"That's how evil this woman is," Strong said. Fourteen of those offenders are serving long prison sentences, while the twoothers died by suicide in custody, according to a list Henry provided. I was put in foster care with a wonderful family. 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. 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. "Little Lisa was in the bed next to mine every time," she said. When she was 18, Montgomery married her stepbrother. Shaughnessy sat so unmoved during her daughter's testimony that the judge reprimanded her for lacking empathy. Let it be done: Bobbie Jo Stinnetts hometown waits as killers execution date nears. If they all go ahead, the federal government will have executed more people than any administration in nearly 100 years. The crime itself shows that Lisa had lost all touch with reality. Lisa Montgomery has been held at theCarswell Federal Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, for 12 years. 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. "I don't think people understand how bad this was," Strong said. "There was a lot of talk both ways on it," he said when contacted by phone at his new home in Texas. In December 2004, Boman filed a court action seeking custody of two of their children who still lived with Montgomery while arguing that the pregnancy Montgomery was fakingillustrated she was an unfit mother, according to newspaper accounts. She testified as. Kleiner was never charged. Dorr's marriage was failing when she fell in love with John Manard, a convicted murderer 21 years her junior. In Montgomerys early childhood, her older sister, Diane, suffered the worst of the violence. Montgomery and Stinnett participated inthe "Ratter Chatter" online message board for rat terrier dog enthusiasts. 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. A longtime death penalty opponent, Wurtz said he considers it "idiotic" that Montgomery is to be executed. When Lisa was a small child, Judy allowed men to rape her for money, including allowing her to be gang raped on multiple occasions. At the instigation of Shaughnessys lawyer, Montgomery was connected to a therapist, but only briefly. They introduced her as their daughter, Abigail, and made multiple other stops. Recibi una inyeccin letal en una prisin de Terre Haute,. She married her stepbrother at 18 and gave birth to four children in less than five years, before having a sterilization procedure. 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. Mattingly said her heart sank when she realized Montgomery wasn't coming with her. Shaughnessy drank excessively during her pregnancy, causing brain damage to Montgomery, according to court records. 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. 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. She lived with her children in poverty, without running water and other basic necessities, while her mental health deteriorated. . She was quiet and kind, they say. When Shaughnessy eventually split from her second husband, she and Montgomery testified in divorce proceedings about the sexual assaults. "She was hyperventilating," Henry said. She is the only woman on federal death row. But Lisa was broken. When they came to take me, I thought they were coming to take all of us. She was born in 1968, the child of two troubled alcoholics. 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. You know, like, that doesn't happen to Bobbie," Morrow says. Porterfield compared the chronic abuse to pouring lighter fluid onto a spark. The following day, the police arrested Montgomery at her home. At least five of the 12 jurors and three alternate jurorswiped away tears. "There's so many people that failed her throughout her whole life. 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. It was clear that she was traumatized, that she was somewhere else, he said. Eventually, Montgomery admitted she had acted alone in killing Stinnett and taking her baby. "The people that are defending [Montgomery], I wish I could take them back in time, and put them in that room," he says. Friends and family began noticing Montgomery's tendency to slip into "a world of her own". Court records say Kleiner drank heavily, beat his wife and children, and made his daughters take off their clothes before he spanked them. 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. Sheriff Strong insists that the crime was meticulously planned and that the woman he arrested continued to lie until backed into a corner. "As a result, Lisa has trouble processing information and navigating social relationships. Her story quickly fell apart and she confessed to the killing. 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. Judy was an alcoholic with mental illness who married six times over the course of her life. Judy later married a man named Jack who punched, kicked and choked his children, including Lisa. Even at the age of 8, Mattingly recalled being worried about what would happen to Montgomery without her there. Since receiving her execution date, she's been placed on suicide watch in an isolated cell. She told Lisa she had to "earn her keep.". 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 became involved with Kevin Montgomery, a divorced electrician with children of his own, and theymarried the following year. However, calls for Trump to be merciful are hardly unanimous. The mom, Judy Shaughnessy, was so cruel she once beat the family dog to death in front of her kids, the petition states. More: Lisa Montgomery's execution, delayed by attorneys' COVID-19 cases, rescheduled for Jan. 12. They had corresponded for weeks on an online forum for rat terrier breeders and enthusiasts called "Ratter Chatter". In fact, he drove her back home and dropped her off in the hands of her abusers. When I was around eight years old, and Lisa was about four, one of Judy's male friends began coming into our room at night and regularly raping me, with Lisa in the next bedclose enough we could reach for each other and touch fingers. Lisa Montgomery tried to get counseling the year before she killed Stinnettbut wasn'tconnected to a quality provider, her attorneys said. Montgomery eventually divorced her first husband and married Kevin Montgomery. These days, she requires a regimen of psychotropic drugs to function. A clemency petition asking Trump to reduce Montgomerys sentence to life without parole is expected to be filed in the coming weeks. Back home, the couple announced the birth of their daughter to their friends and relatives. She learned Oct. 16 that she had been scheduled to die by lethal injection on Dec. 8. 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. "My sister was crying and in pain. Lisa Montgomery and Bobbie Jo Stinnett got to know each other online through a shared love of dogs. Though capital case defendants tend to be confused and stunned, those emotions were heightened with Montgomery, who had trouble responding to questions, Wurtz said. His message contained a "very heartfelt thank you. 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. Several high-profile figures had appealed for clemency in Brandon's case but Mr Trump did not heed those calls. She also told one of her stepbrothers about the sexual abuse around that time. 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. She had catfished Stinnett online under a fake name. "And then go, 'Look at this body'. That could change in Terre Haute. She would tell me I had to leave and I couldnt take anything with me because she bought everything, she recalled. But it was not a pet that she was to retrieve that day. Mattingly, Montgomerys sister, is planning on visiting her next week. Kleiner, the son of Shaughnessy and Jack Kleiner, was meeting witha parole officerat the time of the killing, Strong said. Shaughnessy forced Montgomery to have sex with men in exchange for money and services, and also punished her children by killing the family dog in front of them,smashing its head with a shovel, the attorneys said. We lived in a house of horrors. 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. Ramachandran said Montgomery told him she didn't remember killing Stinnett or cutting the baby out of her body. The nature and circumstances of Montgomerys crime show she had lost touch with reality, says her half-sister, Diane Mattingly. 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. Montgomery, who confessed, was later sentenced to death for the especially heinous murder as decided by a jury who heard her trial. According to sworn statements from her family, her mental health declined rapidly after that. Montgomery's alcoholic mother, Judy Shaughnessy, knew about the assaults but blamed Montgomery for bringing them upon herself. 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. So my letters are important.. I felt sick watching the video. she says. I cant understand why they have to kill this woman, knowing her background and everything that happened, he said. She enacted this in the grip of a very broken mind.". Montgomery's number of crayons and pieces of paper hassince been increased to 10 each. Only around 2% of inmates on death row are women. But the cousin, a sheriff's deputy, confessed to Montgomery's current legal team that he did nothing. ", More: Only woman on federal death row asks President Trump to be a 'hero,' commute her sentence. 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 smelled like a sour ashtray and body sweat" as Don Fritz and Randy Strong interrogated her on Dec. 17, 2004, Strong recalled. Lisa Montgomery - the only female inmate on federal death row in the US - has been executed for murder in the state of Indiana. She is not the "worst of the worst" for whom the death penalty was intended. 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. He had a daughter from a previous relationship, Diane, who was four years older than Montgomery. "Bobbie deserves to be here today. While the court admonished her for not reporting it to authorities, they did not report it either. Prosecutors said Montgomery was faking mental illness, notingthat many people are sexually abused, but few go on to kill. Lisa's mother, Judy Shaughnessy, abused her "in extreme and sadistic ways," according to interviews with nearly 450 family members, neighbors, lawyers, social workers, and teachers. Montgomery's cousin told her legal team that he lived with "regret for not speaking up about what happened to Lisa". The question is, should she be put to death for it? Many there believe the final moments of Bobbie Jo Stinnett were so horrific, the death sentence is warranted. Warnersaid the killinghad left Melvern residents stunned.. President Donald Trump can "break the chain of evil" experienced by Montgomery and other members of her family by granting clemency and commuting her sentence to life imprisonment, Mattingly said. Montgomery also suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, bipolar disorder and major depression, jurors were told. At the time of her murder, she was newly married and pregnant with her first child. But what happened at the modest clapboard house where Stinnett lived with her husband still haunts some of those involved in the investigation. I'm bruised, but I'm not broken. 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. "There were so many opportunities where people could have intervened and prevented this," says Henry. The cold, vicious, calculating and brutal nature of her crimes shows that Montgomery knew exactly what she was doing, Strong said. "One sister got taken out and got put into a loving home and was nurtured and had time to heal," says Mattingly. 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. And to not fail her.". She liked going down to the Nodaway River to swim, and playing Nintendo games at slumber parties. "I'm sick of hearing about Lisa Montgomery and what she went through. 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 slept in twin beds in a small bedroomand fell asleep most nights holding hands, Mattingly said. A herd of rat terriers greeted them. I couldn't believe how good it felt to be part of a loving family. When Floyd Gwin died last July at age 81, Mattingly was listed among the survivors in his obituary. When I was eight and Lisa was four, social services came and rescued me from Judy, leaving Lisa and our other sister behind. She lived at 61 addresses in the 36 years before she went to prison, court documents show. He was pumping her, Shaughnessy testified. Ramachandran said women who sufferchildhood sexual abuse and whose minds revolve around babies and pregnancy are predisposed to suffering pseudocyesis, a condition in which they show physical symptoms of pregnancy, including enlargement of the breasts and stomach, morning sickness and cravings for certain foods. 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. At one point, one of Montgomery's brothers found a home movie that showed Montgomery's husband raping and beating her. And theyre taking me away from her.. Dorr has since been released from prison and remarried. Lisa was anally, orally, and vaginally raped by several men, one after the other for several hours at a time. 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. She lives near Kansas City, Mo. Zella Gwin survives. "She tried to throw her own brother under the bus for a crime that she committed.". 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. Nationwide, only 54 women have been executed since 1900. 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. After she gave birth to four children, Judy pressured Lisa into an involuntary sterilization. Join half a million readers enjoying Newsweek's free newsletters, Everyone Practices Cancel Culture | Opinion, Deplatforming Free Speech is Dangerous | Opinion. All the while, Lisa's mother was being paid to let strange men rape Lisa. Montgomery, 52, the only woman on federal death row, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection Jan. 12 in the U.S. Penitentiary at Terre Haute, Ind. Multiple medical experts have given statements agreeing with that diagnosis. For Montgomery, her lawyers argue, it began before she was born. 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. Facebook gives people the. 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. In addition to Strong and Fritz, those investigators were FBI Special Agents Mike Miller and Scott Gentine and Topeka police officer Tom Glor. 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. Around this time, she repeatedly claimed to be pregnant again, although she had undergone sterilisation after her fourth baby was born. And, in fact, blaming her for it.. Montgomery's family moved from place to place during her adult years, continuing the pattern she hadknown as a child. Left: "Melvern Pride" is the focus of this sign standing at the city limits of Melvern, the community in east-central Kansas where Lisa Montgomery lived. Montgomerys father, John Patterson, a 25-year-old in the military, was also an alcoholic. "I think that side of Lisa needs to be out there.". And then at the end, she was broken.". They believe that at the time of the crime, Montgomery was psychotic and out of touch with reality. She liked to take her finger and poke it hard into her chest, over and over in the same spot. Lisa Montgomery - the only female inmate on federal death row in the US - has been executed for murder in the state of Indiana. Montgomerys mother, Judy Shaughnessy, who was 20 at the time of her birth in 1968, drank heavily while pregnant with her daughter. 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. 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. School friend Baumli says she's read the descriptions of Montgomery's abuse, but it mostly just makes her angry. Montgomery lived during her childhood in Washington, Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, California and Texas. However, in the tiny town of Skidmore, Missouri, where the crime was committed, there is little sympathy for that argument. . 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. A home videoshowsCarl Boman raping and beating Montgomery, said her half-brother, Teddy Kleiner, who gave a sworn statementsaying he had seen it. After five hours of deliberation, the jury found Montgomery guilty. It turns out that it only takes a few people to save a child's life: being loved by my foster parents saved mine. ", Strong said he arranged for that message to be shared with the four others, "because we were all a part of that.". Montgomery was sentenced for the murder of a 23-year-old woman who was eight months pregnant. Those were disconnections that were tragic in their consequences. The question is, should she be put to death for it. 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. She was sick. She got into multiple car accidents, struggled to keep a job, moved around constantly, drank heavily, engaged in sex work and neglected her children. . Strong said he and Fritz questioned Montgomery using a"good cop/bad cop" approach. She had bought supplies, including a home birth kit, and searched online for how to perform a caesarean section. 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. For one thing, the wider world won't let them forget. 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. The idea that that evidence of her bad mothering is part of what the jury could rely upon as a reason to sentence her to death its something you would never find in a case of a man.. They would beat and slap her if she was doing it wrong. When they were done, they urinated on her like she was trash.. 2023 BBC. It has been the subject of two books, multiple true crime television shows, documentaries and countless podcast episodes. 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 Montgomery was 15, Shaughnessy and Kleiner separated. As a teenager, Montgomery confided in a cousin, telling him the men would tie her up, beat her and even urinate on her afterwards. View the profiles of people named Judy Shaughnessy. As Fritz patted Montgomery on the back of her hand, Strong said he noticed dried blood and tissue embedded beneath her fingernails. My heart goes out to the family of Bobbie Jo Stinnett and the loss that they have felt and are still feeling. 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. If that disconnection is brought about with enough frequency and intensity, it can become more of a steady state of being, she added. Only 18 death sentences were handed down in 2020 and the number of executions carried out hit a 30-year low. If her execution goes forward, she will be the first federal female inmate to be executed in almost 70 years. It is the only federal prison with an active death chamber. Emotions ran high in 2007 as Montgomery was tried in federal court for kidnapping resulting in death. Judy Shaughnessy and her boyfriend physical, psychological and sexual abuse Lisa. In 1986, when Montgomery was 18, she married her stepbrother, Carl Boman. DNA testing later showed they were Stinnett's. He was in her. More: The U.S. has not executed a woman in 67 years. She has exhausted all legal options except a last-ditch appeal for clemency from President Donald Trump, which was filed Christmas Eve. Montgomery suffered from pseudocyesis, the false belief she was pregnant, jurors heard from Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, director of the Center of Brain and Cognition at the University of California in San Diego. He continued the cycle of abuse, rapes and beatings, which he sadistically videotaped. "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. As the oldest, I was the protector of Lisa and our baby sister. 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. 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. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who deserved mercy. He thanked the sheriff for recovering his daughter and allowing him to be the parent that his wife couldn't be. 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. 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. 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. "Being loved unconditionally helped me heal, find a caring husband and raise two children who have hearts of gold," Mattingly wrote. 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. 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. "Let's say I didn't stay clean very long," she says. She does not deserve to die. "We've seen crime for years and years in our country in which people enact terrible violence coming out of a psychotic set of beliefs or thought process. Off in the grip of a 23-year-old woman who was four years older Montgomery... 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