Man Executed for Brutally Murdering 10-Year-Old Girl as Part of Cannibalistic Fantasy

Mar. 15, 2025

Jamie Rose Bolin (left); and Kevin Ray Underwood.Photo:AP Photo (2)

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An Oklahoma man was executed for the 2006 murder of a 10-year-old girl who he’d lured into his apartment to fulfill a cannibalistic fantasy.

Jamie lived with her father in the same building as Underwood at the time of the murder, the AP reported.

Jamie Rose Bolin.Family photo

Underwood, a former grocery store worker, hit the 10-year-old with a cutting board after luring her into his residence, per AP,The Norman TranscriptandThe Oklahoman. He then suffocated and sexually assaulted her.

After officers grew suspicious of him at a checkpoint, investigators searched his home and found Jamie’s body in a plastic bag inside his closet, the AP andThe Norman Transcriptreported. Per the AP, the child’s body was without clothes when she was found.

Underwood reportedly confessed that he’d almost beheaded the child, seemingly in a bid to eat her, but he then dropped that plan, the outlets reported.

He also said his assault and killing stemmed from a cannibalistic sexual fantasy he had, per the AP,The Norman TranscriptandThe Oklahoman.

Underwood’s attorneys had argued that he suffered horrific trauma as a child and had mental health problems, the AP andThe Oklahomanreported. His reported diagnoses included bipolar disorder, among others.

Prosecutors maintained that many people suffer from abuse and mental illness, but don’t become killers.

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Underwood apologized to Jamie’s family last week during a hearing for a petition for clemency,The Oklahoman, CBS News and the AP reported.

“I would like to apologize to the victim’s family, to my own family and to everyone in that room today that had to hear the horrible details of what I did,” he said via video, the outlets reported.

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source: people.com