Would-Be Cannibal Guilty In Girl's Slaying

Okla. Man Raped 10-Year-Old, Severed Her Head To Indulge Cannibalistic Fantasy

(AP)  A jury found a man guilty of first-degree murder Friday in the killing of a 10-year-old girl, reaching its decision within minutes the day after hearing his macabre videotaped confession.

Kevin Underwood, a former grocery stocker who claimed Internet pornography stoked his cannibalistic fantasies, showed no emotion as the verdict was announced. Family members of the victim, Jamie Rose Bolin, patted each other and shook hands.

The girl's body was found in a plastic tub in Underwood's apartment in April 2006. Jurors had heard his detailed videotaped confession in court Thursday.

Judge Candace Blalock told jurors to return to court Monday morning for the penalty phase. Prosecutors have said they intend to seek the death penalty, while the defense has said it will seek to spare his life.

Deputies led Underwood, 28, away in handcuffs once jurors had left the courtroom.

Rose Fox, Jamie's grandmother, said after the verdict that she was originally against the death penalty in the case, but has now changed her mind.

"He made his choice," Fox said. "He's a monster in human form."

"I was for mercy. And then when I found out what he really did to her ... . He showed her no mercy."

Jurors began deliberating following closing arguments in which Cleveland County District Attorney Greg Mashburn predicted it would take jurors longer to pick a foreman than to determine guilt.

"It's the worst of the worst," Mashburn said. "His plan is to butcher someone like an animal."

In his closing argument, Defense attorney Matthew Haire did not dispute Underwood's guilt. But he called him "a lonely, very troubled, reclusive young man" and accused prosecutors of overwhelming jurors with gruesome evidence.

In the confession, Underwood said he lured the girl, his upstairs neighbor, into his apartment in Purcell, hit her with a cutting board, smothered her with his hands, sexually assaulted the body and nearly cut her head off as part of a fantasy involving cannibalism.

"I wanted to know what it tasted like, and just the thought of eating someone was appealing to me," Underwood said in the confession.

Underwood also said such fantasies began about the time he started taking the antidepressant Lexapro. Defense attorneys plan to call witnesses during the penalty phase on his use of the drug.

[grammawhamma]

OMG! What next?!?

[vrghiks]

When will society learn that pills doesn''t solve the
problems?Where can I go to find sanity?
Maybe there are pills for the brain dead.

[libsrweak]

"Rose Fox, Jamie''s grandmother, said after the verdict that she was originally against the death penalty in the case, but has now changed her mind.

"He made his choice," Fox said. "He''s a monster in human form."

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they have to wait till they get bit in the arse..those who argue that the ''FEAR'' of death penalty does not deter crime..well it seems sparing these monsters and locking them up DOES NOT EITHER and....AND..TO TOP THAT..IT MADE OUR JUDICIAL SYSTEM INTO ONE BIG JOKE..not to mentioned an OVER CROWDED DEATH ROW..

[toolmangler-2009]

This man has no redeeming qualities, detroy him. No prison time, no appeals, end his life and spare the family any further anguish.

[libsrweak]

if we allow society to continue its existance any form of control..THERE WOULD BE THIS..

its good for your own presonal pleasure (which I am sure the agenda of most pro-criminal liberals) but when it turns around..its a different tune.


the decay began in the 60''s..at the birth of radical liberalism

[rowdytexan2]

Let justice be served.

[hissteps4u]

send him to the Talaban they will deal with him briskly and swiftly by disemboweling and beheading him in short order.

Sometimes I wish we had a very different form of Justice.

[bogusbones]

this story is garbage.

[red164]

Can''t find one reason why this guys life should be spared

[marmaduke362]

I am quite sure that he will be dealt with upon his arrival in the penal system. He probably will pray that his death sentence was immediate by the state. The inmates, as bad as they are, I''m quite sure will deal with him. I really don''t want to hear any whines by anti death penaly whimps on this guy. I live in the state that this crime was comitted in and the little girl he murdered, chopped up was "telling him on the videotape that ''she was sorry'' just before she was murdered and butchered up. Save your whining for another cause.

[likeitis5050]

Interesting how READING about other such atrocities isn''t enough to convince people criminals like this aren''t worth sparing...it takes a personal encounter to convince them. Now if we can get the time between sentencing and excecution down to 90 days, we can claim progress. He confessed. Point him in the direction of the executioner and be done with him. He''s still trying to blame anything but himself. Get it over with and stop the delaying of justice.

[closethippy1]

Amazing, who would have thought so many of us would have something in common with the Taliban?
Skinning him alive, which the Taliban would have been more than happy to perform- and on video- is the least we can do to this vermin.

[jjarden]

When are we in America going to get serious about STOPPING the heinous & grotesque Murders? The ONLY solution is to bring back Public Beheadings with a Rusty Axe on the town common, the day after these ghouls are found guilty. Do a couple of these Public Displays and the Non-Sense will stop...Guaranteed! Unless we take these measures this country and the people in it are DOOMED.

[nkl66]

Spare his life please. So us law abiding tax payers can pay to support him in prison now.

I agree with jjarden, death penalty for these monsters and right after conviction. Take him down to the town scare and hang him. Don%u2019t believe in the death penalty then don%u2019t come watch the hanging.

We have the death penalty in this country we should learn how to use it. Not wait 20 years before it is carried out. In Iraq if you are sentenced to death it is carried out with in 30 days of conviction. Looks like Iraq got something right.

[ranger1948]

I do not believe in war or killingany longer but i still support the death penalty for animals like this. Would yiou ever want this animal turned loose in society again. My prayers go out to this little girl and her family.

[grammawhamma]

Please don''t call this guy an animal. I happen to like animals and they don''t deserve to be compared to this scum bag!

[stanleyrice]

I usually follow the rules here at CBS and limit my comment to the story. However, I cannot resist noting the nature of the Christians or "good" people who have commented here. Punitive, punishing, judgmental, vengeful, murderous, resentful, and hurtful! All things similar to the behavior of the judged. Im sure if you all had your way this type of behavior would be stopped for ever.

[erasmus6]

"Underwood also said such fantasies began about the time he started taking the antidepressant Lexapro."

I guess everybody and their grandmother is going to be using this excuse now, eh?

[libsrweak]

Posted by mokenman at 08:59 PM : Feb 29, 2008
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oh I am so sure where this animal ''is coming from''..pretty defensive there..i hope you are a vegiterian

[taylpatr]

While I wouldn''t want to seem even close to showing any sort of empathy for this #@*%-&!& I think that the drug he was on needs to be looked at a little closer. I''ve known two people that have taken their own lives while on anti-depressants. I say fry this #$%@!&*%^ but let''s find out how much that drug did contribute and learn from it.

[Wookiee-1138]

May you never thirst, water brother.

[godoggo11]

"mokenman" made the comment about christians or other good people wanting justice.....but you did''nt tell us how You felt ! Someone please tell me, or us why this sub-human should continue to breathe air for more than sping baseball season ? If it was the drug....and that is IF, why not just blame it on Phizer and put him back out on the streets again ? Would you want him in your hood ? I mean, because its Phizer''s fault Right! Wrong ! f-ing wrong.....i have been in a Federal prison (visiting), and in the Fed-max areas.....i can assure you this is where he needs his address for at least 60 days....then he can be taken to either the chair (i also had the opportunity to sit in), or the gurney (i also laid down just to tick off my liberal friends with me).....i challenge someone to come up with the best reason to keep him alive and give him a hall pass.....please. My sociology Prof. in College was the Godfather to Ted Bundys son, yes he has a son.....and the only reason he continued to live long past his time is because they studied him so long. This carbon unit needs to go.....remember: A "bigot" is a noun, it also is a person winning an argument with a liberal.....would i want to drop the plunger on this guy ? hmmmm

[l8c6]

I''m grateful I do not have the arrogance to play God and cast judgment on the merit of this unhealthy persons life. Society has a right to protect itself by assuring he does not walk freely about. Right wingers of course feel entitled enough to play God by casting judgment believing themselves to be righteous enough to determine that this life should end.

Shouldn''t it be God''s job to cast the lightening bolts oh right wing christian fundamentalist hypocrites?

[godoggo11]

l8c6 mentioned something about Gods will and lighting bolts.....there is a town in Florida called "Spring Hill"....known as the "lighting capital of the world"...yeah im all over Gods will being done. Strap the guy to a 25ft carbon rod on the beach right before their "afternoon thunderstroms"...and i can assure they have them almost daily.....then we can see if Gods will is done ! Is that cruel ? Is killing a kid/child with a cutting board, then severing there head off cruel ? I have a child younger than that....and i can also Assure you, he would "need God" in his side if I was this little girls parents....What is just ?

[nothappyatall]

"Rose Fox, Jamie''s grandmother, said after the verdict that she was originally against the death penalty in the case, but has now changed her mind. "

Yeah, EASY to sit behind the screen as an armchair victim and scream ''Im AGAINST the death penalty!!!'' when it''s someone else involved, untill the day comes the murder ivolves one of YOUR family members, then like Fox your mind gets changed FOR you when suddenly the shoe is on the other foot and it becomes personal!

FRY the sucker.

"I was for mercy. And then when I found out what he really did to her .. He showed her no mercy."

Once she was dead it doesnt matter what happened next, she was meat, thats what flesh IS.

"Kevin Underwood... claimed Internet pornography stoked his cannibalistic fantasies"

Yeah yeah, same old story- blame photos or blame medications now too, how about blame yourself and the bad genes you were born with courtesy of your parents?

[easeup-2009]

"I''''m grateful I do not have the arrogance to play God and cast judgment on the merit of this unhealthy persons life. Society has a right to protect itself by assuring he does not walk freely about. Right wingers of course feel entitled enough to play God by casting judgment believing themselves to be righteous enough to determine that this life should end.

Shouldn''''t it be God''''s job to cast the lightening bolts oh right wing christian fundamentalist hypocrites?

Posted by l8c6 at 10:42 PM : Feb 29, 2008"

Yeah this is political you fvcking ***.

[randynason]

Please don''''t call this guy an animal. I happen to like animals and they don''''t deserve to be compared to this scum bag!


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Posted by GrammaWhamma

I agree. Animals have more honor and dignity than this creature. Are you sure he''s not related to W.?

[l8c6]

godoggo11

It is horrible yes and everyone can relate to vengeance. It is the most basic and goes to the root of the dinosaur brain every human seems to have regardless of intellectual level.

Still, evil wins or the terrorists wins when otherwise civil good people become fearful, angry, vengeful, hateful and murderous.

It''s telling when beer swilling red neck trailer trash with its own criminal record rallies and jeers outside of a prison during an execution.

[libsrweak]

Posted by l8c6 at 11:23 PM : Feb 29, 2008
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and pls..for my edification what would a civilized person such as yourself suggest that we do to this guy???

give him a lifetime supply of steak sauce and a new set of steak knives?? spare me your psuedo intellectual bullcr*p,,



our judicial system is fu cked..our correctionakl facilities are busting at the seams..our society is even more sick and twisted..people are expecting to be forgiven on a simple "i am sorry" gesture ..things are not getting better but worse..EVER SINCE WE START LISTENING TO YOUR KIND OF MENTALITY..

[libsrweak]

It''''s telling when beer swilling red neck trailer trash with its own criminal record rallies and jeers outside of a prison during an execution.

Posted by l8c6 at 11:23 PM : Feb 29, 2008
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it IS telling when on the other side of the road..bleeding heart liberals are having candle light vigils..I wonder how liberals would feel if we build a federal prison in berkley..

[mom519mi-bn]

Say what you will....but if that was my lil girl...He''d better hope the police get to him first. What is the justice for that girls family. He isn''t worthy to be called a human.

[lynne_m1]

He''ll be on death row for many years and be fed, have a TV, ALONE where no other inmates can reach (that in itself is sad), get his last meal etc, etc, FRY HIM NOW!!!!

[knyghtwolf]

Guy reminds me more of a serpent type than a mammal type. The older I get, the nearer to death I get, the longer I live, the less I believe in any type of divine order other than nature herself. If the christian god represents universal perfection, we are its biggest failure.

[honestabe8]

Defense attorney Matthew Haire did not dispute Underwood''s guilt. But he called him "a lonely, very troubled, reclusive young man" and accused prosecutors of overwhelming jurors with gruesome evidence. OVERWHELMING JURORS WITH GRUESOME EVIDENCE? W-T-F?

[jegibbons]

Sadly, this is a very troubling story in more ways than first meets the eye.

This monster did not just hatch out a cave or crawl pot from under a rock. He''s not some prehistoic neaderthal ancestor.
This dude lived among us for most of his twenty-six years! What''s up with that?
How do you spot and protect your kids against this?

[obeylaw]

And we wonder why the prisons are so full. Plea deals should be banned and an eye for an eye should become the norm. Slapping criminals hands for violating our laws just continues to add to this countrys problems. The justice system is deteriorating at an accelerated speed. The innocenmt suffer and the taxpayers pay for it. There are no incentives to cause criminals to change their habits. They have nothing to fear and if caught are usually better off than they were in public life - but you and I pay for it - so will our descendents.

Wake up America!!!

[dowjones20k]

Fellow posters & Americans ...

If we have any intelligence or compassion for life .. is this not a case where this evil psychopath should be put to death?

Why would we incarcerate such filth?

Oh .. I remember .. so the psychologians can "study" him and try to interpret why he committed such a heinous crime or the do gooders can "spare" him?

Yeah right ... these egotistical morons can think they can figure out why any human would terrorize a child ... let the do gooders house him ....

My money is on capital punishment ... and this sick piece of garbage needs to go ...

[retiredusaf3]

Should have taken him out back of the court house after the verdict and put a bullet in his head.

[runningralph]

The insanity plea should be taken away. When a murderer is judged to be insane he should be studied, analyzed and euthanized.

[beehive21-2009]

Judging from whats already in the prisons,let him go in prison, hope he eats some of the lowlife already in prison for similar crimes,eat up boy.

[godofredo29]

"He made his choice," Fox said. "He''s a monster in human form."

All that technical jargon...

[prinzowhales]

Note that once again an anti-depressant was involved in a bizarre murder...Lexapro, this time. VT, NI, Columbine.....

[mainemade]

In this sickos world internet porn equals canabalism?
No I don''t think so...
Sick equals Sick in my world.
Defense wants to spare this creeps life? Why? If the lawyer''s succeed in sparing his life, I think they should be charged with some sort of crime themselves!

[ralan40]

"Note that once again an anti-depressant was involved in a bizarre murder...Lexapro, this time. VT, NI, Columbine.....


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Posted by Prinzowhales at 02:56 PM : Mar 01, 2008

Keep pointing that out P.O.W, you won''t get any argument from me on that point...
..Don''t forget people freaking out on airplanes and road rage incidents...not too common of an occurance prior to widescale use of new antidepressent meds in the last 10-15 years.
And it always seems to happen when people stop taking the meds.
..funny how the mainsteam media outlets fail to stress the connection...oh wait, aren''t most comercials during nightly newscasts from drug companies??
....ah, it makes so much sense, now.