Bodies Missing Pregnant Woman, Son Found

Feb. 22, 2005 -- -- Police said they found the bodies of a pregnant Fort Worth, Texas, woman and her 7-year-old son after a man was arrrested in Tyler and booked on a capital murder charge overnight.

Stephen Barbee, 37, of Fort Worth, was booked into the Smith County Jail at 1:15 a.m. in connection with the deaths of Lisa Underwood, 34, and her son, Jayden. Bond was set at $2 million.

"We know that Mr. Barbee and Miss Underwood were at one time romatically involved," said Fort Worth police spokesman Lt. Gene Jones. "I can't tell you what their most current relationship status was."

Barbee was being transported back to Fort Worth.

Jones said he didn't know why Barbee was in Tyler, how investigators knew to find him there or whether there were other suspects. He declined to say what Barbee may have told investigators but said authorities don't know a motive.

Jones confirmed that the bodies of Underwood and her son had been found, but he no additional details.

Debbie Lindley, one of Underwood's neighbors whose 7-year-old son grew up with Jayden and played with him regularly, said Barbee was the father of Underwood's unborn daughter. Police said they had not been able to identify the father of Underwood's unborn child.

Lindley said they split in the fall because Barbee had another girlfriend, but she didn't know of any violent incidents between the couple.

Lindley said Underwood met Barbee about two years ago at the bagel shop. She said Jayden had never met Barbee; the boy always stayed at the Lindleys' house when they went on dates.

Underwood was a devoted single mother who worked Monday through Saturday at the bagel shop and spent the rest of her time with her son, who recently started playing soccer and being involved with Cub Scouts, Lindley said.

Lindley said she's had a difficult time explaining things to her son, Nicholas.

"He saw the news last night and said he missed Jayden and said maybe they had gone camping, and that maybe crooks had taken their camping gear and that's why nobody could find them," Lindley said.

Underwood and her son were reported missing on Saturday after they failed to appear at a baby shower at Underwood's bagel shop in Fort Worth.

Underwood's sport utility vehicle was discovered abandoned in a creekbed in Denton on Monday.

Early today, acting on a tip, police searched a house in The Hills at Fossil Creek subdivision in North Fort Worth. Investigators removed some material and confirmed they found what they had been looking for, but they would not be more specific.

No one was at home during the search.

Underwood is seven months pregnant. The disappearance of Jayden and his mother triggered an Amber Alert.

ABC News affiliate WFAA-TV in Dallas contributed to this report.