Alyssa Bustamante: Suspected killer's Jackass-style videos rear their ugly heads

November 26, 7:11 AMHigh Profile Crime ExaminerCorey Mitchell

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Alyssa Bustamante, 15 - MySpace photo

Alleged teenage killer Alyssa Bustamante, 15, has a predilection for Emo rock music, self abuse, and videotaping her brothers in Jackass-style videos. All of these factors come into play in a trio of YouTube videos that have recently resurfaced.

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.

Bustamante's videos, which originally appeared on YouTube under the screename OkamiKage, were pulled from the video sharing service after her arrest. An industrious individual whose uses the screenname Archivist2001, managed to resurrect the videos and re-host them on the same service.

The videos appear to be micro-budget version of "Stupid Human Tricks" as featured on "Late Night with David Letterman," or the more age-appropriate Johnny Knoxville/Spike Jonze "Jackass"-style stunts that involved more self-abuse. All of the videos include Bustamante and her brothers. Another video features the three siblings plus their sister, Emma.

In addition to the self-abuse and violence, the videos have curse words and one shows one of the brothers mooning the camera. As a result, these videos are NSFW (Not Safe for Work).

Though the dialogue is difficult to hear in the "Jackass Flip Stunt" and the "Jackass Pool Stunt" videos due to the too-loud inclusion of rock music, Bustamante narrates the antics of her younger brothers and sister. Especially revealing is the "Jackass Flip Stunt" video when Bustamante declares, "Violence. Ha! Ha!"

-Read the indictment against Alyssa Bustamante.

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.

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