By Steve Huff
April 17, 2006
Purcell, OK (Crime Library) — "Go ahead and arrest me," Kevin Underwood said to FBI agents on Friday, April 14, 2006, "she is in there. I chopped her up."
"She" was a cherubic, red-haired 10-year-old girl named Jamie Rose Bolin. Jamie lived with her father Curtis, upstairs from Underwood. Jamie disappeared on April 12, 2006 while out riding her bicycle. The same bicycle was found under Kevin Ray Underwood's bed. Also found in Underwood's apartment were the remains of Jamie Rose Bolin. She'd been brutally beaten, then asphyxiated. When Jamie's body was found in a blue plastic tote in Underwood's apartment, there were saw-marks on her neck. Some reports allege that after Underwood attempted to decapitate the little girl, he raped her dead body.
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| Jamie Rose Bolin |
Authorities in McClain County, Oklahoma (OK), where Purcell is located, believe that Underwood was arrested before he could complete his plans for Jamie Rose Bolin. Underwood supposedly planned to eat portions of his victim, then dispose of her organs and uneaten body parts elsewhere. A blogger named "Laura," who focuses on crime in her weblog, lostinlimaohio.blogspot.com, said that it seemed that Kevin Underwood wanted to be the horrific successor to both Jeffrey Dahmer, the homosexual serial killer from Milwaukee who ate portions of his victims in an effort to completely possess them, and Joseph Edward Duncan III, the sexually sadistic psychopath and child-rapist who allegedly murdered 4 members of the Groene family from Coeur d'Alene, Idaho in May, 2005 so he could abduct and brutally molest Dylan Groene, age 9, and Dylan's sister Shasta, age 8. Duncan also allegedly murdered Dylan Groene after more than a month of abusing the boy and his sister.
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| Marc Sappington |
As horrific as Underwood's alleged crime was, it is made all the more terrifying by the simple fact that it seems to have come without warning. By all accounts, this almost invisible former stock boy had no criminal background. There is no evidence at all that he worked his way up from random sadism to this act of unspeakable evil as so many deranged killers do. Like Marc Sappington, the Kansas City youth who, in three days time, went from being an insignificant church going choir boy to cannibal and vampiristic serial killer, Underwood, it is alleged, emerged suddenly as a monster.
Sure, some who knew him slightly thought him odd his landlord has described him as "creepy" but for the most part, it seems, few people thought of him at all.
It's always easy, in hindsight, to talk about the missed signals, and that is doubly true in this case, as in the way Underwood once mused on the Internet about what a cannibal might wear to dinner. But how could anyone even those who might have read his Internet postings have guessed that they were anything other than the idle musings of a disaffected, isolated and immature young man?
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| Kevin Underwood |
We now know that Kevin Underwood appeared to plan his actions with great care. He may have been nurturing a scheme of torture, rape, murder, and cannibalism for a year or more.
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