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Judge enters ‘not guilty’ plea for UnderwoodBy Tom Blakey Transcript Staff Writer PURCELL — A downstairs neighbor was arraigned Monday in last week’s macabre murder of a 10-year-old girl whom the man allegedly had intended to cannibalize. Kevin Ray Underwood, 26, made his first appearance in the McClain County courtroom of Special Judge Gary Barger and was formally arraigned on charges of first-degree murder in the death of Jamie Rose Bolin. Most of the 45 to 50 people at the hearing were representatives of local and national media, who have arrived in force in this McClain County town of 5,713...

  Murder charges filed in cannibal case 'Fantasies getting weirder and weirder,' suspect wrote in blog PURCELL, Oklahoma (CNN) -- Prosecutors filed first-degree murder charges Monday against a grocery store clerk accused of killing a 10-year-old neighbor in a bizarre scheme to consume human flesh.Kevin Ray Underwood remained in a Oklahoma jail cell under a suicide watch. He is being arraigned Monday afternoon in the slaying of Jamie Rose Bolin.Bolin's aunt, Linda Chiles, said Monday that she hopes Underwood is convicted and put to death."I feel sorry for his family. I feel sorry for our family," Chiles told reporters. "What...

Man confesses in grisly death By Bryan Dean and Chad Previch Staff Writers PURCELL - A loner here confessed Friday to killing his 10-year-old neighbor, Jamie Rose Bolin, telling FBI agents searching a container in his apartment: "Go ahead and arrest me. She is in there. I chopped her up," police wrote in an affidavit. Kevin Ray Underwood, 26, intended to eat Jamie's body and had targeted other potential victims, police said. Investigators alleged Saturday that Underwood hit Jamie on the head three times with a wooden cutting board, smothered her with his hand and duct tape, tried to cut...

Published: April 16, 2006 01:42 am      ‘He seemed so normal’ • Purcell reacts to news local man accused of murdering, plotting to cannibalize 10-year-old girl The Norman Transcript By Melissa A. Wabnitz Transcript Staff Writer PURCELL— Months of strategic planning and preparation led Kevin Underwood to invite in, kill, attempt to dismember and sexually assault his upstairs neighbor, Jamie Rose Bolin, District Attorney Tim Kuykendall said Saturday. “It is our belief that though she was chosen to be the victim of this particular crime, other people, children and adults, had been targeted,” said Purcell Police Chief David Tompkins. Bolin,...