i like how you use the victim's name instead of the killers name in the title, people usually only remember the killers in true crime stuff so its just nice to see that you see the victim themselves.

this is honestly just sickening. the fact that a teenage girl can kill a child and then gush about it in her diary; just gross. the interview is even worse, when she confesses her grandmother is in the room and it’s just heartbreaking.

my heart broke when the family said she was a princess and deserved to be treated as such.. my heart goes out to the family. no child deserved to go the way she did

I also want to say I’m extremely proud of the grandma for not trying to cover up or defend Alyssa. Saying Alyssa should be allowed out of prison the day Elizabeth is out of her grave is kind of refreshing to hear. You wouldn’t believe how many people will know about the crimes their kids/grand kids commit and try to cover them up just because it’s family… I personally feel since Alyssa took a life she should be given life in prison. I definitely don’t like the idea she’s allowed to roam free in 2 years in the state that I am in. I don’t want to bump into her 😤😭😡

I'm glad you spoke up about how problematic the idolization of murderers is. Especially lately with the Jeffrey Dahmer series, people everywhere are popping up, simping for these horrible people. I was kinda nervous, thinking like "goddamn I hope Hailey ain't like those people", and I'm glad you're not.

imagine bringing kids into this world KNOWING you're not capable of taking care of them

"She was a princess and deserved a princess burial" I love that they honored her in such a way

I'm actually good friends with Elizabeth's brother Anthony. St. Martains is still in the Jefferson City school districts, along with a few surrounding small towns. That girl was such a sweetheart. Alyssa was also batshit crazy. Everyone in that area knew it. She actually used to babysit a friend of mine and one time she locked her in her toy box. Hell no.

It literally scares me that someone like that could be walking around free in less that 2 years. It truly scares me that she has a FAN club. How could someone support a person like that?!? I truly feel horrible for Elizabeth’s family because every time she appeals they have to relive that tragedy and in two years they have to relive it. It’s like a bad dream repeating itself.

Alyssa showed so many signs… she was practically a walking red flag. If Alyssa had been given the psychiatric care she needed regularly I feel like this wouldn’t have happened. It’s no excuse but it is an explanation.

Nurse here: 20 mg of prozac is the standar dose. It might be a bit high for a teen but it’s definitely NOT too much. For bulimia it’s usually given in 60mg so 20 it’s definitely on the low side

There are two kinds of people who have gone through trauma. "I don't want anyone else to ever experience what I did" and "I want everyone to experience what I did"

26:44 "It was written in blood" is an emo/metal song from 2008. I believe it's about the death of a friend or a suicide. A lot of the "red flags" she showed, eg. the fake blood she wore, her hand in a gun motion, some writing on the walls, the KZfaq bio, the excessive cutting and carving on her skin was sadly just what the emo culture glorified on the internet. Not excusing what she did of course, just giving some context to the culture she seemed to be a part of and not everything I mentioned above was due to complete mental instability. I was part of that same twitter and tumblr emo culture at her age and have an understanding of it. Again, I'm not saying what she did to others was valid or okay.

You're absolutely right, it's so disgusting that there are people glamorizing the killers but forgetting the victims. I am so glad you're out there telling the victims stories and making sure they are remembered, and you do an amazing job at it! Thank you so much for this!

I think it's a big issue that we pretty much only teach kids stranger danger, when it seems more often to be people that these children know and or trust that end up hurting them. I'm not really sure how we could teach them better without basically implementing serious trust issues. But we should do more than just stranger danger, as you said this little girl looked at Alyssa like a big sister and probably would have never thought to be afraid of her.

Psych NP here. We treat a lot of kids, and let me just say something about watching true crime, reading violent stories, or playing violent games. Most kids can and will grow up with these things and never ever do anything like this. However, I’ve treated kids with psychiatric disorders such as Oppositional Defiance Disorder, and Conduct Disorder. This usually begins way before exposure to these things, but it can exacerbate the condition. So to blame games, books, or shows that are criminal or violent for 99% of kids changing their behavior or actions is wrong. Also, the medication is not a lot for a kid. We do not use height/weight for that medication. I agree her childhood was horrible, and the system failed her horribly. But all the signs were there, and truly this could be prevented.

this is such a disgusting case, no one remembers Elizabeth but they remember the sick person who killed her. Alyssa needed consistent therapy for her issues, but once she committed this type of crime, she deserved life in prison for it. Elizabeth's murderer is far too dangerous and lacks all remorse and should never have been let out of prison.

Your telling me her grandparents or not one teacher seen any of these signs and massive red flags 🚩?!?! I watched her interrogation and it’s very chilling & telling. When she finally hears her say she killed her the grandma has a huge breakdown, it’s terrible. I advise y’all to go watch it. Her own boyfriend said he witnessed her evil way’s. So sad for everyone. Rest in paradise beautiful child.🙏🏼❣️

the princess burial is so bittersweet 😢 like it’s such a beautiful way of burying her but so sad that they had to do that in the first place

I feel so bad for Emma. Must’ve been so hard for a 6 year old to go through

Her mom got pregnant when she was 14, I feel like we should be reassessing this, and saying imagine not teaching your child about sex or caring enough about your child that you allow them to to get pregnant at 14 and then!!! Afterwards allowing them to go into a drug fueled downward self destructive spiral. I feel like the grandparents had a part to play in this and no one wants to acknowledge that, they waited until their daughter had FOUR KIDS and had the kids malnourished and basically raising themselves for years before they stepped in . I'm not saying the mother is blameless but she definitely needed help too...

I love how you talked about Elizabeth’s interests and who she was, not many people take time to honor the victim.

Alyssa’s mom, mother of the year, all this things happened because she chose not to be a mom just lost in drugs and alcohol. What a terrible tragedy for Elisabeth s family, I really think she should be out of jail when Elisabeth come out of the grave.

Hailey you have such a contagious and warm nature that allows stories as awful as these to be digested and heard. Thank you for all you do.

This happened in my hometown. I grew up as a girl in that beautiful bucolic place, playing in those woods and creeks, so I will never forget. Horrific tragedy.

I studied this case pretty obsessively in high school. Still very bizarre to me. Elizabeth reminds me of my younger self and my little cousins. Sounds like she was a sweet, vibrant girl with a lovely future ahead of her. It's always such an indescribable tragedy when a bright, unique individual's life is snuffed out, especially in such a preventable and morbid way.

i’ve always been interested in true crime and ever since i started to not be able to watch videos on it because it made my anxiety go crazy i was so sad but you always tell stories in such a calming way without purposely trying to make the listener uncomfortable as most other true crime podcasts do,, so thank you!

I looked into Alyssa Bustamante, since this video is older. Her eligibility for Parole has been changed it seems. It's no longer 2024 (this year) it has been changed to 2037, when she is to be 43.

It wasn’t even just her grandmother. Alyssa had an appointed child advocate that left with the grandmother and made “suggestive” comments to Alyssa, getting the footage dismissed. Luckily, like you said, they still had enough to put her away

A lot of the time, when a child is traumatized so far, it reaches a point where the child has trouble feeling sympathy and becomes violent, which is what I think happened in Alyssa’s case- absolutely not excusing anything that she did but it’s extremely important to not neglect a child because things like this can happen

I saw the name in the title and as you described Elizabeth I was like “how could she be the killer” until I realized she was the victim and I think it’s nice that you put her name in the title instead

i feel so bad for the 3 younger siblings as well, not only have they lost their mom and we’re neglected by her and their fathers, but they lost their sister too. i couldn’t imagine that pain on top of knowing she did that to someone.

I have been waiting for someone to make a video about this!!! Alyssa lived in my hometown Hollister before moving to Missouri and went to a small rural school with all my friends. My friend’s mom who was a teacher there told me she was like a “stray cat” and felt really bad for her home life situation. From what my friends said, she was very odd and always alone. My friend has lots of picture albums and in one of them on his birthday, Alyssa was in some of the pictures. Very eerie!!! We were sophomores in high school when we found out what Alyssa did. So tragic 😢 we were all so nervous when we heard her sentencing because at the time, there was a possibility she would be transported back to California. Don’t know whatever happened to that

Something that i really love is that you put the victims name instead of the killer. The victim should be remembered rather than the terrible person.

as a child, i remember a few times burying dead birds cuz i felt bad for them.. i don't think that specifically was very suspicious

I am from Missouri and this case is so very sad. I remember seeing it on the news and was shocked that a teenager killed a little girl just because she wanted to. And then she went to Church!!?? You should do the case of Molly Watson. She was killed just before her wedding...by her husband to be.

this is so fucking heartbreaking. i have so much empathy for her little sister. i hope she doesn’t blame herself for this and is healing

“It was written in blood” is a song lyric actually by Bring me the Horizon. That’s actually the name of the song too. Love the band and the album. The entire album is a very dark and heavy.

My mother was an abusive, neglectful, alcoholic. My grandparents also bought her a trailer, to stop us from bouncing from place to place, or sleeping in her old car. Especially so we'd stop staying around the strange men she'd stay with. We grew up in filth so I can empathize. However, none of us became sociopathic murderers. I became the mother of my sister who was 6 years younger, and my brother whos 2 years older. I did self harm, and have suicidal thoughts but I didn't have homicidal thoughts.....

Girl! Do Not EVER apologize for being sick! Please take care of yourself! I hope you never feel as if you HAVE TO put out a video instead of resting. Thank you for all you do to entertain us! Drink some warm tea with honey to soothe your throat. Sending healing vibes your way! All the love!

i can't help but feel the tiniest bit of sympathy for alyssa - as an emo kid and someone who deals with a lot of things she does mentally (of course not as extreme). i would never go to lengths like this, but it sucks knowing that if she had just gotten the proper amount of help and not just meds then this could have been prevented

Every single child in this story (including Alyssa) was failed. Alyssa was showing so many signs that she was a danger to herself and others. Obviously Alyssa and Emma's parents were abusive and neglectful, but even after they escaped that situation and were with their grandparents they were still being neglected just not as obviously. Yes she was getting some help but she should have been committed and they shouldn't have allowed the kids to be alone with her without adult supervision. This isn't just an evil teen; this was massively preventable. I understand you can do everything right in these situations and still fail, but to me it sounds like Alyssa had way too much freedom to abuse her siblings which failed them and then ultimately Elizabeth too, but she was also being failed because she needed help too. This is such a sad story. I hope Alyssa has changed as a person in prison and I hope Emma and the brother are okay now and they've all healed. I find it hard to comprehend in my brain how to feel about Alyssa because normally I find it easy to symphasise with killers pasts if they did experience trauma while also hating what they did and feeling no sympathy for the killing of that present, but in this case it's so interlocked it's hard for me to comprehend it all. Like how should I feel about her? I literally cried at the description of Elizabeth's funeral. It sounded very bitter sweet and I'm glad she had that princess send off at least

This case was so fascinating to me when I heard about it in high school. It’s always strange when kids kill kids.

Dude I don’t blame the boyfriend at all, being 15 he might not have known, but had he gone to the police it’s possible they could have found no evidence if they even believed him, and if she found out he told who knows what could have happened.

The way that people are glorifying the killer on TikTok because she’s their “scene queen” is DISGUSTING. Just because a killer has an alternative style does not give you a right to glorify them I’ve seen countless edits of people on TikTok calling her a “Queen” and “doesn’t deserve to be in jail” as if she didn’t literally take a LIFE.

It's not about the fact that there isn't any fanart or fan accounts for Elizabeth because that would be profiting off of someones death. Fanart and fan accounts should not be something that is on either side of this. I really wish that people would understand that having fan accounts and making fan art of killers should not be a thing since it is glamourising someone that has done such a horrible thing and how that could effect the families that have had someone they love taken from them.

NEVER LET HER OUT!! SHE IS A DANGER TO SOCIETY

i feel so horrible about what happened to elizabeth. she truly didn't deserve to die at such a young age and so brutally and painfully. its truly horrific.

This case has always disburbed me... such a senseless crime that little girl did nothing to deserve this...

I watched the interrogation interview, and when the grandma breaks down is so heart breaking, poor thing just tried her best with the kids. Heart breaking all around.

never have i ever experienced someone in one of these videos having the EXACT same birth date as me down to the year until this… my eyes physically widened. i have watched multiple videos on this story before, but i didn’t know elizabeth’s birthday until this. feeling a bit of extra love and connection for this sweet girl now. 😞❤️

I live 3 miles away from where this happened. It was such a sad case at the time, especially since I was the same age as Elizabeth.

Omg so I did some digging looking at her reposted youtube videos and peolpe were praising her SHE SLAUGHTERED A LITTLE GIRL. These comments were like “she’s so pretty, free Alyssa, she did no wrong,” etc etc, WTF she killed someone.

My heart breaks for Elizabeth and her family. She was just a baby. I can't even imagine 😭

Hi! I love the way you take time to explain these cases the best you can. You're a very talented story teller and I'm super happy to have found this channel 🥰😍

I’m not understanding how the grandparents were five minutes away and let the neglect get so bad that was literally the point of them moving so the grandparents could watch over them

I was on Prozac and it’s a well known fact within the mental health field (or at least with the psychiatrists I’ve seen) that anti depressants can act funky with people that are bipolar. I was super aggressive on Prozac, and while I didn’t kill anyone I do believe it is important to note. Such a sad case for all family’s.

I literally get so excited when you post. I look forward to Wednesdays just simply because you post your visual podcast videos. you're a legend and I look forward to watching your videos. ILY 🥰

When I took prozac when I was in inpatient it made me black out and I fought another patient that was bullying me in the adolescent wing. The hospital at the time had me on 5 mg but they “accidentally” gave me 20 mg for two days straight. A lot of these physicians forget that a lot of these uppers have a lot of side effects of down tendencies. I am not making excuses for her but as for someone who was on Prozac it scared me and I stopped taking it 2 years later. They should of monitor her in a close environment.

I’ve been binging your channel, you make great videos. Thank you for bringing light to these events. We live in a dark world, and you somehow always seem to bring light into your videos. Thanks for the hours of researching you do to share with others.

Ever since I started watching you I’ve been a lot more grounded! Tysm for these videos ❤

You never fail to amaze me Hailey!!! I love the content- keep it up!❤

ok, ive watched this case from many people, but i love the way you explain things, and thats what makes you so good🤞🏾

I feel so bad for the family of Elizabeth and Dustin. Alyssa is getting glamorized by social media while people that Alyssa hurt will forever be haunted by how sick Alyssa is.

I just caught up on all your videos earlier today , so your timing is perfect! Loving that green color on you babes. Thank you for your content ❤

the fact she dug two graves makes me think she was planning to kill both elizbeth and emily. also since she wrote her sisters name by the body on her wall with slash marks, im so glad she didnt

I'm equally disgusted by the case but also by Alyssas mom. Imagine bringing multiple children in this world and forcing so much trauma on them that one of them commits murder.

I think a really sad part of this story is that Alyssa so clearly and desperately needed so much psychological help but instead they just filled her with high doses of SSRIs at such a young age which can’t be good for anyone when your brain chemistry is already so volatile at that time in one’s life.

Hailey, I got so excited when I saw you posted a video 5 hours ago. You have no idea how much your content helps me. Your videos are the highlight of my week!

Thankyou for approaching this from the victims perspectiVe. It’s usually the other way around in coverage.

This happened locally when I was in high school and I’ve been waiting for a KZfaqr to pick up this story. Thank you!

Oh my goodness......this case literally takes place in my hometown and I've never heard of this. The scream I scrumpt when you revealed the location!!

currently on a Hailey Elizabeth binge and the amount of times she says "mind state" instead of "state of mind" or "mental state" in her videos is very funny to me lolol

Literally so ready to spend hours listening to you bestie

This case was extremely sad. I’ve watched so many of your videos of the past week and this one just truly hurt to hear. I bawled my eyes out when you went over the confession and then even more when you mentioned her casket was pink, and then EVEN more when I remembered you said her favorite color was pink at the beginning of the video😭 Thank you for sharing those things about Elizabeth, she seemed like a truly amazing little girl! My prayers go out to the family🩷

I love you, but I have to point out that you called both Alyssa and Emma "Elizabeth" several times which made it pretty confusing to follow at some points. "Elizabeth buried Elizabeth in the grave", "That's Elizabeth's excuse for why she didn't go to school that day". Those aren't exact quotes but you feel me girl

Before I make the rest of my comment, let me just say I'm in no way suggesting she's not responsible for her actions, but listening to details about her childhood reminds me of my daughter's partner's son. He's 5 now, & before his father got custody of him, he was living with his mother, who is an active drug addict, who still shows no signs of getting sober, with parents that are very enabling. When his father got custody & he moved in with them, & my daughter's previous 2 children, there were SO MANY things to fix. His eyes didn't work properly, he couldn't speak very well, he struggled with food behaviors, he was terrified of the bath & we eventually learned he had almost drowned, he was very inward & quiet & traumatized, & its take more than a year to really address the issues, but now he's like a "normal" child, he plays, he talks, he learns, he goes to school, & we're starting to see some great things like his apptitude for computers & technology or his creativity with Legos. As the couselor also commented, meds don't fix mental health problems, they can help, but MUST be combined with additional therapies & tools. I also had a hard childhood, I also was filled with rage, I would hunt & kill frogs sometimes, there are several details like that, that make me wonder if I hadn't been lucky in the peopleI met, would I have fallen into a pit of anger, that got so bad I started hunting people? I feel bad for the victim, her family,the community, but I also feel bad for her.

I love youu and your content! Your hard work is apprecoated !! 😌

HI I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS !! I’ve watched everyone single one lol❤ have a wonderful dayyy thank you for the case!

Don’t mean to add trauma to this but Prozac was the only medication I tried that made my depression worse. Within a month of starting I tried to off myself and my mom had to call my psychiatrist. I never even realized I was getting worse I just suddenly felt empty

Such a twisted case... Great video as always Hailey!

Glad to meet you! I've been going down true crime rabbit holes at work and I'm happy to have stumbled across you. Your voice is soothing and I can't wait to peruse your channel!

I love listening to your podcasts at night a lot!

Hey Hailey! Love your channel, you’re such a cool person and I look up to you since we’re the same age and you have this amazing youtube channel already. If you’re ever in a situation when you don’t know what to watch I think you’d like a series called “Girl From Nowhere”, it’s kind of underrated I guess yet I get the feeling that you’ll like it, it reminds me of you. Anyways even if you won’t watch it it doesn’t matter, thank you for your videos and I wish you even more success.

I like how you just get to the story. I follow others and while they're good they go on a rant before the story. Plus your sense of humor is 👍

I know this case inside and out but when Hailey uploads I will always be watching

I LOVE YOU HAILEY KEEP KILLING IT SHAWTY!!!!!!!

Your storytelling is amazing. So easy to follow and listen to you.

i just watched a video on this case i forgot from who… but i watched anyways and i got so much more info from you! so thank you.

Nobody who shows signs or early symptoms of bipolar disorder should ever be put on an antidepressant or SSRI. They make things 1000 times worse, and I’m not surprised at all to hear how it escalated Alyssa got. Of course not to the same extreme, but I was put on an SSRI at 14 as someone with bipolar disorder and I had to be hospitalized two times for self harm ideation. It is absolutely ridiculous to put anybody on an SSRI without being checked for possible mood disorders, because these anti-depressants are detrimental to those with any sort of bipolar.

she should never get out of prison. i don't think she's sorry about what she did, either. lots of people go through abuse as kids; they don't all end up committing murder. there's no excuse for what she did. she should stay in prison for the rest of her days.

I was locked up in residential for 3 years after several hospitilizations due to consuming lethal things (full bottle of tylenol, rubbing alcohol, bleach), self harming, burning, carving words into my skin, biting myself, scratching myself, etc. I also grew up fairly neglected, was diagnosed with BPD, PTSD, and depression after experimenting with antidepressants and self harming for quite some time and then attempted suicide thru rubbing alcohol & tylenol. I understand alot of what alyssa has been through, except for the harm she caused upon other people. I have had outbursts and harmed people, but the one difference seems to be psychopathic/ apathetic traits, actively searching ways to cause harm onto others for enjoyment whereas I would never hurt someone on purpose for fun. Just by being triggered deeply, especially when it catches me off guard and I have no time to regulate. All in all, i think there is a chance that if she had been given more attention and proper medication, therapy, time, and love, all of these horrible things might have been able to be avoided.. this is so sad to hear because I resonate so deeply with her. I feel like I've lived through her experiences and it makes me wonder what happened to me to prevent the same fate from occurring in my life. I'm 21 now, medicated and stable, and my life is honestly pretty amazing now. I wonder what hers would have been like if she had gotten any kind of semi-permanent help and thourough attention.

your voice sounds so soothing i love this

Alyssa’s legal team trying to make a case for her increased prozac prescription as lowering her inhibitions made me think of another KZfaqr that I sometimes watch. They had been prescribed Paxil, another type of SSRI, when they were just a teenager and it, in their own phrasing, sent them psychotic, and they did some really horrific things (self-injurious).

So sad this almost could of been prevented if they took her illnesses and threats seriously 😢

This happened in my hometown and I remember it very clearly. It was a very sad and weird time for our area of Missouri. I feel like this story wasn’t covered enough as I was growing up.

Seen this story so many times but other people didn't cover Alyssas past. Well done so thorough ❤️ never stop making crime vids please U are my sanity as a single mummy xx

Hailey, I'm all caught up and I love it!

The people making fan clubs and stuff should for sure be put on a watch list of some type.

The detailed part about her brothers touching the electric fence is absolutely disgusting. It’s sad that people like her are in this world and that people are proud of Alyssa’s work