And I am just asking for somebody - once - not to fail her.". "It was violent and like a scene out of a horror movie," he said in a statement. 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. At least five of the 12 jurors and three alternate jurorswiped away tears. On the trip home, she stopped in Topeka and called her husband to say she had gone into labor while Christmas shopping and had given birth at a Topeka birthing center. The following day, the police arrested Montgomery at her home. They had corresponded for weeks on an online forum for rat terrier breeders and enthusiasts called "Ratter Chatter". Lisa Montgomery strangle one pregnant woman for Missouri before cutting and kidnapping her baby in 2004. . The father was a teacher. 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. 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. Diane Mattingly is the sister of Lisa Montgomery, who is scheduled for execution by the federal government on December 8, 2020. I never molested her in any way, shape or form, said Kleiner, who died in 2009. "Bobbie deserves to be here today. She would be the first woman executed by the federal government in 67. Patterson was transferred after Montgomerys birth to Fort Riley inKansas, where their family lived when another daughter was born in 1970. Lisa Montgomery be di 11th prisoner to receive di lethal injection since July when President Donald Trump, resume federal executions. Montgomery told investigators she was surprised at how nicely they had treated her, considering what she had done. Ms. 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. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. When Stinnett answered the door, Montgomery overpowered the pregnant woman, strangled her with a piece of rope, and cut the baby out of her womb. She lived with her children in poverty, without running water and other basic necessities, while her mental health deteriorated. Montgomery's execution date was subsequently bumped back to Jan. 12. A few years after Mattingly was removed from the home, when Montgomery was in kindergarten, her mother remarried a man named Jack Kleiner. 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. Montgomery lived during her childhood in Washington, Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, California and Texas. As her big sister, Diane feels immense guilt about leaving Montgomery behind in that broken home, so many years ago. She told Lisa she had to "earn her keep." Judy later. They gave me unconditional love, they taught me my self-worth, she said. In late December, Montgomery's legal team submitted a petition to President Donald Trump that makes the case that after a lifetime of abuse - which they characterise as torture - she is too mentally ill to be executed and deserves mercy. Montgomery's mother, Judy Shaughnessy, who was 20 at the time of her birth in 1968, drank heavily while pregnant with her daughter. Dorr's marriage was failing when she fell in love with John Manard, a convicted murderer 21 years her junior. 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. 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. And, in fact, blaming her for it.. Mattingly, Montgomerys sister, is planning on visiting her next week. Nobody has said that Lisa should never have been punished. "She got joy out of it.". Montgomery often read her Bible or did things with her hands, including writing, quilting, and making placemats and bookmarks, Dorr said. Montgomery was left behind with her mother. The couple had three children in rapid succession. She was born in 1968, the child of two troubled alcoholics. Montgomery also talked about the abuseshe had endured from her stepfather, Jack Kleiner, and the first of her two husbands, Carl Boman, Dorr said. If her execution goes forward, she will be the first federal female inmate to be executed in almost 70 years. They introduced her as their daughter, Abigail, and made multiple other stops. Her victim's community said otherwise. She went home with a newborn, one she acquired by murdering the babys pregnant mother. She did not see her again until Montgomerys trial 34 years later. Montgomery and Stinnett participated inthe "Ratter Chatter" online message board for rat terrier dog enthusiasts. 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. Harper told a dispatcher her daughter's womb appeared to have "exploded" and that blood was "everywhere." Montgomerys case is not about whether she is responsible for the crime; she is. "She was completely detached from reality.". Every time she has a birthday, it will also be the anniversary of the slaughter of her mother, Whitworth said. [N]ot only was it bizarre behavior, but it was very embarrassing for me as her daughter, she said. "That's how evil this woman is," Strong said. Court records say Kleiner drank heavily, beat his wife and children, and made his daughters take off their clothes before he spanked them. There were always different men around the house. Let it be done: Bobbie Jo Stinnetts hometown waits as killers execution date nears. She is permitted Sudoku puzzles and coloring pages andone book at a time. My sister is on death row, Kleiner wrote in the lawsuit petition. If Mattinglycould speak directly to Trump, she said, she would tell him: "Please dont take my sister. Judy was an alcoholic with mental illness who married six times over the course of her life. Nationwide, only 54 women have been executed since 1900. "It was violent and like a scene out of a horror movie," he said. Multiple medical experts have given statements agreeing with that diagnosis. At that time, Montgomery was awaiting trial. "She is the most broken of the broken," Mattingly said. During divorce proceedings, Shaughnessy admitted to the court that she had walked in on her husband raping Montgomery. Another case with Missouri ties. He threatened to expose the imagined pregnancy and use it against her in the custody battle. More: Who was the last woman executed by the US government? 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. "Maybe she could have been saved, too. The nature and circumstances of Montgomerys crime show she had lost touch with reality, says her half-sister, Diane Mattingly. As one family story goes, Montgomerys first words as a toddler were, dont spank me.. 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. Since they began, the federal government has executed seven people. Strong was a police detective in Maryville, Mo., 14 miles northeast of Skidmore, and Fritz was a detective at Cameron, also in northwest Missouri. The divorce left Shaughnessy no longer entitled to be Mattingly's legal guardian. 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. She missed the funeral because of it. "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. Mattingly and Montgomery were best friends. "And Lisa deserves to pay.". Who was the last woman executed by the US government? The family moved often. Montgomery was sentenced for the murder of a 23-year-old woman who was eight months pregnant. She is the most broken of the broken. Multiple medical experts have given statements agreeing with that diagnosis. 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 was broken by people who were supposed to be her caregivers. She had this ability to find what hurt you the most and use that against you, Mattingly said. Lisa Montgomery's current legal team has conducted some 450 interviews with family members, friends, case workers, doctors and social workers. In fact, he drove her back home and dropped her off in the hands of her abusers. When Montgomery was in her mid-teens,she was sexually assaulted by Kleiner and three or four of his friends, according to court records. Judy ultimately married six times, and had multiple partners throughout Lisa's childhood. Another case with Missouri ties. But none of those other victims responded by killing a woman and cutting her baby out of her stomach, hesaid. Ive always said that I am bruised, but not broken, Mattingly said, her voice choked with tears. She does not deserve to die. 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. 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. Many there believe the final moments of Bobbie Jo Stinnett were so horrific, the death sentence is warranted. Montgomery graduated in 1986 from high school at Cleveland, Okla., with hopes of joining the Air Force to earn money for college. Violent acts against pregnant women and their fetuses fall into that category. In closing arguments, assistant U.S. Attorney Matt Whitworth asked the jury to think about Stinnett's daughter, Victoria Jo Stinnett. Thats happened since Montgomery's childhood, when theterror she experienced while being raped forced her to retreat emotionally into an imaginary house,where everything is fine, Henry said. All the while, Lisa's mother was being paid to let strange men rape Lisa. That was ultimately dropped in favour of an insanity defence, but Henry believes the damage to Montgomery's credibility was already done. Shaughnessy in 1974 married her third husband, Jack Kleiner, a divorced father of five. As a result of her sexual torture, Lisa began to dissociate. Teddy Kleiner, the son of Shaughnessy and Jack Kleiner, was 45 years old when he was fatally shot in 2019 in North Topeka. But the cousin, a sheriff's deputy, confessed to Montgomery's current legal team that he did nothing. He had a daughter from a previous relationship, Diane, who was four years older than Montgomery. Montgomery claimed to live in northwest Missouri. It is the only federal prison with an active death chamber. Im not a psychiatrist, so I cant go any further than that.. Those were disconnections that were tragic in their consequences. She has exhausted all legal options. Lisa Montgomery has been charged in the December 16 death of Bobbie Jo Stinnett, who was eight months pregnant at the time. We lived in a house of horrors. "And then go, 'Look at this body'. 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.. 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. She is the only woman on federal death row. While all five are haunted by Stinnett's murder, they are also "bonded for life," Strong said. . They recommended a sentence of death. "Little Lisa was in the bed next to mine every time," she said. "If I had, would they have taken Lisa out of the home also?" As an adult, Montgomerys dysfunctional life mimicked that of her childhood. While a six-week time period to prepare for clemency might always be unreasonable, it is particularly arduous given the pandemic.. "The whole story is tragic," says Kelley Henry, one of Montgomery's federal defence lawyers. Montgomery clearly should spend the rest of her life in prison, but she is not among the "worst of the worst" for whom the death penalty is intended, Mattingly told The Topeka Capital-Journal. But my hope is President Trump will stop Lisa's execution and commute her sentence to life in prison. 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. Henry said Montgomery was expected to be transferred by Jan. 10 to the penitentiary at TerreHaute, Ind., her designated place of execution. 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. "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.". 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. 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 had bought supplies, including a home birth kit, and searched online for how to perform a caesarean section. 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. 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. Its also people hearing it, knowing it and doing nothing about it. Montgomery's number of crayons and pieces of paper hassince been increased to 10 each. 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. For Montgomery, her lawyers argue, it began before she was born. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who. 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. Montgomery strangled Stinnett into unconsciousness, then sliced into her stomach with the steak knife, Strong said. 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.. At the instigation of Shaughnessys lawyer, Montgomery was connected to a therapist, but only briefly. 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. But what happened at the modest clapboard house where Stinnett lived with her husband still haunts some of those involved in the investigation. I am begging that somebody will finally stand up for her and say, shes been punished enough.. To help keep her mind occupied, Henry said, Montgomery was initially given one crayon and one piece of paper, but nothing else. She became involved with Kevin Montgomery, a divorced electrician with children of his own, and theymarried the following year. she says. 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. Please, honey.". They believe that at the time of the crime, Montgomery was psychotic and out of touch with reality. Lisa's and my father was also mentally ill. Jurors heard an audiotape of Harper, Stinnett's mother, calling 911 after finding her body. 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. The girls' biological father left the home, and after a while, Mattingly was whisked away to foster care. Her case is one of the most extreme of all the cases that Ive looked at, in terms of the severity and repetition of the violence that she experienced, she said. Strong said he and Fritz questioned Montgomery using a"good cop/bad cop" approach. At the time of her murder, she was newly married and pregnant with her first child. At one point, one of Montgomery's brothers found a home movie that showed Montgomery's husband raping and beating her. She learned Oct. 16 that she had been scheduled to die by lethal injection on Dec. 8. 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. "Judy was manipulative and - I hate to use this word, but - evil. 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. Her children were disturbed by it. Ramachandran said Montgomery told him she didn't remember killing Stinnett or cutting the baby out of her body. Recibi una inyeccin letal en una prisin de Terre Haute,. When Lisa was a small child, Judy allowed men to rape her for money, including allowing her to be gang raped on multiple occasions. The clemency process enables convicted criminals to request mercy and ask the nation's executive branch to step in, Henry said. He was pumping her, Shaughnessy testified. Emotions ran high in 2007 as Montgomery was tried in federal court for kidnapping resulting in death. Shaughnessy knew that Mattingly was sensitive about abandonment due to her severed relationship with her birth mother, and so she would strip Mattingly naked and push her outside the front door, pretending that she was kicked out. Lisa Montgomery - the only female inmate on federal death row in the US - has been executed for murder in the state of Indiana. Dorr met Montgomery after being imprisoned for helping an inmate escape in 2006 as Dorrran a dog training program for inmates at Lansing Correctional Facility in northeast Kansas. 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. Montgomery's execution, scheduled less than 60 days, will be the first of three federal executions in January before Trump leaves office. 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. More recently, the states that have been carrying out executions, such as Texas and Tennessee, have halted and delayed executions because of the pandemic. I didn't know what to do or how to talk to my sister about it.". 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. That is exactly what Lisa Montgomery developed into, which is a person who had profound disconnection from her body, from her mind, from her experience, Porterfield said. Montgomery eventually divorced her first husband and married Kevin Montgomery. 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. One of the lead investigators in the case, Randy Strong, wants Montgomery executed. Two other inmates are scheduled to die at Terre Haute prison before Mr Trump's presidency ends. 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. 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. She also told one of her stepbrothers about the sexual abuse around that time. Nobody has said that Lisa should never have been punished. I was thinking, shes still back there. It would be 34 years before the half-sisters would see each other again. There are things children need to grow into healthy adults, among them love, praise and stability. 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. 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. "She seemed like a real personI could connect with and build a relationship with inside prison," Dorr said. "I have seen a lot of horrible things happen to women and children in my more than 40 years in law enforcement," Strongsaid. 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. 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. In Montgomerys early childhood, her older sister, Diane, suffered the worst of the violence. The idea that that evidence of her bad mothering is part of what the jury could rely upon as a reason to sentence her to death its something you would never find in a case of a man.. They were also physically violent. Right: This cemetery at Melvern, where Lisa Montgomery formerly lived, has more than 1,800 gravesites, which is nearly five times the city's population. 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.". I thought they knew what was going on, she said. Until July 2020, there had been no federal executions for 17 years. The family moved from place to place dozens of times, but it was in a trailer in Sperry, Oklahoma, where her lawyers say the abuse turned into something more akin to torture. The case was ruled a homicide and remains unsolved. Her daughter remembered her acting like a young child in public, twirling and skipping with her arms swinging with abandon. In her opinion, Montgomerys extreme childhood trauma created the conditions for her to grow into an adult with a disconnected sense of her emotions, a tenuous hold on reality, a completely warped view of human relationships, and a split and damaged sense of herself and of her body, according to expert testimony she provided for the defense. She lives in Lebanon, Ky., is married with two adult children and has worked the past 19 years for the state of Kentucky. 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. Friends and family began noticing Montgomery's tendency to slip into "a world of her own". She was forced to sit in a high chair for hours if she did not finish her food. Lisa Montgomery lived a tortured life, from the day she was born in a small Washington town till the day she became the first woman in 67 years to be executed by the U.S. government. Montgomerys case is not about whether she is responsible for the crime; she is. 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. Today, residents are tired of Melvernbeing connected with Lisa Montgomery, said current Mayor Lyndon Weddle, who describesMelvern asafriendlyrural community where people wave when they pass each other. ", Strong said he arranged for that message to be shared with the four others, "because we were all a part of that.". After she gave birth to four children, Judy pressured Lisa into an involuntary sterilization. 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. It was clear that she was traumatized, that she was somewhere else, he said. "There was so much pressure on her at that point," says Henry. "The other sister stayed in that situation, and it got worse and worse and worse. 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. She pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. A social worker found Lisa's allegations of abuse credible and turned the file. A clemency petition asking Trump to reduce Montgomerys sentence to life without parole is expected to be filed in the coming weeks. Montgomery said she was seeking a dog for a Christmas gift. 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. The mom, Judy Shaughnessy, was so cruel she once beat the family dog to death in front of her kids, the petition states. 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. 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. 2023 BBC. "I cried," says Strong. 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. 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. "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. When Lisa was a small child, Judy allowed men to rape her for money, including allowing her to be gang raped on multiple occasions. At the time, Lisa had told her new husband that she was pregnant, which her former husband knew wasn't possible because of the forced sterilization. She gives herself as an example - when Stinnett was murdered, Baumli was in rehab for a drug addiction. My heart goes out to the family of Bobbie Jo Stinnett and the loss that they have felt and are still feeling. 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. He recalled that Montgomery begged him not to tell anyone, for fear that Kleiner would kill her. 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