Death Penalty Sought In Cannibal Case

(AP)  A man accused of killing a 10-year-old girl in what investigators describe as a cannibalistic plot will be tried for first-degree murder, a judge ruled Tuesday.

Prosecutors have said they will seek the death penalty for Kevin Ray Underwood, 26, accused of strangling Jamie Rose Bolin.

Underwood lived in the same apartment complex as the girl, who was reported missing April 12 after failing to return home from the library. Her body was found nearly decapitated inside Underwood's apartment, investigators have said.

An FBI agent testified at Tuesday's hearing that Underwood admitted to slaying the girl during the search of his apartment. Craig Overby said he spotted the girl's clothing inside a plastic tub in a bedroom closet and asked Underwood where the girl was.

Overby said Underwood responded:

"She's in there. I hit her and chopped her up."

After Underwood's arrest, police and prosecutors revealed grisly details of the crime, saying Underwood raped the girl's corpse and planned to eat her flesh. A medical examiner's report released later indicated there were signs of sexual assault, but could not determine if they were inflicted after her death.

A judge has granted a request by Underwood's attorney for a gag order that prohibits attorneys and law enforcement from discussing the case publicly.

However, Underwood documented his thoughts and musings for years in an Internet blog.

In it, he joked about cannibalism and wrote about feeling isolated, depressed and even homicidal.

"My fantasies are just getting weirder and weirder. Dangerously weird," Underwood wrote in September 2004. "If people knew the kinds of things I think about anymore, I'd probably be locked away. No probably about it, I know I would be."

[lochlan-2009]

Anyone who assaults or murders a child... the death penalty is not enough for these, (there is no word to describe them). These animals are the only people in the world deserving of drawn out intense physical and mental torture. The rage that fills me when one of these F@!kers steals the future of a child... what the poor girl felt the last remaining moments of her life, I'd torture the $hit out of this guy, he'd wish and wish and wish he was dead and I would never be done with him.

[tonnie45]

I agree with havetosayit, I think he should be left alone for about 20 minutes with the little girls daddy. Then the police could go in behind the dad to clean up the mess.
People who do things like this should not be allowed to live. Everything he did to that little girl should be done to him!!!

[donnybd]

This is why we have a death penalty. In the past I was aganst the death penalty until serial killers became hot news. Every ramdom killer can be called temporarily insane. Should we house,feed, and give medical care to this killer for the rest of his life. Then let him out when he is 72 and sick, so he can collect welfare.
How many people will he terrorize in jail ?
Lets be humane and do what we must. Remember the young girl who never had a life.

[havetosayit]

I think they should turn this guy over to the family of this beautiful little girl and let them have at it.

[gclarkson2]

This guy told the public his intentions online? My God, why didn't someone check this out before he carried it out"!!!

[beetees2]

This guy should get the same treatment that his victim got. He should be raped and strangled to death. Eye for an eye.

[cinnyd]

sick person