While all five are haunted by Stinnett's murder, they are also "bonded for life," Strong said. Mattingly said her heart sank when she realized Montgomery wasn't coming with her. Henry said there is no question that Montgomery has severe mental illness, noting that federal authorities have administered her antipsychotic medications since her arrest in 2004. Nobody has said that Lisa should never have been punished. Montgomery has pleaded not guilty to kidnapping resulting in death. 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. She had catfished Stinnett online under a fake name. "It was violent and like a scene out of a horror movie," he said in a statement. She learned Oct. 16 that she had been scheduled to die by lethal injection on Dec. 8. The nature and circumstances of Montgomerys crime show she had lost touch with reality, says her half-sister, Diane Mattingly. The Trump administration announced it was reinstating executions last summer after an almost 20-year hiatus. 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. 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. The infant found later that day to weigh 5 pounds, 11 ounces was "very still" and didn't cry, which concerned Strong. As a result of her sexual torture, Lisa began to dissociate. They found her cradling a new-born girl she claimed to have given birth to the previous day. "There was a lot of talk both ways on it," he said when contacted by phone at his new home in Texas. So my letters are important.. 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. 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. After she gave birth to four children, Judy pressured Lisa into an involuntary sterilization. Montgomery's second husband Kevin Montgomery, who lives near Melvern and remains married to her voiced support for her bid for clemency in a statement releasedthrough his wife's attorneys. Nobody has said that Lisa should never have been punished. Maybe you should focus your efforts on the fact that Lisa's mother, Judy Shaughnessy, was granted custody of a grandson the year prior to Lisa's crime. She was the first woman executed by the federal government in 67 years. 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. His physical abuse of the children had sexual undercurrents: He would make the girls strip naked before whipping them. He was being held in the Shawnee County Jail in 2018 when he filed a federal lawsuit contending the county was violating his constitutional rights by preventing him from sending letters to Montgomery. Jack also raped Lisa for years. Every year. We cant travel to talk to witnesses or to prepare experts at this point, Harwell, Montgomerys lawyer, said. Montgomery has exhausted all attempts to appeal her conviction and death sentence although her attorneys are exploring possible litigation. Montgomery was left behind with her mother. DNA testing later showed they were Stinnett's. There was plenty of food, our clothes were clean, and the kids did our homework together. But none of those other victims responded by killing a woman and cutting her baby out of her stomach, hesaid. Montgomerys mother, Judy Shaughnessy, who was 20 at the time of her birth in 1968, drank heavily while pregnant with her daughter. 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. In December 2004, Montgomery, who was 36 at the time, strangled Bobbie Jo Stinnett before cutting the baby out of her womb and kidnapping it. She had this ability to find what hurt you the most and use that against you, Mattingly said. In 1986, when Montgomery was 18, she married her stepbrother, Carl Boman. "If I did speak up, maybe Zella and Floyd would have gone back for Lisa," she wrote. 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. I was thinking, shes still back there. "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 put her on suicide watch to keep her from killing herself, so that they can execute her," she said. She does not deserve to die. . Montgomery also suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, bipolar disorder and major depression, jurors were told. Three federal inmates - Orlando Hall, Alfred Bourgeois and Brandon Bernard - have been put to death since the 3 November presidential election. She told Lisa she had to "earn her keep.". 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. And then there is the life that Montgomery and her siblings inhabited, one of domestic violence, dysfunction, humiliation, fear and pain. Montgomery told investigators she was surprised at how nicely they had treated her, considering what she had done. "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. I cant understand why they have to kill this woman, knowing her background and everything that happened, he said. Henry stressed that no one faces a death sentence linked to the 16 other U.S. cases from 1987 to2015 in which a woman has attacked a pregnant woman and her unborn child in an effort to take the childand ended up killing one or both. "And then go, 'Look at this body'. 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. Randy Strong, who investigated the case,is unhappy that some people are asking thatMontgomerys life be spared. A social worker found Lisa's allegations of abuse credible and turned the file. When I was eight and Lisa was four, social services came and rescued me from Judy, leaving Lisa and our other sister behind. I never molested her in any way, shape or form, said Kleiner, who died in 2009. Montgomery eventually divorced her first husband and married Kevin Montgomery. Let it be done: Bobbie Jo Stinnetts hometown waits as killers execution date nears. Montgomery's father, John Patterson, a 25-year-old in the military, was also an alcoholic. Prosecutors, in their closing argument, said that she had a filthy home, that she didnt cook and that she didnt clean, Babcock said. Ive always said that I am bruised, but not broken, Mattingly said, her voice choked with tears. 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. When Montgomery was in her mid-teens,she was sexually assaulted by Kleiner and three or four of his friends, according to court records. It would be 34 years before the half-sisters would see each other again. They introduced her as their daughter, Abigail, and made multiple other stops. 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. Montgomery also talked about the abuseshe had endured from her stepfather, Jack Kleiner, and the first of her two husbands, Carl Boman, Dorr said. President-elect Joe Biden has already pledged to end death penalty proceedings, although he hasn't said when. She is permitted Sudoku puzzles and coloring pages andone book at a time. "She is the most broken of the broken," Mattingly said. 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. Fourteen of those offenders are serving long prison sentences, while the twoothers died by suicide in custody, according to a list Henry provided. "She always wanted to be a mom," says Baumli. Shaughnessy also beat the girls with brooms and belts,Mattingly said. Montgomery's alcoholic mother, Judy Shaughnessy, knew about the assaults but blamed Montgomery for bringing them upon herself. Moving often was the norm to Montgomery; by the time she was a teenager, she had moved approximately 16 times. Shaughnessy drank excessively during her pregnancy, causing brain damage to Montgomery, according to court records. Dorr has since been released from prison and remarried. She missed the funeral because of it. - 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. "When I squeezed her hand, she looked at me and smiled," she said. These days, she requires a regimen of psychotropic drugs to function. On the ride home, she clamped the umbilical cord and cleaned the baby girl with wipes. The views expressed in this article are the author's own. 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. Warnersaid the killinghad left Melvern residents stunned.. Another case with Missouri ties. 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. She strangled Stinnett to death and cut the baby from her stomach. . 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. 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. Lisa Montgomery strangle one pregnant woman for Missouri before cutting and kidnapping her baby in 2004. . Montgomery told Stinnett that she was also expecting, and the pair shared pregnancy stories. A newspaper article quoted him as saying he had been convinced his wife was pregnant and had given birth. Only around 2% of inmates on death row are women. Back home, the couple announced the birth of their daughter to their friends and relatives. 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. Stitched together, they form a tapestry of family dysfunction, abuse, neglect, professional negligence, substance abuse and untreated mental illness. At the instigation of Shaughnessys lawyer, Montgomery was connected to a therapist, but only briefly. "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. Defense attorney Fred Duchardt told jurors that sexual abuse during her childhood had caused Montgomeryto become mentally ill and killed her soul. As long as she was given cigarettes, Montgomery continued to talk, Strong said. The judge reached no conclusion aboutwhether sexual activity occurred but said he considered it "inexcusable" that Shaughnessy didn't report the situation to authorities and get counseling for Montgomery. "If I had, would they have taken Lisa out of the home also?" The mom, Judy Shaughnessy, was so cruel she once beat the family dog to death in front of her kids, the petition states. Judy Shaughnessy and her boyfriend physical, psychological and sexual abuse Lisa. "I was like, 'Oh, she was not.' Babcock said the constant in every case she has seen is an overwhelming history of trauma. 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. They married in 1986. 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.. As Strong crossed the threshold, hesaw a TV set airing an Amber Alert about the abduction of Stinnett's baby. Other times, her behavior could be erratic and inappropriate. Ramachandran said Montgomery told him she didn't remember killing Stinnett or cutting the baby out of her body. She faked pregnancies several times during her marriages to Carl Boman and Kevin Montgomery, court records say. "God, no, please," she said. 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. 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. 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. "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. If you were to meet her, it would be inconceivable to you that she committed this crime, Harwell said. Her mouth was covered with duct tape so frequently that she learned not to cry. 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. The following day, the police arrested Montgomery at her home. 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. 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. Lisa Montgomery - the only female inmate on federal death row in the US - has been executed for murder in the state of Indiana. Diane Mattingly has been speaking publicly for the first time in the hope it can make a difference. It is hard to know if Montgomery understands that she is close to being executed; her mental state does not allow for much lucidity. "I have seen a lot of horrible things happen to women and children in my more than 40 years in law enforcement," Strongsaid. Montgomery's mother, Judy Shaughnessy, drank while Montgomery was in utero, leaving her with brain damage, court documents say. But it was not a pet that she was to retrieve that day. Multiple medical experts have given statements agreeing with that diagnosis. School friend Baumli says she's read the descriptions of Montgomery's abuse, but it mostly just makes her angry. "My sister was crying and in pain. 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. She has exhausted all legal options. 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. [N]ot only was it bizarre behavior, but it was very embarrassing for me as her daughter, she said. "She tried to throw her own brother under the bus for a crime that she committed.". Lisa then took the baby home and cared for her as though she was her own. For one thing, the wider world won't let them forget. "Being loved unconditionally helped me heal, find a caring husband and raise two children who have hearts of gold," Mattingly wrote. They recommended a sentence of death. If her execution goes forward, she will be the first federal female inmate to be executed in almost 70 years. Join half a million readers enjoying Newsweek's free newsletters, Everyone Practices Cancel Culture | Opinion, Deplatforming Free Speech is Dangerous | Opinion. One of those men started coming into their bedroom and raping Mattingly regularly, Mattingly said. "Bobbie deserves to be here today. "Today the death penalty has a face of my friend and I just can't be quiet about it," she 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. Both became infected with COVID-19, believing it to be transmitted duringthe prison visit. "And Lisa deserves to pay.". And then go, 'Stand there and listen to the 911 call of [Stinnett's mother]. Newspaper accounts show Montgomery had upset other users of that board by making false statements, including claiming to be pregnant. 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. 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. "I would say, 'President Trump, I want you to look at the life that Lisa had led, I want to look at all the people that have failed her, I want you to look at the rape, the torture, the mental abuse, the physical abuse that this woman had endured,'" she says. And it's never about what my friend went through," she adds. Judy was an alcoholic with mental illness who married six times over the course of her life. At 18, she married her stepbrother, who also beat and raped her. 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. And theyre taking me away from her.. He was in her. Henrysaid she was surprised to see Montgomery scheduled for execution so soon, considering 30 other inmates on federal death row were sentencedbefore her. 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. At that time, Montgomery was awaiting trial. Montgomery strangled Stinnett into unconsciousness, then sliced into her stomach with the steak knife, Strong said. "She was completely detached from reality.". Montgomery's mother, Judy Shaughnessy, who was 20 at the time of her birth in 1968, drank heavily while pregnant with her daughter. Is it ethical to execute a woman for actions that cannot be meaningfully separated from her mental illness and ugly history of abuse? But the cousin, a sheriff's deputy, confessed to Montgomery's current legal team that he did nothing. Many there believe the final moments of Bobbie Jo Stinnett were so horrific, the death sentence is warranted. The baby girl survived, andMontgomery took her home and briefly passed her off as her own until investigators arrested her the next day. Montgomery's family moved from place to place during her adult years, continuing the pattern she hadknown as a child. Strong said he and Fritz questioned Montgomery using a"good cop/bad cop" approach. As Montgomery grew up, court records say, observersnoticed that she increasingly appeared to be "spaced out," "not emotionally present" or in "her own little world.". Two days before the crime, her former husband (and stepbrother) sought custody of two of her children. The couple had three children in rapid succession. In the haze of her mental illness, she went to the home of a pregnant woman, killed her, and removed the baby. Montgomery was also prone to delusional thinking. According to interviews with her half-siblings and others who spent time with the family, Montgomery's stepfather built a shed onto the trailer where he, and eventually his friends, raped and beat her. Montgomery was already vulnerable to serious mental illness, she added. Lisa Montgomery has been held at theCarswell Federal Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, for 12 years. "I'm asking him to have compassion on her as a person that has been failed over and over and over again. At 1:31 AM on Wednesday, Lisa Montgomery was pronounced dead. A lifelong opponent of the death penalty, Dorr said she wants the world to know about Lisa Montgomery the person. According to sworn statements from her family, her mental health declined rapidly after that. She lives in Lebanon, Ky., is married with two adult children and has worked the past 19 years for the state of Kentucky. What you need to know about Montgomery and her victim, Bobbie Jo Stinnett. "I'm sick of hearing about Lisa Montgomery and what she went through. She got into multiple car accidents, struggled to keep a job, moved around constantly, drank heavily, engaged in sex work and neglected her children. The population hovers around just 250, and everyone knew Bobbie Jo Stinnett and her family. At the time of her murder, she was newly married and pregnant with her first child. And to not fail her.". 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. Montgomery is worried that her fellow inmates will have trouble coping with her upcoming execution, said her friendToby Dorr. Montgomerys case is not about whether she is responsible for the crime; she is. Recibi una inyeccin letal en una prisin de Terre Haute,. The six-man, six-woman jury in October 2007 found Montgomery guilty and recommended she be executed. Lisa Montgomery is no different. In the other cases, she said, prosecutors opted not to seek the death penalty or juries did not impose it because it was obvious the women were suffering from profound mental illnesses. Her attorneys say that while Montgomery feels deep remorse for her crimes, her understanding of her situation waxes and wanes. But my hope is President Trump will stop Lisa's execution and commute her sentence to life in prison. They would beat and slap her if she was doing it wrong. When they were done, they urinated on her like she was trash.. "There's so many people that failed her throughout her whole life. . 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. She was often spaced out, appearing disconnected from reality. She went home with a newborn, one she acquired by murdering the babys pregnant mother. But Lisa was broken. The father was a teacher. "I don't think people understand how bad this was," Strong said. She helped him escape in a dog crate and went to prison after a vehicle chase 12 days later ended with their capture. Nationwide, only 54 women have been executed since 1900. But Strong says this is the first year he's heard directly from Stinnett's husband. Montgomery's older half-sister, Diane Mattingly, told reporters last week that Shaughnessy repeatedly beat Montgomery and Mattingly. Patterson was transferred after Montgomerys birth to Fort Riley inKansas, where their family lived when another daughter was born in 1970. 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. A longtime death penalty opponent, Wurtz said he considers it "idiotic" that Montgomery is to be executed. 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. Montgomery gave birth to three daughters and a son from1987 to1990, court records say. 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. For Montgomery, her lawyers argue, it began before she was born. Often the woman, now 52 and a grandmother of 12, is knitting or doing needlepoint. Shaughnessy sat so unmoved during her daughter's testimony that the judge reprimanded her for lacking empathy. At least five of the 12 jurors and three alternate jurorswiped away tears. However, calls for Trump to be merciful are hardly unanimous. She was broken by people who were supposed to be her caregivers. While the court admonished her for not reporting it to authorities, they did not report it either. 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. More recently, the states that have been carrying out executions, such as Texas and Tennessee, have halted and delayed executions because of the pandemic. 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 and Stinnett participated inthe "Ratter Chatter" online message board for rat terrier dog enthusiasts. At 18, Judy pressured Lisa to marry her stepbrother. It turns out that it only takes a few people to save a child's life: being loved by my foster parents saved mine. He continued the cycle of abuse, rapes and beatings, which he sadistically videotaped. "This was the act of a monster," he said. Her lawyers at the time also presented an alternative theory of the crime, which was that Montgomery's brother had actually committed the murder, even though he had an alibi. Investigators quickly realised that "Darlene Fischer" did not exist, and tracked Montgomery down the next day using her emails and computer IP address. To help keep her mind occupied, Henry said, Montgomery was initially given one crayon and one piece of paper, but nothing else. Join Facebook to connect with Judy Shaughnessy and others you may know. "There were so many opportunities where people could have intervened and prevented this," says Henry. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who deserved mercy. You know, like, that doesn't happen to Bobbie," Morrow says. 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