Alyssa Bustamante: "Murder is a very serious thing" friend declares in video interview

November 25, 12:00 PMHigh Profile Crime ExaminerCorey Mitchell

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Alyssa Bustamante, 15, in her booking photo for the charge of murder of 9-year-old Elizabeth Olten.

AP Photo/Cole County Sheriff's Department

On Monday, I reported on an interview Jennifer Meyer, friend of teenage murder suspect, Alyssa Bustamante, gave to CBS's "The Early Show." Meyer claimed that Bustamante told her she wanted to know what it would feel like to kill someone.

Bustamante, 15, has been charged with the first-degree murder of nine-year-old Elizabeth Olten. She has been charged as an adult in the stabbing, strangulation, and throat-slitting murder of Olten on October 21, 2009.

Below you will find an excellent video interview conducted by St. Louis NBC-affiliate KMOV Channel 4's Mark Schnyder with Meyer. The shorter packaged interview can be seen here.

The longer, uncut interview below, however, is by the far superior of the two.

In it Meyer talks about her former friend, Bustamante. She mentions that they once used to go to birthday parties together. Lately, however, Bustamante wanted to go to drug parties.

Meyer talks about Bustamante's strict grandparents and also how the girl would get mad at people. 

Meyer also expands on her comment about wanting Bustamante to kill another person and that the comment was made at Bustamante's own birthday party in January 2009.

Meyer also claimed that Bustamante hit her sister, Emma, and also wanted to see her and her little brothers hurt.  

In trying to make sense of her friend's allegedly murderous deed, Meyer stated, "Everyone has their own kind of strangeness." She added, however, "I don't think anyone can be forgiven for that."

Meyer succinctly closed with, "Murder is a very serious thing. I think she deserves what's coming to her."

-Read the indictment against Alyssa Bustamante.

-UPDATE: It appears as if the embed feature for the video is not working. To view the entire Jennifer Meyer interview please visit here.

-UPDATE 2: I have added the video from YouTube.

Corey Mitchell is a critically acclaimed Los Angeles Times best-selling author of several true crime books including Dead and Buried, Pure Murder and Hollywood Death Scenes. He is also the founder of the premiere true crime website, In Cold Blog, executive producer for a new true crime television series, and a former Hollywood crime expert and blogger for the Discovery Channel. He can be reached at truecrimewriter@aol.com.