By Steve Huff
(Continued)
Together with the pseudonymous crimeblogger "Optymyst," who writes optymyst.blogspot.com, the mysterious Shadowraiths, who blogs about criminal psychology at Shadowraiths.net, and Jules Hammer, I began to map Underwood's online posts dating back to at least 1999.
Underwood's first foray into posting his thoughts online may have been the following webpage - http://www.geocities.com/psycomind.geo/. Because heavy traffic will cause a Yahoo Geocities web page to sometimes be rendered unavailable, crimeblogger Optymyst and I worked together to list all the URLs linked to Underwood's "psycomind" page and Optymyst hosted "mirrors" of Kevin Underwood's original posts on her own, more web traffic-friendly server. In addition to the "psycomind" pages, Optymyst created mirrors of Kevin Underwood's MySpace profile, his Amazon Wishlist, pages 1 and 2, blog entries Underwood posted on his MySpace weblog, and a more recent but possibly less-telling Geocities page Underwood created, which was under his "SubSpecies23" moniker.
My part was limited to determining what pages comprised content authored by Underwood the work done by Optymyst in making mirrors of the sites mentioned above as well as each page linked from Kevin Underwood's "psycomind" incarnation was considerable, and time-consuming.
However, it was worth the time involved to be able to preserve whatever evidence was left of Kevin Underwood's thinking, and how disordered it may or may not have been even a year after he graduated from high school in 1998.
Kevin Ray Underwood's intelligence and verbal ability was evident in much of his writing, and this was somehow alarming when a man has apparently confessed directly to Federal Agents that he intended to torture, rape, murder and eat a child, one expects to see the deranged ramblings of a human monster. To find any sign of evil in Kevin Underwood through his words left behind on the internet over a period of at least 7 years could only be done with an awareness of the crimes he appeared to commit. Otherwise, his stories, poems, even his drawings were not that different from those made by many other disaffected, angry teens who seek to express themselves on the internet. (All the following links will direct readers to mirrors constructed by Optymyst.)
Underwood posted a "fake bio," simple black text on a white field. His "bio" read, in part:
"To begin at the beginning, I was born on December 19th, 1979. I am the next to the youngest of 87 children. Until I was five we all lived in a cardboard box behind the local Wal-Mart. (It was a very big La-Z-boy recliner box!) At the age of five, I ran away to join the circus. I was Jo-Jo the Idiot Circus Boy! Then, at the age of fifteen, I was kicked out of the circus after an incident involving the bearded lady, a rubber chicken, and a neon green Spandex(tm) bathing suit! (Don't Ask)"
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