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Oklahoma court denies death row inmate's appeal
Published: Tue, Jan 17, 2012
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has rejected the appeal of a death row inmate convicted of first-degree murder for the death of a 10-year-old Purcell girl. The five-member court handed down the unanimous decision Tuesday in the case of 32-year-old Kevin Ray Underwood. The court... Read More
Appeals court judges hear arguments in murder of Purcell child
Updated: Wed, Oct 13, 2010
A defense attorney for Kevin Underwood, 31, who was convicted and sentenced to death for the slaying of Jamie Rose Bolin, 10, argued a juror failed to disclose to the trial court that he previously had been involved in other court cases. Read More
Appeal set in Purcell child killing
Updated: Tue, Oct 12, 2010
NORMAN — A state court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in an appeal for a Purcell man sentenced to die for a grisly 2006 child killing. Read More
FBI to celebrate 100 years of fighting crime
Updated: Sat, Apr 12, 2008
One day after the disappearance of Jamie Rose Bolin, agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation used "a well-known technique.†That's the way Michael B. Ward, the special agent in charge of the Oklahoma City division of the FBI, described it to me: "a well-known technique.†But that's what I... Read More
Judge seals fate of Purcell killer
Updated: Fri, Apr 4, 2008
PURCELL — A former aunt of Jamie Rose Bolin was relieved Thursday to see and hear a judge sentence Kevin Ray Underwood to death for her niece's murder in 2006. But Linda Chiles' satisfaction only went so far. "Nothing can fix what he did,” she said. "This will always be something that weighs on our minds and, of... Read More
Judge sentences Underwood to die
Updated: Thu, Apr 3, 2008
PURCELL — A judge today formally sentenced Kevin Ray Underwood to die by lethal injection for the 2006 murder of Jamie Rose Bolin, his 10-year-old neighbor at a Purcell apartment complex. McClain County District Judge Candace Blalock's pronouncement was largely a formality, since a jury imposed... Read More
Video: Kevin Underwood details Bolin murder
Updated: Thu, Mar 13, 2008
Warning: The following is a three-part video of the confession by Kevin Underwood in the murder of 10-year-old Jamie Rose Bolin, his upstairs
neighbor.
Readers should be advised that the video contains references to graphic violence and perverse sexual language, as
he describes the details of the killing, and... Read More
Deciding killer's fate took much thought
Updated: Sat, Mar 8, 2008
NORMAN — The conviction was the easy part. The mutilated body of Jamie Rose Bolin was found stuffed in a plastic storage tub in Kevin Ray Underwood's apartment in Purcell in April 2006. There was a detailed video confession in which Underwood spared no details about his crime. Defense attorneys, who did not... Read More
Deciding killer's fate took much consideration
Updated: Sat, Mar 8, 2008
Despite the brutal and grisly manner Kevin Ray Underwood killed a 10-year-old girl, the convicted murderer's fate was not taken lightly. For a jury of 12, the decision whether he died in prison or by lethal injection took more than eight hours Friday night. For Cleveland County... Read More
Death for killer of Jamie
Updated: Sat, Mar 8, 2008
NORMAN — A jury of seven men and five women decided on the death penalty late Friday after deliberating for more than eight hours in the punishment phase of the first-degree murder trial of Kevin Ray Underwood. Underwood sat stone-faced as the punishment was read. A week earlier, the same jury convicted Kevin Ray... Read More
Mercy unwarranted for Underwood, prosecutor says
Updated: Fri, Mar 7, 2008
NORMAN — Dr. Reid Meloy, the state's expert rebuttal witness in the capital murder trial of Kevin Ray Underwood is a respected psychologist who has served as an expert witness for the prosecution of Oklahoma City bombing defendants Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. But a recent development in... Read More
State Briefs: Friday, March 7, 2008
Updated: Fri, Mar 7, 2008
NORMAN Closing arguments expected Prosecutors will call a final expert rebuttal witness this morning in the punishment phase of Kevin Ray Underwood's first-degree murder trial. The state's mental health expert will testify in response to mental health experts introduced by Underwood's defense attorneys. Last... Read More
Witness tells of killer's troubled thoughts, words
Updated: Wed, Mar 5, 2008
NORMAN — Defense attorneys Wednesday rested their case in the punishment phase of Kevin Ray Underwood's first-degree murder trial after his mother asked the jury to spare her son's life. Connie Underwood told jurors that her son seemed to be a normal child until he started pulling away from his family after... Read More
'I didn't tell him enough,' dad says of love for son
Updated: Wed, Mar 5, 2008
NORMAN — Since his arrest in April 2006, Kevin Ray Underwood has become notorious for his detached demeanor and lack of emotion. But as the 28-year-old man watched his father struggle to keep his composure in the witness stand Tuesday morning while talking about his dreams for his son, the convicted killer... Read More
Underwood weeps during father's testimony
Updated: Tue, Mar 4, 2008
Since his arrest in April 2006, Kevin Ray Underwood has become notorious for his detached demeanor, and perpetual lack of emotion. But as the 28-year-old man watched his father struggle to keep his composure in the witness stand Tuesday morning while talking about his dreams for his son, the convicted killer... Read More
Friends describe killer's history
Updated: Tue, Mar 4, 2008
Kevin Ray Underwood sat stone-faced Monday afternoon as one of his closest friends, who had always defended the social outcast from bullies, rubbed tears away from his face as he told jurors he was not sure he would ever speak to the convicted killer again. Underwood was convicted Friday of brutally killing a... Read More
Defense launches bid to spare Underwood's life
Updated: Mon, Mar 3, 2008
NORMAN — Defense attorneys outlined their strategy Monday morning as to how they hope to save the life of 28-year-old Kevin Underwood, who was convicted last week of the murder of his 10-year-old upstairs neighbor Jamie Rose Bolin. Defense attorneys have indicated they expect to call 22... Read More
Chat shows killer's mood
Updated: Sun, Mar 2, 2008
Minutes after Kevin Ray Underwood killed 10-year-old Jamie Rose Bolin, while the young girl's half-beheaded body lay draped over the side of his bathtub "draining,” the 28-year-old grocery stocker passed time chatting about children's movies, buying a puppy and petting squirrels. A transcript of an online chat,... Read More
It's justice for Jamie, family says
Updated: Sat, Mar 1, 2008
NORMAN — While it only took about 20 minutes for jurors to decide that Kevin Ray Underwood was guilty of first-degree murder, for the family of the 10-year-old victim, that verdict was nearly two years overdue. On an unusually hot mid-April afternoon in 2006, Jamie Rose Bolin sat on her downstairs neighbor's... Read More
Hundreds put feelings over Bolin case into words
Updated: Sat, Mar 1, 2008
Many said they cried when they wrote entries into the guestbook for Jamie Rose Bolin on NewsOK.com. I cried when I read through their entries. Debbie Moore of England had seen a photo of Jamie one day on the Internet, but didn't know why her picture was posted. However, since Jamie was the "spitting image of my own... Read More
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