Her story quickly fell apart and she confessed to the killing. She would tell me I had to leave and I couldnt take anything with me because she bought everything, she recalled. "I cried," says Strong. 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. When they came to take me, I thought they were coming to take all of us. Montgomery's mother, Judy Shaughnessy, drank while Montgomery was in utero, leaving her with brain damage, court documents say. 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. 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. 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. She has writtenopinion piecespublished in Elle and Newsweek. "I don't think people understand how bad this was," Strong said. 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. 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. 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. One theory her lawyers put forward regarding the chain of events that led to the murder, is that Montgomery feared her ex-husband would expose her lies about being pregnant and use it against her as he sought custody of their children. Protecting her half-sister became her "sole purpose in life, she said. They also discovered that Shaughnessy prostituted. Randy Strong, who investigated the case,is unhappy that some people are asking thatMontgomerys life be spared. Two days before the crime, her former husband (and stepbrother) sought custody of two of her children. She is the only woman on federal death row. She was broken by people who were supposed to be her caregivers. Stinnett wasn't breathing and was cold. She was quiet and kind, they say. As Fritz patted Montgomery on the back of her hand, Strong said he noticed dried blood and tissue embedded beneath her fingernails. 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.. She had four children in less than four years before being sterilized. Montgomerys father, John Patterson, a 25-year-old in the military, was also an alcoholic. At 18, Judy pressured Lisa to marry her stepbrother. A home videoshowsCarl Boman raping and beating Montgomery, said her half-brother, Teddy Kleiner, who gave a sworn statementsaying he had seen it. They recommended a sentence of death. Montgomery said she was seeking a dog for a Christmas gift. If that disconnection is brought about with enough frequency and intensity, it can become more of a steady state of being, she added. She told Lisa she had to "earn her keep." Judy later. 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. Teddy Kleiner, the son of Shaughnessy and Jack Kleiner, was 45 years old when he was fatally shot in 2019 in North Topeka. 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. Montgomery told Stinnett that she was also expecting, and the pair shared pregnancy stories. And, in fact, blaming her for it.. 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. One was the presence of substantial planning and premeditation. "This was the act of a monster," he said. Investigators quickly realised that "Darlene Fischer" did not exist, and tracked Montgomery down the next day using her emails and computer IP address. Patterson and Shaughnessy divorced in 1971, and Shaughnessy took custody of the girls. Montgomery and Stinnett participated inthe "Ratter Chatter" online message board for rat terrier dog enthusiasts. Her attorneys say that while Montgomery feels deep remorse for her crimes, her understanding of her situation waxes and wanes. "They put her on suicide watch to keep her from killing herself, so that they can execute her," she said. 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. "My sister was crying and in pain. I never molested her in any way, shape or form, said Kleiner, who died in 2009. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who deserved mercy. The population hovers around just 250, and everyone knew Bobbie Jo Stinnett and her family. She does not deserve to die. 2023 BBC. I am begging that somebody will finally stand up for her and say, shes been punished enough.. Montgomery's number of crayons and pieces of paper hassince been increased to 10 each. 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. He testified that Montgomery had been in a dissociative state, or "mental fog," at the time. Montgomery also suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, bipolar disorder and major depression, jurors were told. "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. You know, like, that doesn't happen to Bobbie," Morrow says. 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. 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. 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. Join half a million readers enjoying Newsweek's free newsletters, Everyone Practices Cancel Culture | Opinion, Deplatforming Free Speech is Dangerous | Opinion. A sworn statement from David Kidwell Sr. identified as being Montgomery's cousin and a deputy sheriff said shecried as she told him Kleiner and his friends on more than one occasion had raped her for hours, then "urinated on her like trash. Nobody has said that Lisa should never have been punished. 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. "One sister got taken out and got put into a loving home and was nurtured and had time to heal," says Mattingly. As one family story goes, Montgomerys first words as a toddler were, dont spank me.. He married Judy Shaughnessy, who would become Montgomery's mother, in 1967 in Miami, Okla. Patterson was the second of six husbands Shaughnessy would have during her life, which ended in 2013. Tommy Kleiner and Montgomery have stayed in touch. "She got joy out of it.". Porterfield compared the chronic abuse to pouring lighter fluid onto a spark. She also told one of her stepbrothers about the sexual abuse around that time. 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. "She tried to throw her own brother under the bus for a crime that she committed.". 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. Strong said he and Fritz questioned Montgomery using a"good cop/bad cop" approach. Back home, the couple announced the birth of their daughter to their friends and relatives. They had been called in as part of the Northwest Missouri Major Case Squad, which was workingwith the FBI to identify Stinnett's killer and find the missing child. 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. Often, theyd physically fight, and Mattingly would try to protect Montgomery from the chaos. Montgomery was left behind with her mother. He recalled that Montgomery begged him not to tell anyone, for fear that Kleiner would kill her. But my hope is President Trump will stop Lisa's execution and commute her sentence to life in prison. Violent acts against pregnant women and their fetuses fall into that category. Only around 2% of inmates on death row are women. This is the stuff of nightmares.". They married in 1986. "Last year, we got flowers, and gave her a $100-plus gift card and then paid her water bill," says Jena Baumli. "I felt sick watching the video. Montgomery's mother, Judy Shaughnessy, told The . The baby girl survived, andMontgomery took her home and briefly passed her off as her own until investigators arrested her the next day. Montgomery has pleaded not guilty to kidnapping resulting in death. "Being loved unconditionally helped me heal, find a caring husband and raise two children who have hearts of gold," Mattingly wrote. 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. At the same time, she blames it for the fate of her younger half-sister, Lisa Montgomery. Montgomery became the first female federal prisoner executed in 67 years, the first woman executed in the United States since Kelly Gissendaner in 2015, and the first person executed in the United States in 2021. Shaughnessy in 1974 married her third husband, Jack Kleiner, a divorced father of five. 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 had catfished Stinnett online under a fake name. Emotions ran high in 2007 as Montgomery was tried in federal court for kidnapping resulting in death. The girls' biological father left the home, and after a while, Mattingly was whisked away to foster care. 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. While the court admonished her for not reporting it to authorities, they did not report it either. 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. "I'm asking him to have compassion on her as a person that has been failed over and over and over again. She helped him escape in a dog crate and went to prison after a vehicle chase 12 days later ended with their capture. "Little Lisa was in the bed next to mine every time," she said. She describes Montgomery's ex-husband as cruel and harassing. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who. Stinnett bled to death. The six-man, six-woman jury in October 2007 found Montgomery guilty and recommended she be executed. Dorr has since been released from prison and remarried. I didn't know what to do or how to talk to my sister about it.". He threatened to rape our little sister if Lisa resisted and said he would kill her whole family if she told anyone. Since they began, the federal government has executed seven people. Montgomerys case is not about whether she is responsible for the crime; she is. ", "I live with regret for not speaking up about what happened to Lisa," Kidwell said, adding that he just didnt know what to do.. Several high-profile figures had appealed for clemency in Brandon's case but Mr Trump did not heed those calls. "She is the most broken of the broken," Mattingly said. At 18, she married her stepbrother, who also beat and raped her. The cold, vicious, calculating and brutal nature of her crimes shows that Montgomery knew exactly what she was doing, Strong said. "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. This story was first published on 11 January - before Lisa Montgomery's execution on 13 January. She lived at 61 addresses in the 36 years before she went to prison, court documents show. She learned Oct. 16 that she had been scheduled to die by lethal injection on Dec. 8. Diane Mattingly has been speaking publicly for the first time in the hope it can make a difference. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who. "The whole story is tragic," says Kelley Henry, one of Montgomery's federal defence lawyers. In 1986, when Montgomery was 18, she married her stepbrother, Carl Boman. "And Lisa deserves to pay.". Every time she has a birthday, it will also be the anniversary of the slaughter of her mother, Whitworth said. Authorities also questioned Kevin Montgomery but concluded he wasn't involved. Lisa Montgomery be di 11th prisoner to receive di lethal injection since July when President Donald Trump, resume federal executions. Her lawyers are pursuing an insanity defense. His physical abuse of the children had sexual undercurrents: He would make the girls strip naked before whipping them. Shaughnessy drank excessively during her pregnancy, causing brain damage to Montgomery, according to court records. 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. Lisa Montgomery's current legal team has conducted some 450 interviews with family members, friends, case workers, doctors and social workers. "I looked to my right and there was Lisa Montgomery on the sofa, holding the baby," he said. A herd of rat terriers greeted them. Multiple medical experts have given statements agreeing with that diagnosis. 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. 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.. In response to traumatic events, children may dissociate from their feelings and their bodies to protect themselves from experiencing what is happening. And I am just asking for somebody - once - not to fail her.". Both became infected with COVID-19, believing it to be transmitted duringthe prison visit. According to sworn statements from her family, her mental health declined rapidly after that. "The people that are defending [Montgomery], I wish I could take them back in time, and put them in that room," he says. "It was violent and like a scene out of a horror movie," he said. But what happened at the modest clapboard house where Stinnett lived with her husband still haunts some of those involved in the investigation. Only 18 death sentences were handed down in 2020 and the number of executions carried out hit a 30-year low. For example, she said, the jury that recommended Montgomery be executed wasn't asked to consider the impact that would have on her four children and 12 grandchildren. Henrysaid she was surprised to see Montgomery scheduled for execution so soon, considering 30 other inmates on federal death row were sentencedbefore her. It is hard to know if Montgomery understands that she is close to being executed; her mental state does not allow for much lucidity. In an interview with HuffPost her first ever Diane Mattingly, now 57 and a longtime state government employee living in Kentucky, described what it was like growing up in a home without love or affection. She faked pregnancies several times during her marriages to Carl Boman and Kevin Montgomery, court records say. 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. 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 testified as. 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. When Lisa was a small child, Judy allowed men to rape her for money, including allowing her to be gang raped on multiple occasions. It has been the subject of two books, multiple true crime television shows, documentaries and countless podcast episodes. At state level, the number of sentences and executions continues a historic decline. Its not just the childhood maltreatment and psychological abuse and neglect, or the incredible sexual abuse by her stepfather, or the sex trafficking, Porterfield said. 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. Around this time, she repeatedly claimed to be pregnant again, although she had undergone sterilisation after her fourth baby was born. Join Facebook to connect with Judy Shaughnessy and others you may know. She told Lisa she had to "earn her keep.". But Strong says this is the first year he's heard directly from Stinnett's husband. "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. 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. Even at the age of 8, Mattingly recalled being worried about what would happen to Montgomery without her there. Jurors heard an audiotape of Harper, Stinnett's mother, calling 911 after finding her body. "We knew we were walking into the killer's house.". The tiny farming town of Skidmore sits in the far northwest corner of Missouri. Mattingly and Montgomery were best friends. And then go, 'Stand there and listen to the 911 call of [Stinnett's mother]. When Floyd Gwin died last July at age 81, Mattingly was listed among the survivors in his obituary. At 1:31 AM on Wednesday, Lisa Montgomery was pronounced dead. Montgomery suffers from severe mental illness. We cant travel to talk to witnesses or to prepare experts at this point, Harwell, Montgomerys lawyer, said. "It was violent and like a scene out of a horror movie," he said in a statement. And theyre taking me away from her.. 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. Residents there tend to think her execution would bring an appropriate end to a painful chapter in their city's history, he said. . She is permitted Sudoku puzzles and coloring pages andone book at a time. If you or someone you know needs support for issues about emotional distress, these organisations may be able to help. 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. A lifetime of sexual torture causes her to lose touch with reality. Now, she called him to tell him that shed gone into labor while shopping and had given birth at a clinic. Her mouth was covered with duct tape so frequently that she learned not to cry. Until July 2020, there had been no federal executions for 17 years. The question is, should she be put to death for it. As Strongand other investigators were about to pull into the driveway of Montgomery's house, he said, he learned via a phone callthat the last email Stinnett received had come from that home. In Montgomerys early childhood, her older sister, Diane, suffered the worst of the violence. View the profiles of people named Judy Shaughnessy. Fourteen of those offenders are serving long prison sentences, while the twoothers died by suicide in custody, according to a list Henry provided. 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. 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's mother, Judy Shaughnessy, who was 20 at the time of her birth in 1968, drank heavily while pregnant with her daughter. 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.. More: The U.S. has not executed a woman in 67 years. Shaughnessy sat so unmoved during her daughter's testimony that the judge reprimanded her for lacking empathy. Kleiner built a makeshift shed on the side of the trailer for Montgomery, where he began molesting, and then raping, her. "Bobbie deserves to be here today. Mrs. And it's never about what my friend went through," she adds. Some nights, she said, Shaughnessy would leave them in the house with a male babysitter. Mattingly, 57, recalled the day her half-sister was brought home in a pink bundle after being born Feb. 27, 1968, in Pierce County, Washington. 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. School friend Baumli says she's read the descriptions of Montgomery's abuse, but it mostly just makes her angry. [N]ot only was it bizarre behavior, but it was very embarrassing for me as her daughter, she said. She meets with Montgomery regularly, she said. Henry said Montgomery was expected to be transferred by Jan. 10 to the penitentiary at TerreHaute, Ind., her designated place of execution. In recommending execution, the jury spelled out six aggravating factors supporting capital punishment. Two other inmates are scheduled to die at Terre Haute prison before Mr Trump's presidency ends. Bobbie's family deserves her," says Meagan Morrow, a high school classmate of Stinnett's. Those were disconnections that were tragic in their consequences. Melvern residents want that perception to end, she said. 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 said Montgomery's crimes have affected the way Melvern is perceived in the same manner anti-gay picketing by Westboro Baptist Church has influenced perceptions about Topeka. Montgomery, 39, is accused of killing Bobbie Joe Stinnett, 23, and cutting the baby from her womb on Dec. 16, 2004, at Stinnett's home in Skidmore. Meanwhile, her mother in 1985 had married Richard Boman, whose son Montgomery's stepbrother, Carl Boman got Montgomery pregnant. Though capital case defendants tend to be confused and stunned, those emotions were heightened with Montgomery, who had trouble responding to questions, Wurtz said. If her execution goes forward, she will be the first federal female inmate to be executed in almost 70 years. "The whole community over there's traumatised by this.". They introduced her as their daughter, Abigail, and made multiple other stops. 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. 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. 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. 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. U.S. District Judge Gary A. Fenner upheld the jury's recommendation the following April. As her attorneys fight for her life, Montgomery has at times seemed out of touch with reality,Henry said:Hermental illness causesher to disconnectwhen life becomes too terrible to endure. Lisa Montgomery has been held at theCarswell Federal Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, for 12 years. She liked going down to the Nodaway River to swim, and playing Nintendo games at slumber parties. Being loved unconditionally helped me heal, find a caring husband, and raise two children who have hearts of gold. Every year. The baby, who was uninjured, was returned to her father. Kleiner was never charged. Patterson was transferred after Montgomerys birth to Fort Riley inKansas, where their family lived when another daughter was born in 1970. Read about our approach to external linking. She pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. Montgomery was repeatedly molested by her stepdad Jack Kleiner, starting at . One of the lead investigators in the case, Randy Strong, wants Montgomery executed. But blind outrage over the brutality of the crime leaves little room for curiosity about why Montgomery committed the act, and whether she deserves the most severe penalty that exists in the criminal justice system. Montgomery claimed to live in northwest Missouri. And then there is the life that Montgomery and her siblings inhabited, one of domestic violence, dysfunction, humiliation, fear and pain. Moving often was the norm to Montgomery; by the time she was a teenager, she had moved approximately 16 times. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Lisa Montgomery - the only female inmate on federal death row in the US - has been executed for murder in the state of Indiana. 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. Another case with Missouri ties. Lisa Montgomery and Bobbie Jo Stinnett got to know each other online through a shared love of dogs. It would be 34 years before the half-sisters would see each other again. "Come on, baby. Let it be done: Bobbie Jo Stinnetts hometown waits as killers execution date nears. 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. "There were so many opportunities where people could have intervened and prevented this," says Henry. 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. That could change in Terre Haute. 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. Stinnett came to, grabbing at Montgomery's knife and pulling out somehair before Montgomery strangledher to death. But Lisa was broken. Mental health experts who examined her believe that her history of childhood trauma exacerbated a genetic predisposition to mental illness that ran in her family. 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