Texas Mom, Son's Bodies Found; Ex Charged

[question everything]

Texas Mom, Son's Bodies Found; Ex Charged



By ANGELA K. BROWN, Associated Press Writer

FORT WORTH, Texas - The ex-boyfriend of a missing pregnant woman has been arrested and charged with the murder of the woman and her 7-year-old son, whose bodies were found Tuesday, police said.

The bodies of Lisa Underwood, seven months pregnant, and her son, Jayden, were found near Denton, about 30 miles northeast of Fort Worth, where Underwood's sport utility vehicle was found Monday. Fort Worth police Lt. Gene Jones said authorities would provide more details at a news conference.

Underwood, a bagel shop owner, and her son were reported missing after she failed to show up at her baby shower Saturday. A pool of blood was found in her home.

Stephen Barbee, 37, of Fort Worth, was arrested Monday night in Tyler and was being brought back to Tarrant County by Fort Worth police. His bail was set at $2 million.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=4&u=/ap/20050222/ap_on_re_us/missing_family

[Beaverhausen]

1. oh shit. That sucks

[Megahurtz]

2. How horrible

I wonder if it was really him that did it.

[Horse with no Name]

31. Our local news had this story

and said that he turned himself in to the police station and then led them to the bodies.
I don't have a link-it was local.
Very sad.

[Bethany Rockafella]

3. This is so sad.

[rainbow4321]

35. He killed her the night before her baby shower...

It would be heart breaking no matter when the bastard did it but to read it happened on the eve of her baby shower...DMN article quoted a neighbor as saying that the mom was excited about the shower cuz she never got to have one with her first born. :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

[WI_DEM]

4. it's stories like this that really test my opposition to death penalty

but I still feel these vicious people suffer more spending the rest of their miserable lives locked up in prison.

[question everything]

10. Yes. Same here. n/t

[Pithy Cherub]

13. Agree.

The death penalty is not a detererent. These horrible atrocities keep happening.

That kid was absolutely adorable.

[meow2u3]

22. The death penalty is actually counterproductive

The higher the execution rate, the higher the murder rate--and the murderers commit more brutal crimes. It's not only a vicious circle, but it also shows killers have an unspoken death wish--they just want to take as many as they can with them.

[mudderfudder77]

46. Do you have any statisctics

for that claim, i had never heard that before. A link would be greatly appreciated.

[superconnected]

51. check out texas

[tiredofthisstuff]

52. What The Hell Is Going On?

It seems to me that there are more and more domestic murders as of late. I know that it happens all the time, but it seems to me that it has escalated. I have to wonder if it isn't the atmosphere of this country as it is.

[MaineDem]

5. Damn!

I was so hoping they'd be found alive.

What a shame.

[qanda]

6. good grief

What is wrong with this world?

[Maestro]

7. I heard she went missing here in the D/FW area

Sunday I think. I immediately thought of a husband/boyfriend that did this. My only question is why kill the boy? The pregnant woman is bad enough, but what can a poor 7 year old boy do to this guy. God I detest people like this.

[MissB]

20. One link I read suggested that the child had never met the boyfriend

or rather the ex-boyfriend.

I hope he spends the rest of his miserable days in a small prison cell.

[Maestro]

33. Exactly

Killing him would not be enough. Let's let him rot in his own excrement while he thinks everyday about what he did. These sorts of crimes make me not want to believe in rehabilitation. Just put them away forever.

[Skeptic_All]

37. As much as I like your idea, we may have to settle down a bit

and remember the "atrocities" at Abu Ghraib. Wouldn't want to get caught treating folks in a less than humane (by who's standards?), lest we be called.........barbaric.

[Maestro]

41. Again I agree

I am not supporting the death penalty in this case as I never would. However, I am not sure what would be fitting for this person if it clear beyond a shadow of a doubt that he killed this mother, small business owner, and her 7 year old son only for the reason that he got her pregnant and couldn't stand the idea of having another kid. It's despicable. What do we do with people like that? I'd say at least life in prison.

[RPM]

50. why do you hate the constitution?

Something in there about prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment...

[liberalitch]

8. JEEEZE......what kind of scum?

Mom, fetus and the kid.....
I often wonder how it is that someone could kill a child.
I threaten to kill my students all the time, but I'm provoked!

[booksenkatz]

9. Pics + more at DFW homepage

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/

So sad.
;(

[rainbow4321]

36. Here's their pic.....

[histohoney]

11. Just so sad

What a heartbreak. That poor woman and that little boy. How can any one get so mean. I hope I never know.:cry:

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[bloodyjack]

15. Ah, Texas...where you at least have the right to a fair and speedy

execution

[tabasco]

24. Really? Then I wish Rush had been busted there. n/t

[lala_rawraw]

14. Why does this shit

Always happen in Texas? What the hell are they drinking there?

[ben_thayer]

18. You noticed that too eh?

Texas -Where men are MEN and women are terrorized. Way too much phony "Macho" culture. They'd rather slaughter their entire family than have anyone think they're a "Pussy". And even though he's a fake Texan, Bush tries hard to project the same image. Makes me want to :puke:

[egoprofit]

21. i respect your opinoin.... but it's bs

coming from a texan i reject that sterotype. we hate bush too.

[ernstbass]

26. Not all of us hold those stereotypes about Texas

and being from Virginia, I know all about stereotypes! We hate Bush in red states too

[lala_rawraw]

30. oh silly

me=kidding:) you know that, right? i kid about every state I have ever lived in.

[question everything]

19. Or... that the death penalty is not a deterrent

especially in Texas where one gets to die even if it is proved that defense was incompetent.

[radwriter0555]

16. MURDER is the leading cause of death among pregnant women in 13 states

in the USA.

What a horrific statistic.

[Mike Daniels]

17. Cases where pregnancy was "the" reason for the woman being murdered

The Washington Post did an article a month or two back on women from the DC metro area who were murdered by their "SO" exclusively because they were pregnant. Generally, motive came down to the "father" not wanting to have to saddled with child support and/or any of the other responsibilities having a child entails.

I'm not one prone to tearing up over things that don't directly involve me but it was one of the most heartbreaking articles I ever read.

[RPM]

39. I wonder why...

perhaps because men don't want another mouth to feed?

Sadly, i believe its true

[MountainLaurel]

45. Here's a new study on that subject

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45626-2005Feb22.html

[Straight Shooter]

53. And we see how outraged the fundies are over MURDER of pregnant women

In fact, it was one of the platforms of bush's campaign. The GOP is so pro-family and so pro-life, they've been waging a campaign for years to stop this tragedy.

No? Oh, wait. Nevermind. I was in a parallel world, where rightwing fundies actually practiced what they preach. :eyes:

And I'm out on a limb here, but anyone who kills a kid, in cold blood, let the killer die at the hands of the State. Get them out of the gene pool and don't take any chances. I'm very hard-hearted about that. No compromise. I don't care if it's a deterrent or not. I want that person off the face of the earth.

[Jack_DeLeon]

23. Yep...

I still support the death penalty.

[SoCalDem]

25. That poor little boy... It gripes my soul

when little kids end up dead because of things their parents do.

Mom has an affair with a married neighbor, tries to blackmail him, and her innocent little boy and the unborn baby ends up dead..Not fair at all :(

[GoddessOfGuinness]

27. The article says they split up because he had another girlfriend

and that he is the father of the fetus.

Seems like the "other girlfriend" would have more of a motive...

[rainbow4321]

34. He was married....

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/022305dnmetunderwood.d3296c64.html


An arrest warrant affidavit made public Tuesday afternoon said that the Fort Worth police investigation found that Barbee was the father of Underwood's unborn child. The affidavit said that Barbee told police after his arrest in Tyler that he had argued with Lisa Underwood because he would not leave his wife. During the argument, Barbee said that Underwood kicked him in the leg. He then punched her in the face several times, causing her nose to bleed. At that point, Barbee held Underwood on the floor and suffocated her. During the fight, Jayden entered the living room screaming, and Barbee told police that he also suffocated the child. He put the bodies in the back of the SUV, drove to Denton County and dug a shallow grave

[GoddessOfGuinness]

42. Sonofabitch

That poor little boy... :cry:

[briemann]

28. He has also been charged with murder

in the death of the fetus! The anti-choicers will stop at nothing to get unborn tissue legally recognized as a human being.

[donheld]

29. How trajic

May the guilty rot in prison.

[Trajan]

32. Killing Children ....

Who could ? ...

Who would ? ...

The greatest crime of all .... to murder a child ....

The most immoral act .....

I hate capital punishment, but I am down with executing child murderers ... not for revenge, but to make sure the bastard can NEVER do it again ....

[sendero]

38. IMHO....

.. a person who could carry out such an act has forfeited his humanity, death is too good for him but it's all we have.

[bleedingheart]

40. This man had L on his forehead from the beginning

Okay...he is married...so he then dates Ms. Underwood...and then he breaks up with her over the fact he won't leave his wife ...and he has another girlfriend....

Then he kills Ms Underwood and her son....what a vile evil man.

[rainbow4321]

44. I feel bad for his parents..they've already lost 2 other kids

Geez, lost 2 other children and now will lose a third.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/022305dnmetbarbee.42802.html



The parents, Bill and Jackie Barbee, still live in Azle but did not answer their door on Tuesday. Several neighbors confirmed that another son died in a car accident and a daughter died for reasons related to childbirth.

Mr. Barbee was married in October 1996, according to court records. By July 1, 2003, he and Theresa Barbee had filed for separation because of a "discord or conflict of personality." After the divorce, Mrs. Barbee kept the house on Ridge Country Road in Haslet.

The couple had no children during the seven-year marriage. However, Mr. Barbee was the subject of a paternity suit by a Granbury woman in 1993. Details of that case weren't immediately available.

In December, Mr. Barbee married Patricia Ann Reinhardt after a courtship that lasted a little more than a year, one of his business associates said. Debbie Lindley, one of Ms. Underwood's neighbors whose 7-year-old son played with Jayden, said she had heard that Mr. Barbee and Ms. Underwood had split because he had another girlfriend. She didn't know of any violence between Mr. Barbee and Ms. Underwood. The couple met about two years ago at the bagel shop, Ms. Lindley said.

[AgadorSparticus]

43. i don't believe in the death penalty and after reading this story, i

DEFINITELY think death is too good for this guy. he needs to be someone's bitch in prison for the rest of his life and feel the violence and moral depravity like what he did to this poor woman and her kids.

[RPM]

47. At the risk of being crass...

There are some lessons here:

"Don't get pregnant by a guy to whom you aren't married"

Keeping in mind the usual issues about access to birth control and abortion procedures - women need to be made cognizant of the fact that (what seems like the majority of men) are reluctant of committment, whether in the form of children or marriage). As such, announcing to that person that you are pregnant is the fastest way to get him out of your life, or worse... I only wish that these women could have just concluded to go to the clinic and save themselves.

"Don't get pregnant by a guy who is married"

Even if he is willing to leave his wife for the girl on the side - which most arent - he will likely be unfaithful. Besides, since he is unlikely to leave his wife and knows that the pregnant girl on the side can really mess up his life, he will do _anything_ to make her go away. Guys (who think they are) backed into a corner like that are way to dangerous. Again, I wish the ladies would just have made the trip to the clinic...

As such, i am not surprised by numbr or style of the killings. I feel badly for the victims, but can't help but think that they played themselves at some level. It is so goddamned stupid to get involved with a married person, not to mention immoral, and as evidenced here life-threatening.

I hate to say it, but unless one is practicing birth control and is willing to go to the clinic should that fail, the religious types have it right when they say no sex before marriage and no extra-marital affairs. (guh)

[Disfronted]

48. I disagree - not woman's fault!

Sorry, I cannot disagree more with the overall tone of the post.

Yes, it is foolish to get pregnant by a loser or a married man. And yes, abortion is often a way out. But part of being pro-choice is the choice - just because you get pregnant by a loser doesn't mean you have an obligation to abort the child. The loser who impregnanted the mother is responsible for supporting the child if the mother makes the choice to keep it.

Your post makes it sound like the women had it ocming, they knew the guys were losers who can't be expected to own up to the consequences of thier decisions, and if they weren't smart enough to abort the child then they should have predicted the result. I am sure that is not what you meant, but that is how it reads to me.

The killers are 100% to blame, not the women.

[RPM]

49. It called being careful.

Assuming that men killing their pregnant wives is as big problem that this study makes it out to be, and assuming that all of the legislation in the world isnt going to change that fact, it is simply reckless to put oneself in this situations. And in light of the report, as well as 6000 years of men not wanting women to bear children they don't want to have to support, i think its safe to assume that both of the assumptions above are true.

It's like crossing an intersection - if you go on green without looking for cross traffic, you are putting yourself in harm's way as their may be a car running the light. Even though you are in the legal right, you need to be cautious of someone who may be doing wrong. It is not enough to be in the legal right, one should vigilantly consider the wrong-doers around them to avoid an accident in the first place. Afterall, being legally right won't mean shit if you are dead.

I agree with you that "just because you get pregnant by a loser doesn't mean you have an obligation to abort the child." and that "the loser who impregnanted the mother is responsible for supporting the child if the mother makes the choice to keep it." But thats where the rubber hits the road. Most men don't want to have to pay for that child (Please note: I believe that they should be made to pay for the child) and will do anything to avoid that responsibility, including killing the mother. That SURE AS HELL IS NOT RIGHT, but it is predicitable enough to know to avoid the situation.

Ultimately, I don't state that these women deserved their fates - but between the history of what men will do to avoid supporting another mouth and what this study demonstrates, single women who are pregnant (unfortunately) are subject to many increased risks (that, again they shouldn't be).

As far as legal theory, i agree with you - the killers are 100% to blame, not the women.

As far as practicality, I wish the women would have been more like the driver that looks for cross traffic at the green-light and avoids the bad situation in the first place. I certainly would raise a daughter that way.

[Justitia]

54. marriage didn't save Carol Stuart or Laci Peterson, quite the opposite

Pathological men who did not want to be fathers is what killed these women.

Or maybe, men who did not want to be tied down in ANY way (marriage, fatherhood). I don't think the marital status of a woman entangled with this type of man makes any difference whatsoever. If the insane party deems her to be a threat to his perceived independence, she is doomed.

How can a woman discern such a thing? It is never the woman's fault.

[RPM]

56. How can a woman discern such a thing?

Always assume the worst. That's the point of my original post, folks should always consider the worst thing that could happen from their actions - whether that result is right or not.

Just like the way you (should) always look both ways when crossing the street; even a one-way street - you never know what idiot may be going the other way...

As to Stuart or Peterson, their situations are particularly tough as they were married - i would really like to know what conversations preceded their pregnancy vis-a-vis the topic of having a child. Without knowing that, i can't say much about their situations.

[The_Casual_Observer]

55. Why is this national news?

Could it be that they desperately look for anything unrelated to chimp's shitty performance for some kind of relief, no matter how bad the story might be?