The teenager who killed her nine-year-old neighbor to find out what it felt like, and then went to her dance class after the crime

In the summer of 2024, a Missouri court denied parole for Alyssa Bustamante, fifteen years after she murdered her nine-year-old neighbor on October 21, 2009. Bustamante had strangled and stabbed the victim simply to know what it felt like, and attended a dance class immediately after committing the crime.

In a separate legal proceeding in the United States, Guatemalan national Rigoberto Ramón Miranda Orozco was sentenced to thirty years in prison. Identified as the presumed leader of a human-trafficking organization based in his native country, he was convicted for his involvement in the deaths of 53 migrants who were found inside a truck.