She has exhausted all legal options. "If I did speak up, maybe Zella and Floyd would have gone back for Lisa," she wrote. In addition to Strong and Fritz, those investigators were FBI Special Agents Mike Miller and Scott Gentine and Topeka police officer Tom Glor. Sheriff Strong insists that the crime was meticulously planned and that the woman he arrested continued to lie until backed into a corner. The father was a teacher. When Lisa Montgomery murdered pregnant Bobbie Jo Stinnett and ripped her unborn baby from her womb, the whole world reeled in horror. Even at the age of 8, Mattingly recalled being worried about what would happen to Montgomery without her there. 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. For Diane Mattingly, there is one moment from her childhood for which she feels both enormous gratitude and guilt. He threatened to rape our little sister if Lisa resisted and said he would kill her whole family if she told anyone. Skidmore has suffered lasting effects as a result of Stinnett's murder, said Strong, the investigator who helped prodMontgomery to confess. Kleiner built a makeshift shed on the side of the trailer for Montgomery, where he began molesting, and then raping, her. Warnersaid the killinghad left Melvern residents stunned.. Every time she has a birthday, it will also be the anniversary of the slaughter of her mother, Whitworth said. They slept in twin beds in a small bedroomand fell asleep most nights holding hands, Mattingly said. "Little Lisa was in the bed next to mine every time," she said. Stitched together, they form a tapestry of family dysfunction, abuse, neglect, professional negligence, substance abuse and untreated mental illness. "Being psychotic, it does not mean you are not intelligent, nor that you cannot act in a planful way," she says. Let it be done: Bobbie Jo Stinnetts hometown waits as killers execution date nears. It was clear that she was traumatized, that she was somewhere else, he said. 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. The baby was returned to her father, after being recovered from Montgomery. If that disconnection is brought about with enough frequency and intensity, it can become more of a steady state of being, she added. If Mattinglycould speak directly to Trump, she said, she would tell him: "Please dont take my sister. Diane Mattingly has been speaking publicly for the first time in the hope it can make a difference. She lived at 61 addresses in the 36 years before she went to prison, court documents show. Montgomery smelled like a sour ashtray and body sweat" as Don Fritz and Randy Strong interrogated her on Dec. 17, 2004, Strong recalled. President-elect Joe Biden has already pledged to end death penalty proceedings, although he hasn't said when. Im not a psychiatrist, so I cant go any further than that.. Montgomery then said she had given birth at home with help from two female friends and, later, that she had given birth alone. When I was eight and Lisa was four, social services came and rescued me from Judy, leaving Lisa and our other sister behind. . Montgomery's family moved from place to place during her adult years, continuing the pattern she hadknown as a child. And then there is the life that Montgomery and her siblings inhabited, one of domestic violence, dysfunction, humiliation, fear and pain. 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. 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. Those were disconnections that were tragic in their consequences. More: Lisa Montgomery's execution, delayed by attorneys' COVID-19 cases, rescheduled for Jan. 12. Another case with Missouri ties. The question is, should she be put to death for it? 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. While all five are haunted by Stinnett's murder, they are also "bonded for life," Strong said. He had a daughter from a previous relationship, Diane, who was four years older than Montgomery. 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. Her children were disturbed by it. 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. Bobbie's family deserves her," says Meagan Morrow, a high school classmate of Stinnett's. She had brain damage, likely caused by exposure to alcohol when she was a. By multiple accounts, Kleiner was an erratic, violent man who beat the kids and his wife regularly. She was beaten, repeatedly raped by her stepfather and his friends and sexually trafficked by her mother. Being loved unconditionally helped me heal, find a caring husband, and raise two children who have hearts of gold. . She was broken by people who were supposed to be her caregivers. "Last year, we got flowers, and gave her a $100-plus gift card and then paid her water bill," says Jena Baumli. They recommended a sentence of death. Stinnett came to, grabbing at Montgomery's knife and pulling out somehair before Montgomery strangledher to death. All the while, Lisa's mother was being paid to let strange men rape Lisa. He recalled that Montgomery begged him not to tell anyone, for fear that Kleiner would kill her. "Judy was manipulative and - I hate to use this word, but - evil. "Let's say I didn't stay clean very long," she says. 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. Three federal inmates - Orlando Hall, Alfred Bourgeois and Brandon Bernard - have been put to death since the 3 November presidential election. Another case with Missouri ties. Until July 2020, there had been no federal executions for 17 years. 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. 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. He testified that Montgomery had been in a dissociative state, or "mental fog," at the time. Read about our approach to external linking. If her execution goes forward, she will be the first federal female inmate to be executed in almost 70 years. When Stinnett answered the door, Montgomery overpowered the pregnant woman, strangled her with a piece of rope, and cut the baby out of her womb. Lisa's and my father was also mentally ill. In what Mattingly described as the most lucky thing to ever happen to her, she was placed with a loving foster family who showered her with affection. 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. One was the presence of substantial planning and premeditation. 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. While a six-week time period to prepare for clemency might always be unreasonable, it is particularly arduous given the pandemic.. Patterson was transferred after Montgomerys birth to Fort Riley inKansas, where their family lived when another daughter was born in 1970. "The people that are defending [Montgomery], I wish I could take them back in time, and put them in that room," he says. When issuing his original stay of execution, the district. People confuse punishment with culpability, she went on. Ive always said that I am bruised, but not broken, Mattingly said, her voice choked with tears. Montgomery also suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, bipolar disorder and major depression, jurors were told. "It was pretty awful.". Likewise, that jury wasn't directed to consider whether Montgomery was severely mentally ill, which Montgomery's attorneys are asking the president to take into account. Fourteen of those offenders are serving long prison sentences, while the twoothers died by suicide in custody, according to a list Henry provided. Montgomery's execution, scheduled less than 60 days, will be the first of three federal executions in January before Trump leaves office. Montgomery's number of crayons and pieces of paper hassince been increased to 10 each. Montgomery is "evil personified," he said. A herd of rat terriers greeted them. They were also physically violent. However, in the tiny town of Skidmore, Missouri, where the crime was committed, there is little sympathy for that argument. "I have seen a lot of horrible things happen to women and children in my more than 40 years in law enforcement," Strongsaid. 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. "As a result, Lisa has trouble processing information and navigating social relationships. He married Judy Shaughnessy, who would become Montgomery's mother, in 1967 in . That was ultimately dropped in favour of an insanity defence, but Henry believes the damage to Montgomery's credibility was already done. 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. Montgomery has pleaded not guilty to kidnapping resulting in death. Violent acts against pregnant women and their fetuses fall into that category. However, the executions ordered by President Trump are continuing. 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. 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. On the ride home, she clamped the umbilical cord and cleaned the baby girl with wipes. The girls' biological father left the home, and after a while, Mattingly was whisked away to foster care. As the oldest, I was the protector of Lisa and our baby sister. He had a daughter from a previous relationship, Diane, who was four years older than Montgomery. The judge in the case scolded Shaughnessy for not reporting the abuse - but did not report the abuse himself. And I am just asking for somebody - once - not to fail her.". Lisa Montgomery - the only female inmate on federal death row in the US - has been executed for murder in the state of Indiana. Mattingly, Montgomerys sister, is planning on visiting her next week. She meets with Montgomery regularly, she said. Montgomery was also prone to delusional thinking. Now, she called him to tell him that shed gone into labor while shopping and had given birth at a clinic. Around this time, she repeatedly claimed to be pregnant again, although she had undergone sterilisation after her fourth baby was born. At 18, she married her stepbrother, who also beat and raped her. At least five of the 12 jurors and three alternate jurorswiped away tears. 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. Shaughnessy sat so unmoved during her daughter's testimony that the judge reprimanded her for lacking empathy. Strong was a police detective in Maryville, Mo., 14 miles northeast of Skidmore, and Fritz was a detective at Cameron, also in northwest Missouri. Montgomery often read her Bible or did things with her hands, including writing, quilting, and making placemats and bookmarks, Dorr said. After she strangled Stinnett, Montgomery is alleged to have cut her open and stolen her unborn child Victoria, who survived the attack and is now living with her father. She was quiet and kind, they say. 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. If they all go ahead, the federal government will have executed more people than any administration in nearly 100 years. I support my wife and her request for clemency, but because I am sick with COVID and am caring for my parents who are also sick with COVID, I ask the media to respect our need for rest and privacy," he said. 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. 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. Shaughnessy also beat the girls with brooms and belts,Mattingly said. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who. U.S. District Judge Gary A. Fenner upheld the jury's recommendation the following April. Lisa Montgomery had little if any chance in life. Lisa Montgomery's current legal team has conducted some 450 interviews with family members, friends, case workers, doctors and social workers. Just the details: What you need to know about Montgomery and her victim, Bobbie Jo Stinnett. The clemency process enables convicted criminals to request mercy and ask the nation's executive branch to step in, Henry said. Montgomery's cousin told her legal team that he lived with "regret for not speaking up about what happened to Lisa". Because of Stinnett's easy-going reputation, Morrow remembers instantly dismissing the initial reports of her murder. A social worker found Lisa's allegations of abuse credible and turned the file. "There were so many opportunities where people could have intervened and prevented this," says Henry. 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. 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. Friends and family began noticing Montgomery's tendency to slip into "a world of her own". Her attorneys say that while Montgomery feels deep remorse for her crimes, her understanding of her situation waxes and wanes. 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. 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. For Montgomery, her lawyers argue, it began before she was born. 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. Prosecutors said Montgomery was faking mental illness, notingthat many people are sexually abused, but few go on to kill. Montgomery and Carl Boman divorced, remarried and divorced again in 1998. Diane Mattingly is the sister of Lisa Montgomery, who is scheduled for execution by the federal government on December 8, 2020. She liked to take her finger and poke it hard into her chest, over and over in the same spot. Many there believe the final moments of Bobbie Jo Stinnett were so horrific, the death sentence is warranted. Montgomery eventually divorced her first husband and married Kevin Montgomery. When she was 18, Montgomery married her stepbrother. Patterson made a mistake by abandoning them to "that crazy lady," he said at Montgomery's sentencing hearing in 2007. At one point, one of Montgomery's brothers found a home movie that showed Montgomery's husband raping and beating her. Join half a million readers enjoying Newsweek's free newsletters, Everyone Practices Cancel Culture | Opinion, Deplatforming Free Speech is Dangerous | Opinion. "It was violent and like a scene out of a horror movie," he said in a statement. Several high-profile figures had appealed for clemency in Brandon's case but Mr Trump did not heed those calls. 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. However, calls for Trump to be merciful are hardly unanimous. Montgomery and Stinnett participated inthe "Ratter Chatter" online message board for rat terrier dog enthusiasts. "I looked to my right and there was Lisa Montgomery on the sofa, holding the baby," he said. Henry said Montgomery was expected to be transferred by Jan. 10 to the penitentiary at TerreHaute, Ind., her designated place of execution. 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. She gives herself as an example - when Stinnett was murdered, Baumli was in rehab for a drug addiction. 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. But the cousin, a sheriff's deputy, confessed to Montgomery's current legal team that he did nothing. Lisa Montgomery and Bobbie Jo Stinnett got to know each other online through a shared love of dogs. "And then go, 'Look at this body'. Shaughnessy drank excessively during her pregnancy, causing brain damage to Montgomery, according to court records. 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. He thanked the sheriff for recovering his daughter and allowing him to be the parent that his wife couldn't be. 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. Many of the residents of Skidmore cite the details of the crime, and the amount of planning that went into it, as evidence that Montgomery was a calculating killer. Shaughnessy was cruel and violent to both girls, according to a sworn statement from Patterson, who reported feeling ashamed that he did not step in to stop the abuse. When Shaughnessy eventually split from her second husband, she and Montgomery testified in divorce proceedings about the sexual assaults. She missed the funeral because of it. When they came to take me, I thought they were coming to take all of us. Montgomery is scheduled to be put to death by a lethal injection of pentobarbital at Terre Haute prison in Indiana. 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. She had this ability to find what hurt you the most and use that against you, Mattingly 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. View the profiles of people named Judy Shaughnessy. Every year. They gave me unconditional love, they taught me my self-worth, 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. In fact, he drove her back home and dropped her off in the hands of her abusers. 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. "I felt sick watching the video. 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. . 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. 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. 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. He was in her. A clemency petition asking Trump to reduce Montgomerys sentence to life without parole is expected to be filed in the coming weeks. For one thing, the wider world won't let them forget. The next morning, Lisa and Kevin Montgomery showed off a newborn girl dressed in a pink bonnet as they ate breakfast at the Whistle Stop Cafe in downtown Melvern. The cold, vicious, calculating and brutal nature of her crimes shows that Montgomery knew exactly what she was doing, Strong said. Montgomery said she was seeking a dog for a Christmas gift. Montgomery is worried that her fellow inmates will have trouble coping with her upcoming execution, said her friendToby Dorr. He married Judy Shaughnessy, who would become Montgomery's mother, in 1967 in Miami, Okla. Patterson was the second of six husbands Shaughnessy . She liked going down to the Nodaway River to swim, and playing Nintendo games at slumber parties. Montgomery was left behind with her mother. 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 TerreHaute, Ind. 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. He threatened to expose the imagined pregnancy and use it against her in the custody battle. When Lisa was a small child, Judy allowed men to rape her for money, including allowing her to be gang raped on multiple occasions. Lisa Montgomery's friend, Toby Dorr, provided this photo she took of a letter Montgomery wrote to her in November using black crayon. According to her lawyers and witnesses, Montgomery suffered years of childhood abuse so severe it was akin to torture. I couldn't believe how good it felt to be part of a loving family. Nobody has said that Lisa should never have been punished. 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. Her mouth was covered with duct tape so frequently that she learned not to cry. Judy later married a man named Jack who punched, kicked and choked his children, including Lisa. "This was the act of a monster," he said. The case was ruled a homicide and remains unsolved. In 1986, when Montgomery was 18, she married her stepbrother, Carl Boman. Mrs. 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. The baby girl survived, andMontgomery took her home and briefly passed her off as her own until investigators arrested her the next day. At least five times after she was sterilized, she told people that she was pregnant. Montgomery wasn't allowed eyeglasses, though she is far-sighted and near-sighted, or a CPAP machine, which has been prescribed since 2015 for her sleep apnea, Henry said. Judy was an alcoholic with mental illness who married six times over the course of her life. Mattingly and Montgomery were best friends. She married her stepbrother at 18 and gave birth to four children in less than five years, before having a sterilization procedure. "I'm sick of hearing about Lisa Montgomery and what she went through. "I get these images in my head of [Bobbie Jo's mother] finding her daughter that way.". After she gave birth to four children, Judy pressured Lisa into an involuntary sterilization. "She was hyperventilating," Henry said. Tommy Kleiner and Montgomery have stayed in touch. Nationwide, only 54 women have been executed since 1900. They married in 1986. They found her cradling a new-born girl she claimed to have given birth to the previous day. "She tried to throw her own brother under the bus for a crime that she committed.". "If I had, would they have taken Lisa out of the home also?" Mattingly said she was fortunate to have been moved to a lovinghome of high school history teacher and coach Floyd Gwin;his wife, Zella Gwin;and their three biological children. She would tell me I had to leave and I couldnt take anything with me because she bought everything, she recalled. 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. "Being loved unconditionally helped me heal, find a caring husband and raise two children who have hearts of gold," Mattingly wrote. Her victim's community said otherwise. Judy Shaughnessy had already raised two convicted felons at the time. 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. There are things children need to grow into healthy adults, among them love, praise and stability. In recommending execution, the jury spelled out six aggravating factors supporting capital punishment. My sister is on death row, Kleiner wrote in the lawsuit petition. The population hovers around just 250, and everyone knew Bobbie Jo Stinnett and her family. To help keep her mind occupied, Henry said, Montgomery was initially given one crayon and one piece of paper, but nothing else. When she called her attorneys that day, she could hardly speak. My sister, Lisa Montgomery, is broken. ", "I live with regret for not speaking up about what happened to Lisa," Kidwell said, adding that he just didnt know what to do.. 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 always wanted to be a mom," says Baumli. In response to traumatic events, children may dissociate from their feelings and their bodies to protect themselves from experiencing what is happening. When Lisa was a small child, Judy allowed men to rape her for money, including allowing her to be gang raped on multiple occasions. 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. After their biological father left the home, Mattingly says they were left alone with Shaughnessy's boyfriends, at least one of whom started raping Mattingly. "God, no, please," she said. She was born into a family rife with mental illness, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression. 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. Back home, the couple announced the birth of their daughter to their friends and relatives. Often, theyd physically fight, and Mattingly would try to protect Montgomery from the chaos. 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. Montgomerys entire life was marked by people who failed to protect her, Babcock said. More: Why the fate of the only woman on federal death row hinges on these Tennessee attorneys and their health, "Lisas trauma was so severe that it compromised her neurological functioning and development," they said in a written statement. 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. 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." 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