By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 6:55 PM on 10th January 2012 A Missouri teenager who told authorities she wanted to know what it felt like to kill pleaded guilty to murder on Tuesday, telling a judge that she strangled her 9-year-old neighbor with her hands and then slashed her throat with a knife. Alyssa Bustamante, who will turn 18 on January 28, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and armed criminal action in the 2009 killing of Elizabeth Olten in St. Martins, a rural town just west of Jefferson City. At Tuesday's hearing, Bustamante looked down, her long brown hair covering her eyes, as the judge read out the amended charges and asked her if she understood she was giving up her right to a trial.
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Alyssa Bustamante, who was 15 at the time of the attack, had been charged with first-degree murder and was supposed to stand trial starting Jan 30
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Child had been playing with Bustamante's six-year-old half-sister when she led her into the woods to kill her
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