By Sean Murphy

PURCELL, Okla. (AP) — The body of a 10-year-old girl was found in a plastic tub in her neighbor's closet, and police said her death was part of his elaborate plan to eat human flesh.

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Jamie Rose Bolin had deep saw marks on her neck and was apparently hit several times with a wooden cutting board, Purcell police Chief David Tompkins said. Agents removed meat tenderizer and barbecue skewers from his apartment, one floor down from where the girl lived with her father.

"Regarding a potential motive," Tompkins said, "this appears to have been part of a plan to kidnap a person, rape them, torture them, kill them, cut off their head, drain the body of blood, rape the corpse, eat the corpse, then dispose of the organs and bones."

Kevin Ray Underwood, 26, was arrested Friday after investigators found Jamie's body in the closet of a bedroom in his apartment, authorities said. The girl's unclothed body was inside a large plastic tub, along with a towel used to soak up blood, officials said.

Police would not say whether Underwood confessed to the slaying. The district attorney planned to file first-degree murder charges Monday and said he would seek the death penalty.

"This does not appear to be a spur-of-the-moment crime of opportunity but a well-thought-out, premeditated act with months of planning and preparation," McClain County District Attorney Tim Kuykendall said.

Underwood was being held at the McClain County Jail on a complaint of first-degree murder, a jail official said. It was not immediately known whether he had a lawyer.

Jamie, a freckled-face, red-haired girl who liked to play with Barbie dolls, was last seen Wednesday at the library in Purcell, about 20 miles south of Oklahoma City.

She knew Underwood, who would entertain her with his pet rat on his shoulder, Kuykendall said. The night before her disappearance, Underwood offered to let her use the telephone to order a pizza, the prosecutor said.

Investigators believe she died Wednesday, after being hit several times with a wooden cutting board, then suffocated with duct tape and her killer's hand. She was sexually assaulted after she died, officials said.

A preliminary autopsy report said the girl died from blunt force trauma to the head and asphyxiation.

"Jamie was in the apartment below us the whole time," said Rose Fox, Jamie's grandmother.

Underwood said he began fantasizing about eating someone a year ago, Kuykendall said. The prosecutor added that authorities believe "that while she was ultimately chosen to be the victim of this horrific crime, that other people had been targeted and considered," including a a woman and a 5-year-old boy.

Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation agents seized a decorative dagger, a hack saw, duct tape, meat tenderizer, barbecue skewers, a duffel bag, the cutting board, a computer, and a videotape about a serial killer, Tompkins said.

Jamie lived upstairs in an apartment with her father, Curtis Bolin, an auto mechanic, her grandmother said. Jamie's mother, Jenny, is a truck driver in Oklahoma City. The couple separated several years ago, Fox said.

The child's father remained under sedation.

"His whole life revolved around Jamie," Fox said. "He didn't go out and party. He didn't drink or smoke. This has probably destroyed him."