Protecting her half-sister became her "sole purpose in life, she said. You know, like, that doesn't happen to Bobbie," Morrow says. When issuing his original stay of execution, the district. 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. "There was a lot of talk both ways on it," he said when contacted by phone at his new home in Texas. Defense attorney Fred Duchardt told jurors that sexual abuse during her childhood had caused Montgomeryto become mentally ill and killed her soul. 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.". As a result of her sexual torture, Lisa began to dissociate. Shaughnessy would beat Mattingly with whatever was in her hand, be it a belt or a broom, she said. She moved in 1999 to Melvern, a town about 40 miles south of Topeka with 375 people today. "I think that in a lot of the opinion pieces that are being posted, in a lot of things that people are sharing, Bobbie Jo and her daughter, and her mother and her husband and other friends and family, are kind of being forgotten," says Tiffany Kirkland, another member of the class of 2000. Her victim's community said otherwise. At that time, Montgomery was awaiting trial. One of those men started coming into their bedroom and raping Mattingly regularly, Mattingly said. One of the lead investigators in the case, Randy Strong, wants Montgomery executed. Montgomery was represented briefly after her arrest by Ron Wurtz, a now-retired attorney who has represented dozens of capital case defendants. Montgomery's mother, Judy Shaughnessy, drank while Montgomery was in utero, leaving her with brain damage, court documents say. 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. "She seemed like a real personI could connect with and build a relationship with inside prison," Dorr said. Often, theyd physically fight, and Mattingly would try to protect Montgomery from the chaos. 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. Montgomery strangled Stinnett into unconsciousness, then sliced into her stomach with the steak knife, Strong said. I was thinking, shes still back there. I thought they knew what was going on, she said. Montgomery claimed to live in northwest Missouri. 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.. 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. Montgomerys case is not about whether she is responsible for the crime; she is. But the psychological abuse targeted at her was even more damaging. Strong said he and Fritz questioned Montgomery using a"good cop/bad cop" approach. If her execution goes forward, she will be the first federal female inmate to be executed in almost 70 years. "This was the act of a monster," he said. Her lawyers say that as she lost touch with reality, she fantasised about being pregnant. The following day, the police arrested Montgomery at her home. She says it's not as if all the other people of Skidmore lead idyllic lives free from abuse, poverty and other destructive tragedies. Kevin Montgomery let investigators inside. "It was violent and like a scene out of a horror movie," he said in a statement. She testified as. 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. Montgomery then said she had given birth at home with help from two female friends and, later, that she had given birth alone. 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 . They had corresponded for weeks on an online forum for rat terrier breeders and enthusiasts called "Ratter Chatter". Tommy Kleiner and Montgomery have stayed in touch. Mattingly said Patterson was often away, and Shaughnessy became increasingly abusive toward them, at times forcing Mattingly to eat raw onions as punishment and go outdoors into the cold naked. She is the only woman on federal death row. 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. School friend Baumli says she's read the descriptions of Montgomery's abuse, but it mostly just makes her angry. I support my wife and her request for clemency, but because I am sick with COVID and am caring for my parents who are also sick with COVID, I ask the media to respect our need for rest and privacy," he said. 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. Around age 8, she said, a man began raping her in the bedroom she shared with Montgomery, then 4, who lay in bed right next to her. "My sister was crying and in pain. "And then go, 'Look at this body'. "There were so many opportunities where people could have intervened and prevented this," says Henry. Dorr's marriage was failing when she fell in love with John Manard, a convicted murderer 21 years her junior. Violent acts against pregnant women and their fetuses fall into that category. Shaughnessy sat so unmoved during her daughter's testimony that the judge reprimanded her for lacking empathy. Lisa Montgomery tried to get counseling the year before she killed Stinnettbut wasn'tconnected to a quality provider, her attorneys said. 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. We cant travel to talk to witnesses or to prepare experts at this point, Harwell, Montgomerys lawyer, said. While the court admonished her for not reporting it to authorities, they did not report it either. The family treated Mattingly as one of their own, and gave her a sense of belonging and self-worth, she said. Porterfield compared the chronic abuse to pouring lighter fluid onto a spark. The girls' biological father left the home, and after a while, Mattingly was whisked away to foster care. A home videoshowsCarl Boman raping and beating Montgomery, said her half-brother, Teddy Kleiner, who gave a sworn statementsaying he had seen it. The mom, Judy Shaughnessy, was so cruel she once beat the family dog to death in front of her kids, the petition states. 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. One was the presence of substantial planning and premeditation. Lisa Montgomery, la nica mujer en el corredor de la muerte federal de Estados Unidos, fue ejecutada este mircoles por asesinato. 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. The U.S. has not executed a woman in 67 years. These days, she requires a regimen of psychotropic drugs to function. 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. "Judy was manipulative and - I hate to use this word, but - evil. 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. As Strong crossed the threshold, hesaw a TV set airing an Amber Alert about the abduction of Stinnett's baby. "God, no, please," she 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. 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. Montgomery was repeatedly molested by her stepdad Jack Kleiner, starting at . It has been the subject of two books, multiple true crime television shows, documentaries and countless podcast episodes. Eventually, Montgomery admitted she had acted alone in killing Stinnett and taking her baby. At the same time, she blames it for the fate of her younger half-sister, Lisa Montgomery. 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. 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. 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. She did not see her again until Montgomerys trial 34 years later. Lisa Montgomery, who endured years of sexual and physical abuse, murdered an expectant mother and took the baby. If that disconnection is brought about with enough frequency and intensity, it can become more of a steady state of being, she added. Montgomery's execution date was subsequently bumped back to Jan. 12. "But one of the things that the president can do is say - to women who have been trafficked, and who have been sexually abused - 'Your abuse matters'.". She does not deserve to die. He had a daughter from a previous relationship, Diane, who was four years older than Montgomery. "I cried," says Strong. 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.. When Floyd Gwin died last July at age 81, Mattingly was listed among the survivors in his obituary. Nobody has said that Lisa should never have been punished. Montgomery also talked about the abuseshe had endured from her stepfather, Jack Kleiner, and the first of her two husbands, Carl Boman, Dorr said. Montgomery lived during her childhood in Washington, Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, California and Texas. She went home with a newborn, one she acquired by murdering the babys pregnant mother. "I felt sick watching the video. 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. My heart goes out to the family of Bobbie Jo Stinnett and the loss that they have felt and are still feeling. And nowhere is that support more palpably felt in this case than in Skidmore. He had a daughter from a previous relationship, Diane, who was four years older than Montgomery. 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. While all five are haunted by Stinnett's murder, they are also "bonded for life," Strong said. 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. Montgomery's mother, Judy Shaughnessy, who was 20 at the time of her birth in 1968, drank heavily while pregnant with her daughter. Multiple medical experts have given statements agreeing with that diagnosis. To help keep her mind occupied, Henry said, Montgomery was initially given one crayon and one piece of paper, but nothing else. 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. "This was a very coordinated and determined plan to ensure that as many people could be executed on federal death row as possible before the end of this administration term.". Back home, the couple announced the birth of their daughter to their friends and relatives. At the instigation of Shaughnessys lawyer, Montgomery was connected to a therapist, but only briefly. . 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. Montgomery has exhausted all attempts to appeal her conviction and death sentence although her attorneys are exploring possible litigation. Montgomery took Stinnetts baby, clamped the umbilical cord and used baby wipes to clean her. Mattingly said she saw terror in her half-sister's bright green eyes. 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. There was plenty of food, our clothes were clean, and the kids did our homework together. Newspaper accounts show Montgomery had upset other users of that board by making false statements, including claiming to be pregnant. 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 liked going down to the Nodaway River to swim, and playing Nintendo games at slumber parties. She told Lisa she had to "earn her keep." Judy later. The only woman on federal death row, Montgomery is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Dec. 8 at the federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana. "I get these images in my head of [Bobbie Jo's mother] finding her daughter that way.". The baby girl survived, andMontgomery took her home and briefly passed her off as her own until investigators arrested her the next day. 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. - 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. Lisa Montgomery is no different. 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. 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. She began prostituting Lisa to older men when Lisa was in her early teens. Patterson made a mistake by abandoning them to "that crazy lady," he said at Montgomery's sentencing hearing in 2007. Join half a million readers enjoying Newsweek's free newsletters, Everyone Practices Cancel Culture | Opinion, Deplatforming Free Speech is Dangerous | Opinion. "When I squeezed her hand, she looked at me and smiled," she 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. 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. 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. Even at the age of 8, Mattingly recalled being worried about what would happen to Montgomery without her there. Being loved unconditionally helped me heal, find a caring husband, and raise two children who have hearts of gold. Montgomery, her sister said, was repeatedly failed: by the deputy sheriff who was told of her abuse; by the judge who was aware she was being molested; by her trial. When Lisa was a small child, Judy allowed men to rape her for money, including allowing her to be gang raped on multiple occasions. Who was the last woman executed by the US government? His physical abuse of the children had sexual undercurrents: He would make the girls strip naked before whipping them. But it wasn't Montgomery that Stinnett was expecting, it was a woman who went by the name of Darlene Fischer. Stinnett came to, grabbing at Montgomery's knife and pulling out somehair before Montgomery strangledher to death. Nodaway County Sheriff Randy Strong says that the scene that he and his four colleagues found that day was so bloody, they are still traumatised by it. Montgomery's alcoholic mother, Judy Shaughnessy, knew about the assaults but blamed Montgomery for bringing them upon herself. People confuse punishment with culpability, she went on. She was the first woman executed by the federal government in 67 years. She lived with her children in poverty, without running water and other basic necessities, while her mental health deteriorated. They slept in twin beds in a small bedroomand fell asleep most nights holding hands, Mattingly said. Weddle said she moved to Melvern when she retired nine years ago because she wanted peace and quiet after more than 30 years as a Topeka police officer. "That sent a chill up my spine," Strong said. 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. 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 meets with Montgomery regularly, she said. In fact, he drove her back home and dropped her off in the hands of her abusers. This story was first published on 11 January - before Lisa Montgomery's execution on 13 January. Dorr has since been released from prison and remarried. But Strong says this is the first year he's heard directly from Stinnett's husband. Facebook gives people the. Court records describe her as a quiet loner who spent a lot of time reading books. When Montgomery was in her mid-teens,she was sexually assaulted by Kleiner and three or four of his friends, according to court records. When Montgomery was 15, Shaughnessy and Kleiner separated. She would tell me I had to leave and I couldnt take anything with me because she bought everything, she recalled. 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. She lived at 61 addresses in the 36 years before she went to prison, court documents show. The question is, should she be put to death for it? I didn't know what to do or how to talk to my sister about it.". Only 18 death sentences were handed down in 2020 and the number of executions carried out hit a 30-year low. My sister, Lisa Montgomery, is broken. 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.. Henry said Montgomery was expected to be transferred by Jan. 10 to the penitentiary at TerreHaute, Ind., her designated place of execution. For the rest of her life.. They found her cradling a new-born girl she claimed to have given birth to the previous day. A longtime death penalty opponent, Wurtz said he considers it "idiotic" that Montgomery is to be executed. 2023 BBC. At 1:31 AM on Wednesday, Lisa Montgomery was pronounced dead. 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. "Come on, baby. 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. Part of HuffPost Crime. Around this time, she repeatedly claimed to be pregnant again, although she had undergone sterilisation after her fourth baby was born. She had bought supplies, including a home birth kit, and searched online for how to perform a caesarean section. Henrysaid she was surprised to see Montgomery scheduled for execution so soon, considering 30 other inmates on federal death row were sentencedbefore her. Lisa then took the baby home and cared for her as though she was her own. Montgomery suffers from severe mental illness. In recommending execution, the jury spelled out six aggravating factors supporting capital punishment. DNA testing later showed they were Stinnett's. He continued the cycle of abuse, rapes and beatings, which he sadistically videotaped. "Oh, they're here, I've got to go," she said. 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 believe that at the time of the crime, Montgomery was psychotic and out of touch with reality. "Being psychotic, it does not mean you are not intelligent, nor that you cannot act in a planful way," she says. In Montgomerys early childhood, her older sister, Diane, suffered the worst of the violence. She lives in Lebanon, Ky., is married with two adult children and has worked the past 19 years for the state of Kentucky. It makes him even angrier that it was Stinnett's mother who discovered her that way. Babcock said the constant in every case she has seen is an overwhelming history of trauma. The question is, should she be put to death for it. She describes Montgomery's ex-husband as cruel and harassing. Another case with Missouri ties. The divorce left Shaughnessy no longer entitled to be Mattingly's legal guardian. 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 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. During divorce proceedings, Shaughnessy admitted to the court that she had walked in on her husband raping Montgomery. Three federal inmates - Orlando Hall, Alfred Bourgeois and Brandon Bernard - have been put to death since the 3 November presidential election. She also told one of her stepbrothers about the sexual abuse around that time. 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. 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. JUDY SHAUGHNESSY OBITUARY Judy K. Shaughnessy Judy K. Shaughnessy, 66, Topeka, formerly of Lyndon, entered into the kingdom of heaven Saturday, November 2, 2013 at Midland Hospice House. At one point, one of Montgomery's brothers found a home movie that showed Montgomery's husband raping and beating her. When Lisa Montgomery murdered pregnant Bobbie Jo Stinnett and ripped her unborn baby from her womb, the whole world reeled in horror. Own until investigators arrested her the next day after her fourth baby was.... 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