Often, theyd physically fight, and Mattingly would try to protect Montgomery from the chaos. It is the only federal prison with an active death chamber. The cold, vicious, calculating and brutal nature of her crimes shows that Montgomery knew exactly what she was doing, Strong said. 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 her execution goes forward, she will be the first federal female inmate to be executed in almost 70 years. Stinnett lived with her husband, Zeb, in Skidmore, Mo., a town near the state's northwest corner with fewerthan 300 people today. 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. "When I squeezed her hand, she looked at me and smiled," she said. "If I did speak up, maybe Zella and Floyd would have gone back for Lisa," she wrote. They hold a collection and try to do something nice for Stinnett's mother. Just the details: What you need to know about Montgomery and her victim, Bobbie Jo Stinnett. Montgomery used the fake name of "Darlene Fischer" and the chilling email address of fischer4kids@hotmail.com as she set up a meeting with Stinnett, according to the charging affidavit in thecase. 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. Court records say Kleiner drank heavily, beat his wife and children, and made his daughters take off their clothes before he spanked them. 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. "Being psychotic, it does not mean you are not intelligent, nor that you cannot act in a planful way," she says. Montgomerys family tree, on both her mother and fathers side, is filled with psychiatric and neurologic impairment, including mood disorders, intellectual disability, PTSD and schizophrenia. When issuing his original stay of execution, the district. 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. Montgomerys case is not about whether she is responsible for the crime; she is. Please, honey.". "I felt sick watching the video. Moving often was the norm to Montgomery; by the time she was a teenager, she had moved approximately 16 times. In recommending execution, the jury spelled out six aggravating factors supporting capital punishment. Bobbie Jo's mother and husband have have not spoken publicly in many years. "It was violent and like a scene out of a horror movie," he said. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who. Mattingly has enjoyed a "blessed life," she said. Mattingly said her heart sank when she realized Montgomery wasn't coming with her. Babies born naturally tend to have misshapen heads initially because of the pressure experienced as they go through the birth canal, he said. 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. Meanwhile, her mother in 1985 had married Richard Boman, whose son Montgomery's stepbrother, Carl Boman got Montgomery pregnant. "I have seen a lot of horrible things happen to women and children in my more than 40 years in law enforcement," Strongsaid. She has writtenopinion piecespublished in Elle and Newsweek. "The whole story is tragic," says Kelley Henry, one of Montgomery's federal defence lawyers. Judy ultimately married six times, and had multiple partners throughout Lisa's childhood. 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. 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. Her mother, Judy Shaughnessy, beat and tormented all of her children, proudly telling an investigator that her daughter's first sentence was "Don't spank me, it hurts." Montgomery's first stepfather . Only 18 death sentences were handed down in 2020 and the number of executions carried out hit a 30-year low. 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. Montgomerys father, John Patterson, a 25-year-old in the military, was also an alcoholic. Prosecutors, in their closing argument, said that she had a filthy home, that she didnt cook and that she didnt clean, Babcock said. She liked going down to the Nodaway River to swim, and playing Nintendo games at slumber parties. Nobody has said that Lisa should never have been punished. 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. Until July 2020, there had been no federal executions for 17 years. Two days before the crime, her former husband (and stepbrother) sought custody of two of her children. The question is, should she be put to death for it? Montgomery also talked about the abuseshe had endured from her stepfather, Jack Kleiner, and the first of her two husbands, Carl Boman, Dorr said. Melvern residents want that perception to end, she said. Part of HuffPost Crime. My sister is on death row, Kleiner wrote in the lawsuit petition. And nowhere is that support more palpably felt in this case than in Skidmore. They recommended a sentence of death. 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. "Bobbie deserves to be here today. 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. However, the executions ordered by President Trump are continuing. Montgomery's alcoholic mother, Judy Shaughnessy, knew about the assaults but blamed Montgomery for bringing them upon herself. She gives herself as an example - when Stinnett was murdered, Baumli was in rehab for a drug addiction. His physical abuse of the children had sexual undercurrents: He would make the girls strip naked before whipping them. As her big sister, Diane feels immense guilt about leaving Montgomery behind in that broken home, so many years ago. I thought they knew what was going on, she said. Zella Gwin survives. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who deserved mercy. I cant understand why they have to kill this woman, knowing her background and everything that happened, he said. "We knew we were walking into the killer's house.". He thanked the sheriff for recovering his daughter and allowing him to be the parent that his wife couldn't be. 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. Montgomery has pleaded not guilty to kidnapping resulting in death. He was in her. 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.. Montgomery smelled like a sour ashtray and body sweat" as Don Fritz and Randy Strong interrogated her on Dec. 17, 2004, Strong recalled. She was beaten, repeatedly raped by her stepfather and his friends and sexually trafficked by her mother. "There were so many opportunities where people could have intervened and prevented this," says Henry. Mattingly, Montgomerys sister, is planning on visiting her next week. She describes Montgomery's ex-husband as cruel and harassing. Porterfield compared the chronic abuse to pouring lighter fluid onto a spark. Lisa Montgomery, a federal prisoner, is now slated to be executed on Jan. 12. He said she stood out to the extentthere appeared to be something wrong" with her. Im not a psychiatrist, so I cant go any further than that.. I felt sick watching the video. 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. Judy Shaughnessy and her boyfriend physical, psychological and sexual abuse Lisa. Montgomery is "evil personified," he said. Judy Shaughnessy, drank during pregnancy. 2023 BBC. These days, she requires a regimen of psychotropic drugs to function. Emotions ran high in 2007 as Montgomery was tried in federal court for kidnapping resulting in death. 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 family moved from place to place during her adult years, continuing the pattern she hadknown as a child. "There was a lot of talk both ways on it," he said when contacted by phone at his new home in Texas. I couldn't believe how good it felt to be part of a loving family. The crime itself shows that Lisa had lost all touch with reality. Kleiner built a makeshift shed on the side of the trailer for Montgomery, where he began molesting, and then raping, her. Eventually, Montgomery admitted she had acted alone in killing Stinnett and taking her baby. 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. "She tried to throw her own brother under the bus for a crime that she committed.". [N]ot only was it bizarre behavior, but it was very embarrassing for me as her daughter, she said. Strong said he and Fritz questioned Montgomery using a"good cop/bad cop" approach. When Lisa Montgomery murdered pregnant Bobbie Jo Stinnett and ripped her unborn baby from her womb, the whole world reeled in horror. 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. "It was pretty awful.". So my letters are important.. For Diane Mattingly, there is one moment from her childhood for which she feels both enormous gratitude and guilt. Henry said Montgomery was expected to be transferred by Jan. 10 to the penitentiary at TerreHaute, Ind., her designated place of execution. As an adult, Montgomerys dysfunctional life mimicked that of her childhood. Montgomery is scheduled to be put to death by a lethal injection of pentobarbital at Terre Haute prison in Indiana. By multiple accounts, Kleiner was an erratic, violent man who beat the kids and his wife regularly. 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. I didn't know what to do or how to talk to my sister about it.". However, in the tiny town of Skidmore, Missouri, where the crime was committed, there is little sympathy for that argument. As Fritz patted Montgomery on the back of her hand, Strong said he noticed dried blood and tissue embedded beneath her fingernails. And then there is the life that Montgomery and her siblings inhabited, one of domestic violence, dysfunction, humiliation, fear and pain. Multiple medical experts have given statements agreeing with that diagnosis. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. "And Lisa deserves to pay.". Shaughnessy's nephew, David Kidwell, testified that she believed Montgomery "had brought [the abuse] on herself, that she enticed him". When Judy, Lisa's mother and my stepmother, came to beat us, I stood between her and the younger girls and took the beating, whether it was belts, cords or hangers. "They put her on suicide watch to keep her from killing herself, so that they can execute her," she said. "That's how evil this woman is," Strong said. Lisa Montgomery be di 11th prisoner to receive di lethal injection since July when President Donald Trump, resume federal executions. 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. "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.". During divorce proceedings, Shaughnessy admitted to the court that she had walked in on her husband raping Montgomery. She lapsed increasingly into mental illness and repeatedly faked pregnancy. Newspaper accounts show Montgomery had upset other users of that board by making false statements, including claiming to be pregnant. Many there believe the final moments of Bobbie Jo Stinnett were so horrific, the death sentence is warranted. Lisa Montgomery - the only female inmate on federal death row in the US - has been executed for murder in the state of Indiana. "Let's say I didn't stay clean very long," she says. Lisa Montgomery has been held at theCarswell Federal Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, for 12 years. 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. 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. Mattingly and Montgomery lived together until Mattingly was eight and her half-sister was four. 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. And, in fact, blaming her for it.. Babcock said the constant in every case she has seen is an overwhelming history of trauma. The baby, who was uninjured, was returned to her father. 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. "Today the death penalty has a face of my friend and I just can't be quiet about it," she said. And then go, 'Stand there and listen to the 911 call of [Stinnett's mother]. When Montgomery was in her mid-teens,she was sexually assaulted by Kleiner and three or four of his friends, according to court records. Back home, the couple announced the birth of their daughter to their friends and relatives. The question is, should she be put to death for it. In 1986, when Montgomery was 18, she married her stepbrother, Carl Boman. She credits this moment for her "fairly normal" life - a house on eight peaceful acres, a loving relationship with her children, nearly two decades at a job working for the state of Kentucky. Dorr's marriage was failing when she fell in love with John Manard, a convicted murderer 21 years her junior. Around this time, she repeatedly claimed to be pregnant again, although she had undergone sterilisation after her fourth baby was born. Her lawyers say that as she lost touch with reality, she fantasised about being pregnant. According to sworn statements from her family, her mental health declined rapidly after that. 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.. She had four children in less than four years before being sterilized. Patterson was transferred after Montgomerys birth to Fort Riley inKansas, where their family lived when another daughter was born in 1970. 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. The nature and circumstances of Montgomerys crime show she had lost touch with reality, says her half-sister, Diane Mattingly. She went home with a newborn, one she acquired by murdering the babys pregnant mother. At state level, the number of sentences and executions continues a historic decline. Montgomery's mother, Judy Shaughnessy, drank while Montgomery was in utero, leaving her with brain damage, court documents say. The mom, Judy Shaughnessy, was so cruel she once beat the family dog to death in front of her kids, the petition states. Montgomery was psychotic at the time of the crime, Harwell said. 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. 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. Shaughnessy also beat the girls with brooms and belts,Mattingly said. 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. A herd of rat terriers greeted them. 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. But what happened at the modest clapboard house where Stinnett lived with her husband still haunts some of those involved in the investigation. Montgomery's older half-sister, Diane Mattingly, told reporters last week that Shaughnessy repeatedly beat Montgomery and Mattingly. Her children were disturbed by it. Another case with Missouri ties. 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. 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. However, calls for Trump to be merciful are hardly unanimous. To help keep her mind occupied, Henry said, Montgomery was initially given one crayon and one piece of paper, but nothing else. Montgomery was represented briefly after her arrest by Ron Wurtz, a now-retired attorney who has represented dozens of capital case defendants. "And then go, 'Look at this body'. 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. she says. Montgomery is worried that her fellow inmates will have trouble coping with her upcoming execution, said her friendToby Dorr. 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. Join Facebook to connect with Judy Shaughnessy and others you may know. 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. Stinnett wasn't breathing and was cold. A generation ago, it was the kind of place where you could "get your hair cut, see a show, buy rabbit feed and eat dinner" - but those days are long gone. In Montgomerys early childhood, her older sister, Diane, suffered the worst of the violence. Since they began, the federal government has executed seven people. One was the presence of substantial planning and premeditation. She strangled Stinnett to death and cut the baby from her stomach. 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. Montgomery gave birth to three daughters and a son from1987 to1990, court records say. 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. Because of Stinnett's easy-going reputation, Morrow remembers instantly dismissing the initial reports of her murder. Montgomery was repeatedly molested by her stepdad Jack Kleiner, starting at . Lisa then took the baby home and cared for her as though she was her own. 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. 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. In closing arguments, assistant U.S. Attorney Matt Whitworth asked the jury to think about Stinnett's daughter, Victoria Jo Stinnett. She liked to take her finger and poke it hard into her chest, over and over in the same spot. 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. Her victim's community said otherwise. Only around 2% of inmates on death row are women. Ramachandran said Montgomery told him she didn't remember killing Stinnett or cutting the baby out of her body. Montgomery told Stinnett that she was also expecting, and the pair shared pregnancy stories. 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. As a teenager, Montgomery confided in a cousin, telling him the men would tie her up, beat her and even urinate on her afterwards. She pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. But it was not a pet that she was to retrieve that day. Lisa Montgomery, la nica mujer en el corredor de la muerte federal de Estados Unidos, fue ejecutada este mircoles por asesinato. She was broken by people who were supposed to be her caregivers. "My sister was crying and in pain. Protecting her half-sister became her "sole purpose in life, she said. Residents there tend to think her execution would bring an appropriate end to a painful chapter in their city's history, 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. . But it wasn't Montgomery that Stinnett was expecting, it was a woman who went by the name of Darlene Fischer. 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. Shaughnessy has since died. 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. The views expressed in this article are the author's own. Bobbie Jo Stinnetts hometown waits as killers execution date nears. 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. Other times, her behavior could be erratic and inappropriate. But the cousin, a sheriff's deputy, confessed to Montgomery's current legal team that he did nothing. If they all go ahead, the federal government will have executed more people than any administration in nearly 100 years. She married her stepbrother at 18 and gave birth to four children in less than five years, before having a sterilization procedure. . She told Lisa she had to "earn her keep." Judy later. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who. He continued the cycle of abuse, rapes and beatings, which he sadistically videotaped. "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. Authorities also questioned Kevin Montgomery but concluded he wasn't involved. They gave me unconditional love, they taught me my self-worth, she said. 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. Three federal inmates - Orlando Hall, Alfred Bourgeois and Brandon Bernard - have been put to death since the 3 November presidential election. Mattingly said she and Montgomery share the same father, John Patterson, a decorated Vietnam War veteran whonever married Mattingly's mother. On the ride home, she clamped the umbilical cord and cleaned the baby girl with wipes. She was born in 1968, the child of two troubled alcoholics. Judy drank throughout her pregnancy with Lisa and caused her to be born with brain damage. Mattingly said she shielded her half-sister from random baby-sitters, often older men, whom their mother left with them during her near-nightly outings to a local bar. While all five are haunted by Stinnett's murder, they are also "bonded for life," Strong said. Montgomery suffered from pseudocyesis, the false belief she was pregnant, jurors heard from Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, director of the Center of Brain and Cognition at the University of California in San Diego. 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. 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. Henry says Montgomery's original legal defence after she was arrested and charged with murder was woefully inadequate, and presented few of the details about her abuse, trauma and mental illness. A survivor of incest and sex trafficking, she is diagnosed with bipolar disorder with psychotic features, complex post-traumatic stress disorder, temporal lobe epilepsy, and cerebellar dysfunction, said Amy Harwell, a federal public defender in Tennessee who is working on Montgomerys case. Today there is a single restaurant and few of the streets are paved. But none of those other victims responded by killing a woman and cutting her baby out of her stomach, hesaid. 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