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NEW YORK - Alyssa Bustamante, the teenager who allegedly killed Missouri 9-year-old Elizabeth Olten, grew up in a turbulent household, say friends, and may not be the only Bustamante disposed to violence. Records show her father is a convicted felon.

Police say Alyssa Bustamante strangled, stabbed and cut her next door neighbor Elizabeth Olten's throat in October, then, two days later, led police to the wooded grave where she allegedly buried her.

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NEW YORK - Crimesider has obtained exclusive photos of Alyssa Bustamante, the 15-year-old alleged killer of Elizabeth Olten, 9.

The collection of Facebook and MySpace photos reveals a multi-faceted teenage girl who appears troubled and typical at the same time — smiling, seemingly carefree in one photo, holding her hand as a gun to her head in the next.

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NEW YORK - "Killing people" and "cutting" -- two hobbies listed by Alyssa Bustamante, the Missouri 15-year-old alleged killer of Elizabeth Olten, 9, in an online profile.

She wasn't exaggerating, police say.

Authorities say the teenager strangled, cut the throat, and stabbed Olten, her young next door neighbor, killing her.

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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (CBS/AP> Blessed with a Friday off from school, 15-year-old Alyssa Bustamante dug two holes in the ground to be used as a grave, authorities said. For the next week, she attended classes, all the while plotting the right time for a murder, they said.

That time arrived the evening of Oct. 21, when Bustamante strangled 9-year-old neighbor Elizabeth Olten without provocation, cut the girl's throat and stabbed her, prosecutors said. Why?

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INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (CBS/AP) Incest pornography.

That's what authorities investigating six members of the Mohler family for alleged sex crimes against related children in rural Missouri, say they found in one of the suspect's home, and it was the suspect's wife that led them to it.

The search warrant issued last week after the arrest of Burrell E. Mohler Sr., 77, of Independence, said investigators seized several items from Mohler's home, including four computer towers, several pornographic magazines and books, several DVDs, and cameras.

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NEW YORK - Alyssa Bustamante, a Missouri 15-year-old charged with killing her neighbor, 9-year-old Elizabeth Olten, has been indicted and will stand trial as an adult.

Bustamante is accused of killing Olten by strangling the girl, cutting her throat and stabbing her on Oct. 21.

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LEXINGTON, Mo. - Dark, sordid, tales of a rural Missouri man and his four adult sons raping, sodomizing, sexually abusing children, and even murdering, in a house of horror, are coming to light two decades later.

As authorities work to piece together exactly what happened, Burrell Mohler Sr., 77, and his four adult sons appeared in court in western Missouri on Tuesday where they were charged with sex crimes including rape and sodomy. A new search warrant claims one of the suspects even forced his victims to help kill and bury a man.

Hell on earth. But is it true?

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LEXINGTON, Mo. - Police investigating a western Missouri family accused of sexually abusing children are now searching a family property for dead bodies. They are also looking for buried glass jars, which the alleged victims say contain notes documenting their sexual abuse years ago.

Lafayette County Sheriff Kerrick Alumbaugh said there has been an indication of "body or bodies in numerous locations," although he would not say whose bodies they might be.

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NEW YORK - A teen suspect has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of 9-year-old Elizabeth Olten of St. Martins, Mo., whose body was found in the woods near her home after she went missing last week.

The accused 15-year old, whose name and gender have not been released, led police to the girl's body several hundred yards from her house, according to Cole County Sheriff Greg White. The child's remains were discovered Friday Oct. 23, two days after she disappeared.

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ST. MARTINS, Mo. - The search for 9-year-old Elizabeth Olten has ended in tragedy.

Police in central Missouri say they have recovered the body of the missing girl and have a juvenile "person of interest" in custody.

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