.280
You just go around like digging holes and bearing dead

705
00:39:26.320 --> 00:39:28.440
animals like that sounds weird to me. I know I

706
00:39:28.480 --> 00:39:30.679
look at things through a criminal justice lens, but that

707
00:39:30.800 --> 00:39:37.519
just sounded bizarre. Well, to my surprise, right then, Grandma Karen,

708
00:39:37.639 --> 00:39:40.599
she was in the room during this interrogation. Now she

709
00:39:40.639 --> 00:39:43.159
was real calm too. She was in a rolling chair

710
00:39:43.599 --> 00:39:46.239
and she was just swaying back and forth left to right,

711
00:39:46.400 --> 00:39:49.760
very casually during the entire interrogation, and when the holes

712
00:39:49.760 --> 00:39:53.039
were brought up, she kind of chuckled and started laughing,

713
00:39:53.079 --> 00:39:55.280
and it kind of got the investigator's attention, and he

714
00:39:55.360 --> 00:39:57.639
turns and she says, yeah, and I told y'all to

715
00:39:57.639 --> 00:40:00.760
stop digging those holes because of the horses. So the

716
00:40:00.800 --> 00:40:03.679
detective was kind of surprised by this because that meant

717
00:40:03.719 --> 00:40:08.360
it was true. The grandkids would go out and would

718
00:40:08.400 --> 00:40:10.880
dig holes in the yard and it was stressful to

719
00:40:10.920 --> 00:40:14.039
the grandma because she was afraid their horses were going

720
00:40:14.079 --> 00:40:16.480
to step in these holes and break a leg. And

721
00:40:16.519 --> 00:40:19.280
so she said, yeah, sometimes we would make like traps

722
00:40:19.320 --> 00:40:22.480
with like sticks and stuff and to see what we,

723
00:40:22.840 --> 00:40:24.440
you know, kind of cover it up and see if

724
00:40:24.440 --> 00:40:27.400
maybe they could catch something in these holes. And y'all,

725
00:40:27.559 --> 00:40:30.119
so it was true. The whole digging story was true.

726
00:40:30.159 --> 00:40:31.599
So they said, well, when's the last time you dug

727
00:40:31.639 --> 00:40:33.480
a hole and she said, well, I dug a hole

728
00:40:33.639 --> 00:40:37.760
on Sunday. Now that was the Sunday prior to Elizabeth

729
00:40:37.760 --> 00:40:42.119
going missing. And then they kind of discussed this further. Well,

730
00:40:42.159 --> 00:40:47.000
she had spent the prior like that weekend with her mom,

731
00:40:47.239 --> 00:40:50.119
her biological mom at her mother's place, and she got

732
00:40:50.159 --> 00:40:53.880
home around five o'clock. Well, grandma corrected her and said, no,

733
00:40:54.079 --> 00:40:57.000
it was more like six thirty. And so they're like,

734
00:40:57.119 --> 00:40:59.000
what do you mean more like six thirty? And she says,

735
00:40:59.039 --> 00:41:01.239
I picked you up at sixsh and it's about a

736
00:41:01.239 --> 00:41:06.880
thirty minute ride home. But this got the detective thinking, well,

737
00:41:06.920 --> 00:41:09.519
if that's the case, then that would mean that you

738
00:41:09.599 --> 00:41:14.039
were out digging a hole after dark on a Sunday.

739
00:41:14.559 --> 00:41:17.760
And we gotta all admit that's kind of odd. Why

740
00:41:17.800 --> 00:41:20.199
would you be digging a hole in the dark. So

741
00:41:20.239 --> 00:41:22.800
Alyssa thinks about it for a minute and she says, oh,

742
00:41:23.400 --> 00:41:25.320
wait a minute, never mind, it had to be Friday.

743
00:41:25.320 --> 00:41:28.320
It was Friday, she said. We didn't have school, so

744
00:41:28.440 --> 00:41:32.079
I slept in until around noon, and her grandma had

745
00:41:32.119 --> 00:41:34.679
worked half a day. Her grandma got home around twelve

746
00:41:34.719 --> 00:41:37.719
thirty ish, and so she could confirm this as well.

747
00:41:38.199 --> 00:41:43.519
So Alyssa got up. She at some point went outside,

748
00:41:43.679 --> 00:41:48.119
was bored. She dug a rectangular hole, and when asked

749
00:41:48.119 --> 00:41:51.199
about it, that hole was a three foot by five

750
00:41:51.280 --> 00:41:57.760
foot rectangle. Now that looks like a grave. Okay, what

751
00:41:57.880 --> 00:42:00.119
I've just described you it looks like a grave, but

752
00:42:00.199 --> 00:42:03.639
it wasn't too deep. It was almost like she had

753
00:42:03.679 --> 00:42:06.480
been digging but then got to like the hard ground

754
00:42:06.519 --> 00:42:08.320
and hit roots or whatever, and it made it too

755
00:42:08.480 --> 00:42:12.960
hard to go further. And so the detective says, well, hey,

756
00:42:12.960 --> 00:42:15.920
can you show us where this hole is? And Alyssa says, yeah,

757
00:42:16.039 --> 00:42:19.199
no problem, and so they go out into the woods

758
00:42:19.760 --> 00:42:23.159
and sure enough, there it is. And when they got

759
00:42:23.199 --> 00:42:27.639
to it, it was very odd, almost cryptic, because the

760
00:42:27.719 --> 00:42:29.920
hole had not only been dug, but then it had

761
00:42:29.920 --> 00:42:33.480
been refilled with dirt. And you could tell that these

762
00:42:33.480 --> 00:42:36.079
holes were freshly dug because the mud on top of

763
00:42:36.119 --> 00:42:38.000
it was like a light brown, like the rain had

764
00:42:38.039 --> 00:42:42.760
somewhat packed it down, but still very obviously newly turned dirt.

765
00:42:43.000 --> 00:42:46.360
And again that shape of the hole was very uncomfortable

766
00:42:46.360 --> 00:42:49.039
because it looked like a burial plot but small, three

767
00:42:49.079 --> 00:42:52.320
by five it's literally what it looked like. So obviously

768
00:42:52.719 --> 00:42:55.119
you're thinking what I'm thinking, and I'm thinking what the

769
00:42:55.119 --> 00:42:58.280
investigators were thinking, and they were thinking what is in

770
00:42:58.320 --> 00:43:04.320
this hole? The FBI started to excavate the hole, fully

771
00:43:05.639 --> 00:43:08.239
aware they were about to probably pull out the body

772
00:43:08.360 --> 00:43:11.679
of a child. So they dig in and they dig in.

773
00:43:11.760 --> 00:43:16.199
But surprisingly, and thankfully, there was nothing in this hole.

774
00:43:18.000 --> 00:43:22.000
Alisa was telling the truth. Thank god there was nobody

775
00:43:22.039 --> 00:43:26.840
in this hole. But Alissa's behavior and demeanor during that

776
00:43:27.880 --> 00:43:32.199
was just off putting to investigators. I can't give you

777
00:43:32.719 --> 00:43:36.920
more of an explanation other than a gut feeling. Just

778
00:43:37.800 --> 00:43:43.239
her behavior was off. It didn't seem normal. So they

779
00:43:43.239 --> 00:43:45.320
were left at this point with more questions than answers.

780
00:43:45.400 --> 00:43:47.079
Now we've got this hole. The kid's not in it

781
00:43:47.119 --> 00:43:49.639
that we were looking for. Honestly, we're glad, but why

782
00:43:49.719 --> 00:43:52.800
is this weirdo out here digging holes? So they went

783
00:43:52.840 --> 00:43:55.559
back to little sister Emma again because she was the

784
00:43:55.639 --> 00:43:59.480
last one to see Elizabeth alive, you know, and she

785
00:43:59.559 --> 00:44:04.719
was again. Her story never wavered, it never changed. The

786
00:44:04.800 --> 00:44:09.599
only thing mentioned that caught the attention of the investigators

787
00:44:09.960 --> 00:44:13.079
was that she said that Elissa had come to help

788
00:44:13.119 --> 00:44:16.119
her get her foot unstuck from the thorn bush, and

789
00:44:16.199 --> 00:44:21.920
she said she noticed a spot of blood on her pants. Really, hmm,

790
00:44:22.960 --> 00:44:25.880
what is that from? So she said, well, I asked

791
00:44:25.880 --> 00:44:27.480
her why she had a spot of blood on her

792
00:44:27.639 --> 00:44:29.679
and she said it was because she was on her

793
00:44:29.760 --> 00:44:32.800
period and she didn't want her to share that with anybody,

794
00:44:32.840 --> 00:44:37.800
because that would be embarrassing. Okay, So the FBI now

795
00:44:37.960 --> 00:44:40.639
wants to come to their home and see if they

796
00:44:40.679 --> 00:44:44.679
can find anything evidentiary, as this was all really convenient

797
00:44:44.679 --> 00:44:47.000
that we have a missing child and we have a

798
00:44:47.039 --> 00:44:50.960
teenager with blood on her pants out digging holes randomly

799
00:44:51.000 --> 00:44:53.679
in the woods. Now they get into the house and

800
00:44:53.719 --> 00:44:58.480
they start searching. Alissa's room was messy, like most teens.

801
00:44:58.599 --> 00:45:01.119
There was mountain deucans on this table at the foot

802
00:45:01.119 --> 00:45:04.400
of the bed. It was just very mismatched, very like

803
00:45:05.119 --> 00:45:09.159
punk looking type decor. I guess it wasn't really decorated.

804
00:45:09.159 --> 00:45:12.239
It just kind of kind of drab. But during the

805
00:45:12.320 --> 00:45:15.400
search they did find some things. They found some marijuana seeds,

806
00:45:15.679 --> 00:45:18.920
and they did find bottles of medication in Alyssa's room,

807
00:45:19.320 --> 00:45:23.320
but nothing else was really found. They did get her

808
00:45:23.440 --> 00:45:27.000
muddy jeans, the ones that she was wearing that had

809
00:45:27.360 --> 00:45:30.719
the blood spot on them, and they took those for testing.

810
00:45:31.000 --> 00:45:34.360
Now I'm gonna just tell you now spoiler alert. The

811
00:45:34.400 --> 00:45:38.039
blood on her jeans was tested and it was not

812
00:45:38.360 --> 00:45:43.440
the missing child's blood. It was Alyssa's blood, so that

813
00:45:43.760 --> 00:45:47.159
would result in nothing. But they also took her sheet

814
00:45:47.239 --> 00:45:49.960
they took her pillow case, but they also took her

815
00:45:50.079 --> 00:45:52.880
diary or her journal that she left in the house.

816
00:45:53.679 --> 00:45:56.800
But of everything that they saw in this room, it

817
00:45:56.920 --> 00:46:01.440
was the walls of her room that were just interesting.

818
00:46:02.119 --> 00:46:06.320
Randomly taked on the walls were cards and photographs, but

819
00:46:06.400 --> 00:46:08.719
it was not of any organized fashion. It was just

820
00:46:08.840 --> 00:46:13.599
very like all over the place. And there was a

821
00:46:13.639 --> 00:46:17.960
birthday card that was on the wall, and I was

822
00:46:17.960 --> 00:46:21.239
going to read it to you. Well, it starts with sup.

823
00:46:21.519 --> 00:46:24.119
B day girl, and SUP. The S is a dollar

824
00:46:24.199 --> 00:46:27.960
sign symbol, because that's really cool. I love you. Well,

825
00:46:28.000 --> 00:46:30.719
you are fourteen. You are getting old before you know it.

826
00:46:30.800 --> 00:46:33.079
I will be out. I can't believe your mom was

827
00:46:33.119 --> 00:46:36.000
fourteen when she got pregnant with you, So please don't

828
00:46:36.000 --> 00:46:38.719
get pregnant like your mom. Okay, were you able to

829
00:46:38.760 --> 00:46:41.679
take your cell phone home? I hope. So. Do you

830
00:46:41.760 --> 00:46:45.159
like your birthday card? It's cool? Yeah, it's the best

831
00:46:45.239 --> 00:46:48.079
cake ever, isn't it. Write me back and tell me

832
00:46:48.119 --> 00:46:50.000
what you think of it. So what did you get

833
00:46:50.039 --> 00:46:52.800
for your birthday? I love you, Alyssa. Soon I will

834
00:46:52.840 --> 00:46:56.039
be out, so hang in there, love dad. Now, the

835
00:46:56.079 --> 00:46:59.000
grammatics in this not to be a petty wench. I

836
00:46:59.000 --> 00:47:01.280
know I'm gonna sound like that, but he spells write

837
00:47:01.320 --> 00:47:05.840
me back, wrght, write me back. And I also cleaned

838
00:47:05.880 --> 00:47:07.880
it up for you and read it as if it

839
00:47:07.920 --> 00:47:10.119
all made complete sense with the right words. But it doesn't.

840
00:47:10.159 --> 00:47:12.719
It's a total hopknob mess of a card. But hey,

841
00:47:12.719 --> 00:47:14.840
at least he remembered his daughter was having a birthday,

842
00:47:15.719 --> 00:47:18.000
and at least he assumes that someone's going to buy

843
00:47:18.000 --> 00:47:19.960
her a gift for her birthday since he's not there

844
00:47:20.000 --> 00:47:22.719
to help or do any of it. All right, now,

845
00:47:23.039 --> 00:47:24.920
all this real? Nice dad, Thanks for the birthday card

846
00:47:24.960 --> 00:47:27.119
for your daughter. Now, there was also a poem that

847
00:47:27.199 --> 00:47:29.199
he wrote, but I'm not going to read that to

848
00:47:29.199 --> 00:47:32.519
you because it had so many grammatical errors and misspellings

849
00:47:32.519 --> 00:47:34.480
that I almost had a seizure trying to decipher what

850
00:47:34.519 --> 00:47:36.639
the hell it said. But I will post it on

851
00:47:36.719 --> 00:47:39.559
Patreon for you. I guess the whole reason that I'm

852
00:47:39.760 --> 00:47:41.840
sharing all this with you is that her dad wasn't

853
00:47:42.000 --> 00:47:43.719
much of a dad. It was just more like an

854
00:47:43.760 --> 00:47:46.880
idiot who had a kid at fourteen or fifteen, and

855
00:47:46.920 --> 00:47:52.119
he just really wasn't a father to her. But aside

856
00:47:52.159 --> 00:47:54.159
from her dad's stuff, that she had taped all on

857
00:47:54.199 --> 00:47:58.239
the wall. It was her wall writings that stood out

858
00:47:58.639 --> 00:48:01.960
so much that investigators took pictures of it. And when

859
00:48:02.000 --> 00:48:04.079
I say wall writings, I mean she literally took a

860
00:48:04.119 --> 00:48:07.320
pin to the sheet writing to the sheet rock, and

861
00:48:07.360 --> 00:48:11.199
the walls said things like raar raw r and the

862
00:48:11.239 --> 00:48:14.400
words and this is what it said. It was written

863
00:48:14.440 --> 00:48:17.159
in blood. Now that was all lowercase, and then underneath

864
00:48:17.199 --> 00:48:21.559
it in all caps it says it was written in blood. Like,

865
00:48:21.599 --> 00:48:24.880
what a weird thing to write on a wall. There

866
00:48:24.920 --> 00:48:28.119
was also a drawn person on the wall. It was

867
00:48:28.239 --> 00:48:31.039
very primitive looking. It looked like an outline of a

868
00:48:31.039 --> 00:48:33.719
person with a face. But then next to it it

869
00:48:33.800 --> 00:48:37.639
said the name Emma, like her little sister, and this

870
00:48:37.880 --> 00:48:41.719
person had slash marks on the face and the arms,

871
00:48:41.880 --> 00:48:44.639
and then some of the writings looked to actually be

872
00:48:44.760 --> 00:48:49.400
written in blood on the wall. So circumstantially speaking, this

873
00:48:49.440 --> 00:48:54.679
girl as creepy as fuck. But that wasn't helping locate Elizabeth,

874
00:48:54.840 --> 00:48:58.320
who had now been missing for two days. So back

875
00:48:58.360 --> 00:49:01.679
to Alyssa's boyfriend that was again going to be questioned.

876
00:49:02.559 --> 00:49:07.039
Investigators interviewed this kid over and over and over again

877
00:49:07.079 --> 00:49:10.480
because they just felt like he wasn't telling the full truth.

878
00:49:10.719 --> 00:49:15.920
This kid's name was Dustin, and Dustin's vibe really mimicked

879
00:49:17.360 --> 00:49:20.519
Alissa's look and you know, kind of dark or whatever.

880
00:49:20.599 --> 00:49:23.559
And he was nervous from the jump when he was interviewed.

881
00:49:23.920 --> 00:49:27.320
He was so nervous that they wanted to polygraph him. Okay,

882
00:49:27.800 --> 00:49:32.079
and he says, okay. Now, while a lot of questions

883
00:49:32.119 --> 00:49:35.920
were asked during this polygraph, three of those questions are

884
00:49:35.920 --> 00:49:38.800
going to stand out as super important to you the listener.

885
00:49:39.239 --> 00:49:43.599
Number one, did you physically cause Elizabeth's death? Number two,

886
00:49:44.000 --> 00:49:47.880
did you physically take her life? And number three, did

887
00:49:47.920 --> 00:49:52.440
you know anything or did you do anything physical that

888
00:49:52.679 --> 00:49:56.679
ended her life? And it's worded different ways to try

889
00:49:56.719 --> 00:49:59.920
to make sure it's worded where we'll elicit a reaction

890
00:50:00.079 --> 00:50:03.719
of some sort if it's true. Now, he answered no

891
00:50:04.239 --> 00:50:07.800
to all three of these questions, but the test result

892
00:50:07.920 --> 00:50:12.480
showed a very high level of response in his body

893
00:50:12.800 --> 00:50:17.960
for those specific questions. And so that autonomic response that

894
00:50:18.000 --> 00:50:20.960
your body has, that is what is an indicator of

895
00:50:21.000 --> 00:50:25.360
when you are either lying or that you know something

896
00:50:26.000 --> 00:50:30.239
in regards to those questions, which was causing his adrenaline

897
00:50:30.280 --> 00:50:32.840
to spike. It was triggering a response in his body,

898
00:50:32.880 --> 00:50:36.000
like his heart rate goes up, his perspiration, his breathing rates,

899
00:50:36.039 --> 00:50:39.400
all of that. So they fly out tell him Brook,

900
00:50:39.719 --> 00:50:42.519
you failed this polygraph. You did not pass it. And

901
00:50:42.559 --> 00:50:45.679
you can clearly see him in the video because they

902
00:50:45.760 --> 00:50:48.960
video this interrogation that he is breathing heavy and you

903
00:50:48.960 --> 00:50:52.559
can even see his heart pounding, his shirt physically kind

904
00:50:52.599 --> 00:50:57.440
of bumping while they continue this interrogation, and he's telling them, look,

905
00:50:57.480 --> 00:51:00.159
I failed it just because I'm nervous. But if you

906
00:51:00.159 --> 00:51:02.960
know anything about polygraphs, they give these baseline questions which

907
00:51:03.000 --> 00:51:06.760
are used to kind of see what your beginning, you know,

908
00:51:07.000 --> 00:51:09.760
regulation of your body is, and that's why they do that.

909
00:51:09.840 --> 00:51:13.079
It rules out nervousness. So if you're already nervous, it's

910
00:51:13.079 --> 00:51:16.119
going to register high nerves on the test and that

911
00:51:16.199 --> 00:51:19.360
becomes your baseline. They're not stupid, Okay, there's a rhyme

912
00:51:19.360 --> 00:51:22.079
and reason to all of this. So detectives explain it

913
00:51:22.119 --> 00:51:25.400
to him, and then the detective using his pointer finger,

914
00:51:25.800 --> 00:51:29.639
he leans in and he taps Dustin straight in the

915
00:51:29.719 --> 00:51:32.039
chest with that pointer finger. He taps him. He said,

916
00:51:32.079 --> 00:51:36.599
let me tell you something, Bud. Your heart can't lie,

917
00:51:36.599 --> 00:51:39.480
meaning your body is giving you away, and he just

918
00:51:39.519 --> 00:51:41.599
taps him in the chest. Now they told him a

919
00:51:41.599 --> 00:51:44.199
little bit more. They told Dustin, guess what, buddy, we

920
00:51:44.280 --> 00:51:48.320
also have a witness that claims to have seen a

921
00:51:48.360 --> 00:51:53.599
teenager that looks remarkably like you, right near where we

922
00:51:53.679 --> 00:51:58.760
think Elizabeth was last seen. And so this was kind

923
00:51:58.760 --> 00:52:01.079
of during those that canvas that they were doing. And

924
00:52:01.119 --> 00:52:04.159
so the witness that they had found, they showed this

925
00:52:04.280 --> 00:52:08.719
gentleman a picture of Dustin's license, the photo on his license,

926
00:52:09.360 --> 00:52:11.840
and the witness said, yeah, that was him. He was

927
00:52:11.880 --> 00:52:15.079
wearing a black hoodie and he was wearing jeans, and

928
00:52:15.119 --> 00:52:19.119
he was standing off by a guard rail by himself. Now,

929
00:52:19.119 --> 00:52:22.360
when he was confronted with that, Dustin's reaction was anger

930
00:52:22.639 --> 00:52:24.519
at that claim that he had been there and that

931
00:52:24.800 --> 00:52:28.480
someone had ideed him. So that anger could mean either

932
00:52:28.559 --> 00:52:30.760
he resented it because it wasn't true, or it could

933
00:52:30.800 --> 00:52:33.480
just be again another reaction. But they weren't getting much

934
00:52:33.519 --> 00:52:40.320
more from him in it at this point. But now

935
00:52:40.360 --> 00:52:43.840
they're back at Alyssa and they're continuing to interrogate her

936
00:52:44.079 --> 00:52:47.519
and becoming much more specific. They even bring out a

937
00:52:47.599 --> 00:52:51.239
map and they asked her to draw the trail and

938
00:52:51.320 --> 00:52:54.920
where she walked in the woods and all of that,

939
00:52:55.000 --> 00:52:57.599
which she does, and she shows the creek, she shows

940
00:52:57.639 --> 00:53:00.800
where she walked, and she draws it all back. But

941
00:53:00.880 --> 00:53:04.320
when she's pressed about the exact timing, she turns to

942
00:53:04.360 --> 00:53:07.679
her grandmother and again Grandma's kind of casually swinging back

943
00:53:07.719 --> 00:53:11.360
and forth in the chair very gently. But Grandma she

944
00:53:11.840 --> 00:53:14.519
didn't know the exact timing because she wasn't with Alissa

945
00:53:14.679 --> 00:53:18.840
at that time. This is where the point in that

946
00:53:18.920 --> 00:53:22.760
interview there is a deep shift, and it becomes very

947
00:53:22.880 --> 00:53:27.599
evident because the detective leaned in and advised Alyssa of

948
00:53:27.639 --> 00:53:32.639
something that she didn't know, and that's that they read

949
00:53:32.679 --> 00:53:35.920
her journal, remember when they took it during the search,

950
00:53:36.880 --> 00:53:40.960
and that included the day of Elizabeth's disappearance, and the

951
00:53:41.199 --> 00:53:44.559
entry in that journal was roughly a third of a

952
00:53:44.639 --> 00:53:48.159
page long, but it had been scratched out with a

953
00:53:48.239 --> 00:53:52.679
blue pen minus the last sentence, and that last sentence

954
00:53:52.719 --> 00:53:58.159
read Okay, I gotta go to church now. Lol. So

955
00:53:58.199 --> 00:54:02.199
Alissa shook her head in agreeance and said, yeah, that's

956
00:54:02.239 --> 00:54:05.559
my journal, And the detective then goes, well, guess what

957
00:54:06.960 --> 00:54:11.599
we're able to detect what was written underneath that scratch

958
00:54:11.639 --> 00:54:15.519
out when he says that Melissa all of a sudden

959
00:54:15.599 --> 00:54:20.639
becomes rigid as a stone, and her once relaxed demeanor

960
00:54:20.760 --> 00:54:26.480
now was very still and eyes lucked on this detective.

961
00:54:27.920 --> 00:54:31.920
And that's when it's realized that there was more to

962
00:54:32.039 --> 00:54:37.159
this journal entry than Alyssa realized. People could see now.

963
00:54:37.199 --> 00:54:39.559
There were other writings too, things that said like, when

964
00:54:39.559 --> 00:54:42.159
I get frustrated, I bottle it up inside and someone

965
00:54:42.199 --> 00:54:44.320
is going to have to die. There was another one

966
00:54:44.320 --> 00:54:46.840
that said she fantasized about burning down a house and

967
00:54:46.920 --> 00:54:51.679
killing the people inside. And without telling you what the

968
00:54:51.719 --> 00:54:54.159
rest of the journal said, or telling her what the

969
00:54:54.159 --> 00:54:57.039
rest of the journal said, the detective leaned in and said,

970
00:54:57.519 --> 00:55:00.280
was this an accident? Like that right, like just came

971
00:55:00.320 --> 00:55:03.920
straight out of his mouth. Was it an accident? And Alissa,

972
00:55:04.079 --> 00:55:07.480
after a little bit more pressing, finally broke down and admitted.

973
00:55:08.000 --> 00:55:12.639
She said, yes, it was an accident. Elizabeth fell and

974
00:55:12.760 --> 00:55:17.199
hid her head, which she died from. Alisa then said

975
00:55:17.199 --> 00:55:22.159
that she panicked, she freaked out, and she threw her

976
00:55:22.199 --> 00:55:27.039
body into the swiftly moving creek. Well. The usually relaxed

977
00:55:27.079 --> 00:55:31.320
grandmother to this point, who was gently swiveling back and forth,

978
00:55:31.360 --> 00:55:34.920
in her chair. That chair movement just came to a

979
00:55:35.000 --> 00:55:38.760
complete stop when Alyssa said that it was like she

980
00:55:38.840 --> 00:55:43.679
was processing what was being said and could not believe

981
00:55:43.880 --> 00:55:46.320
what she had just heard. And when it hits her,

982
00:55:46.960 --> 00:55:50.480
she literally almost falls out of the chair and she

983
00:55:50.639 --> 00:55:55.320
makes this guttural groan like, oh my god. They have

984
00:55:55.400 --> 00:55:58.239
to actually stop the interview at that moment, which is

985
00:55:58.320 --> 00:56:00.519
not good during a confession, you don't want to ever

986
00:56:00.599 --> 00:56:02.639
stop it. But they have to get Grandma out of

987
00:56:02.639 --> 00:56:04.360
the room. They have to get her out of the

988
00:56:04.440 --> 00:56:07.840
room because she starts screaming and yelling at the top

989
00:56:07.880 --> 00:56:11.480
of her lungs, oh my god, Oh my god. As

990
00:56:11.519 --> 00:56:15.960
she exits the room, just sobbing, telling someone I'm gonna

991
00:56:16.000 --> 00:56:19.840
pass out, I'm gonna pass out. She was so horrified

992
00:56:20.440 --> 00:56:24.880
that someone, I can only assume, in an attempt to

993
00:56:25.039 --> 00:56:27.400
calm her down, must have said something, now, this is

994
00:56:27.480 --> 00:56:30.119
outside of the room, okay, She's now outside of the

995
00:56:30.199 --> 00:56:33.719
of the room. I'm thinking someone said to something to

996
00:56:33.719 --> 00:56:37.119
the effect of it's going to be okay, because what

997
00:56:37.320 --> 00:56:40.320
she yells out in response could be heard through the

998
00:56:40.360 --> 00:56:43.880
walls and is caught on the tape as the interrogation

999
00:56:43.960 --> 00:56:48.000
of her granddaughter continues, Now the detective is gonna be

1000
00:56:48.000 --> 00:56:50.599
talking for a second, but it's the background that I

1001
00:56:50.639 --> 00:56:54.320
want you listening for. Here, listen for yourself, because what

1002
00:56:54.440 --> 00:56:58.480
grandma yells out is the God's honest truth, and she

1003
00:56:58.639 --> 00:57:02.480
knew it. You try to do the whole, my best jo.

1004
00:57:03.679 --> 00:57:09.639
She realized it was too hard to dinar could could

1005
00:57:09.639 --> 00:57:13.079
you make it out? Because if not from outside of

1006
00:57:13.079 --> 00:57:18.239
that room, she screamed, it's never gonna be okay. That's

1007
00:57:18.239 --> 00:57:20.960
what she yelled. It is never going to be okay.

1008
00:57:21.239 --> 00:57:24.960
But what Grandma did not know was that that first

1009
00:57:25.039 --> 00:57:29.920
confession it wasn't even the truth. She would wish it

1010
00:57:29.960 --> 00:57:33.199
were the truth. When after a few versions were told

1011
00:57:33.239 --> 00:57:37.199
to the detective, they finally got the truth of what

1012
00:57:37.280 --> 00:57:42.920
had happened to young Elizabeth. See, the detective hadn't yet

1013
00:57:43.239 --> 00:57:47.400
told her what the scratched out portion of the journal said.

1014
00:57:47.599 --> 00:57:49.480
Of course she knew, because she wrote it. But I

1015
00:57:49.519 --> 00:57:52.440
want to tell you what did it say, because I'm

1016
00:57:52.440 --> 00:57:55.159
going to read it to your word for word quote.

1017
00:57:55.440 --> 00:58:00.280
I just fucking killed someone. I strangled them and lit

1018
00:58:00.320 --> 00:58:03.679
their throat and stab them and now they are dead.

1019
00:58:04.360 --> 00:58:06.559
I don't know how to feel at the moment, it

1020
00:58:06.639 --> 00:58:09.840
was amazing. As soon as you get over the oh

1021
00:58:09.840 --> 00:58:12.519
my god, I can't do this feeling, it's pretty enjoyable.

1022
00:58:13.440 --> 00:58:16.599
I'm kind of nervous and shaky though right now, Okay,

1023
00:58:17.360 --> 00:58:21.880
I got to go to church now. Lol. It completely

1024
00:58:22.400 --> 00:58:27.679
changes the snark of what that last sentence meant. It's

1025
00:58:27.679 --> 00:58:32.599
almost mocking. So here is what happened. The day that

1026
00:58:32.679 --> 00:58:37.920
Elizabeth went missing. Emma went over and innocently asked her

1027
00:58:37.920 --> 00:58:41.239
friend Elizabeth to come over and play. They did so,

1028
00:58:41.880 --> 00:58:44.719
and on her way back home when she was supposed

1029
00:58:44.719 --> 00:58:46.800
to return at six o'clock, just as she told her

1030
00:58:46.800 --> 00:58:52.199
mama she would, at some point Alissa appeared and convinced

1031
00:58:52.199 --> 00:58:55.559
the little girl to go through like a walking trail

1032
00:58:55.599 --> 00:58:58.920
with her in the woods. So they were walking and

1033
00:58:58.960 --> 00:59:02.039
they were chatting normally. This was her friend, this was

1034
00:59:02.079 --> 00:59:06.960
her sister's, her friend's sister, a trusted girl in the neighborhood.

1035
00:59:08.119 --> 00:59:12.519
And as Elizabeth was walking, they were chatting. Everything was normal,

1036
00:59:13.159 --> 00:59:17.480
but Elizabeth was in front of Alissa at one point,

1037
00:59:17.960 --> 00:59:21.320
and that's when Alissa jumped on her from behind, put

1038
00:59:21.400 --> 00:59:24.760
her hands around that nine year old little girl's throat

1039
00:59:24.920 --> 00:59:29.239
and began to squeeze the life out of her. And

1040
00:59:29.280 --> 00:59:32.960
as little Elizabeth struggled to breathe, and she pulled, and

1041
00:59:33.000 --> 00:59:37.400
she scratched and she tugged at Alissa's hands, Alyssa continued

1042
00:59:37.400 --> 00:59:42.280
to squeeze harder and harder and harder, until Elizabeth got

1043
00:59:42.320 --> 00:59:46.960
woozy from the lack of oxygen and eventually would stop breathing,

1044
00:59:47.400 --> 00:59:52.559
collapsing straight back onto her back on the ground. And

1045
00:59:52.639 --> 00:59:57.679
what Little Elizabeth didn't know was that her friend, her sister,

1046
00:59:58.119 --> 01:00:04.159
her friend's sister had concealed a large kitchen knife in

1047
01:00:04.239 --> 01:00:07.400
her waistband the entire time that they were just walking

1048
01:00:07.679 --> 01:00:10.320
and chatting through the woods, So at that point she

1049
01:00:10.360 --> 01:00:12.840
had jumped on top of the little girl, she pulled

1050
01:00:12.840 --> 01:00:16.920
it out. Now, she told investigators she stabbed Alissa twice,

1051
01:00:17.239 --> 01:00:21.639
but the autopsy would eventually show that she stabbed her

1052
01:00:21.920 --> 01:00:26.280
eight times in the chest. And if that weren't enough,

1053
01:00:27.400 --> 01:00:33.199
as Elizabeth were either dead or dying, she then slid

1054
01:00:33.320 --> 01:00:37.519
that knife across her throat, slitting it open and ensuring

1055
01:00:37.960 --> 01:00:43.440
imminent death. She said that she then in her last confession,

1056
01:00:43.519 --> 01:00:46.800
she said that she then dug the hole before heading home.

1057
01:00:47.039 --> 01:00:49.519
But there was just one problem with this, How the

1058
01:00:49.559 --> 01:00:51.440
fuck did you dig a hole if you don't have

1059
01:00:51.480 --> 01:00:55.000
a shovel with you? Does it make sense? So? How

1060
01:00:55.400 --> 01:00:59.440
how did she dig the hole? Great question? At first,

1061
01:00:59.440 --> 01:01:01.800
she just claimed that it was a coincidence that she

1062
01:01:01.920 --> 01:01:06.440
maybe had just dug a hole prior and and that's why,

1063
01:01:06.880 --> 01:01:08.920
you know, she was able to put a Lissa somewhere

1064
01:01:08.920 --> 01:01:10.880
near it. But then she later slipped up in the

1065
01:01:10.880 --> 01:01:13.719
interrogation and she made it crystal clear what had happened.

1066
01:01:14.000 --> 01:01:17.159
Remember when she couldn't remember which day she dug the hole.

1067
01:01:17.639 --> 01:01:19.400
You remember that she kind of went back and forth.

1068
01:01:19.920 --> 01:01:23.480
It's because there wasn't just one hole out there, there

1069
01:01:23.480 --> 01:01:28.800
were two. She had dug two holes. There was another

1070
01:01:29.400 --> 01:01:32.880
hole in the woods, one that she dug nearly a

1071
01:01:32.960 --> 01:01:39.280
week earlier. Because she had planned all along to murder

1072
01:01:39.840 --> 01:01:44.960
nine year old Elizabeth a week in advance. She went

1073
01:01:45.000 --> 01:01:49.360
out there and she dug that child's grave. The hole

1074
01:01:49.400 --> 01:01:53.400
that she had first shown detectives wasn't where Elizabeth was.

1075
01:01:53.599 --> 01:01:56.199
There was another hole deep in the woods that police

1076
01:01:56.239 --> 01:01:59.519
had not found, and Elizabeth had now been lying in

1077
01:01:59.559 --> 01:02:03.639
that hole for three days. Well, where is the knife?

1078
01:02:04.400 --> 01:02:06.440
You know? That was the next question, where's the murder weapon?

1079
01:02:06.480 --> 01:02:08.719
What happened with the knife and her answer as if

1080
01:02:08.760 --> 01:02:11.039
what she had just said wasn't just jaw dropping for

1081
01:02:11.079 --> 01:02:14.599
a fifteen year old girl, her answer was even more shocking.

1082
01:02:14.719 --> 01:02:17.199
She says, it's in the sink, and the detective is like,

1083
01:02:17.280 --> 01:02:21.679
what the sink like at your house? She says, yeah.

1084
01:02:22.079 --> 01:02:26.239
After she drug Elizabeth into the hole, she used her

1085
01:02:26.239 --> 01:02:28.599
hands to fill it back up, which is why she

1086
01:02:28.679 --> 01:02:31.960
was muddy whenever she went and helped to get her

1087
01:02:32.000 --> 01:02:35.280
sister unstuck. But here's the thing. She hadn't heard her

1088
01:02:35.320 --> 01:02:38.599
sister yelling from her bedroom window as she had claimed. No,

1089
01:02:39.079 --> 01:02:41.559
she was coming back out of the woods after having

1090
01:02:41.800 --> 01:02:45.039
just murdered a nine year old girl when she just

1091
01:02:45.280 --> 01:02:50.400
casually walked up helped her sister unstuck her, and then

1092
01:02:50.559 --> 01:02:52.360
she still had the knife on her. I think she

1093
01:02:52.360 --> 01:02:54.360
said it was in her waistband. She walks into the

1094
01:02:54.400 --> 01:02:57.000
kitchen of the house, washes all of the blood off,

1095
01:02:57.119 --> 01:02:59.880
and then just drops it in the sink. I guess, grum.

1096
01:03:00.000 --> 01:03:01.719
I'm was just going to get to cook with it later.

1097
01:03:03.559 --> 01:03:07.599
So after this confession, Alissa was brought back out into

1098
01:03:07.599 --> 01:03:10.800
the woods, where she then led them to the crudely

1099
01:03:11.360 --> 01:03:16.880
buried body of nine year old Elizabeth Olton. Her cell

1100
01:03:16.920 --> 01:03:20.039
phone was still in her pants pocket when she was

1101
01:03:20.119 --> 01:03:25.159
dug out of the ground. Here's the thing, the search

1102
01:03:25.239 --> 01:03:28.440
for her cell phone was done as if it were

1103
01:03:29.159 --> 01:03:33.239
on the ground somewhere. The police had not scoured the

1104
01:03:33.320 --> 01:03:38.119
ground for signs of a makeshift grave, so that's why

1105
01:03:38.119 --> 01:03:40.599
they couldn't find it upon the initial search. When they

1106
01:03:40.599 --> 01:03:43.000
got the ping, they were never imagining that she would

1107
01:03:43.000 --> 01:03:45.880
have been buried underground. They thought that maybe the phone

1108
01:03:45.920 --> 01:03:49.440
was dropped in the woods. But now the search was

1109
01:03:49.480 --> 01:03:54.519
over and she was found, and as her family still

1110
01:03:54.599 --> 01:03:58.599
sat at that table making buttons with her picture on

1111
01:03:58.639 --> 01:04:03.280
it to aid in finding her, the investigators had to

1112
01:04:03.360 --> 01:04:06.280
walk in and break the news to her that she

1113
01:04:06.440 --> 01:04:09.840
had been located, but she would not be returning home

1114
01:04:09.880 --> 01:04:14.840
to them. Now more information would come to light in

1115
01:04:14.880 --> 01:04:19.000
this case that has left people wondering still today if

1116
01:04:19.039 --> 01:04:27.079
everything is known about Elizabeth's murder, because eventually Elissa's boyfriend

1117
01:04:28.079 --> 01:04:31.199
would be notified that the little girl's body had been

1118
01:04:31.400 --> 01:04:34.719
found and located, and when he got the news, he

1119
01:04:34.840 --> 01:04:39.559
began to vomit, like rerrupt vomit at the reality of it.

1120
01:04:40.719 --> 01:04:45.239
He would then confess to investigators that Elissa claimed that

1121
01:04:45.280 --> 01:04:49.159
she had killed Elizabeth while she was at his house

1122
01:04:49.880 --> 01:04:52.679
when they skipped school. Now, I'm not sure that she

1123
01:04:52.760 --> 01:04:54.480
named her by name, but she said she had killed

1124
01:04:54.519 --> 01:04:56.800
a little girl. Now, he didn't know if it was

1125
01:04:56.840 --> 01:04:59.239
real or not. He thought that maybe she was being

1126
01:04:59.320 --> 01:05:01.880
edgy or something, and I just said something. But while

1127
01:05:01.920 --> 01:05:06.599
looking in her booksack, he found a knife and it

1128
01:05:06.679 --> 01:05:09.039
kind of freaked him out. So he's like looking at her, like,

1129
01:05:09.159 --> 01:05:11.480
explain this now in hindsight, I will let you know

1130
01:05:11.519 --> 01:05:13.719
that knife was found and located. It was still in

1131
01:05:13.760 --> 01:05:15.559
the book sack, but it was not the knife that

1132
01:05:15.639 --> 01:05:19.039
was used to kill Elizabeth. But why hadn't he come

1133
01:05:19.159 --> 01:05:23.639
forward when he knew that information while they were searching

1134
01:05:23.639 --> 01:05:26.239
for this little girl. Why would you not come forward? Now?

1135
01:05:26.440 --> 01:05:30.760
His answer was simple, okay, he said, because she scared

1136
01:05:30.800 --> 01:05:34.480
the shit out of me. She scared me. He told

1137
01:05:34.519 --> 01:05:37.559
investigators he didn't want to say anything because if she

1138
01:05:37.639 --> 01:05:40.480
had actually done something to this kid, he was scared

1139
01:05:40.519 --> 01:05:43.559
that she might come for his sister or his mother.

1140
01:05:44.480 --> 01:05:46.199
And then he said, and what if she finds out

1141
01:05:46.320 --> 01:05:48.760
I said something and she comes and tries to kill

1142
01:05:48.760 --> 01:05:50.840
people in my family? What if she gets out on

1143
01:05:50.880 --> 01:05:53.239
bail and then she comes and she kills me. He

1144
01:05:53.280 --> 01:05:54.599
even went so far as to say, what if she

1145
01:05:54.639 --> 01:05:57.039
gets an ankle monitor and they let her out and

1146
01:05:57.079 --> 01:05:59.440
then she cuts it off and then goes looking for

1147
01:05:59.519 --> 01:06:03.920
my little I didn't want any of that to happen. Okay,

1148
01:06:04.679 --> 01:06:08.519
well still, you'd think that you would come forward with that,

1149
01:06:08.800 --> 01:06:13.119
but he didn't. Now. A further look into Alissa's social

1150
01:06:13.199 --> 01:06:18.079
media presence showed someone very different from her behaviors and

1151
01:06:18.159 --> 01:06:22.400
public persona at school, at least because she listed her

1152
01:06:22.440 --> 01:06:27.360
hobbies online as cutting and killing people with some very

1153
01:06:27.400 --> 01:06:30.920
creepy photos. She has like clown like makeup on. She's

1154
01:06:30.960 --> 01:06:33.199
holding her fingers up to her head like to her

1155
01:06:33.239 --> 01:06:36.920
temple like it's a gun. She took on the personality

1156
01:06:36.920 --> 01:06:40.679
of a broken, depressed and terrorized team that whole life

1157
01:06:40.719 --> 01:06:44.840
is paying type personality. But she also liked to film

1158
01:06:44.920 --> 01:06:48.840
things where other people got hurt, like she loved putting

1159
01:06:48.840 --> 01:06:53.519
this video up where her brother's got electric shock from

1160
01:06:53.559 --> 01:06:56.920
an electric fence on the horse paddock. And the reality

1161
01:06:56.960 --> 01:06:59.199
is that she loved that. She loved it and she

1162
01:06:59.280 --> 01:07:02.400
posted it because she was sadistic and she loved seeing

1163
01:07:02.440 --> 01:07:06.280
other people in pain, it brought her joy. Now, I

1164
01:07:06.360 --> 01:07:08.079
want to bring this up because it seems to be

1165
01:07:08.119 --> 01:07:11.280
a common theme in damn near every episode I've ever done.

1166
01:07:12.079 --> 01:07:18.559
But her mental health history was shocking considering what she

1167
01:07:18.760 --> 01:07:24.119
did to Elizabeth, and the fact that her mental health

1168
01:07:24.159 --> 01:07:30.239
history had been almost ignored is unbelievable. So Alissa Bustamante

1169
01:07:30.360 --> 01:07:34.440
had attempted suicide at thirteen years old. She actually was

1170
01:07:34.480 --> 01:07:38.400
put in a mental health facility as a result of this. Now,

1171
01:07:38.440 --> 01:07:42.199
when she got out, the grandparents did everything they could

1172
01:07:42.199 --> 01:07:45.960
do with her. They got her intensive outpatient therapy, but

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it wasn't working. And I say this because it's evidenced

1174
01:07:49.320 --> 01:07:53.679
by the clinical notes. Just one month before the murder

1175
01:07:53.679 --> 01:07:56.480
of this child, a mental health professional who had been

1176
01:07:56.519 --> 01:07:59.760
taking care of Elissa for two years wrote that she

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01:07:59.840 --> 01:08:02.920
was worried she was spiraling out of control and that

1178
01:08:02.960 --> 01:08:09.199
her delinquent behavior would be increasing. The deceptive and manipulative

1179
01:08:09.280 --> 01:08:13.920
side of Alyssa was real, though, because she called. Alyssa

1180
01:08:13.960 --> 01:08:17.039
made a phone call to that very same therapist the

1181
01:08:17.239 --> 01:08:21.520
day that Elizabeth was murdered, and she said, oh my god,

1182
01:08:21.720 --> 01:08:25.000
there's police everywhere. This little girl is missing. It's stressing

1183
01:08:25.079 --> 01:08:28.279
me out. Acting as if she knew nothing about this

1184
01:08:28.359 --> 01:08:32.039
missing child, trying to build in an alibi that she

1185
01:08:32.159 --> 01:08:36.720
was freaked out. The history was there. What are we

1186
01:08:36.800 --> 01:08:39.359
going to do? When are we going to recognize that

1187
01:08:39.399 --> 01:08:42.439
when someone tells you or acts like they're crazy and

1188
01:08:42.560 --> 01:08:44.920
posts that they want to kill people, maybe we ought

1189
01:08:44.920 --> 01:08:46.800
to take it for what it is. I don't care

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01:08:46.840 --> 01:08:50.000
if they're fourteen years old. We need to pay attention

1191
01:08:50.079 --> 01:08:54.840
to it because look what happens. Nine year old Elizabeth

1192
01:08:54.840 --> 01:08:59.319
Olton was buried in a pink coffin pulled by a

1193
01:08:59.359 --> 01:09:04.119
horse drawn carriage just one week after she went missing,

1194
01:09:04.960 --> 01:09:08.600
and fifteen year old Alissa Bustamante was arrested and charged

1195
01:09:08.640 --> 01:09:14.199
with Elizabeth's murder, to which she incredibly pled not guilty,

1196
01:09:15.079 --> 01:09:19.920
so her trial was set for January twenty sixth of

1197
01:09:20.000 --> 01:09:23.960
twenty twelve, but before that could happen, she changed her

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01:09:24.000 --> 01:09:28.159
plea deal or changed her plea to guilty of second

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01:09:28.239 --> 01:09:31.239
degree murder as part of a plea deal, and on

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01:09:31.279 --> 01:09:36.760
February eighth, twenty twelve, the court sentenced Alissa Bustamante to

1201
01:09:36.960 --> 01:09:41.560
life in prison plus thirty years. And this case is

1202
01:09:41.680 --> 01:09:44.720
just one that is so frustrating to me because a

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01:09:44.840 --> 01:09:48.640
child lost her life at the hands of someone who

1204
01:09:48.760 --> 01:09:53.520
was known to be clinically mentally ill. Just looking at

1205
01:09:53.520 --> 01:09:56.560
her bedroom, you could tell there was something wrong with her.

1206
01:09:56.720 --> 01:09:59.920
But you have to ask yourself, this, with no pride,

1207
01:10:00.239 --> 01:10:05.279
criminal history, what else could the grandparents do? What else

1208
01:10:05.279 --> 01:10:07.760
could they do? They were getting her therapy, they had

1209
01:10:07.800 --> 01:10:11.119
her on medication, They took her in, They gave her

1210
01:10:11.159 --> 01:10:14.159
a stable home filled with love, They got her mental

1211
01:10:14.199 --> 01:10:17.760
health care. They even moved her to a completely different

1212
01:10:17.800 --> 01:10:20.560
area to give her a fresh start. But even after

1213
01:10:20.640 --> 01:10:25.159
all of that, it wasn't enough. And that's why this

1214
01:10:25.239 --> 01:10:28.760
case is so truly evil. No amount of life problems

1215
01:10:29.000 --> 01:10:34.279
or childhood history could ever justify what this teen did,

1216
01:10:34.600 --> 01:10:37.680
and it was for her own enjoyment. And by the way,

1217
01:10:37.760 --> 01:10:41.239
even her grandfather told police it was strange the night

1218
01:10:41.279 --> 01:10:47.159
of Elizabeth's murder because while Alissa called her counselor supposedly

1219
01:10:47.199 --> 01:10:50.760
distressed and panicked, her grandfather told police that she was

1220
01:10:50.880 --> 01:10:55.840
unusually happy and chipper that night after she had killed

1221
01:10:56.279 --> 01:10:59.439
a child. Well, of course she was happy, and Chipper

1222
01:10:59.640 --> 01:11:02.720
say to love to watch other people suffer. They enjoy

1223
01:11:03.000 --> 01:11:06.000
the pain they cause. I don't care that she was

1224
01:11:06.039 --> 01:11:09.319
a young teenager. She enjoyed it. She was feeling that

1225
01:11:09.479 --> 01:11:14.000
dopamine hit like no other. She was high on the

1226
01:11:14.039 --> 01:11:18.399
effects of murdering a nine year old girl. But in

1227
01:11:18.520 --> 01:11:23.000
court she made a statement as she faced the family

1228
01:11:23.840 --> 01:11:29.119
of Elizabeth, and this was her statement, I really am extremely,

1229
01:11:29.760 --> 01:11:33.199
very sorry for everything I know. Words can never be

1230
01:11:33.399 --> 01:11:36.640
enough and they can never adequately describe how horribly I

1231
01:11:36.760 --> 01:11:39.159
feel for all of this. If I could give my

1232
01:11:39.279 --> 01:11:43.520
life to get her back, I would. I'm sorry. But

1233
01:11:43.640 --> 01:11:47.960
all I hear when in that statement is a bunch

1234
01:11:47.960 --> 01:11:53.239
of eyes. How she felt still playing almost a victim

1235
01:11:53.600 --> 01:11:56.000
mentality in all of this, as if she had just

1236
01:11:56.079 --> 01:12:00.399
made another childhood mistake or something along those lines. This

1237
01:12:00.560 --> 01:12:04.359
was no accident. This was pre planned for a week.

1238
01:12:04.640 --> 01:12:09.800
She dug a grave with an intention of putting a

1239
01:12:10.119 --> 01:12:17.439
child in it. Mental health be damned. This is evil personified.

1240
01:12:18.439 --> 01:12:22.800
And while Alisa Bustamante wanted to see blood, and she

1241
01:12:22.920 --> 01:12:26.720
told the investigators the reason that she killed nine year

1242
01:12:26.720 --> 01:12:30.199
old Elizabeth was because she just wanted to know what

1243
01:12:30.239 --> 01:12:35.079
it felt like to kill someone, it would be that

1244
01:12:35.359 --> 01:12:39.680
very blood that she craved that would be so telling,

1245
01:12:41.039 --> 01:12:45.000
because when she spent the day with her boyfriend skipping school.

1246
01:12:45.680 --> 01:12:49.600
They didn't just hang out and watch TV and play

1247
01:12:49.640 --> 01:12:53.960
a board game. No, they were having sex while there

1248
01:12:54.000 --> 01:12:58.279
was no parenting home. And whenever he admitted this to police,

1249
01:12:58.439 --> 01:13:04.479
he gave one very intimate detail about Alissa. She wasn't

1250
01:13:04.520 --> 01:13:08.520
on her period. He knew because he was sleeping with her.

1251
01:13:10.000 --> 01:13:14.319
That blood on her pants was absolutely the result of

1252
01:13:14.319 --> 01:13:18.920
her cutting herself, not menstruation, as she claimed. She cut

1253
01:13:19.039 --> 01:13:25.800
herself while she was stabbing that child. After all of

1254
01:13:25.840 --> 01:13:30.359
her need for blood, it was the lack thereof that

1255
01:13:30.399 --> 01:13:34.359
would speak volumes as to her lies and her evil planning.

1256
01:13:34.640 --> 01:13:39.239
She wanted the power, the moment, the story that she

1257
01:13:39.319 --> 01:13:42.840
could carry like a secret crown. She wanted to know

1258
01:13:43.359 --> 01:13:45.840
what it felt like to end to life, just once,

1259
01:13:46.399 --> 01:13:52.399
purely to satisfy her curiosity. And after strangling and stabbing

1260
01:13:52.760 --> 01:13:56.199
and slitting the throat of a nine year old little girl,

1261
01:13:57.000 --> 01:14:00.680
she then threw her in a hole. Yes, because she

1262
01:14:00.760 --> 01:14:04.880
wanted to see how it felt. She felt no regret,

1263
01:14:05.279 --> 01:14:10.000
she felt just control. But here's the thing. Control doesn't

1264
01:14:10.039 --> 01:14:15.319
last because evil like that doesn't get a clean ending.

1265
01:14:15.840 --> 01:14:21.840
It doesn't get peace, doesn't get silence. It gets time, long,

1266
01:14:22.840 --> 01:14:28.800
unbroken time, with itself. Alissa is now in a world

1267
01:14:28.800 --> 01:14:33.840
that knows exactly who and what she is. No one

1268
01:14:33.880 --> 01:14:37.840
trusts her tears, no one believes her apologies, and she's

1269
01:14:37.880 --> 01:14:43.840
now surrounded by people, yet utterly alone, Just like Elizabeth

1270
01:14:44.039 --> 01:14:48.439
was as she lay underground while everyone searched right above her.

1271
01:14:49.479 --> 01:14:52.960
Alyssa crossed the line that she can never step back

1272
01:14:53.039 --> 01:14:57.359
over with an apology in court. There is no redemption

1273
01:14:57.680 --> 01:15:01.399
arc waiting for her. There's no rheumatic moment that lets

1274
01:15:01.399 --> 01:15:06.560
her feel important again. Just small rooms, long nights, and

1275
01:15:06.680 --> 01:15:11.520
repetitive days. Imagine being locked in a cage surrounded by

1276
01:15:11.640 --> 01:15:16.039
other evil people who don't like you. Must be scary,

1277
01:15:17.119 --> 01:15:20.800
must be painful. And I'm just guessing, of course, because

1278
01:15:20.920 --> 01:15:24.359
I don't know. But I'm glad that's where Alyssa is,

1279
01:15:24.920 --> 01:15:27.479
and who knows. Maybe I'll check on her in another

1280
01:15:27.600 --> 01:15:32.560
fifty years, but not because I care, just because I

1281
01:15:32.600 --> 01:15:33.720
want to know how it feels.