The family of a murdered 10-year-old girl in Oklahoma reacted sharply to her killer’s tears as he pleaded for his life.
Jamie Rose Bolin was brutally murdered in 2006 by her neighbor Kevin Underwood, who faces the death penalty for his gruesome act.
As he pleaded through tears for sympathy during a clemency hearing this week, Bolin’s sister, Lori Pate, reacted scathingly to the convicted killer.
“How dare you, Kevin Underwood, ask for leniency. How dare you look at the court, look at Jamie’s family and then ask us that,” she said.
“You, Kevin Underwood, expect us to forgive. You want us to forgive you for planning to consume her.
‘You beat her like an animal and raped her. You deserve the original punishment and all the things that happened to you.”
Underwood, who appeared in court on Zoom, apologized to the heartbroken family through crocodile tears.
“I recognize that even though I don’t want to die, I recognize that I deserve it for what I’ve done. “If my death could change what I did, I would gladly die,” he told the court.
Underwood was convicted of what prosecutors described as a “premeditated sexual and cannibalistic fantasy.”
Jamie Rose Bolin, 10, was brutally murdered in 2006 by her neighbor, Kevin Underwood, who faces the death penalty for his horrific act
As he pleaded for his life through tears during a clemency hearing, Bolin’s sister, Lori Pate, responded scathingly to the convicted killer.
For the two-month plot, Underwood purchased meat tenderizer powder, barbecue skewers and a plastic container for the body.
The court listened to Underwood’s gruesome confession as the police tape was played.
“You know, I’d pretty much planned all along to probably just have a kid, mainly because they’re easier to grab and throw – smaller,” he said. KJRH.
Underwood, who was 26 at the time of the crime, had invited the young girl to his Purcell apartment next door to play with his rat.
He described in the interview “how he had recently developed a desire to kidnap someone, sexually assault him, eat his flesh and dispose of his remains,” the Court of Criminal Appeals wrote in 2011.
Underwood hit Bolin in the head several times with a wooden plank and then choked her while she watched SpongeBob SquarePants on his TV.
He said he tried to have sex with her body and remove her head with a dagger before he became disgusted with himself and decided not to eat her, the man reported. Oklahoman.
Bolin was discovered two days later in Underwood’s apartment, hidden in his closet in the plastic bathtub.
As he pleaded for his life through tears during a clemency hearing, Bolin’s sister, Lori Pate, responded scathingly to the convicted killer. Bolin’s family is seen here wearing the same green shirts
Tennia Lieb (R), sister of Jamie’s father, and Linda Chiles (L), an aunt, talk to the media outside the McClain County Courthouse in Purcell, Oklahoma Monday, April 17, 2006
The attorney general’s office said claims of abuse or mental illness leading to his violent actions were false and stated that ‘he knew what he was doing’
“Go ahead and arrest me,” Underwood had said. “She’s in there. I hit her and chopped her into pieces. I’m going to burn in hell.’
Pate wrote in an impact statement to Underwood: “You showed me at the age of 14 that monsters aren’t just something made up from storybooks. They wear the same clothes and walk the same streets.’
Underwood’s attorneys told the parole board that he is seriously mentally ill and not evil, and blamed abuse and his pornography addiction for his actions.
“After a lifetime of abuse, Kevin realized he was slipping away, but he couldn’t find help,” they wrote. ‘Kevin finally broke out and decided to act out his worst fantasies, which came from spending most of his life on the worst parts of the internet.
‘No one knows who Kevin could have been. But with a little help, we know he wouldn’t be who he is today.”
His lawyer claimed Underwood was deeply remorseful. His mother, Connie Underwood, said, “I am so sorry for what Kevin did. I can’t tell you how sorry I am.
“I think about her every day… And I know what he took away. And Kevin knows what he took away. He’s so aware of it. It haunts him.”
Underwood, who was 26 at the time of the crime, had invited the young girl to his Purcell apartment next door to play with his rat.
Three board members voted against recommending clemency, leaving the final decision up to Governor Kevin Stitt. It can be seen here in 2008
However, Underwood has expressed his hopes for what the afterlife has in store for him.
Echoing the motivation behind his violent crimes, he hopes that the afterlife will be the place where “all your fantasies come true.”
“If you want to torture your childhood bully, you can,” he wrote to a female acquaintance in 2022. ‘Actually, I hope there is sex in heaven and that I can live out all my sexual fantasies.’
State Attorney General Genter Drummond and his aides included Underwood’s comments about the afterlife in the package of information about the murder.
“The crimes committed by Kevin Ray Underwood remain some of the most depraved and infamous in Oklahoma history,” they told the board. ‘Here no mercy is warranted.’
However, Underwood’s apology could not derail the celebration as his request for clemency was denied.
The Attorney General’s Office said claims of abuse or mental illness leading to his violent actions were false and stated that “he knew what he was doing.”
Johnny Tunstall (L) places a bear at a memorial outside the apartment complex where the crime occurred in Purcell, Oklahoma on Monday, April 17, 2006, after the hearing for Underwood
Three board members voted against recommending clemency, leaving the final decision up to Governor Kevin Stitt.
“I am pleased that the board voted to deny clemency for this deeply evil monster and ensured that justice will be served for Jamie Rose Bolin,” Drummond said.
“Jamie’s family has waited 18 excruciating years for the justice that will finally come when this killer is executed.”
“I remember watching from a window in Jamie’s apartment as officers escorted you into your apartment without handcuffs and out in handcuffs,” Bolin’s sister said.
“You not only took her life, but ours as well. You, Kevin Underwood, single-handedly changed our family forever.”
Underwood’s execution is scheduled for Dec. 19 at the state prison in McAlester.