Montgomery often read her Bible or did things with her hands, including writing, quilting, and making placemats and bookmarks, Dorr said. Montgomery also talked about the abuseshe had endured from her stepfather, Jack Kleiner, and the first of her two husbands, Carl Boman, Dorr said. The case was ruled a homicide and remains unsolved. There are things children need to grow into healthy adults, among them love, praise and stability. If her execution goes forward, she will be the first federal female inmate to be executed in almost 70 years. Her children were disturbed by it. More: The U.S. has not executed a woman in 67 years. Montgomery has pleaded not guilty to kidnapping resulting in death. Friends and family began noticing Montgomery's tendency to slip into "a world of her own". Join half a million readers enjoying Newsweek's free newsletters, Everyone Practices Cancel Culture | Opinion, Deplatforming Free Speech is Dangerous | Opinion. She said it was over and over, one man right after the other, and went on for hours, her cousin said in a sworn statement. Weddle said she moved to Melvern when she retired nine years ago because she wanted peace and quiet after more than 30 years as a Topeka police officer. As long as she was given cigarettes, Montgomery continued to talk, Strong said. Strong was a police detective in Maryville, Mo., 14 miles northeast of Skidmore, and Fritz was a detective at Cameron, also in northwest Missouri. Montgomery's alcoholic mother, Judy Shaughnessy, knew about the assaults but blamed Montgomery for bringing them upon herself. She was often spaced out, appearing disconnected from reality. "It was pretty awful.". "She always wanted to be a mom," says Baumli. Im not a psychiatrist, so I cant go any further than that.. Recibi una inyeccin letal en una prisin de Terre Haute,. Montgomery told Stinnett that she was also expecting, and the pair shared pregnancy stories. When children grow up in a chronic state of fear and terror, their brains adapt to survive, explained Katherine Porterfield, a clinical psychologist at the Bellevue/New York University Program for Survivors of Torture, who has evaluated Montgomery in prison. Babcock noted that while at least a dozen other women across the U.S. have committed a similar crime in the past 20 years killing a pregnant woman to kidnap her baby Montgomery was the only one sentenced to death. To help keep her mind occupied, Henry said, Montgomery was initially given one crayon and one piece of paper, but nothing else. They were also physically violent. "I looked to my right and there was Lisa Montgomery on the sofa, holding the baby," he said. At least five times after she was sterilized, she told people that she was pregnant. The counselor noted that her mother appeared to have a lack of empathy for Montgomery, who was left with the distinct impression that the sexual abuse was her fault. Porterfield compared the chronic abuse to pouring lighter fluid onto a spark. After she strangled Stinnett, Montgomery is alleged to have cut her open and stolen her unborn child Victoria, who survived the attack and is now living with her father. . The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. "There were so many opportunities where people could have intervened and prevented this," says Henry. Judy drank throughout her pregnancy with Lisa and caused her to be born with brain damage. Shaughnessy knew that Mattingly was sensitive about abandonment due to her severed relationship with her birth mother, and so she would strip Mattingly naked and push her outside the front door, pretending that she was kicked out. "They put her on suicide watch to keep her from killing herself, so that they can execute her," she said. You know, like, that doesn't happen to Bobbie," Morrow says. "I don't think people understand how bad this was," Strong said. More: Lisa Montgomery's execution, delayed by attorneys' COVID-19 cases, rescheduled for Jan. 12. "I cried," says Strong. Melvern residents want that perception to end, she said. As an adult, Montgomerys dysfunctional life mimicked that of her childhood. "Oh, they're here, I've got to go," she said. There were always different men around the house. However, in the tiny town of Skidmore, Missouri, where the crime was committed, there is little sympathy for that argument. The question is, should she be put to death for it? Montgomery is scheduled to be put to death by a lethal injection of pentobarbital at Terre Haute prison in Indiana. In response to traumatic events, children may dissociate from their feelings and their bodies to protect themselves from experiencing what is happening. When Shaughnessy eventually split from her second husband, she and Montgomery testified in divorce proceedings about the sexual assaults. "My sister was crying and in pain. That was ultimately dropped in favour of an insanity defence, but Henry believes the damage to Montgomery's credibility was already done. Join Facebook to connect with Judy Shaughnessy and others you may know. 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. 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. "As a result, Lisa has trouble processing information and navigating social relationships. Residents of Melvern, where Montgomery lived, have beendivided about whether she shouldpay for her crimes with her life, said Joe Warner, who was mayor of Melvern at the time of the murder. She was beaten, repeatedly raped by her stepfather and his friends and sexually trafficked by her mother. 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. Dr Katherine Porterfield, a clinical psychologist who evaluated Montgomery and spent about 18 hours with her, says that psychosis does not always look the way people expect it to. Lisa's and my father was also mentally ill. She did not see her again until Montgomerys trial 34 years later. "Being psychotic, it does not mean you are not intelligent, nor that you cannot act in a planful way," she says. She gives herself as an example - when Stinnett was murdered, Baumli was in rehab for a drug addiction. 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. Mattingly said her heart sank when she realized Montgomery wasn't coming with her. She believes that if Montgomery had been rescued too, and given what she was given contact with loving, protective adults everything would have been different. Babies born naturally tend to have misshapen heads initially because of the pressure experienced as they go through the birth canal, he said. Mental health experts who examined her believe that her history of childhood trauma exacerbated a genetic predisposition to mental illness that ran in her family. It is the only federal prison with an active death chamber. "I think that side of Lisa needs to be out there.". Henry said Montgomery was expected to be transferred by Jan. 10 to the penitentiary at TerreHaute, Ind., her designated place of execution. They would beat and slap her if she was doing it wrong. When they were done, they urinated on her like she was trash.. Her victim's community said otherwise. Part of HuffPost Crime. After their biological father left the home, Mattingly says they were left alone with Shaughnessy's boyfriends, at least one of whom started raping Mattingly. Her lawyers at the time also presented an alternative theory of the crime, which was that Montgomery's brother had actually committed the murder, even though he had an alibi. Montgomery's lawyers want her sentence commuted to a life sentence, which would allow her to remain under psychiatric care in prison for the rest of her days. She liked to take her finger and poke it hard into her chest, over and over in the same spot. His message contained a "very heartfelt thank you. 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. He was being held in the Shawnee County Jail in 2018 when he filed a federal lawsuit contending the county was violating his constitutional rights by preventing him from sending letters to Montgomery. "That sent a chill up my spine," Strong said. ", Strong said he arranged for that message to be shared with the four others, "because we were all a part of that.". 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. "I felt sick watching the video. The family treated Mattingly as one of their own, and gave her a sense of belonging and self-worth, she said. Montgomery was repeatedly molested by her stepdad Jack Kleiner, starting at . 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. This is the stuff of nightmares.". He was in her. Montgomery told investigators she was surprised at how nicely they had treated her, considering what she had done. Often, theyd physically fight, and Mattingly would try to protect Montgomery from the chaos. Mattingly said she saw terror in her half-sister's bright green eyes. When issuing his original stay of execution, the district. "They made this a priority at the risk of the health and lives of corrections officials, of the prisoners on death row, and the communities that all of those Bureau of Prisons officials who flew in from across the country were returning to," says Ngozi Ndulue, senior director of research and special projects at the Death Penalty Information Center. "Judy was manipulative and - I hate to use this word, but - evil. In Montgomerys early childhood, her older sister, Diane, suffered the worst of the violence. Mattingly said she was fortunate to have been moved to a lovinghome of high school history teacher and coach Floyd Gwin;his wife, Zella Gwin;and their three biological children. She has exhausted all legal options. However, the executions ordered by President Trump are continuing. Today there is a single restaurant and few of the streets are paved. In 1986, when Montgomery was 18, she married her stepbrother, Carl Boman. "Let's say I didn't stay clean very long," she says. But none of those other victims responded by killing a woman and cutting her baby out of her stomach, hesaid. U.S. District Judge Gary A. Fenner upheld the jury's recommendation the following April. Montgomery first claimed to have had the baby at a Topeka birthing center but began changing her story after investigatorsseparated her from her husband and the infant, Strong said. In what Mattingly described as the most lucky thing to ever happen to her, she was placed with a loving foster family who showered her with affection. She says it's not as if all the other people of Skidmore lead idyllic lives free from abuse, poverty and other destructive tragedies. Mattingly, Montgomerys sister, is planning on visiting her next week. Mattingly and Montgomery lived together until Mattingly was eight and her half-sister was four. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who deserved mercy. Lisa Montgomery and her half-sister Diane Mattingly as children, Judy Shaughnessy, Lisa Montgomery's mother, Bobbie Jo Stinnett's home lies empty today, Protest against federal executions of death row inmates - outside the US Justice Department, Washington DC, December 2020. Montgomery then said she had given birth at home with help from two female friends and, later, that she had given birth alone. There are certain crimes that are universally abhorred by the public, ones that evoke a primal response of disgust and revenge from those who hear about it. The girls' biological father left the home, and after a while, Mattingly was whisked away to foster care. Montgomery said she was seeking a dog for a Christmas gift. Back home, the couple announced the birth of their daughter to their friends and relatives. "Little Lisa was in the bed next to mine every time," she said. And though there's been much recent debate over the fairness of Montgomery's sentence in courthouses and in the opinion pages of newspapers like the New York Times, a similar debate does not exist here. Shaughnessy sat so unmoved during her daughter's testimony that the judge reprimanded her for lacking empathy. As Strongand other investigators were about to pull into the driveway of Montgomery's house, he said, he learned via a phone callthat the last email Stinnett received had come from that home. Her mother also began trafficking her, allowing handymen like electricians and plumbers to sexually abuse Montgomery in exchange for work on the house. Mattingly says looking back to the moment life changed for her as an eight-year-old, she feels guilty that when the social workers came for her, she didn't tell them what was going on in that house. When Lisa was a small child, Judy allowed men to rape her for money, including allowing her to be gang raped on multiple occasions. In the other cases, she said, prosecutors opted not to seek the death penalty or juries did not impose it because it was obvious the women were suffering from profound mental illnesses. 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. Its not just the childhood maltreatment and psychological abuse and neglect, or the incredible sexual abuse by her stepfather, or the sex trafficking, Porterfield said. "I fell in love immediately.". 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. In the cases where women are sentenced to death, prosecutors often use gender stereotypes against the defendants, she said, characterizing them as transgressive or not normal in some way. It is hard to know if Montgomery understands that she is close to being executed; her mental state does not allow for much lucidity. Kleiner, the son of Shaughnessy and Jack Kleiner, was meeting witha parole officerat the time of the killing, Strong said. She said Montgomery's crimes have affected the way Melvern is perceived in the same manner anti-gay picketing by Westboro Baptist Church has influenced perceptions about Topeka. When they came to take me, I thought they were coming to take all of us. Ive always said that I am bruised, but not broken, Mattingly said, her voice choked with tears. Lawyer Kelley Henry says one of the things that disturbs her most is that adults in positions of authority were told about what was going on but did nothing. She was quiet and kind, they say. Some nights, she said, Shaughnessy would leave them in the house with a male babysitter. Montgomery's second husband Kevin Montgomery, who lives near Melvern and remains married to her voiced support for her bid for clemency in a statement releasedthrough his wife's attorneys. Facebook gives people the. Defense attorney Fred Duchardt told jurors that sexual abuse during her childhood had caused Montgomeryto become mentally ill and killed her soul. 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. Prosecutors said Montgomery was faking mental illness, notingthat many people are sexually abused, but few go on to kill. 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.. Dorr's marriage was failing when she fell in love with John Manard, a convicted murderer 21 years her junior. Montgomery became the first female federal prisoner executed in 67 years, the first woman executed in the United States since Kelly Gissendaner in 2015, and the first person executed in the United States in 2021. The mom, Judy Shaughnessy, was so cruel she once beat the family dog to death in front of her kids, the petition states. She meets with Montgomery regularly, she said. At that time, Montgomery was awaiting trial. As Strong crossed the threshold, hesaw a TV set airing an Amber Alert about the abduction of Stinnett's baby. 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. She lapsed increasingly into mental illness and repeatedly faked pregnancy. Just the details: What you need to know about Montgomery and her victim, Bobbie Jo Stinnett. Patterson and Shaughnessy divorced in 1971, and Shaughnessy took custody of the girls. She lives in Lebanon, Ky., is married with two adult children and has worked the past 19 years for the state of Kentucky. At the same time, she blames it for the fate of her younger half-sister, Lisa Montgomery. "She was hyperventilating," Henry said. This is someone who was deeply remorseful, once she became appropriately medicated and had full contact with reality, although that is a situation that waxes and wanes.. Montgomery lived during her childhood in Washington, Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, California and Texas. In late December, Montgomery's legal team submitted a petition to President Donald Trump that makes the case that after a lifetime of abuse - which they characterise as torture - she is too mentally ill to be executed and deserves mercy. Montgomery, 39, is accused of killing Bobbie Joe Stinnett, 23, and cutting the baby from her womb on Dec. 16, 2004, at Stinnett's home in Skidmore. The following day, the police arrested Montgomery at her home. Jack also raped Lisa for years. "Being loved unconditionally helped me heal, find a caring husband and raise two children who have hearts of gold," Mattingly wrote. Until July 2020, there had been no federal executions for 17 years. People confuse punishment with culpability, she went on. Shaughnessy also beat the girls with brooms and belts,Mattingly said. They slept in twin beds in a small bedroomand fell asleep most nights holding hands, Mattingly said. Only around 2% of inmates on death row are women. 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. Ramachandran said Montgomery told him she didn't remember killing Stinnett or cutting the baby out of her body. Many there believe the final moments of Bobbie Jo Stinnett were so horrific, the death sentence is warranted. 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. "I think that in a lot of the opinion pieces that are being posted, in a lot of things that people are sharing, Bobbie Jo and her daughter, and her mother and her husband and other friends and family, are kind of being forgotten," says Tiffany Kirkland, another member of the class of 2000. The nature and circumstances of Montgomerys crime show she had lost touch with reality, says her half-sister, Diane Mattingly. She lived with her children in poverty, without running water and other basic necessities, while her mental health deteriorated. She moved in 1999 to Melvern, a town about 40 miles south of Topeka with 375 people today. Court records describe her as a quiet loner who spent a lot of time reading books. 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. 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. All the while, Lisa's mother was being paid to let strange men rape Lisa. A sworn statement from David Kidwell Sr. identified as being Montgomery's cousin and a deputy sheriff said shecried as she told him Kleiner and his friends on more than one occasion had raped her for hours, then "urinated on her like trash. She faulted Montgomerys defense team at the time of the initial trial for failing to connect the dots between Montgomerys childhood trauma and her later behavior. The six-man, six-woman jury in October 2007 found Montgomery guilty and recommended she be executed. She didnt have nobody there to protect her once I was out of the home.. But it wasn't Montgomery that Stinnett was expecting, it was a woman who went by the name of Darlene Fischer. She was sick. Lisa Montgomery and Bobbie Jo Stinnett got to know each other online through a shared love of dogs. That could change in Terre Haute. She learned Oct. 16 that she had been scheduled to die by lethal injection on Dec. 8. She had four children in less than four years before being sterilized. The tiny farming town of Skidmore sits in the far northwest corner of Missouri. "There was so much pressure on her at that point," says Henry. After Mattingly was removed from the home by social services, Montgomery fell prey to her mother's new husband, who according to statements from his other children, was a violent alcoholic who began sexually abusing Montgomery when she was a pre-teen. He thanked the sheriff for recovering his daughter and allowing him to be the parent that his wife couldn't be. She had catfished Stinnett online under a fake name. 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 and Carl Boman divorced, remarried and divorced again in 1998. Read about our approach to external linking. Montgomery claimed to live in northwest Missouri. Mattingly's biggest regret, she said, is that she didnt tell her foster family about being beaten and raped, because she feared they wouldn't want her any more if she did. "Maybe she could have been saved, too. Two days before the crime, her former husband (and stepbrother) sought custody of two of her children. Court records say Kleiner drank heavily, beat his wife and children, and made his daughters take off their clothes before he spanked them. In fact, he drove her back home and dropped her off in the hands of her abusers. DNA testing later showed they were Stinnett's. Montgomery's mother, Judy Shaughnessy, told The . "Bobbie deserves to be here today. A herd of rat terriers greeted them. Around this time, Shaughnessy and Patterson separated, and Mattingly was removed from the house by child protective services an act which she credits for saving her life. They had been called in as part of the Northwest Missouri Major Case Squad, which was workingwith the FBI to identify Stinnett's killer and find the missing child. 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.. I am begging that somebody will finally stand up for her and say, shes been punished enough.. "Come on, baby. "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.". The girls father was often away from the house for long periods, and Shaughnessy would have other men over. It is extremely rare for women to be sentenced to death, said Sandra Babcock, faculty director of the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide and an expert on women and the death penalty. Tommy Kleiner and Montgomery have stayed in touch. There was plenty of food, our clothes were clean, and the kids did our homework together. They had corresponded for weeks on an online forum for rat terrier breeders and enthusiasts called "Ratter Chatter". Multiple medical experts have given statements agreeing with that diagnosis. She was born into a family rife with mental illness, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression. Lisa Montgomery strangle one pregnant woman for Missouri before cutting and kidnapping her baby in 2004. . Dorr met Montgomery after being imprisoned for helping an inmate escape in 2006 as Dorrran a dog training program for inmates at Lansing Correctional Facility in northeast Kansas. He married Judy Shaughnessy, who would become Montgomery's mother, in 1967 in . Family members have claimed that Shaughnessy blamed Montgomery for the abuse and the divorce. In recommending execution, the jury spelled out six aggravating factors supporting capital punishment. Now, she called him to tell him that shed gone into labor while shopping and had given birth at a clinic. Zella Gwin survives. For one thing, the wider world won't let them forget. He had a daughter from a previous relationship, Diane, who was four years older than Montgomery. 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. Carl Boman wasn't the father of one of the girls, according to court records, which say Montgomery was sterilized after the last birth in 1990. Dorr has since been released from prison and remarried. 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