Yep.
The red star is Justin, Tx.
Posted on 02/22/2005 10:09:10 AM PST by Dubya
FORT WORTH -- The bodies of a missing seven-months pregnant woman and her 7-year-old son were found Tuesday morning off Farm Road 407 in Justin, just hours after police arrested a Fort Worth man charged with capital murder in their disappearance.
It was not immediately disclosed how Lisa Underwood, 34, and her son, Jayden, were killed.
Stephen Barbee, 37, who previously had been romatically involved with Underwood, was taken into custody in Tyler and held initially with bail set at $2 million. He was later released to Fort Worth police and transported back to Tarrant County.
Police on Monday found Underwood's Dodge Durango abandoned in a creek bed off Farm Road 2449, just east of Interstate 35W in Denton County, about 10 miles north of where the bodies were found.
Lt. Gene Jones confirmed an arrest had been made in the case but declined to comment further.
Sources said major case detectives traveled to Tyler on Monday night by helicopter after requesting that Tyler police locate Barbee and take him to their headquarters to be interviewed by Fort Worth police.
It was unknown how police knew Barbee was in Tyler.
About the same time that Tyler police were taking Barbee into custody, Fort Worth police raided a residence in the 4100 block of Walnut Creek in north Fort Worth, a home where Barbee lived with a woman named Trish.
A neighbor who did not want to be identified said she was awakened by flashing police lights and noise about 3 a.m. Tuesday. She said officers went to the back of the residence and later came out the front carrying four or five bags of evidence.
The house, she said, had been under police surveillance since Sunday with officers in unmarked police vehicles cruising through the neighborhood.
About 8 p.m. Sunday, she said, officers came to her home asking "when was the last time I saw them and what kind of cars did they drive." She said she told them she last saw Barbee earlier Sunday.
At 11 a.m. Monday, she said, she saw officers rummaging through trash bags that had been set curbside outside the residence.
The discovery comes more than three days after relatives last heard from the 34-year-old mother, seven months pregnant with her second child.
Police issued an Amber Alert for the mother and son Saturday after relatives discovered a pool of blood inside Underwood's north Fort Worth home and noticed her sport utility vehicle missing.
On Monday, the search for the pair shifted to Denton after authorities found Underwood's blue 2002 Dodge Durango abandoned in a creek bed off Farm Road 2449, just east of Interstate 35W.
The search ended about 6:30 p.m. Monday before resuming this morning.
Party planned
Saturday was supposed to be a day of celebration.
Underwood is expecting a little girl, and her friends and family had planned to throw her a baby shower at Boopa's Bagel Deli, which she co-owns with her best friend, Holly Pils.
Marla Hess, who had traveled from Wichita Falls for the shower, looked forward to prying out of Underwood the name she had chosen for her unborn child.
Because "Jayden" is such an unusual name, family and friends assumed that Underwood had also picked an unconventional name for her daughter.
"She had a name that she wasn't going to tell us," Hess said. "We were going to try to make her."
But Underwood never made it to the party.
A farmer discovered the SUV about 8:28 a.m. Monday and called Denton police.
Throughout the day Monday, searchers scoured nearby pastures and wooded areas, some in helicopters, others on horseback and on foot with trained scent dogs.
Kamper said searchers found the keys to Underwood's SUV but declined to comment on whether they found blood in the vehicle or other evidence inside it.
The area where the SUV was found is largely isolated farmland, although signs along Farm Road 2449 point the way to a new housing subdivision just to the north. Monday afternoon, dozens of patrol vehicles, unmarked cars and media trucks lined the rural road.
Meanwhile, about 30 miles away, more police vehicles and yellow crime scene tape encircled the Underwoods' modest red brick home in the 3700 block of Chaddybrook Lane.
Neighbors talked quietly outside their homes as children rode bikes and drew on the sidewalks with colored chalk.
"They are awesome," said neighbor Vicki Wilson. "They are the nicest people anyone would want to meet. They are very, very sweet."
Wilson said Jayden and the other neighborhood children often played soccer together or came to her house to play on the swing set or swim in her pool.
Jayden was "kind of shy, but ... a smart, intelligent, happy little boy," Wilson said.
Jayden was a first-grader at North Riverside Elementary School. Today, extra counselors will be on hand to talk to the students, said Jason Meyer, a spokesman of the Keller school district.
Customers knew 'Boopa'
Outside Boopa's Bagel Deli, well-wishers left messages and trinkets of hope.
A large brown teddy bear, several notes and balloons graced the window.
Scrawled in colored markers were the words "God Bless Lisa and her two little angels." Another one read: "We're praying for you! Lisa, Jayden and Baby Underwood."
A lined piece of notebook paper bore a child's handwriting: "I'm sure she's OK. I miss her as much as you do. I hope you're going to be OK."
It was signed with a heart and a face with a frown.
Pils said Lisa Underwood had named her bagel shop "Boopa" after a nickname that her mother, Sheila, had bestowed upon her grandson.
Jayden expressed pride in having his nickname adorn his mother's business.
"He wanted to be referred to as one of the owners because he said, 'My name is on the building,'" Pils said.
Deli customers knew Jayden and often asked for him by name.
"They would say, 'Is Boopa here today?'" Pils said.
Pils said that Jayden often passed the time helping her and his mother in the shop, in Fossil Creek Plaza at Western Center Boulevard and Beach Street.
"He would sweep better than our employees," she said. "He loved being at the bagel shop, he was just a real special guy. I love being around him. He is a joy, just a complete joy."
Pils said Underwood has worked hard to provide for her son, who is active in Cub Scouts and soccer and can easily beat Pils at chess.
"He was a wonderful child because she was a wonderful mother."
Pils said Underwood has been looking forward to becoming a mother a second time.
"She felt like, 'I have a perfect boy. Now, I want a perfect girl,'" she said.
Staff Writers Kelly Melhart and Alex Branch Contributed to This Report Deanna Boyd, (817) 390-7655 dboyd@star-telegram.com
That pretty much sums up my sentiments as well.
To say women should be making better choices is not the same as saying they are to blame for being dead. However, when woman after woman hooks up with losers and they end up dead, shall we not wish other women would at least learn from their very sad story?
Women, BE CAREFUL WHO YOU SLEEP WITH! Especially if you have children. How difficult is that to understand? (and yes, I'm a woman).
sundero
I'm not personally comfortable making judgments about other peoples' lives, especially when their bodies have just been drug out of a pond.
If you are that much better a person than the rest of us, take your best shot. I'll pass.
I may not know all the details, but I do know that there are three people dead.
Heartbreaking.
Terrible.
Poor kid(s). Poor mom.
Dude, you are one sick bastard.
Just come out and say she deserved to get killed, you've all but said it anyways.
I will try to contain my anger and remorse that we, as a society seem unable to prevent this type of crime.
I will try to refrain from jumping into this forum and respond to posts that are emotional and inquisitive.
I will never again post on Freepers.
Promise
Doesn't matter. No one...NO ONE has a right to take a life, the life of a child and that of an unborn child. I hope and pray they did not suffer. God bless all their souls and may the one who did it burn in hell forever and always.
I agree.
Horribly sad. God help the family and friends. May justice come to the monster who did this.
Doesn't matter. No one...NO ONE has a right to take a life, the life of a child and that of an unborn child. I hope and pray they did not suffer. God bless all their souls and may the one who did it burn in hell forever and always.
Unusual.
Geez, now you're a drama queen?
Why can't you just NOT post degorratory remarks about a dead woman for A COUPLE OF HOURS?
How about this: go start a thread warning women.....with that in the title; then you guys can pontificate all you want.
I may start one about people who have no respect for the dead and/or men who kill innocent women.
Not difficult at all. It is as easy as me asking what is wrong with men these days who find it necessary to kill their children and mothers of their children?
The implication was very clear that the mother deserved blame for picking the wrong guy.
I'll see ya and raise ya as well: It's amazing the amount of strife caused by sex outside the confines of marriage. This case is a perfect example.
How many times do we read/hear about children being abused by a mother's live-in boyfriend? Once again, sex outside the confines of marriage. Thank you, feminism, for bringing this down on our heads.
Exactly...no matter what she did or did not do..this woman and her babies did not deserve to die..
Now, some liberals would blame her saying she should have had an abortion, then she would not be dead. Or maybe she would be dead because he did not want her alive. He is the ONLY one to blame in this situation........
And I'll start a male bashing thread asking, 'What the hell is wrong with men these days?' Sheesh.
Huh?? You think you walk on water don't you. You are absolutely heartless.
Yep.
The red star is Justin, Tx.
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