Death penalty sought for Okla. 'cannibal'

PURCELL, Okla., Aug. 23 (UPI) -- An Oklahoma district attorney will seek the death penalty for a 26-year-old man who confessed to killing a 10-year-old neighbor with plans to eat her.

Kevin Underwood, 26, was ordered held in custody Tuesday by McClain County Special Judge Gary Barger until his Sept. 20 formal arraignment in Purcell, Okla, the Norman (Okla.) Transcript reported.

Underwood is charged with killing Jamie Rose Bolin on April 12 by strangling, attempting to decapitate, sexually assault and later cut up her body to eat, the report said.

However, an autopsy showed her throat had been cut from ear to ear, but otherwise her nude body was intact, The Oklahoman reported.

FBI agent Craig Overby, at the preliminary hearing, said when he found the girl's sweater in a sealed box in Underwood's apartment, Underwood said "Go ahead and arrest me."