The victims families, parents and a concerned public feels very strongly that sex offenses against our
nations youth are reaching an epidemic level. It is up to each citizen
to work together to bring about changes in our legal system that will
keep these predators far away from our children.
Missing since April 12, 2006, 10-year-old Jamie Rose Bolin was found
dead the evening of April 14, 2006 in neighbor Kevin Underwood's
apartment, within ten feet of her father's apartment - much closer to
home than anyone would have thought. The case of the red-haired, blue
eyed and freckled girl with glasses, wearing a blue sleeveless shirt
and pink shorts, and riding her purple bicycle was initially treated as
a possible runaway, then as a possible abduction by a man she met
online. She vanished after a trip to the library.
Police are not yet
certain whether Jamie and Underwood had chatted online, but are still
investigating and believe there is a strong possibility, due to a
statement from one of Jamie's friends. The FBI and OSBI are working on
the case along with local and state law enforcement, and have removed
two computers from the library that Jamie visited for inspection. An
Amber Alert was issued April 13, 2006 in Purcell, Oklahoma for Jamie
Bolin.
It has been reported that Kevin Underwood, after aiding in the search
for Jamie Rose Bolin, told authorities at a checkpoint near his
apartment that the media was wrong in the description of what Jamie had
been wearing when last seen. It is also reported that the night before
Jamie went missing, Kevin Underwood offered the use of the telephone in
his apartment for her to order a pizza, and on the day of her abduction
he allegedly lured her into his apartment with his pet rat and a Sponge
Bob Square Pants video.
Kevin 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 off her head and sexually molested her after she was dead.
Today is the day I refuse to allow the name of Jamie Rose Bolin
to be overshadowed by the evil of the perpetrator who viciously ripped
her from our midst.
Jamie loved Barbie dolls and her bicycle, puppies and kittens and all
of the other things 10-year-old girls like, according to her
grandmother, Rose Fox. The shine of her startling blue eyes were not
dimmed by the glasses she wore, and her impish grin will not be
forgotten. Rose said that she loved pillow fights with her sisters, and her infectious giggle and personality "could just light up a room."
It is a shame what the world is coming to when you cant trust your
neighbors. What the comunity is doing in her memory is great , but she
deserves much more.... she deserves to be alive with her family... i
dont know her but i will always remember .. god bless The important part is that her family has set up a memorial fund "The
Jamie Rose Bolin Memorial Fund", which can be contributed to at any Bank of Oklahoma.
Steve Huff writes about this case on his crimebloghere. Jules Hammer of the Duncan Crime Blog found Mr. Underwood's rather expansive web presence and posted the information to Steve's discussion forum. Optymyst of Look Who's Tattling Now took the baton, so to speak, and cached Mr. Underwood's (presently inaccessible) MySpace pages and also wrote a corresponding article here.
Within minutes of Jules' posting, visitors, both anonymous and named
were posting invectives under the comments sections of Mr. Underwood's
blogs. Understandably so. After all, a 26 year-old man had not only
kidnapped and murdered Jamie, but from news reports,
may have tortured her as well. For up-to-date details of this most
horrible crime, please refer to the aforementioned blogs, consider reading Mr. Underwood's primary blog.
Citizens
for a One Strike Law (CFAOSL) has filed Dylan's Law in honor of Dylan
Groene who was "allegedly" sexually brutalized and violently murdered
by Joseph Duncan III.Dylan's Law is a mandatory life sentence without
the possibility of parole for violent and predatory sexual crimes such
as kidnapping, to the vicious rapes and molestations of our young and
defenseless children.
