For one thing, the wider world won't let them forget. Investigators quickly realised that "Darlene Fischer" did not exist, and tracked Montgomery down the next day using her emails and computer IP address. For months, Montgomery had told her husband she was pregnant, even though she couldnt have any more children she had undergone a sterilization procedure before they met. "The whole community over there's traumatised by this.". Harper told a dispatcher her daughter's womb appeared to have "exploded" and that blood was "everywhere." U.S. District Judge Gary A. Fenner upheld the jury's recommendation the following April. She would tell me I had to leave and I couldnt take anything with me because she bought everything, she recalled. Montgomery lived during her childhood in Washington, Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, California and Texas. The case was ruled a homicide and remains unsolved. She was born in 1968, the child of two troubled alcoholics. But Fischer was a name that Montgomery had been using when she separately began messaging Stinnett from a different email address inquiring about buying one of her puppies. Just the details: What you need to know about Montgomery and her victim, Bobbie Jo Stinnett. She lapsed increasingly into mental illness and repeatedly faked pregnancy. So my letters are important.. Montgomery took Stinnetts baby, clamped the umbilical cord and used baby wipes to clean her. As a result of her sexual torture, Lisa began to dissociate. ", More: Only woman on federal death row asks President Trump to be a 'hero,' commute her sentence. "The whole story is tragic," says Kelley Henry, one of Montgomery's federal defence lawyers. After playing with the dogs in the backyard that day, Montgomery strangled Bobbie Jo Stinnett, 23, who was pregnant, and cut open her abdomen to remove her 8-month-old fetus. "She seemed like a real personI could connect with and build a relationship with inside prison," Dorr said. She had this ability to find what hurt you the most and use that against you, Mattingly said. She also told one of her stepbrothers about the sexual abuse around that time. In recommending execution, the jury spelled out six aggravating factors supporting capital punishment. Lisa Montgomery - the only female inmate on federal death row in the US - has been executed for murder in the state of Indiana. She was born into a family rife with mental illness, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression. She is permitted Sudoku puzzles and coloring pages andone book at a time. "The people that are defending [Montgomery], I wish I could take them back in time, and put them in that room," he says. Bobbie Jo Stinnetts hometown waits as killers execution date nears. Montgomery then said she had given birth at home with help from two female friends and, later, that she had given birth alone. To help keep her mind occupied, Henry said, Montgomery was initially given one crayon and one piece of paper, but nothing else. She would be the first woman executed by the federal government in 67. "That sent a chill up my spine," Strong said. He had a daughter from a previous relationship, Diane, who was four years older than Montgomery. Theyre saying that a sentence of life without the possibility of parole is more than sufficient punishment for someone who has endured what she did.. There are things children need to grow into healthy adults, among them love, praise and stability. Montgomery used the fake name of "Darlene Fischer" and the chilling email address of fischer4kids@hotmail.com as she set up a meeting with Stinnett, according to the charging affidavit in thecase. She has writtenopinion piecespublished in Elle and Newsweek. Mattingly was 8 years old and Montgomery was 4 when Mattingly was removed in 1972 from Shaughnessy's mobile home at Ogden, a community of about 1,960 people in Riley County. Mattingly, Montgomerys sister, is planning on visiting her next week. Her mother and father, teachers at school who suspected abuse, and the courts who learned of her victimization when she was a teen and did nothing. One of those men started coming into their bedroom and raping Mattingly regularly, Mattingly said. She enjoyed torturing the people around her," says Mattingly. Montgomery graduated in 1986 from high school at Cleveland, Okla., with hopes of joining the Air Force to earn money for college. Montgomery's lawyers argue that because of a combination of years of horrific abuse, and a raft of psychological issues, she should never have been given the death penalty. According to an interview with her father, Montgomery's mother Judy Shaughnessy drank heavily throughout her pregnancy, and their daughter was born with foetal alcohol syndrome. In her interviews with Montgomery, Porterfield said, the woman showed symptoms of dissociation, including confused thinking, major gaps in memory, and an inability to recognize the reality of certain events. "I think that side of Lisa needs to be out there.". Both became infected with COVID-19, believing it to be transmitted duringthe prison visit. Now, she called him to tell him that shed gone into labor while shopping and had given birth at a clinic. Multiple medical experts have given statements agreeing with that diagnosis. Tommy Kleiner and Montgomery have stayed in touch. Being loved unconditionally helped me heal, find a caring husband, and raise two children who have hearts of gold. At 1:31 AM on Wednesday, Lisa Montgomery was pronounced dead. The girls father was often away from the house for long periods, and Shaughnessy would have other men over. Ms. Montgomery has bipolar disorder, temporal lobe epilepsy, complex post-traumatic stress disorder, dissociative disorder, psychosis, traumatic brain injury and most likely fetal alcohol syndrome. Henry said there is no question that Montgomery has severe mental illness, noting that federal authorities have administered her antipsychotic medications since her arrest in 2004. In closing arguments, assistant U.S. Attorney Matt Whitworth asked the jury to think about Stinnett's daughter, Victoria Jo Stinnett. Her mouth was covered with duct tape so frequently that she learned not to cry. In Trumps final days in office, Lisa Montgomery a mentally ill victim of sex trafficking is set to be the first woman the U.S. executes in 70 years. However, the executions ordered by President Trump are continuing. They introduced her as their daughter, Abigail, and made multiple other stops. The clemency process enables convicted criminals to request mercy and ask the nation's executive branch to step in, Henry said. Shaughnessy drank excessively during her pregnancy, causing brain damage to Montgomery, according to court records. Montgomerys mother, Judy Shaughnessy, who was 20 at the time of her birth in 1968, drank heavily while pregnant with her daughter. Montgomery wasn't allowed eyeglasses, though she is far-sighted and near-sighted, or a CPAP machine, which has been prescribed since 2015 for her sleep apnea, Henry said. Newspaper accounts show Montgomery had upset other users of that board by making false statements, including claiming to be pregnant. At the time of her murder, she was newly married and pregnant with her first child. She did not see her again until Montgomerys trial 34 years later. Montgomery eventually divorced her first husband and married Kevin Montgomery. Mattingly and Montgomery were best friends. . Warnersaid the killinghad left Melvern residents stunned.. Montgomery's father, John Patterson, a 25-year-old in the military, was also an alcoholic. My heart goes out to the family of Bobbie Jo Stinnett and the loss that they have felt and are still feeling. Mrs. I support my wife and her request for clemency, but because I am sick with COVID and am caring for my parents who are also sick with COVID, I ask the media to respect our need for rest and privacy," he said. Montgomery clearly should spend the rest of her life in prison, but she is not among the "worst of the worst" for whom the death penalty is intended, Mattingly told The Topeka Capital-Journal. JUDY SHAUGHNESSY OBITUARY Judy K. Shaughnessy Judy K. Shaughnessy, 66, Topeka, formerly of Lyndon, entered into the kingdom of heaven Saturday, November 2, 2013 at Midland Hospice House. Henrysaid she was surprised to see Montgomery scheduled for execution so soon, considering 30 other inmates on federal death row were sentencedbefore her. Often the woman, now 52 and a grandmother of 12, is knitting or doing needlepoint. She faked pregnancies several times during her marriages to Carl Boman and Kevin Montgomery, court records say. On December 8, the federal government plans to execute her for a crime she committed in the grip of severe mental illness after a lifetime of living hell. Today, residents are tired of Melvernbeing connected with Lisa Montgomery, said current Mayor Lyndon Weddle, who describesMelvern asafriendlyrural community where people wave when they pass each other. Judy drank throughout her pregnancy with Lisa and caused her to be born with brain damage. And then go, 'Stand there and listen to the 911 call of [Stinnett's mother]. She strangled Stinnett to death and cut the baby from her stomach. - Sandra Babcock, faculty director of the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide, Montgomery, who confessed, was later sentenced to death for the , The Trump administration announced it was. Court records describe her as a quiet loner who spent a lot of time reading books. I was put in foster care with a wonderful family. Lisa Montgomery has been held at theCarswell Federal Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, for 12 years. My sister is on death row, Kleiner wrote in the lawsuit petition. There is a decision that has to be made, separate from guilt, about whether someones behavior is so morally reprehensible that they deserve the death penalty, she said. Melvern residents want that perception to end, she said. Shaughnessy has since died. "This was a very coordinated and determined plan to ensure that as many people could be executed on federal death row as possible before the end of this administration term.". They found her cradling a new-born girl she claimed to have given birth to the previous day. Lisa Montgomery strangle one pregnant woman for Missouri before cutting and kidnapping her baby in 2004. . "I have seen a lot of horrible things happen to women and children in my more than 40 years in law enforcement," Strongsaid. They were also physically violent. One of the lead investigators in the case, Randy Strong, wants Montgomery executed. The divorce left Shaughnessy no longer entitled to be Mattingly's legal guardian. And, in fact, blaming her for it.. Shaughnessy would beat Mattingly with whatever was in her hand, be it a belt or a broom, she said. Its also people hearing it, knowing it and doing nothing about it. The judge reached no conclusion aboutwhether sexual activity occurred but said he considered it "inexcusable" that Shaughnessy didn't report the situation to authorities and get counseling for Montgomery. But none of those other victims responded by killing a woman and cutting her baby out of her stomach, hesaid. Residents there tend to think her execution would bring an appropriate end to a painful chapter in their city's history, he said. Lisa Montgomery, a Kansas native scheduled within days to becomethe first woman executed by the federal government in 67 years, lived a childhood so abusive her attorneys call it akin to torture. Babcock said the constant in every case she has seen is an overwhelming history of trauma. The tiny farming town of Skidmore sits in the far northwest corner of Missouri. Mattingly and Montgomery lived together until Mattingly was eight and her half-sister was four. Diane Mattingly is the sister of Lisa Montgomery, who is scheduled for execution by the federal government on December 8, 2020. "I don't think people understand how bad this was," Strong said. As an adult, Montgomerys dysfunctional life mimicked that of her childhood. In her opinion, Montgomerys extreme childhood trauma created the conditions for her to grow into an adult with a disconnected sense of her emotions, a tenuous hold on reality, a completely warped view of human relationships, and a split and damaged sense of herself and of her body, according to expert testimony she provided for the defense. She didnt have nobody there to protect her once I was out of the home.. A home videoshowsCarl Boman raping and beating Montgomery, said her half-brother, Teddy Kleiner, who gave a sworn statementsaying he had seen it. The baby, who was uninjured, was returned to her father. I didn't know what to do or how to talk to my sister about it.". "But one of the things that the president can do is say - to women who have been trafficked, and who have been sexually abused - 'Your abuse matters'.". Judy was an alcoholic with mental illness who married six times over the course of her life. The five investigators who went to Montgomery's home that day recently began communicating with oneanother again, said Strong, who is now sheriff ofNodaway County, which includes Maryville and Skidmore. Diane Mattingly has been speaking publicly for the first time in the hope it can make a difference. He married Judy Shaughnessy, who would become Montgomery's mother, in 1967 in Miami, Okla. Patterson was the second of six husbands Shaughnessy . One was the presence of substantial planning and premeditation. Judy later married a man named Jack who punched, kicked and choked his children, including Lisa. But those who believe she should be put to death say her lifetime of horrorscan't excuse what came next: OnDec. 16, 2004, she loaded a steak knife, umbilical cord clamps and part of a clothesline into her car anddrove 175 miles from her home in east-central Kansas to the northwest Missouri home of Bobbie Jo Stinnett, an expectant mother she had met at a dog show. She does not deserve to die. When Mattingly attendedMontgomery's sentencing hearing in 2007, which was the first time she had seen her sister in about 35 years, she said Montgomery's face bore the same look of fear it had when they were separated. He also noted that after she confessed to killing Stinnett, she changed her story to contend the murder was committed by her half-brotherTommy Kleiner. Every time she has a birthday, it will also be the anniversary of the slaughter of her mother, Whitworth said. She was often spaced out, appearing disconnected from reality. Although the alumni have scattered somewhat, in recent years, the Nodaway-Holt R-VII High School graduating class of 2000 - which had only 22 members - has a tradition to mark the anniversary of the death of their classmate Bobbie Jo Stinnett. Montgomerys legal team is fighting against the clock to gather the information needed for her clemency petition, which has been complicated by the coronavirus crisis. Shaughnessy in 1974 married her third husband, Jack Kleiner, a divorced father of five. Strong said he and Fritz questioned Montgomery using a"good cop/bad cop" approach. Those were disconnections that were tragic in their consequences. The historic reports of her at the time are consistent with the idea that she was a completely impaired mentally ill nonfunctional person who was operating within the symptoms of her mental illness, Porterfield said. After five hours of deliberation, the jury found Montgomery guilty. "There was a lot of talk both ways on it," he said when contacted by phone at his new home in Texas. "As a result, Lisa has trouble processing information and navigating social relationships. As Montgomery grew up, court records say, observersnoticed that she increasingly appeared to be "spaced out," "not emotionally present" or in "her own little world.". "It was violent and like a scene out of a horror movie," he said. Bobbie Jo's mother and husband have have not spoken publicly in many years. He was pumping her, Shaughnessy testified. She has been let down over and over and over again by people in authority, people who were supposed to be caretakers for her, Mattingly said. There were always different men around the house. The family treated Mattingly as one of their own, and gave her a sense of belonging and self-worth, she said. It would be 34 years before the half-sisters would see each other again. In December 2004, Boman filed a court action seeking custody of two of their children who still lived with Montgomery while arguing that the pregnancy Montgomery was fakingillustrated she was an unfit mother, according to newspaper accounts. But Strong says this is the first year he's heard directly from Stinnett's husband. She enacted this in the grip of a very broken mind.". Around age 8, she said, a man began raping her in the bedroom she shared with Montgomery, then 4, who lay in bed right next to her. "Maybe she could have been saved, too. Her mother also began trafficking her, allowing handymen like electricians and plumbers to sexually abuse Montgomery in exchange for work on the house. I'm bruised, but I'm not broken. "She is the most broken of the broken," Mattingly said. Patterson made a mistake by abandoning them to "that crazy lady," he said at Montgomery's sentencing hearing in 2007. Shaughnessy also beat the girls with brooms and belts,Mattingly said. Dorr has since been released from prison and remarried. A former paramedic who had watched the births of all three of his children, Strong also considered the baby's head to be unusually round. She has always accepted responsibility. Today there is a single restaurant and few of the streets are paved. They would beat and slap her if she was doing it wrong. When they were done, they urinated on her like she was trash.. Nationwide, only 54 women have been executed since 1900. She began prostituting Lisa to older men when Lisa was in her early teens. During divorce proceedings, Shaughnessy admitted to the court that she had walked in on her husband raping Montgomery. He recalled that Montgomery begged him not to tell anyone, for fear that Kleiner would kill her. When Lisa was a small child, Judy allowed men to rape her for money, including allowing her to be gang raped on multiple occasions. At the instigation of Shaughnessys lawyer, Montgomery was connected to a therapist, but only briefly. She became involved with Kevin Montgomery, a divorced electrician with children of his own, and theymarried the following year. The murder 16 years ago is never far from the minds of the town's residents. She had bought supplies, including a home birth kit, and searched online for how to perform a caesarean section. Montgomery suffers from severe mental illness. A clemency petition asking Trump to reduce Montgomerys sentence to life without parole is expected to be filed in the coming weeks. You know, like, that doesn't happen to Bobbie," Morrow says. Patterson and Shaughnessy divorced in 1971, and Shaughnessy took custody of the girls. Montgomery has exhausted all attempts to appeal her conviction and death sentence although her attorneys are exploring possible litigation. Join Facebook to connect with Judy Shaughnessy and others you may know. She pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. And nowhere is that support more palpably felt in this case than in Skidmore. When she called her attorneys that day, she could hardly speak. Montgomerys case is not about whether she is responsible for the crime; she is. Lisa Montgomery be di 11th prisoner to receive di lethal injection since July when President Donald Trump, resume federal executions. The family moved from place to place dozens of times, but it was in a trailer in Sperry, Oklahoma, where her lawyers say the abuse turned into something more akin to torture. Thats happened since Montgomery's childhood, when theterror she experienced while being raped forced her to retreat emotionally into an imaginary house,where everything is fine, Henry said. Mattingly said her heart sank when she realized Montgomery wasn't coming with her. "God, no, please," she said. In December 2004, Montgomery, who was 36 at the time, strangled Bobbie Jo Stinnett before cutting the baby out of her womb and kidnapping it. But the psychological abuse targeted at her was even more damaging. But the cousin, a sheriff's deputy, confessed to Montgomery's current legal team that he did nothing. As the car drove further and further away, Mattingly began to vomit. At the time, Lisa had told her new husband that she was pregnant, which her former husband knew wasn't possible because of the forced sterilization. Montgomery is "evil personified," he said. Montgomery's mother, Judy Shaughnessy, who was 20 at the time of her birth in 1968, drank heavily while pregnant with her daughter. She helped him escape in a dog crate and went to prison after a vehicle chase 12 days later ended with their capture. School friend Baumli says she's read the descriptions of Montgomery's abuse, but it mostly just makes her angry. "We knew we were walking into the killer's house.". Lisa Montgomery has been charged in the December 16 death of Bobbie Jo Stinnett, who was eight months pregnant at the time. They slept in twin beds in a small bedroomand fell asleep most nights holding hands, Mattingly said. Montgomery has pleaded not guilty to kidnapping resulting in death. But it is something that she carries with her and that she mourns not only for the effect on her life and that of her family, but for the terrible effect on Mrs. Stinnett, who was killed, and also her family who was left behind.. What you need to know about Montgomery and her victim, Bobbie Jo Stinnett. Henry stressed that no one faces a death sentence linked to the 16 other U.S. cases from 1987 to2015 in which a woman has attacked a pregnant woman and her unborn child in an effort to take the childand ended up killing one or both. At least five times after she was sterilized, she told people that she was pregnant. As the oldest, I was the protector of Lisa and our baby sister. They have been joined by a chorus of supportive voices from the legal field, including 41 former and current prosecutors, as well as human rights entities like the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Montgomery strangled Stinnett into unconsciousness, then sliced into her stomach with the steak knife, Strong said. When Lisa Montgomery murdered pregnant Bobbie Jo Stinnett and ripped her unborn baby from her womb, the whole world reeled in horror. Part of HuffPost Crime. She lives in Lebanon, Ky., is married with two adult children and has worked the past 19 years for the state of Kentucky. Many of the residents of Skidmore cite the details of the crime, and the amount of planning that went into it, as evidence that Montgomery was a calculating killer. "She needs to be put to death.". Her victim's community said otherwise. "There's so many people that failed her throughout her whole life. Henry says this was an early sign of her mental illnesses, which include bipolar disorder, complex post-traumatic stress disorder, dissociative disorder and traumatic brain injury. While my path to healing was very hard, the difference between Lisa and me is that no one ever intervened to rescue Lisa from a lifetime of abuse. Her terror was well-founded, said Montgomery's attorneys, Kelley Henry and Amy Harwell. Please, honey.". Since they began, the federal government has executed seven people. Montgomery told investigators she was surprised at how nicely they had treated her, considering what she had done. In December 2004, Montgomery drove 281.5 km (175 miles) from her home in Kansas to Skidmore, where she had an appointment to look at some puppies owned by Stinnett. One theory her lawyers put forward regarding the chain of events that led to the murder, is that Montgomery feared her ex-husband would expose her lies about being pregnant and use it against her as he sought custody of their children. Montgomery's alcoholic mother, Judy Shaughnessy, knew about the assaults but blamed Montgomery for bringing them upon herself. 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