"I don't think people understand how bad this was," Strong said. 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. Stinnett lived with her husband, Zeb, in Skidmore, Mo., a town near the state's northwest corner with fewerthan 300 people today. She lived with her children in poverty, without running water and other basic necessities, while her mental health deteriorated. 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. Dorr has since been released from prison and remarried. Montgomery claimed to live in northwest Missouri. My sister is on death row, Kleiner wrote in the lawsuit petition. she says. Teddy Kleiner, the son of Shaughnessy and Jack Kleiner, was 45 years old when he was fatally shot in 2019 in North Topeka. "And then go, 'Look at this body'. 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. Defense attorney Fred Duchardt told jurors that sexual abuse during her childhood had caused Montgomeryto become mentally ill and killed her soul. 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. Lisa Montgomery's friend, Toby Dorr, provided this photo she took of a letter Montgomery wrote to her in November using black crayon. 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. Facebook gives people the. When issuing his original stay of execution, the district. Montgomery is scheduled to be put to death by a lethal injection of pentobarbital at Terre Haute prison in Indiana. She had this ability to find what hurt you the most and use that against you, Mattingly 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.. When Lisa was a small child, Judy allowed men to rape her for money, including allowing her to be gang raped on multiple occasions. She would be the first woman executed by the federal government in 67. She went home with a newborn, one she acquired by murdering the babys pregnant mother. 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. Stinnett wasn't breathing and was cold. She helped him escape in a dog crate and went to prison after a vehicle chase 12 days later ended with their capture. The tiny farming town of Skidmore sits in the far northwest corner of Missouri. Shaughnessy sat so unmoved during her daughter's testimony that the judge reprimanded her for lacking empathy. It is the only federal prison with an active death chamber. She was quiet and kind, they say. Montgomery is "evil personified," he said. Montgomery eventually divorced her first husband and married Kevin Montgomery. Who was the last woman executed by the US government? There is a decision that has to be made, separate from guilt, about whether someones behavior is so morally reprehensible that they deserve the death penalty, she said. She gives herself as an example - when Stinnett was murdered, Baumli was in rehab for a drug addiction. 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 . 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. Montgomery and Stinnett participated inthe "Ratter Chatter" online message board for rat terrier dog enthusiasts. Two days before the crime, her former husband (and stepbrother) sought custody of two of her children. Being loved unconditionally helped me heal, find a caring husband, and raise two children who have hearts of gold. For Diane Mattingly, there is one moment from her childhood for which she feels both enormous gratitude and guilt. When Montgomery was 15, Shaughnessy and Kleiner separated. 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. "She is the most broken of the broken," Mattingly said. A clemency petition asking Trump to reduce Montgomerys sentence to life without parole is expected to be filed in the coming weeks. 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. When Montgomery was in her mid-teens,she was sexually assaulted by Kleiner and three or four of his friends, according to court records. 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. When children grow up in a chronic state of fear and terror, their brains adapt to survive, explained Katherine Porterfield, a clinical psychologist at the Bellevue/New York University Program for Survivors of Torture, who has evaluated Montgomery in prison. They were also physically violent. Three federal inmates - Orlando Hall, Alfred Bourgeois and Brandon Bernard - have been put to death since the 3 November presidential election. 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.. "Let's say I didn't stay clean very long," she says. Lisa Montgomery - the only female inmate on federal death row in the US - has been executed for murder in the state of Indiana. 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. When Lisa was a small child, Judy allowed men to rape her for money, including allowing her to be gang raped on multiple occasions. 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. The clemency process enables convicted criminals to request mercy and ask the nation's executive branch to step in, Henry said. Now, she called him to tell him that shed gone into labor while shopping and had given birth at a clinic. 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. Dorr's marriage was failing when she fell in love with John Manard, a convicted murderer 21 years her junior. When Mattingly attendedMontgomery's sentencing hearing in 2007, which was the first time she had seen her sister in about 35 years, she said Montgomery's face bore the same look of fear it had when they were separated. Melvern residents want that perception to end, she said. Lisa told me that when these men raped her, she would go away in her mind and try not to be present, the brother said in a court declaration. As one family story goes, Montgomerys first words as a toddler were, dont spank me.. I am begging that somebody will finally stand up for her and say, shes been punished enough.. 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. Montgomery said she was seeking a dog for a Christmas gift. The six-man, six-woman jury in October 2007 found Montgomery guilty and recommended she be executed. - 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. But it wasn't Montgomery that Stinnett was expecting, it was a woman who went by the name of Darlene Fischer. Every year. 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. When she was 18, Montgomery married her stepbrother. His physical abuse of the children had sexual undercurrents: He would make the girls strip naked before whipping them. Just the details: What you need to know about Montgomery and her victim, Bobbie Jo Stinnett. . She was broken by people who were supposed to be her caregivers. Kleiner built a makeshift shed on the side of the trailer for Montgomery, where he began molesting, and then raping, her. School friend Baumli says she's read the descriptions of Montgomery's abuse, but it mostly just makes her angry. Montgomery's mother, Judy Shaughnessy, told The . She believes that if Montgomery had been rescued too, and given what she was given contact with loving, protective adults everything would have been different. At 18, Judy pressured Lisa to marry her stepbrother. Babcock said the constant in every case she has seen is an overwhelming history of trauma. 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. Nobody has said that Lisa should never have been punished. According to her lawyers and witnesses, Montgomery suffered years of childhood abuse so severe it was akin to torture. ", "I live with regret for not speaking up about what happened to Lisa," Kidwell said, adding that he just didnt know what to do.. Shaughnessy in 1974 married her third husband, Jack Kleiner, a divorced father of five. He threatened to expose the imagined pregnancy and use it against her in the custody battle. For Montgomery, her lawyers argue, it began before she was born. 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. Patterson made a mistake by abandoning them to "that crazy lady," he said at Montgomery's sentencing hearing in 2007. Montgomery was already vulnerable to serious mental illness, she added. As Fritz patted Montgomery on the back of her hand, Strong said he noticed dried blood and tissue embedded beneath her fingernails. But Strong says this is the first year he's heard directly from Stinnett's husband. He said she stood out to the extentthere appeared to be something wrong" with her. "The whole story is tragic," says Kelley Henry, one of Montgomery's federal defence lawyers. . Those records say questions were raised about her ability to function as an effective parent afterher house was found to be "filthy," her children were seen running naked in her yard and one of her daughters, then 2years old,ingested a bottle of Tylenol in 1993. A lifelong opponent of the death penalty, Dorr said she wants the world to know about Lisa Montgomery the person. 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. "And Lisa deserves to pay.". 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.. They introduced her as their daughter, Abigail, and made multiple other stops. A newspaper article quoted him as saying he had been convinced his wife was pregnant and had given birth. Meanwhile, her mother in 1985 had married Richard Boman, whose son Montgomery's stepbrother, Carl Boman got Montgomery pregnant. The baby was returned to her father, after being recovered from Montgomery. He had a daughter from a previous relationship, Diane, who was four years older than Montgomery. I didn't know what to do or how to talk to my sister about it.". At 1:31 AM on Wednesday, Lisa Montgomery was pronounced dead. She missed the funeral because of it. I thought they knew what was going on, she 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 fell in love immediately.". Only 18 death sentences were handed down in 2020 and the number of executions carried out hit a 30-year low. Ive always said that I am bruised, but not broken, Mattingly said, her voice choked with tears. "The whole community over there's traumatised by this.". 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. Mattingly and Montgomery were best friends. "When I squeezed her hand, she looked at me and smiled," she said. 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. Montgomery and Carl Boman divorced, remarried and divorced again in 1998. 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. The murder 16 years ago is never far from the minds of the town's residents. Let it be done: Bobbie Jo Stinnetts hometown waits as killers execution date nears. Recibi una inyeccin letal en una prisin de Terre Haute,. The population hovers around just 250, and everyone knew Bobbie Jo Stinnett and her family. Harper told a dispatcher her daughter's womb appeared to have "exploded" and that blood was "everywhere." More: Who was the last woman executed by the US government? When they came to take me, I thought they were coming to take all of us. However, the executions ordered by President Trump are continuing. Skidmore has suffered lasting effects as a result of Stinnett's murder, said Strong, the investigator who helped prodMontgomery to confess. That could change in Terre Haute. "I cried," says Strong. Judy ultimately married six times, and had multiple partners throughout Lisa's childhood. But my hope is President Trump will stop Lisa's execution and commute her sentence to life in prison. If you were to meet her, it would be inconceivable to you that she committed this crime, Harwell said. 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. Multiple medical experts have given statements agreeing with that diagnosis. Since receiving her execution date, she's been placed on suicide watch in an isolated cell. At the instigation of Shaughnessys lawyer, Montgomery was connected to a therapist, but only briefly. I felt sick watching the video. Lisa Montgomery's current legal team has conducted some 450 interviews with family members, friends, case workers, doctors and social workers. "She tried to throw her own brother under the bus for a crime that she committed.". 2023 BBC. At that time, Montgomery was awaiting trial. Lisa Montgomery is no different. "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.". "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. They also discovered that Shaughnessy prostituted. Montgomery was psychotic at the time of the crime, Harwell said. Judy Shaughnessy, Montgomery ' s mother, raised Lisa in poverty and chaos, with multiple stepfathers and in dozens of different homes, according to scores of interviews and documents cited. When Lisa Montgomery murdered pregnant Bobbie Jo Stinnett and ripped her unborn baby from her womb, the whole world reeled in horror. She testified as. "It was violent and like a scene out of a horror movie," he said. Montgomery told investigators she was surprised at how nicely they had treated her, considering what she had done. She was the first woman executed by the federal government in 67 years. Court records say Kleiner drank heavily, beat his wife and children, and made his daughters take off their clothes before he spanked them. 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. 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. "I looked to my right and there was Lisa Montgomery on the sofa, holding the baby," he said. Judy Shaughnessy had already raised two convicted felons at the time. She liked to take her finger and poke it hard into her chest, over and over in the same spot. Bobbie Jo Stinnetts hometown waits as killers execution date nears. Montgomery strangled Stinnett into unconsciousness, then sliced into her stomach with the steak knife, Strong said. 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. Recently, there has been a virus outbreak on death row at the institution, and previous executions have been linked to outbreaks among the execution team and prison staff. Stinnett bled to death. 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. "I'm sick of hearing about Lisa Montgomery and what she went through. Sheriff Strong insists that the crime was meticulously planned and that the woman he arrested continued to lie until backed into a corner. 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. I couldn't believe how good it felt to be part of a loving family. 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. Today there is a single restaurant and few of the streets are paved. 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. She has always accepted responsibility. Many there believe the final moments of Bobbie Jo Stinnett were so horrific, the death sentence is warranted. She enjoyed torturing the people around her," says Mattingly. "Come on, baby. In recommending execution, the jury spelled out six aggravating factors supporting capital punishment. The family treated Mattingly as one of their own, and gave her a sense of belonging and self-worth, she said. For the rest of her life.. Both became infected with COVID-19, believing it to be transmitted duringthe prison visit. 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. In 1986, when Montgomery was 18, she married her stepbrother, Carl Boman. Randy Strong, who investigated the case,is unhappy that some people are asking thatMontgomerys life be spared. Montgomery was sentenced for the murder of a 23-year-old woman who was eight months pregnant. 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. They recommended a sentence of death. Montgomery took Stinnetts baby, clamped the umbilical cord and used baby wipes to clean her. It was a terrifying household, she says, where physical, psychological and sexual abuse at the hands of Judy Shaughnessy, Montgomery's mother, and her boyfriends was routine. Although the alumni have scattered somewhat, in recent years, the Nodaway-Holt R-VII High School graduating class of 2000 - which had only 22 members - has a tradition to mark the anniversary of the death of their classmate Bobbie Jo Stinnett. Montgomery's execution, scheduled less than 60 days, will be the first of three federal executions in January before Trump leaves office. She struggles to maintain her own hygiene, loses focus during conversations with others and has trouble planning simple tasks.". 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. 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. She told Lisa she had to "earn her keep." Judy later. Judy Shaughnessy and her boyfriend physical, psychological . 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. 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. "God, no, please," she said. Authorities also questioned Kevin Montgomery but concluded he wasn't involved. Another case with Missouri ties. And I am just asking for somebody - once - not to fail her.". Montgomery's father, John Patterson, a 25-year-old in the military, was also an alcoholic. 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. 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. But Fischer was a name that Montgomery had been using when she separately began messaging Stinnett from a different email address inquiring about buying one of her puppies. 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. Mattingly was 8 years old and Montgomery was 4 when Mattingly was removed in 1972 from Shaughnessy's mobile home at Ogden, a community of about 1,960 people in Riley County. Henry said Montgomery was expected to be transferred by Jan. 10 to the penitentiary at TerreHaute, Ind., her designated place of execution. Lisa Montgomery had little if any chance in life. 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. 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. Court records describe her as a quiet loner who spent a lot of time reading books. When she called her attorneys that day, she could hardly speak. It is extremely rare for women to be sentenced to death, said Sandra Babcock, faculty director of the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide and an expert on women and the death penalty. She does not deserve to die. "Oh, they're here, I've got to go," she said. 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