Ms. She was quiet and kind, they say. I felt sick watching the video. Dorr said she and Montgomery were in the same pod,in which inmates may gather outside their cells,in 2006 and 2007 at Leavenworth Detention Center, a for-profit federal facility in northeast Kansas. He stressed that the juryheard testimony about her mental illness and her history of being abused, yet still unanimously recommended her execution. "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. 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. 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. There was plenty of food, our clothes were clean, and the kids did our homework together. 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. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. "There was a lot of talk both ways on it," he said when contacted by phone at his new home in Texas. 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. She is permitted Sudoku puzzles and coloring pages andone book at a time. The views expressed in this article are the author's own. Around this time, she repeatedly claimed to be pregnant again, although she had undergone sterilisation after her fourth baby was born. 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 don't think people understand how bad this was," Strong said. Even at the age of 8, Mattingly recalled being worried about what would happen to Montgomery without her there. But it wasn't Montgomery that Stinnett was expecting, it was a woman who went by the name of Darlene Fischer. Two days before the crime, her former husband (and stepbrother) sought custody of two of her children. For Diane Mattingly, there is one moment from her childhood for which she feels both enormous gratitude and guilt. She was born in 1968, the child of two troubled alcoholics. Nationwide, only 54 women have been executed since 1900. 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.. The question is, should she be put to death for it? "The whole community over there's traumatised by this.". 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. My sister, Lisa Montgomery, is broken. 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. Lisa Montgomery has been held at theCarswell Federal Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, for 12 years. At the time of her murder, she was newly married and pregnant with her first child. Kleiner was never charged. One of the lead investigators in the case, Randy Strong, wants Montgomery executed. "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. Montgomery clearly should spend the rest of her life in prison, but she is not among the "worst of the worst" for whom the death penalty is intended, Mattingly told The Topeka Capital-Journal. She married her stepbrother at 18 and gave birth to four children in less than five years, before having a sterilization procedure. Henry said Montgomery was expected to be transferred by Jan. 10 to the penitentiary at TerreHaute, Ind., her designated place of execution. "They put her on suicide watch to keep her from killing herself, so that they can execute her," she said. Montgomerys mother, Judy Shaughnessy, who was 20 at the time of her birth in 1968, drank heavily while pregnant with her daughter. Nodaway County Sheriff Randy Strong says that the scene that he and his four colleagues found that day was so bloody, they are still traumatised by it. 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. This is the stuff of nightmares.". He thanked the sheriff for recovering his daughter and allowing him to be the parent that his wife couldn't be. Multiple medical experts have given statements agreeing with that diagnosis. Who was the last woman executed by the US government? In the cases where women are sentenced to death, prosecutors often use gender stereotypes against the defendants, she said, characterizing them as transgressive or not normal in some way. Being loved unconditionally helped me heal, find a caring husband, and raise two children who have hearts of gold. Lisa Montgomery - the only female inmate on federal death row in the US - has been executed for murder in the state of Indiana. He threatened to rape our little sister if Lisa resisted and said he would kill her whole family if she told anyone. Montgomery was already vulnerable to serious mental illness, she added. She liked going down to the Nodaway River to swim, and playing Nintendo games at slumber parties. 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. He was pumping her, Shaughnessy testified. 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. 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 . I'm bruised, but I'm not broken. "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.". Montgomery gave birth to three daughters and a son from1987 to1990, court records say. It would be 34 years before the half-sisters would see each other again. Montgomery's father, John Patterson, a 25-year-old in the military, was also an alcoholic. Judy later married a man named Jack who punched, kicked and choked his children, including Lisa. She said it was over and over, one man right after the other, and went on for hours, her cousin said in a sworn statement. Patterson was transferred after Montgomerys birth to Fort Riley inKansas, where their family lived when another daughter was born in 1970. I cant understand why they have to kill this woman, knowing her background and everything that happened, he said. Shaughnessy sat so unmoved during her daughter's testimony that the judge reprimanded her for lacking empathy. "When I squeezed her hand, she looked at me and smiled," she said. She lapsed increasingly into mental illness and repeatedly faked pregnancy. And then there is the life that Montgomery and her siblings inhabited, one of domestic violence, dysfunction, humiliation, fear and pain. And nowhere is that support more palpably felt in this case than in Skidmore. He threatened to expose the imagined pregnancy and use it against her in the custody battle. The baby was returned to her father, after being recovered from Montgomery. Montgomery graduated in 1986 from high school at Cleveland, Okla., with hopes of joining the Air Force to earn money for college. 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. She missed the funeral because of it. One was the presence of substantial planning and premeditation. A newspaper article quoted him as saying he had been convinced his wife was pregnant and had given birth. "I think that side of Lisa needs to be out there.". Montgomerys entire life was marked by people who failed to protect her, Babcock said. And then at the end, she was broken.". "There were so many opportunities where people could have intervened and prevented this," says Henry. 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. Mattingly and Montgomery were best friends. What you need to know about Montgomery and her victim, Bobbie Jo Stinnett. You know, like, that doesn't happen to Bobbie," Morrow says. But the psychological abuse targeted at her was even more damaging. But Strong says this is the first year he's heard directly from Stinnett's husband. School friend Baumli says she's read the descriptions of Montgomery's abuse, but it mostly just makes her angry. The nature and circumstances of Montgomerys crime show she had lost touch with reality, says her half-sister, Diane Mattingly. She does not deserve to die. 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. 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. The threat of losing her children, combined with the years of untreated trauma and severe mental illness, pushed Lisa over the edge. Bobbie's family deserves her," says Meagan Morrow, a high school classmate of Stinnett's. "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. Read about our approach to external linking. Emotions ran high in 2007 as Montgomery was tried in federal court for kidnapping resulting in death. Both became infected with COVID-19, believing it to be transmitted duringthe prison visit. Today there is a single restaurant and few of the streets are paved. As a teenager, Montgomery confided in her cousin, a deputy sheriff, that she was being raped by Kleiner and other men orally, vaginally and anally. In the haze of her mental illness, she went to the home of a pregnant woman, killed her, and removed the baby. 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. They slept in twin beds in a small bedroomand fell asleep most nights holding hands, Mattingly said. If that disconnection is brought about with enough frequency and intensity, it can become more of a steady state of being, she added. The infant found later that day to weigh 5 pounds, 11 ounces was "very still" and didn't cry, which concerned Strong. He was in her. 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. 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. His physical abuse of the children had sexual undercurrents: He would make the girls strip naked before whipping them. 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. As Strong crossed the threshold, hesaw a TV set airing an Amber Alert about the abduction of Stinnett's baby. At the instigation of Shaughnessys lawyer, Montgomery was connected to a therapist, but only briefly. When Lisa Montgomery murdered pregnant Bobbie Jo Stinnett and ripped her unborn baby from her womb, the whole world reeled in horror. 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. And I am just asking for somebody - once - not to fail her.". She strangled Stinnett to death and cut the baby from her stomach. 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. But Lisa was broken. "The other sister stayed in that situation, and it got worse and worse and worse. Lisa Montgomery strangle one pregnant woman for Missouri before cutting and kidnapping her baby in 2004. . They found her cradling a new-born girl she claimed to have given birth to the previous day. Patterson and Shaughnessy divorced in 1971, and Shaughnessy took custody of the girls. By multiple accounts, Kleiner was an erratic, violent man who beat the kids and his wife regularly. Lisa then took the baby home and cared for her as though she was her own. 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. When Lisa was a small child, Judy allowed men to rape her for money, including allowing her to be gang raped on multiple occasions. 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. She has exhausted all legal options except a last-ditch appeal for clemency from President Donald Trump, which was filed Christmas Eve. 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. But blind outrage over the brutality of the crime leaves little room for curiosity about why Montgomery committed the act, and whether she deserves the most severe penalty that exists in the criminal justice system. 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.. Mrs. The clemency process enables convicted criminals to request mercy and ask the nation's executive branch to step in, Henry said. Another case with Missouri ties. If you or someone you know needs support for issues about emotional distress, these organisations may be able to help. 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. It turns out that it only takes a few people to save a child's life: being loved by my foster parents saved mine. In recommending execution, the jury spelled out six aggravating factors supporting capital punishment. "Judy was manipulative and - I hate to use this word, but - evil. "I have seen a lot of horrible things happen to women and children in my more than 40 years in law enforcement," Strongsaid. 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. She had catfished Stinnett online under a fake name. The mom, Judy Shaughnessy, was so cruel she once beat the family dog to death in front of her kids, the petition states. Montgomery's alcoholic mother, Judy Shaughnessy, knew about the assaults but blamed Montgomery for bringing them upon herself. 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 girls father was often away from the house for long periods, and Shaughnessy would have other men over. "It was violent and like a scene out of a horror movie," he said. Residents there tend to think her execution would bring an appropriate end to a painful chapter in their city's history, he said. She enacted this in the grip of a very broken mind.". Friends recall her as a good student with a love of horses and dogs. Montgomery's mother, Judy Shaughnessy, told The . Montgomery said she was seeking a dog for a Christmas gift. Randy Strong, who investigated the case,is unhappy that some people are asking thatMontgomerys life be spared. U.S. District Judge Gary A. Fenner upheld the jury's recommendation the following April. "I fell in love immediately.". "If I had, would they have taken Lisa out of the home also?" Kleiner built a makeshift shed on the side of the trailer for Montgomery, where he began molesting, and then raping, her. 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. Montgomery claimed to live in northwest Missouri. 2023 BBC. Mattingly has enjoyed a "blessed life," she said. They introduced her as their daughter, Abigail, and made multiple other stops. It is hard to know if Montgomery understands that she is close to being executed; her mental state does not allow for much lucidity. The girls' biological father left the home, and after a while, Mattingly was whisked away to foster care. A home videoshowsCarl Boman raping and beating Montgomery, said her half-brother, Teddy Kleiner, who gave a sworn statementsaying he had seen it. "It was violent and like a scene out of a horror movie," he said in a statement. But the cousin, a sheriff's deputy, confessed to Montgomery's current legal team that he did nothing. So my letters are important.. Strong was a police detective in Maryville, Mo., 14 miles northeast of Skidmore, and Fritz was a detective at Cameron, also in northwest Missouri. Several high-profile figures had appealed for clemency in Brandon's case but Mr Trump did not heed those calls. "One sister got taken out and got put into a loving home and was nurtured and had time to heal," says Mattingly. . Her daughter remembered her acting like a young child in public, twirling and skipping with her arms swinging with abandon. It was clear that she was traumatized, that she was somewhere else, he said. She lived with her children in poverty, without running water and other basic necessities, while her mental health deteriorated. She was often spaced out, appearing disconnected from reality. 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. Ramachandran said Montgomery told him she didn't remember killing Stinnett or cutting the baby out of her body. Montgomery often read her Bible or did things with her hands, including writing, quilting, and making placemats and bookmarks, Dorr said. 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.. While a six-week time period to prepare for clemency might always be unreasonable, it is particularly arduous given the pandemic.. 2023 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved. For Montgomery, her lawyers argue, it began before she was born. "God, no, please," she said. 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. "I'm asking him to have compassion on her as a person that has been failed over and over and over again. 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. When they came to take me, I thought they were coming to take all of us. Montgomery was represented briefly after her arrest by Ron Wurtz, a now-retired attorney who has represented dozens of capital case defendants. When Montgomery was in her mid-teens,she was sexually assaulted by Kleiner and three or four of his friends, according to court records. Lisa Montgomery be di 11th prisoner to receive di lethal injection since July when President Donald Trump, resume federal executions. Her children even came up with a nickname to pull her out of her trances when she was unresponsive: They called her Martha instead of mom to get her attention. Its also people hearing it, knowing it and doing nothing about it. Montgomery has pleaded not guilty to kidnapping resulting in death. He had a daughter from a previous relationship, Diane, who was four years older than Montgomery. She has exhausted all legal options. Lisa Montgomery - the only female inmate on federal death row in the US - has been executed for murder in the state of Indiana. Shaughnessy has since died. This is someone who was deeply remorseful, once she became appropriately medicated and had full contact with reality, although that is a situation that waxes and wanes.. 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. When Lisa was a small child, Judy allowed men to rape her for money, including allowing her to be gang raped on multiple occasions. 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. Until July 2020, there had been no federal executions for 17 years. I didn't know what to do or how to talk to my sister about it.". 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. The murder 16 years ago is never far from the minds of the town's residents. 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. And theyre taking me away from her.. She needs someone for once in her life to be on her side., Provided by attorneys for Lisa Montgomery, "Biopsychosocial History of Lisa Marie Montgomery," by Jan Vogelsang. She pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. She is not the "worst of the worst" for whom the death penalty was intended. As one family story goes, Montgomerys first words as a toddler were, dont spank me.. 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. Many there believe the final moments of Bobbie Jo Stinnett were so horrific, the death sentence is warranted. Montgomery's cousin told her legal team that he lived with "regret for not speaking up about what happened to Lisa". On the trip home, she stopped in Topeka and called her husband to say she had gone into labor while Christmas shopping and had given birth at a Topeka birthing center. While all five are haunted by Stinnett's murder, they are also "bonded for life," Strong said. My heart goes out to the family of Bobbie Jo Stinnett and the loss that they have felt and are still feeling. 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. Every year. 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