Body Of Missing Okla. Girl Found

The body of a 10-year-old girl missing for two days was found in a man's apartment so close to her home in the same complex that her family had to walk right past it.

"We were sitting outside his patio door the entire time," said Linda Chiles, an aunt of slain Jamie Rose Bolin.

Kevin Ray Underwood, 26, was arrested Friday after authorities found Jamie's body in his apartment, Police Chief David Tompkins said. Underwood was being held Saturday in the McClain County Jail on a complaint of first-degree murder, a jail official said.

Tompkins said Underwood had no apparent criminal record. It was not immediately known whether Underwood had a lawyer.

McClain County District Attorney Tim Kuykendall said that in his 24 years as a prosecutor, "I've never seen a homicide quite as atrocious and heinous and cruel as what this little girl suffered," reports The Oklahoman newspaper.

He would not elaborate on how she died, but said he plans to file first-degree murder charges against Underwood on Monday and will seek the death penalty.

Tompkins said authorities were sure the body was Jamie's although they were still awaiting confirmation from the medical examiner.

Authorities said they went to Underwood's apartment after a tip from the FBI, one of several law-enforcement agencies that was searching for Jamie.

The FBI would not reveal any details about the tip and spokesman Gary Johnson said Saturday that the investigation had been turned over to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation.

There was no immediate response to a call seeking comment from an OSBI spokesman Saturday.

Chiles, of Guthrie, said the family did not yet know when Jamie was killed.

"I don't know if it's a good thing to know because, honestly, we could have been sitting there at the very moment he killed her and that's an awful thing to think about."

The girl was last seen Wednesday afternoon at the library in Purcell, about 20 miles south of Oklahoma City, and was reported missing that night.

Police waited until Thursday night to issue an Amber Alert because no abduction was witnessed and officials suspected she had run away, Tompkins said.

Even if an alert had been issued sooner, it "probably wouldn't have helped us recover Jamie," said state patrol Lt. Chris West. He wouldn't elaborate.
Tim Bayer, who manages the apartment complex where Jamie was found, told The Oklahoman that Underwood would stand outside and watch children play. He said the killing was "unnerving."

Daniel Downey, a neighbor in the complex, told The Oklahoman, "I always see him looking at kids, so I thought he had kids."

Jamie lived with her father, Curtis Bolin, said Rose Fox, Jamie's grandmother, The Oklahoman reports. Her mother is a tractor-trailer rig driver and lives in Guthrie. The couple separated a couple of years after Jamie was born.

According to friends and family, Jamie was a shy girl, but always eager to meet new friends, reports The Oklahoman. She was the type of girl who sees only good in others. Her elementary school-age friends said she never had anything mean to say and didn't really fit into one group.
Jamie's uncle, Mark Chiles, told The Oklahoman that her father collapsed upon hearing the news his daughter was dead. Chiles took his brother to the hospital to get him sedated.

Linda Chiles said the entire family is distraught.

"That guy took a life that had just begun," she said. "Her daddy is not going to walk her down the aisle. She's not going to have babies. She's not going to get married. I mean, it's over for her, and this guy is sitting all cozy in a jail cell eating dinner right now and that's the reality of it."