Lisa then took the baby home and cared for her as though she was her own. While a six-week time period to prepare for clemency might always be unreasonable, it is particularly arduous given the pandemic.. "We knew we were walking into the killer's house.". He had a daughter from a previous relationship, Diane, who was four years older than Montgomery. Back home, the couple announced the birth of their daughter to their friends and relatives. She liked going down to the Nodaway River to swim, and playing Nintendo games at slumber parties. She is the most broken of the broken. 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. Porterfield compared the chronic abuse to pouring lighter fluid onto a spark. She would tell me I had to leave and I couldnt take anything with me because she bought everything, she recalled. Im not a psychiatrist, so I cant go any further than that.. She enacted this in the grip of a very broken mind.". 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. He threatened to rape our little sister if Lisa resisted and said he would kill her whole family if she told anyone. Some nights, she said, Shaughnessy would leave them in the house with a male babysitter. Meanwhile, her mother in 1985 had married Richard Boman, whose son Montgomery's stepbrother, Carl Boman got Montgomery pregnant. Mattingly has enjoyed a "blessed life," she said. She has writtenopinion piecespublished in Elle and Newsweek. Zella Gwin survives. Violent acts against pregnant women and their fetuses fall into that category. She faked pregnancies several times during her marriages to Carl Boman and Kevin Montgomery, court records say. She has exhausted all legal options. 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. President-elect Joe Biden has already pledged to end death penalty proceedings, although he hasn't said when. Montgomerys mother, Judy Shaughnessy, who was 20 at the time of her birth in 1968, drank heavily while pregnant with her daughter. As Fritz patted Montgomery on the back of her hand, Strong said he noticed dried blood and tissue embedded beneath her fingernails. Until July 2020, there had been no federal executions for 17 years. And, in fact, blaming her for it.. They slept in twin beds in a small bedroomand fell asleep most nights holding hands, Mattingly said. 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. Montgomery was left behind with her mother. Montgomery's lawyers want her sentence commuted to a life sentence, which would allow her to remain under psychiatric care in prison for the rest of her days. Lisa's and my father was also mentally ill. She went home with a newborn, one she acquired by murdering the babys pregnant mother. "Last year, we got flowers, and gave her a $100-plus gift card and then paid her water bill," says Jena Baumli. It would be 34 years before the half-sisters would see each other again. He also noted that after she confessed to killing Stinnett, she changed her story to contend the murder was committed by her half-brotherTommy Kleiner. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who. In the haze of her mental illness, she went to the home of a pregnant woman, killed her, and removed the baby. Warnersaid the killinghad left Melvern residents stunned.. Montgomery was represented briefly after her arrest by Ron Wurtz, a now-retired attorney who has represented dozens of capital case defendants. Lisa Montgomery - the only female inmate on federal death row in the US - has been executed for murder in the state of Indiana. But my hope is President Trump will stop Lisa's execution and commute her sentence to life in prison. Lisa Montgomery - the only female inmate on federal death row in the US - has been executed for murder in the state of Indiana. On her way out the door, Mattingly said, Shaughnessy leaned over and told her it was all her fault she was being taken away. . Montgomery's number of crayons and pieces of paper hassince been increased to 10 each. His physical abuse of the children had sexual undercurrents: He would make the girls strip naked before whipping them. ", Strong said he arranged for that message to be shared with the four others, "because we were all a part of that.". He said he was "reduced to tears" when Zeb Stinnett sent him a message last month on the 16th anniversary of Montgomery's arrest for the murder of his wife. She was often spaced out, appearing disconnected from reality. That was ultimately dropped in favour of an insanity defence, but Henry believes the damage to Montgomery's credibility was already done. Montgomery first claimed to have had the baby at a Topeka birthing center but began changing her story after investigatorsseparated her from her husband and the infant, Strong said. "Let's say I didn't stay clean very long," she says. "There was a lot of talk both ways on it," he said when contacted by phone at his new home in Texas. 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. 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. As Strong crossed the threshold, hesaw a TV set airing an Amber Alert about the abduction of Stinnett's baby. . In Montgomerys early childhood, her older sister, Diane, suffered the worst of the violence. "Oh, they're here, I've got to go," she said. He recalled that Montgomery begged him not to tell anyone, for fear that Kleiner would kill her. "My sister was crying and in pain. She would be the first woman executed by the federal government in 67. For Diane Mattingly, there is one moment from her childhood for which she feels both enormous gratitude and guilt. 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. Jack also raped Lisa for years. Three federal inmates - Orlando Hall, Alfred Bourgeois and Brandon Bernard - have been put to death since the 3 November presidential election. 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 . Judy Shaughnessy and her boyfriend physical, psychological . Multiple medical experts have given statements agreeing with that diagnosis. 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. Kleiner was never charged. "I get these images in my head of [Bobbie Jo's mother] finding her daughter that way.". She struggles to maintain her own hygiene, loses focus during conversations with others and has trouble planning simple tasks.". Shaughnessy's nephew, David Kidwell, testified that she believed Montgomery "had brought [the abuse] on herself, that she enticed him". Montgomery was psychotic at the time of the crime, Harwell said. Every time she has a birthday, it will also be the anniversary of the slaughter of her mother, Whitworth said. When Floyd Gwin died last July at age 81, Mattingly was listed among the survivors in his obituary. 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. Lisa Montgomery is no different. 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. There was plenty of food, our clothes were clean, and the kids did our homework together. 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. 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. Babcock noted that while at least a dozen other women across the U.S. have committed a similar crime in the past 20 years killing a pregnant woman to kidnap her baby Montgomery was the only one sentenced to death. 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. "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. That could change in Terre Haute. Mattingly believes that by living with loving adults who nurtured her, she was able to process the trauma of her childhood and become a well-adjusted adult. But what happened at the modest clapboard house where Stinnett lived with her husband still haunts some of those involved in the investigation. The tiny farming town of Skidmore sits in the far northwest corner of Missouri. 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. And then there is the life that Montgomery and her siblings inhabited, one of domestic violence, dysfunction, humiliation, fear and pain. Judy Shaughnessy and her boyfriend physical, psychological and sexual abuse Lisa. "Judy was manipulative and - I hate to use this word, but - evil. 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. After she gave birth to four children, Judy pressured Lisa into an involuntary sterilization. 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. More: Lisa Montgomery's execution, delayed by attorneys' COVID-19 cases, rescheduled for Jan. 12. Montgomerys family tree, on both her mother and fathers side, is filled with psychiatric and neurologic impairment, including mood disorders, intellectual disability, PTSD and schizophrenia. Her lawyers are pursuing an insanity defense. But Strong says this is the first year he's heard directly from Stinnett's husband. These days, she requires a regimen of psychotropic drugs to function. "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.". In response to traumatic events, children may dissociate from their feelings and their bodies to protect themselves from experiencing what is happening. Montgomery was already vulnerable to serious mental illness, she added. Judy was an alcoholic with mental illness who married six times over the course of her life. Nobody has said that Lisa should never have been punished. "She seemed like a real personI could connect with and build a relationship with inside prison," Dorr said. She got into multiple car accidents, struggled to keep a job, moved around constantly, drank heavily, engaged in sex work and neglected her children. 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. 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 live with regret for not speaking up about what happened to Lisa," Kidwell said, adding that he just didnt know what to do.. Montgomery eventually divorced her first husband and married Kevin Montgomery. That could change in Terre Haute. They would beat and slap her if she was doing it wrong. When they were done, they urinated on her like she was trash.. - 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. 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. In the end, it was in prisonwhere she spent years on death row after committing a horrific crimethat she began to recover from a lifetime of nightmarish abuse. It makes him even angrier that it was Stinnett's mother who discovered her that way. 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. Even at the age of 8, Mattingly recalled being worried about what would happen to Montgomery without her there. I cant understand why they have to kill this woman, knowing her background and everything that happened, he said. "I have seen a lot of horrible things happen to women and children in my more than 40 years in law enforcement," Strongsaid. "When I squeezed her hand, she looked at me and smiled," she said. If you were to meet her, it would be inconceivable to you that she committed this crime, Harwell said. When she was 18, Montgomery married her stepbrother. School friend Baumli says she's read the descriptions of Montgomery's abuse, but it mostly just makes her angry. More: Who was the last woman executed by the US government? Mattingly and Montgomery were best friends. DNA testing later showed they were Stinnett's. Montgomery's father, John Patterson, a 25-year-old in the military, was also an alcoholic. At 18, Judy pressured Lisa to marry her stepbrother. "One sister got taken out and got put into a loving home and was nurtured and had time to heal," says Mattingly. Residents there tend to think her execution would bring an appropriate end to a painful chapter in their city's history, he said. She had this ability to find what hurt you the most and use that against you, Mattingly said. Montgomery told Stinnett that she was also expecting, and the pair shared pregnancy stories. Stinnett lived with her husband, Zeb, in Skidmore, Mo., a town near the state's northwest corner with fewerthan 300 people today. Mattingly and Montgomery lived together until Mattingly was eight and her half-sister was four. The cold, vicious, calculating and brutal nature of her crimes shows that Montgomery knew exactly what she was doing, Strong said. It is the only federal prison with an active death chamber. Bobbie Jo's mother and husband have have not spoken publicly in many years. 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. "They put her on suicide watch to keep her from killing herself, so that they can execute her," she said. She was quiet and kind, they say. The murder 16 years ago is never far from the minds of the town's residents. Montgomery's execution date was subsequently bumped back to Jan. 12. 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. Montgomery is "evil personified," he said. Judy ultimately married six times, and had multiple partners throughout Lisa's childhood. 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. "The whole story is tragic," says Kelley Henry, one of Montgomery's federal defence lawyers. In asking for mercy, her family members and attorneys say the untreated trauma she experienced as a child exacerbated her brain damage and hergenetic disposition to severe mental illness, leading her to kill Stinnett during a psychotic episode a dissociative state similar to sleepwalking. She was broken by people who were supposed to be her caregivers. When Shaughnessy eventually split from her second husband, she and Montgomery testified in divorce proceedings about the sexual assaults. "If I did speak up, maybe Zella and Floyd would have gone back for Lisa," she wrote. 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. Every year. They gave me unconditional love, they taught me my self-worth, she said. Lisa Montgomery tried to get counseling the year before she killed Stinnettbut wasn'tconnected to a quality provider, her attorneys said. Around this time, she repeatedly claimed to be pregnant again, although she had undergone sterilisation after her fourth baby was born. 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. As the car drove further and further away, Mattingly began to vomit. My heart goes out to the family of Bobbie Jo Stinnett and the loss that they have felt and are still feeling. Montgomery often read her Bible or did things with her hands, including writing, quilting, and making placemats and bookmarks, Dorr said. For Montgomery, her lawyers argue, it began before she was born. 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. In a letterin late November written with a black crayon, Montgomery told Dorr that other inmates at Carswell took it "really hard" when her execution date was set. She learned Oct. 16 that she had been scheduled to die by lethal injection on Dec. 8. The mom, Judy Shaughnessy, was so cruel she once beat the family dog to death in front of her kids, the petition states. The population hovers around just 250, and everyone knew Bobbie Jo Stinnett and her family. She was beaten, repeatedly raped by her stepfather and his friends and sexually trafficked by her mother. She testified as. A clemency petition asking Trump to reduce Montgomerys sentence to life without parole is expected to be filed in the coming weeks. Teddy Kleiner, the son of Shaughnessy and Jack Kleiner, was 45 years old when he was fatally shot in 2019 in North Topeka. The U.S. has not executed a woman in 67 years. Kleiner built a makeshift shed on the side of the trailer for Montgomery, where he began molesting, and then raping, her. She is permitted Sudoku puzzles and coloring pages andone book at a time. The girls' biological father left the home, and after a while, Mattingly was whisked away to foster care. 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. She was forced to sit in a high chair for hours if she did not finish her food. Nationwide, only 54 women have been executed since 1900. View the profiles of people named Judy Shaughnessy. "I was like, 'Oh, she was not.' "I'm asking him to have compassion on her as a person that has been failed over and over and over again. Often the woman, now 52 and a grandmother of 12, is knitting or doing needlepoint. She became involved with Kevin Montgomery, a divorced electrician with children of his own, and theymarried the following year. Prosecutors, in their closing argument, said that she had a filthy home, that she didnt cook and that she didnt clean, Babcock said. U.S. District Judge Gary A. Fenner upheld the jury's recommendation the following April. "She was completely detached from reality.". "She always wanted to be a mom," says Baumli. When Lisa Montgomery murdered pregnant Bobbie Jo Stinnett and ripped her unborn baby from her womb, the whole world reeled in horror. 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.. We lived in a house of horrors. 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. Mattingly, Montgomerys sister, is planning on visiting her next week. As a teenager, Montgomery confided in a cousin, telling him the men would tie her up, beat her and even urinate on her afterwards. "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.". Often, theyd physically fight, and Mattingly would try to protect Montgomery from the chaos. Recibi una inyeccin letal en una prisin de Terre Haute,. 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. Montgomery's mother, Judy Shaughnessy, told The . 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. 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. 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. "Being psychotic, it does not mean you are not intelligent, nor that you cannot act in a planful way," she says. 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. She told Lisa she had to "earn her keep." Judy later. Montgomery's alcoholic mother, Judy Shaughnessy, knew about the assaults but blamed Montgomery for bringing them upon herself. 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. If Mattinglycould speak directly to Trump, she said, she would tell him: "Please dont take my sister. She does not deserve to die. The judge in the case scolded Shaughnessy for not reporting the abuse - but did not report the abuse himself. She was born into a family rife with mental illness, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression. 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. For the rest of her life.. 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. 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. It is hard to know if Montgomery understands that she is close to being executed; her mental state does not allow for much lucidity. Montgomery achieved considerable emotional growth once she was put in a stable environment where she felt safe and was receiving psychiatric medications for the first time, Dorrsaid. Montgomery graduated in 1986 from high school at Cleveland, Okla., with hopes of joining the Air Force to earn money for college. "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. Mattingly said she and Montgomery share the same father, John Patterson, a decorated Vietnam War veteran whonever married Mattingly's mother. But Lisa was broken. Stinnett bled to death. She had catfished Stinnett online under a fake name. 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. Her lawyers say that as she lost touch with reality, she fantasised about being pregnant. Ramachandran said Montgomery told him she didn't remember killing Stinnett or cutting the baby out of her body. If they all go ahead, the federal government will have executed more people than any administration in nearly 100 years. 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. 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