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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 - Elizabeth Lambert became an Internet celebrity for all the wrong reasons this fall. Now the suspended New Mexico soccer player, who was caught attacking opposing players on tape, has met with the New York Times to put the aggressive infractions into context.

Saying that her actions were "indefensible" in her first interview since the incidents occurred, Lambert, 20, told the Times that she still "deeply regrets it and will always regret it and will carry it through the rest of my life not to retaliate."

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MINNEAPOLIS - Police are looking into a viral video that appears to show a group of teenage boys engaged in a mugging spree in Minneapolis and St. Paul, while showing anything but remorse.

The YouTube video shows the boys smiling as they attack a man on a bike, a jogger and some young kids.

The "stars" of the video, which was posted on YouTube but was subsequently removed Tuesday afternoon, make no attempt to hide their identities.

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SAO PAULO - It may sound shocking, but in the land of thong bikinis and Carnaval, 20-year-old student Geisy Arruda says she was expelled from a Brazilian university for wearing a dress that was just too darn sexy.

Bandeirante University said they booted her for flashing on campus an disrespecting "academic dignity."

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Story contributed by 48 Hours Mystery special consultant Paul Ciolino.

NEW YORK - The Elizabeth Lambert video, which is making the rounds, is a fascinating inside look at Woman’s Division One Soccer. I’m not sure that if this were Division One men’s soccer anyone would be making a fuss. Because we have an attractive and I might add aggressive female player this has become a phenomenon.

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PROVO, Utah - Elizabeth Lambert has become an Internet celebrity for all the wrong reasons.

The New Mexico soccer player was suspended Friday for her infractions the day before during a 1-0 loss to BYU in a Mountain West Conference semifinal. The Junior Defender is seen in video from the game throwing elbows, colliding with several players and then yanking the ponytail of a BYU player who went crashing to the ground.

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NEW YORK - In perhaps the most bizarre "Real or fake" YouTube video created by Richard Heene, the father of the balloon boy asks if Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in fact, a "shape-shifter."

Heene, sitting on his couch with his dog, says that because Clinton looks "reptilian" in some of her television appearances, he is suspicious that she might not be human, and might in fact be changing into various forms.

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NEW YORK Richard Heene has shared many opinions on his YouTube channel(recently taken down), but one of his most "entertaining" offerings is Heene's rant about makeup, fake breasts, and Britney Spears, during which he puts on women's cosmetics and prances about in a white brassiere.

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FORT COLLINS, Colo. - Call it a close encounter of the culinary kind.

Months before Richard Heene's "UFO-like" balloon ascended into the sky with his son supposedly on board, the amateur scientist and professional tile layer, explained on national TV his belief that aliens are humanity's ancestors, and that one spoke to him while he was at a fast-food restaurant.

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FORT COLLINS, Colo. - Richard Heene and his family have never run from the spotlight as they made a name for themselves chasing down storms, starring in a reality TV show and experimenting with a series of unusual inventions. But they've also hit the viral video circuit, shooting amateur music videos for the family's YouTube page "YouTubianAwards."

One such video shows "balloon boy" Falcon Heene and his two brothers performing rude rap lyrics that might prompt some viewers to call child protective services.

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