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. Often the woman, now 52 and a grandmother of 12, is knitting or doing needlepoint. The murder 16 years ago is never far from the minds of the town's residents. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who deserved mercy. 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. Kleiner and Shaughnessy divorced in 1985, with Shaughnessy contending she once walked in on Kleiner and Montgomery having sex. She strangled Stinnett to death and cut the baby from her stomach. But Lisa was broken. ", "I live with regret for not speaking up about what happened to Lisa," Kidwell said, adding that he just didnt know what to do.. They would beat and slap her if she was doing it wrong. When they were done, they urinated on her like she was trash.. At least five times after she was sterilized, she told people that she was pregnant. And I am just asking for somebody - once - not to fail her.". 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. Newspaper accounts show Montgomery had upset other users of that board by making false statements, including claiming to be pregnant. In a letterin late November written with a black crayon, Montgomery told Dorr that other inmates at Carswell took it "really hard" when her execution date was set. . The case was ruled a homicide and remains unsolved. Lisa Montgomery and Bobbie Jo Stinnett got to know each other online through a shared love of dogs. Montgomery is scheduled to be put to death by a lethal injection of pentobarbital at Terre Haute prison in Indiana. Randy Strong, who investigated the case,is unhappy that some people are asking thatMontgomerys life be spared. 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. "And then go, 'Look at this body'. 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. They hold a collection and try to do something nice for Stinnett's mother. Mattingly said she and Montgomery share the same father, John Patterson, a decorated Vietnam War veteran whonever married Mattingly's mother. When Mattingly and Montgomery were young, Shaughnessy beat them and doled out cruel forms of punishment, like taping Montgomery's mouth shut, or pushing Mattingly out into the snow, naked. Jurors heard an audiotape of Harper, Stinnett's mother, calling 911 after finding her body. She became involved with Kevin Montgomery, a divorced electrician with children of his own, and theymarried the following year. 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. She told Lisa she had to "earn her keep.". She missed the funeral because of it. She had this ability to find what hurt you the most and use that against you, Mattingly said. Ms. 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. Until July 2020, there had been no federal executions for 17 years. But they were what we come to understand as neuro-physiological adaptations to survive being constantly under assault.. Montgomery is worried that her fellow inmates will have trouble coping with her upcoming execution, said her friendToby Dorr. 2023 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved. 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. 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. 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. "Being psychotic, it does not mean you are not intelligent, nor that you cannot act in a planful way," she says. I thought they knew what was going on, she said. 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. "My sister was crying and in pain. The family treated Mattingly as one of their own, and gave her a sense of belonging and self-worth, she said. We lived in a house of horrors. At the time of her murder, she was newly married and pregnant with her first child. The couple had three children in rapid succession. So my letters are important.. This is the stuff of nightmares.". "I think that side of Lisa needs to be out there.". 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 Terre Haute, Ind. Henry said Montgomery was expected to be transferred by Jan. 10 to the penitentiary at TerreHaute, Ind., her designated place of execution. Lisa Montgomery, who endured years of sexual and physical abuse, murdered an expectant mother and took the baby. Around this time, she repeatedly claimed to be pregnant again, although she had undergone sterilisation after her fourth baby was born. 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. 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. 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. Montgomery was represented briefly after her arrest by Ron Wurtz, a now-retired attorney who has represented dozens of capital case defendants. Authorities also questioned Kevin Montgomery but concluded he wasn't involved. Lisa Montgomery had little if any chance in life. In Montgomerys early teen years, Kleiner moved the family to an isolated trailer at the end of a dead-end road outside of Sperry, Oklahoma, a severely impoverished area north of Tulsa. 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. Back home, the couple announced the birth of their daughter to their friends and relatives. Multiple medical experts have given statements agreeing with that diagnosis. 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. 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. As an adult, Montgomerys dysfunctional life mimicked that of her childhood. He continued the cycle of abuse, rapes and beatings, which he sadistically videotaped. She was sick. 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 was so much pressure on her at that point," says Henry. Read about our approach to external linking. Other inmates tended to keep Montgomery at arm's length because of the brutality of what she had done, Dorr said, but she liked Montgomery's quiet nature. Tommy Kleiner and Montgomery have stayed in touch. "She needs to be put to death.". 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. She lived with her children in poverty, without running water and other basic necessities, while her mental health deteriorated. Lisa Montgomery is no different. The tiny farming town of Skidmore sits in the far northwest corner of Missouri. She has writtenopinion piecespublished in Elle and Newsweek. The next morning, Lisa and Kevin Montgomery showed off a newborn girl dressed in a pink bonnet as they ate breakfast at the Whistle Stop Cafe in downtown Melvern. These days, she requires a regimen of psychotropic drugs to function. Montgomerys mother, Judy Shaughnessy, who was 20 at the time of her birth in 1968, drank heavily while pregnant with her daughter. The following day, the police arrested Montgomery at her home. "It was violent and like a scene out of a horror movie," he said in a statement. Henrysaid she was surprised to see Montgomery scheduled for execution so soon, considering 30 other inmates on federal death row were sentencedbefore her. When Montgomery was in her mid-teens,she was sexually assaulted by Kleiner and three or four of his friends, according to court records. "That's how evil this woman is," Strong said. They believe that at the time of the crime, Montgomery was psychotic and out of touch with reality. Stinnett came to, grabbing at Montgomery's knife and pulling out somehair before Montgomery strangledher to death. He testified that Montgomery had been in a dissociative state, or "mental fog," at the time. . At 18, she married her stepbrother, who also beat and raped her. Skidmore has suffered lasting effects as a result of Stinnett's murder, said Strong, the investigator who helped prodMontgomery to confess. 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. He said she stood out to the extentthere appeared to be something wrong" with her. Her mouth was covered with duct tape so frequently that she learned not to cry. She says it's not as if all the other people of Skidmore lead idyllic lives free from abuse, poverty and other destructive tragedies. Every time she has a birthday, it will also be the anniversary of the slaughter of her mother, Whitworth 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. He married Judy Shaughnessy, who would become Montgomery's mother, in 1967 in Miami, Okla. Patterson was the second of six husbands Shaughnessy . Shaughnessy would beat Mattingly with whatever was in her hand, be it a belt or a broom, she said. Mattingly, 57, recalled the day her half-sister was brought home in a pink bundle after being born Feb. 27, 1968, in Pierce County, Washington. Judy Shaughnessy and her boyfriend physical, psychological and sexual abuse Lisa. Montgomery's cousin told her legal team that he lived with "regret for not speaking up about what happened to Lisa". 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. They also discovered that Shaughnessy prostituted. They married in 1986. Moving often was the norm to Montgomery; by the time she was a teenager, she had moved approximately 16 times. Lisa Montgomery - the only female inmate on federal death row in the US - has been executed for murder in the state of Indiana. In fact, he drove her back home and dropped her off in the hands of her abusers. If they all go ahead, the federal government will have executed more people than any administration in nearly 100 years. 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 had brain damage, likely caused by exposure to alcohol when she was a. At the same time, she blames it for the fate of her younger half-sister, Lisa Montgomery. 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. It is the only federal prison with an active death chamber. 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 asking for mercy, her family members and attorneys say the untreated trauma she experienced as a child exacerbated her brain damage and hergenetic disposition to severe mental illness, leading her to kill Stinnett during a psychotic episode a dissociative state similar to sleepwalking. 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. However, the executions ordered by President Trump are continuing. He thanked the sheriff for recovering his daughter and allowing him to be the parent that his wife couldn't be. Two days before the crime, her former husband (and stepbrother) sought custody of two of her children. 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 was beaten, repeatedly raped by her stepfather and his friends and sexually trafficked by her mother. For the rest of her life.. 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. At least five of the 12 jurors and three alternate jurorswiped away tears. The six-man, six-woman jury in October 2007 found Montgomery guilty and recommended she be executed. It was clear that she was traumatized, that she was somewhere else, he said. Lisa Montgomery - the only female inmate on federal death row in the US - has been executed for murder in the state of Indiana. The father was a teacher. As one family story goes, Montgomerys first words as a toddler were, dont spank me.. 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. 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. 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. Both became infected with COVID-19, believing it to be transmitted duringthe prison visit. "I fell in love immediately.". According to Gallup, while support for the death penalty in the US is at its lowest level in more than 50 years, 55% of Americans still believe it is an appropriate punishment for murder. Dorr's marriage was failing when she fell in love with John Manard, a convicted murderer 21 years her junior. 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 got joy out of it.". 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. Other times, her behavior could be erratic and inappropriate. 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. I felt sick watching the video. 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. 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. Warnersaid the killinghad left Melvern residents stunned.. When they came to take me, I thought they were coming to take all of us. Shaughnessy sat so unmoved during her daughter's testimony that the judge reprimanded her for lacking empathy. I cant understand why they have to kill this woman, knowing her background and everything that happened, he said. 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. In addition to her brain damage, Lisa developed multiple mental disorders, including bipolar disorder, temporal lobe epilepsy, dissociative disorder, and Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. For Montgomery, her lawyers argue, it began before she was born. 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. 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. Her death is scheduled a little over a month before the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, who has pledged to end the federal death penalty. 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. "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 tried to throw her own brother under the bus for a crime that she committed.". Lisa then took the baby home and cared for her as though she was her own. She has exhausted all legal options except a last-ditch appeal for clemency from President Donald Trump, which was filed Christmas Eve. She also told one of her stepbrothers about the sexual abuse around that time. 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. She was born into a family rife with mental illness, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression. In the haze of her mental illness, she went to the home of a pregnant woman, killed her, and removed the baby. For one thing, the wider world won't let them forget. 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. Since they began, the federal government has executed seven people. Mrs. Her children even came up with a nickname to pull her out of her trances when she was unresponsive: They called her Martha instead of mom to get her attention. Violent acts against pregnant women and their fetuses fall into that category. When Montgomery was 15, Shaughnessy and Kleiner separated. I'm bruised, but I'm not broken. 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. Montgomerys father, John Patterson, a 25-year-old in the military, was also an alcoholic. If Mattinglycould speak directly to Trump, she said, she would tell him: "Please dont take my sister. They introduced her as their daughter, Abigail, and made multiple other stops. Lisa Montgomery has been held at theCarswell Federal Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, for 12 years. 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. She needs someone for once in her life to be on her side., Provided by attorneys for Lisa Montgomery, "Biopsychosocial History of Lisa Marie Montgomery," by Jan Vogelsang. He had a daughter from a previous relationship, Diane, who was four years older than Montgomery. However, in the tiny town of Skidmore, Missouri, where the crime was committed, there is little sympathy for that argument. When Lisa Montgomery murdered pregnant Bobbie Jo Stinnett and ripped her unborn baby from her womb, the whole world reeled in horror. "I was like, 'Oh, she was not.' 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. Read about our approach to external linking. 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. 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. Montgomery's mother, Judy Shaughnessy, told The . And nowhere is that support more palpably felt in this case than in Skidmore. Another case with Missouri ties. "We knew we were walking into the killer's house.". Recibi una inyeccin letal en una prisin de Terre Haute,. Several high-profile figures had appealed for clemency in Brandon's case but Mr Trump did not heed those calls. It would be 34 years before the half-sisters would see each other again. 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