Kevin Ray Underwood found guilty of first-degree murder Friday in the grisly death of 10-year old Jamie Rose Bolin in Purcell, OK.
The decision was made minutes after the jury viewed Underwood's videotaped confession, in which he detailed the killing with no emotion.
Bolin's body was found in a plastic tub in Underwood's apartment in April 2006. Jurors had heard his detailed videotaped confession in court Thursday.
In the confession, Underwood said he lured Bolin, his upstairs neighbor, into his apartment in Purcell, hit her with a cutting board, smothered her with his hands, sexually assaulted the body and nearly cut her head off as part of a fantasy involving cannibalism.
"I wanted to know what it tasted like, and just the thought of eating someone was appealing to me," Underwood said in the confession.
Underwood also said such fantasies began about the time he started taking the antidepressant Lexapro. Defense attorneys plan to call witnesses during the penalty phase on his use of the drug.
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