Montgomery told investigators she was surprised at how nicely they had treated her, considering what she had done. Harper told a dispatcher her daughter's womb appeared to have "exploded" and that blood was "everywhere." 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. 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. The family moved often. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Randy Strong, one of the investigators who would later get Montgomery to confess, said she apparently used part of a clotheslineto create a garrote, slipping it over Stinnett's head from behind, probably as she was on her knees putting a puppy into a dog carrier. "She got joy out of it.". On her way out the door, Mattingly said, Shaughnessy leaned over and told her it was all her fault she was being taken away. She would tell me I had to leave and I couldnt take anything with me because she bought everything, she recalled. "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. She is not the "worst of the worst" for whom the death penalty was intended. It would be 34 years before the half-sisters would see each other again. That could change in Terre Haute. Montgomerys father, John Patterson, a 25-year-old in the military, was also an alcoholic. 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. "There was a lot of talk both ways on it," he said when contacted by phone at his new home in Texas. "She needs to be put to death.". 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. "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.". I didn't know what to do or how to talk to my sister about it.". 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. Shaughnessy's nephew, David Kidwell, testified that she believed Montgomery "had brought [the abuse] on herself, that she enticed him". "I have seen a lot of horrible things happen to women and children in my more than 40 years in law enforcement," Strongsaid. Montgomery also talked about the abuseshe had endured from her stepfather, Jack Kleiner, and the first of her two husbands, Carl Boman, Dorr said. When issuing his original stay of execution, the district. 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. Mrs. She was quiet and kind, they say. Authorities also questioned Kevin Montgomery but concluded he wasn't involved. Mattingly said her heart sank when she realized Montgomery wasn't coming with her. Montgomery graduated in 1986 from high school at Cleveland, Okla., with hopes of joining the Air Force to earn money for college. 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. If that disconnection is brought about with enough frequency and intensity, it can become more of a steady state of being, she added. She helped him escape in a dog crate and went to prison after a vehicle chase 12 days later ended with their capture. Judy was an alcoholic with mental illness who married six times over the course of her life. Montgomery's mother, Judy Shaughnessy, drank while Montgomery was in utero, leaving her with brain damage, court documents say. Lisa then took the baby home and cared for her as though she was her own. He threatened to expose the imagined pregnancy and use it against her in the custody battle. Montgomery strangled Stinnett into unconsciousness, then sliced into her stomach with the steak knife, Strong said. Her children were disturbed by it. She began prostituting Lisa to older men when Lisa was in her early teens. 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. Friends recall her as a good student with a love of horses and dogs. As a teenager, Montgomery confided in her cousin, a deputy sheriff, that she was being raped by Kleiner and other men orally, vaginally and anally. Stitched together, they form a tapestry of family dysfunction, abuse, neglect, professional negligence, substance abuse and untreated mental illness. It was a terrifying household, she says, where physical, psychological and sexual abuse at the hands of Judy Shaughnessy, Montgomery's mother, and her boyfriends was routine. 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. In closing arguments, assistant U.S. Attorney Matt Whitworth asked the jury to think about Stinnett's daughter, Victoria Jo Stinnett. They married in 1986. Bobbie Jo's mother and husband have have not spoken publicly in many years. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who deserved mercy. Montgomery described feeling that she was unsure whether her environment was real, and confided that she used a strategy to ground herself in reality: She would look at a tree out the window and tell herself that the tree was real if she could see it. A newspaper article quoted him as saying he had been convinced his wife was pregnant and had given birth. 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. This story was first published on 11 January - before Lisa Montgomery's execution on 13 January. 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. There were always different men around the house. "I cried," says Strong. Part of HuffPost Crime. I am begging that somebody will finally stand up for her and say, shes been punished enough.. But Lisa was broken. "Maybe she could have been saved, too. 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.. Shaughnessy would beat Mattingly with whatever was in her hand, be it a belt or a broom, she said. 2023 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved. 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. Today there is a single restaurant and few of the streets are paved. Shaughnessy has since died. "When I squeezed her hand, she looked at me and smiled," she said. Mattingly said she and Montgomery share the same father, John Patterson, a decorated Vietnam War veteran whonever married Mattingly's mother. 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. "I'm asking him to have compassion on her as a person that has been failed over and over and over again. "There's so many people that failed her throughout her whole life. My heart goes out to the family of Bobbie Jo Stinnett and the loss that they have felt and are still feeling. Montgomery took Stinnetts baby, clamped the umbilical cord and used baby wipes to clean her. Since receiving her execution date, she's been placed on suicide watch in an isolated cell. 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. She was beaten, repeatedly raped by her stepfather and his friends and sexually trafficked by her mother. About a week before Christmas in 2004, Lisa Montgomery, a 36-year-old mother of four, drove from her home in Kansas to Missouri, ostensibly to buy a rat terrier puppy from a woman shed met at a dog show earlier that year. In the haze of her mental illness, she went to the home of a pregnant woman, killed her, and removed the baby. Kleiner told a reporter in 2005 that Shaughnessy's allegation was made up to support her divorce case and he was never found guilty of anything. Her victim's community said otherwise. Since they began, the federal government has executed seven people. More: The U.S. has not executed a woman in 67 years. Montgomery gave birth to three daughters and a son from1987 to1990, court records say. Lisa Montgomery and Bobbie Jo Stinnett got to know each other online through a shared love of dogs. One was the presence of substantial planning and premeditation. Montgomery and Carl Boman divorced, remarried and divorced again in 1998. [N]ot only was it bizarre behavior, but it was very embarrassing for me as her daughter, she said. 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. She had catfished Stinnett online under a fake name. Tommy Kleiner and Montgomery have stayed in touch. Montgomerys mother, Judy Shaughnessy, who was 20 at the time of her birth in 1968, drank heavily while pregnant with her daughter. Victims of severe childhood sexual abuse can overcome their trauma with certain factors, Porterfield said, such as the presence of a nurturing adult who provides love and connects them to resources to promote healing. "Being psychotic, it does not mean you are not intelligent, nor that you cannot act in a planful way," she says. Judy ultimately married six times, and had multiple partners throughout Lisa's childhood. Montgomery's execution date was subsequently bumped back to Jan. 12. Warnersaid the killinghad left Melvern residents stunned.. "My sister was crying and in pain. Montgomery said she was seeking a dog for a Christmas gift. 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. 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. Montgomery was put on suicide watch as soon as her execution date was set, Henry said, adding thatMontgomery had previously attempted suicide but not since 2012. Her lawyers say that as she lost touch with reality, she fantasised about being pregnant. 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. Montgomery was represented briefly after her arrest by Ron Wurtz, a now-retired attorney who has represented dozens of capital case defendants. When I was around eight years old, and Lisa was about four, one of Judy's male friends began coming into our room at night and regularly raping me, with Lisa in the next bedclose enough we could reach for each other and touch fingers. "And Lisa deserves to pay.". The population hovers around just 250, and everyone knew Bobbie Jo Stinnett and her family. She strangled Stinnett to death and cut the baby from her stomach. He testified that Montgomery had been in a dissociative state, or "mental fog," at the time. She had this ability to find what hurt you the most and use that against you, Mattingly said. "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. She moved in 1999 to Melvern, a town about 40 miles south of Topeka with 375 people today. So my letters are important.. Family members have claimed that Shaughnessy blamed Montgomery for the abuse and the divorce. - 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. When Lisa Montgomery murdered pregnant Bobbie Jo Stinnett and ripped her unborn baby from her womb, the whole world reeled in horror. Who was the last woman executed by the US government? 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. Patterson and Shaughnessy divorced in 1971, and Shaughnessy took custody of the girls. Why the fate of the only woman on federal death row hinges on these Tennessee attorneys and their health, Lisa Montgomery's execution, delayed by attorneys' COVID-19 cases, rescheduled for Jan. 12, Only woman on federal death row asks President Trump to be a 'hero,' commute her sentence, Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. Shaughnessy sat so unmoved during her daughter's testimony that the judge reprimanded her for lacking empathy. 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. 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. They believe that at the time of the crime, Montgomery was psychotic and out of touch with reality. I'm bruised, but I'm not broken. In Montgomerys early childhood, her older sister, Diane, suffered the worst of the violence. "And then go, 'Look at this body'. The couple had three children in rapid succession. When Shaughnessy eventually split from her second husband, she and Montgomery testified in divorce proceedings about the sexual assaults. However, the executions ordered by President Trump are continuing. As Fritz patted Montgomery on the back of her hand, Strong said he noticed dried blood and tissue embedded beneath her fingernails. This is the stuff of nightmares.". Meanwhile, her mother in 1985 had married Richard Boman, whose son Montgomery's stepbrother, Carl Boman got Montgomery pregnant. And then there is the life that Montgomery and her siblings inhabited, one of domestic violence, dysfunction, humiliation, fear and pain. Lisa Montgomery is no different. When Floyd Gwin died last July at age 81, Mattingly was listed among the survivors in his obituary. Both became infected with COVID-19, believing it to be transmitted duringthe prison visit. Jack also raped Lisa for years. Friends and family began noticing Montgomery's tendency to slip into "a world of her own". Protecting her half-sister became her "sole purpose in life, she said. 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. She meets with Montgomery regularly, she said. At the instigation of Shaughnessys lawyer, Montgomery was connected to a therapist, but only briefly. And that would be from across a courtroom, where lawyers for the US government were trying to persuade a jury to sentence Montgomery to death. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who. 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 thought they knew what was going on, she said. 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. 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. It is the only federal prison with an active death chamber. For Diane Mattingly, there is one moment from her childhood for which she feels both enormous gratitude and guilt. . "If I did speak up, maybe Zella and Floyd would have gone back for Lisa," she wrote. The crime itself shows that Lisa had lost all touch with reality. "I'm sick of hearing about Lisa Montgomery and what she went through. 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. Dorr has since been released from prison and remarried. Emotions ran high in 2007 as Montgomery was tried in federal court for kidnapping resulting in death. He married Judy Shaughnessy, who would become Montgomery's mother, in 1967 in Miami, Okla. Patterson was the second of six husbands Shaughnessy . U.S. District Judge Gary A. Fenner upheld the jury's recommendation the following April. The six-man, six-woman jury in October 2007 found Montgomery guilty and recommended she be executed. Henry said Montgomery seemed out of touch with reality when Henry and Harwell, who work in Tennessee, traveled by plane to visit her in October and early November at Fort Worth. Join half a million readers enjoying Newsweek's free newsletters, Everyone Practices Cancel Culture | Opinion, Deplatforming Free Speech is Dangerous | Opinion. Henrysaid she was surprised to see Montgomery scheduled for execution so soon, considering 30 other inmates on federal death row were sentencedbefore her. 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. She enacted this in the grip of a very broken mind.". 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. 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. 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. She was broken by people who were supposed to be her caregivers. Judy Shaughnessy had already raised two convicted felons at the time. The case was ruled a homicide and remains unsolved. Nobody has said that Lisa should never have been punished. For the rest of her life.. 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. ", Strong said he arranged for that message to be shared with the four others, "because we were all a part of that.". 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. If you or someone you know needs support for issues about emotional distress, these organisations may be able to help. Diane Mattingly is the sister of Lisa Montgomery, who is scheduled for execution by the federal government on December 8, 2020. 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. "Being loved unconditionally helped me heal, find a caring husband and raise two children who have hearts of gold," Mattingly wrote. Im not a psychiatrist, so I cant go any further than that.. When Montgomery was in her mid-teens,she was sexually assaulted by Kleiner and three or four of his friends, according to court records. 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. Only 18 death sentences were handed down in 2020 and the number of executions carried out hit a 30-year low. When Lisa was a small child, Judy allowed men to rape her for money, including allowing her to be gang raped on multiple occasions. They hold a collection and try to do something nice for Stinnett's mother. She struggles to maintain her own hygiene, loses focus during conversations with others and has trouble planning simple tasks.". Kleiner and Shaughnessy divorced in 1985, with Shaughnessy contending she once walked in on Kleiner and Montgomery having sex. While a six-week time period to prepare for clemency might always be unreasonable, it is particularly arduous given the pandemic.. 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. As Strong crossed the threshold, hesaw a TV set airing an Amber Alert about the abduction of Stinnett's baby. 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. Montgomery smelled like a sour ashtray and body sweat" as Don Fritz and Randy Strong interrogated her on Dec. 17, 2004, Strong recalled. The judge in the case scolded Shaughnessy for not reporting the abuse - but did not report the abuse himself. Lisa Montgomery - the only female inmate on federal death row in the US - has been executed for murder in the state of Indiana. 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. Lisa Montgomery's current legal team has conducted some 450 interviews with family members, friends, case workers, doctors and social workers. Prosecutors said Montgomery was faking mental illness, notingthat many people are sexually abused, but few go on to kill. The infant found later that day to weigh 5 pounds, 11 ounces was "very still" and didn't cry, which concerned Strong. Recibi una inyeccin letal en una prisin de Terre Haute,. 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. She was often spaced out, appearing disconnected from reality. At state level, the number of sentences and executions continues a historic decline. For Montgomery, her lawyers argue, it began before she was born. A herd of rat terriers greeted them. The nature and circumstances of Montgomerys crime show she had lost touch with reality, says her half-sister, Diane Mattingly. She has always accepted responsibility. 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. 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. Her daughter remembered her acting like a young child in public, twirling and skipping with her arms swinging with abandon. "God, no, please," she said. Skidmore has suffered lasting effects as a result of Stinnett's murder, said Strong, the investigator who helped prodMontgomery to confess. People confuse punishment with culpability, she went on. 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. The threat of losing her children, combined with the years of untreated trauma and severe mental illness, pushed Lisa over the edge. When she called her attorneys that day, she could hardly speak. She lives in Lebanon, Ky., is married with two adult children and has worked the past 19 years for the state of Kentucky. At 18, she married her stepbrother, who also beat and raped her. Shaughnessy was cruel and violent to both girls, according to a sworn statement from Patterson, who reported feeling ashamed that he did not step in to stop the abuse. As the oldest, I was the protector of Lisa and our baby sister. They were also physically violent. Maybe you should focus your efforts on the fact that Lisa's mother, Judy Shaughnessy, was granted custody of a grandson the year prior to Lisa's crime. "We knew we were walking into the killer's house.". 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's family moved from place to place during her adult years, continuing the pattern she hadknown as a child. Bobbie's family deserves her," says Meagan Morrow, a high school classmate of Stinnett's. The tiny farming town of Skidmore sits in the far northwest corner of Missouri. 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. Ramachandran said women who sufferchildhood sexual abuse and whose minds revolve around babies and pregnancy are predisposed to suffering pseudocyesis, a condition in which they show physical symptoms of pregnancy, including enlargement of the breasts and stomach, morning sickness and cravings for certain foods. Fourteen of those offenders are serving long prison sentences, while the twoothers died by suicide in custody, according to a list Henry provided. That was ultimately dropped in favour of an insanity defence, but Henry believes the damage to Montgomery's credibility was already done. 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.. "They put her on suicide watch to keep her from killing herself, so that they can execute her," she said. She describes Montgomery's ex-husband as cruel and harassing. They found her cradling a new-born girl she claimed to have given birth to the previous day. Lisa Montgomery had little if any chance in life. 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. Judy Shaughnessy, Montgomery's mother, testified Friday she found then-husband Jack Kleiner having sex with Montgomery in 1984, when Montgomery would have been about 16. When they came to take me, I thought they were coming to take all of us. She lives near Kansas City, Mo. He continued the cycle of abuse, rapes and beatings, which he sadistically videotaped. Mattingly has enjoyed a "blessed life," she said. His message contained a "very heartfelt thank you. Her terror was well-founded, said Montgomery's attorneys, Kelley Henry and Amy Harwell. She lived with her children in poverty, without running water and other basic necessities, while her mental health deteriorated. The girls father was often away from the house for long periods, and Shaughnessy would have other men over. At the time of her murder, she was newly married and pregnant with her first child. Babies born naturally tend to have misshapen heads initially because of the pressure experienced as they go through the birth canal, he said. In response to traumatic events, children may dissociate from their feelings and their bodies to protect themselves from experiencing what is happening. When she was 18, Montgomery married her stepbrother. "I get these images in my head of [Bobbie Jo's mother] finding her daughter that way.". Three federal inmates - Orlando Hall, Alfred Bourgeois and Brandon Bernard - have been put to death since the 3 November presidential election. 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. She would be the first woman executed by the federal government in 67. 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