Often, theyd physically fight, and Mattingly would try to protect Montgomery from the chaos. 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. Montgomery often read her Bible or did things with her hands, including writing, quilting, and making placemats and bookmarks, Dorr said. 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. A clemency petition asking Trump to reduce Montgomerys sentence to life without parole is expected to be filed in the coming weeks. 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. At 18, she married her stepbrother, who also beat and raped her. "Today the death penalty has a face of my friend and I just can't be quiet about it," she said. "She was really the first one to have a decent marriage, you know, and I guess looking at Bobbie Jo was like, what your dreams were when you were younger.". "The whole community over there's traumatised by this.". Montgomerys entire life was marked by people who failed to protect her, Babcock said. 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. But it was not a pet that she was to retrieve that day. The couple had four children in five years, but the relationship was not the escape from violence that Montgomery might have hoped it would be. 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. 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. Montgomery has exhausted all attempts to appeal her conviction and death sentence although her attorneys are exploring possible litigation. The nature and circumstances of Montgomerys crime show she had lost touch with reality, says her half-sister, Diane Mattingly. He threatened to rape our little sister if Lisa resisted and said he would kill her whole family if she told anyone. Family members have claimed that Shaughnessy blamed Montgomery for the abuse and the divorce. 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. They married in 1986. Ms. And I am just asking for somebody - once - not to fail her.". Montgomery achieved considerable emotional growth once she was put in a stable environment where she felt safe and was receiving psychiatric medications for the first time, Dorrsaid. "If I had, would they have taken Lisa out of the home also?" He testified that Montgomery had been in a dissociative state, or "mental fog," at the time. "Being psychotic, it does not mean you are not intelligent, nor that you cannot act in a planful way," she says. And then there is the life that Montgomery and her siblings inhabited, one of domestic violence, dysfunction, humiliation, fear and pain. Dorr's marriage was failing when she fell in love with John Manard, a convicted murderer 21 years her junior. If Mattinglycould speak directly to Trump, she said, she would tell him: "Please dont take my sister. As a result of her sexual torture, Lisa began to dissociate. Her victim's community said otherwise. And then at the end, she was broken.". "And Lisa deserves to pay.". Those were disconnections that were tragic in their consequences. Lisa's mother, Judy Shaughnessy, abused her "in extreme and sadistic ways," according to interviews with nearly 450 family members, neighbors, lawyers, social workers, and teachers. It is the only federal prison with an active death chamber. 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.. Every year. She pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. The couple returned to their home near Melvern, which was being watched by investigators working to identify the woman who had told Stinnett she was Darlene Fischer. The infant found later that day to weigh 5 pounds, 11 ounces was "very still" and didn't cry, which concerned Strong. Her terror was well-founded, said Montgomery's attorneys, Kelley Henry and Amy Harwell. It is hard to know if Montgomery understands that she is close to being executed; her mental state does not allow for much lucidity. She learned Oct. 16 that she had been scheduled to die by lethal injection on Dec. 8. "There was a lot of talk both ways on it," he said when contacted by phone at his new home in Texas. It turns out that it only takes a few people to save a child's life: being loved by my foster parents saved mine. This is the stuff of nightmares.". And to not fail her.". 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. Montgomery, 52, the only woman on federal death row,is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection Jan. 12 in the U.S. Penitentiary at TerreHaute, Ind. Nodaway County Sheriff Randy Strong says that the scene that he and his four colleagues found that day was so bloody, they are still traumatised by it. During divorce proceedings, Shaughnessy admitted to the court that she had walked in on her husband raping Montgomery. ", "I live with regret for not speaking up about what happened to Lisa," Kidwell said, adding that he just didnt know what to do.. Nobody has said that Lisa should never have been punished. "One sister got taken out and got put into a loving home and was nurtured and had time to heal," says Mattingly. Lisa Montgomery, a Kansas native scheduled within days to become the first woman executed by the federal government in 67 years, lived a childhood so abusive her attorneys call it akin to torture. In recommending execution, the jury spelled out six aggravating factors supporting capital punishment. As one family story goes, Montgomerys first words as a toddler were, dont spank me.. "She is the most broken of the broken," Mattingly said. These days, she requires a regimen of psychotropic drugs to function. According to interviews with her half-siblings and others who spent time with the family, Montgomery's stepfather built a shed onto the trailer where he, and eventually his friends, raped and beat her. "She got joy out of it.". In addition to Strong and Fritz, those investigators were FBI Special Agents Mike Miller and Scott Gentine and Topeka police officer Tom Glor. One of the lead investigators in the case, Randy Strong, wants Montgomery executed. She is permitted Sudoku puzzles and coloring pages andone book at a time. Bobbie's family deserves her," says Meagan Morrow, a high school classmate of Stinnett's. Her story quickly fell apart and she confessed to the killing. They slept in twin beds in a small bedroomand fell asleep most nights holding hands, Mattingly said. Diane Mattingly is the sister of Lisa Montgomery, who is scheduled for execution by the federal government on December 8, 2020. Other friends of Kleiner, including a plumber and an electrician, raped her in that shed, Montgomery says, as a way of collecting payment for work done around the house. The judge in the case scolded Shaughnessy for not reporting the abuse - but did not report the abuse himself. 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. She enjoyed torturing the people around her," says Mattingly. "It was pretty awful.". His message contained a "very heartfelt thank you. . Strong said he and Fritz questioned Montgomery using a"good cop/bad cop" approach. "The other sister stayed in that situation, and it got worse and worse and worse. She is the only woman on federal death row. 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. More recently, the states that have been carrying out executions, such as Texas and Tennessee, have halted and delayed executions because of the pandemic. Montgomery contacted Stinnett, 23, after meeting her at a dog show earlier that year at Abilene, in north-central Kansas, where they posed with others in a photo. There was plenty of food, our clothes were clean, and the kids did our homework together. 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. Montgomery took Stinnetts baby, clamped the umbilical cord and used baby wipes to clean her. 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. Lisa Montgomery's current legal team has conducted some 450 interviews with family members, friends, case workers, doctors and social workers. As her attorneys fight for her life, Montgomery has at times seemed out of touch with reality,Henry said:Hermental illness causesher to disconnectwhen life becomes too terrible to endure. The baby girl survived, andMontgomery took her home and briefly passed her off as her own until investigators arrested her the next day. Emotions ran high in 2007 as Montgomery was tried in federal court for kidnapping resulting in death. If you or someone you know needs support for issues about emotional distress, these organisations may be able to help. 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.. She was born into a family rife with mental illness, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression. A lifetime of sexual torture causes her to lose touch with reality. Montgomery, who confessed, was later sentenced to death for the especially heinous murder as decided by a jury who heard her trial. They had corresponded for weeks on an online forum for rat terrier breeders and enthusiasts called "Ratter Chatter". Patterson was transferred after Montgomerys birth to Fort Riley inKansas, where their family lived when another daughter was born in 1970. Lisa Montgomery's half-sister Diane Mattingly, who was separated from her in 1972 has taken a more high-profile role in trying to save her life. She moved in 1999 to Melvern, a town about 40 miles south of Topeka with 375 people today. The population hovers around just 250, and everyone knew Bobbie Jo Stinnett and her family. Often the woman, now 52 and a grandmother of 12, is knitting or doing needlepoint. 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. She went home with a newborn, one she acquired by murdering the babys pregnant mother. Henrysaid she was surprised to see Montgomery scheduled for execution so soon, considering 30 other inmates on federal death row were sentencedbefore her. Montgomery's older half-sister, Diane Mattingly, told reporters last week that Shaughnessy repeatedly beat Montgomery and Mattingly. She was broken by people who were supposed to be her caregivers. They believe that at the time of the crime, Montgomery was psychotic and out of touch with reality. Montgomery graduated in 1986 from high school at Cleveland, Okla., with hopes of joining the Air Force to earn money for college. Montgomery's number of crayons and pieces of paper hassince been increased to 10 each. When Montgomery was 15, Shaughnessy and Kleiner separated. Two days before the crime, her former husband (and stepbrother) sought custody of two of her children. Mattingly said her heart sank when she realized Montgomery wasn't coming with her. Shaughnessy forced Montgomery to have sex with men in exchange for money and services, and also punished her children by killing the family dog in front of them,smashing its head with a shovel, the attorneys said. "She was completely detached from reality.". And nowhere is that support more palpably felt in this case than in Skidmore. Mattingly and Montgomery lived together until Mattingly was eight and her half-sister was four. Tommy Kleiner and Montgomery have stayed in touch. Montgomery was psychotic at the time of the crime, Harwell said. Montgomery then said she had given birth at home with help from two female friends and, later, that she had given birth alone. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Please, honey.". She got into multiple car accidents, struggled to keep a job, moved around constantly, drank heavily, engaged in sex work and neglected her children. Montgomery and Stinnett participated inthe "Ratter Chatter" online message board for rat terrier dog enthusiasts. 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. "I don't think people understand how bad this was," Strong said. Judy Shaughnessy and her boyfriend physical, psychological and sexual abuse Lisa. Meanwhile, her mother in 1985 had married Richard Boman, whose son Montgomery's stepbrother, Carl Boman got Montgomery pregnant. She also told one of her stepbrothers about the sexual abuse around that time. Protecting her half-sister became her "sole purpose in life, she 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. At least five of the 12 jurors and three alternate jurorswiped away tears. She meets with Montgomery regularly, she said. Judy Shaughnessy and her boyfriend physical, psychological . She had catfished Stinnett online under a fake name. What you need to know about Montgomery and her victim, Bobbie Jo Stinnett. He was pumping her, Shaughnessy testified. "She seemed like a real personI could connect with and build a relationship with inside prison," Dorr said. 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. Many there believe the final moments of Bobbie Jo Stinnett were so horrific, the death sentence is warranted. Back home, the couple announced the birth of their daughter to their friends and relatives. In an interview with HuffPost her first ever Diane Mattingly, now 57 and a longtime state government employee living in Kentucky, described what it was like growing up in a home without love or affection. The six-man, six-woman jury in October 2007 found Montgomery guilty and recommended she be executed. Stitched together, they form a tapestry of family dysfunction, abuse, neglect, professional negligence, substance abuse and untreated mental illness. "Bobbie deserves to be here today. In closing arguments, assistant U.S. Attorney Matt Whitworth asked the jury to think about Stinnett's daughter, Victoria Jo Stinnett. Montgomery's alcoholic mother, Judy Shaughnessy, knew about the assaults but blamed Montgomery for bringing them upon herself. Eventually, Montgomery admitted she had acted alone in killing Stinnett and taking her baby. 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. For example, she said, the jury that recommended Montgomery be executed wasn't asked to consider the impact that would have on her four children and 12 grandchildren. Lisa Montgomery be di 11th prisoner to receive di lethal injection since July when President Donald Trump, resume federal executions. Her lawyers are pursuing an insanity defense. At that time, Montgomery was awaiting trial. "It was violent and like a scene out of a horror movie," he said in a statement. 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. When Lisa Montgomery murdered pregnant Bobbie Jo Stinnett and ripped her unborn baby from her womb, the whole world reeled in horror. Montgomery was sentenced for the murder of a 23-year-old woman who was eight months pregnant. She testified as. In Montgomerys early childhood, her older sister, Diane, suffered the worst of the violence. 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. In the end, it was in prisonwhere she spent years on death row after committing a horrific crimethat she began to recover from a lifetime of nightmarish abuse. As Fritz patted Montgomery on the back of her hand, Strong said he noticed dried blood and tissue embedded beneath her fingernails. 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. "She tried to throw her own brother under the bus for a crime that she committed.". She began prostituting Lisa to older men when Lisa was in her early teens. She has exhausted all legal options except a last-ditch appeal for clemency from President Donald Trump, which was filed Christmas Eve. Montgomery lived during her childhood in Washington, Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, California and Texas. She had bought supplies, including a home birth kit, and searched online for how to perform a caesarean section. They also discovered that Shaughnessy prostituted. She would tell me I had to leave and I couldnt take anything with me because she bought everything, she recalled. Join half a million readers enjoying Newsweek's free newsletters, Everyone Practices Cancel Culture | Opinion, Deplatforming Free Speech is Dangerous | Opinion. Facebook gives people the. Lisa told me that when these men raped her, she would go away in her mind and try not to be present, the brother said in a court declaration. 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 divorce left Shaughnessy no longer entitled to be Mattingly's legal guardian. As long as she was given cigarettes, Montgomery continued to talk, Strong said. 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. "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. "Maybe she could have been saved, too. Since they began, the federal government has executed seven people. 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. Montgomery also suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, bipolar disorder and major depression, jurors were told. Judy Shaughnessy, Montgomery ' s mother, raised Lisa in poverty and chaos, with multiple stepfathers and in dozens of different homes, according to scores of interviews and documents cited. "We've seen crime for years and years in our country in which people enact terrible violence coming out of a psychotic set of beliefs or thought process. Her mother also began trafficking her, allowing handymen like electricians and plumbers to sexually abuse Montgomery in exchange for work on the house. There were always different men around the house. But what happened at the modest clapboard house where Stinnett lived with her husband still haunts some of those involved in the investigation. After previously being allowed contact with a limited number of inmates, Montgomery was moved to a solitary confinement cell at Carswell and kept there 24 hours a day, seven days a week, Henry said. Lisa's and my father was also mentally ill. She struggles to maintain her own hygiene, loses focus during conversations with others and has trouble planning simple tasks.". As Strong crossed the threshold, hesaw a TV set airing an Amber Alert about the abduction of Stinnett's baby. At 18, Judy pressured Lisa to marry her stepbrother. "I fell in love immediately.". Prosecutors shared records showing Montgomery had visited a website featuring a video of a live C-section birth, described as lasting from first cut to last stitch, and had made a practice run by driving the roughly 350 miles from Melvern to Skidmore and back the day before the killing. For Montgomery, her lawyers argue, it began before she was born. At 1:31 AM on Wednesday, Lisa Montgomery was pronounced dead. Montgomery lamented that she couldn't be present to console them because she was in solitary confinement, said Dorr, Montgomery's friend since they met in a federal prison in 2006. Ive always said that I am bruised, but not broken, Mattingly said, her voice choked with tears. She faked pregnancies several times during her marriages to Carl Boman and Kevin Montgomery, court records say. Mattingly said she saw terror in her half-sister's bright green eyes. A federal judge in November postponed Montgomery's execution from Dec. 8 until Jan. 12 to give her attorneys more time to file her clemency petition, after concluding that their COVID-19 symptoms limited their ability to file thepetition. She strangled Stinnett to death and cut the baby from her stomach. "I'm asking him to have compassion on her as a person that has been failed over and over and over again. Shaughnessy beat her children with belts, cords and hangers, put them in cold showers and put duct tape over Montgomery's mouth to silence her, the attorneys said. The baby, who was uninjured, was returned to her father. 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. "It was violent and like a scene out of a horror movie," he said. When she was 18, Montgomery married her stepbrother. Lisa Montgomery had little if any chance in life. But Strong says this is the first year he's heard directly from Stinnett's husband. Shaughnessy sat so unmoved during her daughter's testimony that the judge reprimanded her for lacking empathy. He stressed that the juryheard testimony about her mental illness and her history of being abused, yet still unanimously recommended her execution. Lisa Montgomery, who endured years of sexual and physical abuse, murdered an expectant mother and took the baby. She has always accepted responsibility. "She always wanted to be a mom," says Baumli. Montgomery and Carl Boman divorced, remarried and divorced again in 1998. Since 2008, Montgomery has been held in a federal prison in Texas for female inmates with special medical and psychological needs, where she has been receiving psychiatric care. It has been the subject of two books, multiple true crime television shows, documentaries and countless podcast episodes. Every time she has a birthday, it will also be the anniversary of the slaughter of her mother, Whitworth said. "The Lisa I knew was a good person who cared about the other women in the pod and was quiet and generous and kind," Dorr said. Lisa Montgomery - the only female inmate on federal death row in the US - has been executed for murder in the state of Indiana. When Montgomery was in her mid-teens,she was sexually assaulted by Kleiner and three or four of his friends, according to court records. The case was ruled a homicide and remains unsolved. She has exhausted all legal options. At the time of her murder, she was newly married and pregnant with her first child. 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. She lives in Lebanon, Ky., is married with two adult children and has worked the past 19 years for the state of Kentucky. "Judy was manipulative and - I hate to use this word, but - evil. Zella Gwin survives. Left: "Melvern Pride" is the focus of this sign standing at the city limits of Melvern, the community in east-central Kansas where Lisa Montgomery lived. Dorr said she and Montgomery were in the same pod,in which inmates may gather outside their cells,in 2006 and 2007 at Leavenworth Detention Center, a for-profit federal facility in northeast Kansas. Sheriff Strong insists that the crime was meticulously planned and that the woman he arrested continued to lie until backed into a corner. 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. She was quiet and kind, they say. 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.". The following day, the police arrested Montgomery at her home. 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. That was ultimately dropped in favour of an insanity defence, but Henry believes the damage to Montgomery's credibility was already done. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who. This story was first published on 11 January - before Lisa Montgomery's execution on 13 January. Prosecutors, in their closing argument, said that she had a filthy home, that she didnt cook and that she didnt clean, Babcock said. She is not the "worst of the worst" for whom the death penalty was intended. It was clear that she was traumatized, that she was somewhere else, he said. "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.". Even at the age of 8, Mattingly recalled being worried about what would happen to Montgomery without her there. Stinnett's husband was at work, andStinnett was on the phone with her mother, Becky Harper, when Montgomery's dirty red Toyota pulled upon the afternoon of Dec. 16. 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. More: Why the fate of the only woman on federal death row hinges on these Tennessee attorneys and their health, "Lisas trauma was so severe that it compromised her neurological functioning and development," they said in a written statement. Fourteen of those offenders are serving long prison sentences, while the twoothers died by suicide in custody, according to a list Henry provided. The cold, vicious, calculating and brutal nature of her crimes shows that Montgomery knew exactly what she was doing, Strong said. Recently, there has been a virus outbreak on death row at the institution, and previous executions have been linked to outbreaks among the execution team and prison staff. Shaughnessy has since died. We cant travel to talk to witnesses or to prepare experts at this point, Harwell, Montgomerys lawyer, said. 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