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. But the psychological abuse targeted at her was even more damaging. 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. A social worker found Lisa's allegations of abuse credible and turned the file. Prosecutors, in their closing argument, said that she had a filthy home, that she didnt cook and that she didnt clean, Babcock said. Montgomery smelled like a sour ashtray and body sweat" as Don Fritz and Randy Strong interrogated her on Dec. 17, 2004, Strong recalled. 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. 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. "She was really the first one to have a decent marriage, you know, and I guess looking at Bobbie Jo was like, what your dreams were when you were younger.". Lisa Montgomery be di 11th prisoner to receive di lethal injection since July when President Donald Trump, resume federal executions. "Bobbie deserves to be here today. As an adult, Montgomerys dysfunctional life mimicked that of her childhood. "Oh, they're here, I've got to go," she said. Emotions ran high in 2007 as Montgomery was tried in federal court for kidnapping resulting in death. 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. A clemency petition asking Trump to reduce Montgomerys sentence to life without parole is expected to be filed in the coming weeks. Violent acts against pregnant women and their fetuses fall into that category. He thanked the sheriff for recovering his daughter and allowing him to be the parent that his wife couldn't be. Shaughnessy also beat the girls with brooms and belts,Mattingly said. Montgomery took Stinnetts baby, clamped the umbilical cord and used baby wipes to clean her. She gives herself as an example - when Stinnett was murdered, Baumli was in rehab for a drug addiction. If they all go ahead, the federal government will have executed more people than any administration in nearly 100 years. She was often spaced out, appearing disconnected from reality. Authorities also questioned Kevin Montgomery but concluded he wasn't involved. Recibi una inyeccin letal en una prisin de Terre Haute,. The family treated Mattingly as one of their own, and gave her a sense of belonging and self-worth, she said. 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. Being loved unconditionally helped me heal, find a caring husband, and raise two children who have hearts of gold. "She is the most broken of the broken," Mattingly said. For Montgomery, her lawyers argue, it began before she was born. 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. The six-man, six-woman jury in October 2007 found Montgomery guilty and recommended she be executed. Montgomery also suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, bipolar disorder and major depression, jurors were told. His physical abuse of the children had sexual undercurrents: He would make the girls strip naked before whipping them. Montgomery's family moved from place to place during her adult years, continuing the pattern she hadknown as a child. But none of those other victims responded by killing a woman and cutting her baby out of her stomach, hesaid. 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. At the instigation of Shaughnessys lawyer, Montgomery was connected to a therapist, but only briefly. They were also physically violent. 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. [N]ot only was it bizarre behavior, but it was very embarrassing for me as her daughter, she said. Lisa then took the baby home and cared for her as though she was her own. 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. His message contained a "very heartfelt thank you. Montgomery's older half-sister, Diane Mattingly, told reporters last week that Shaughnessy repeatedly beat Montgomery and Mattingly. 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.. They recommended a sentence of death. U.S. District Judge Gary A. Fenner upheld the jury's recommendation the following April. 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 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. 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. After she gave birth to four children, Judy pressured Lisa into an involuntary sterilization. Montgomery also talked about the abuseshe had endured from her stepfather, Jack Kleiner, and the first of her two husbands, Carl Boman, Dorr said. Montgomery and Carl Boman divorced, remarried and divorced again in 1998. Melvern residents want that perception to end, she said. In fact, he drove her back home and dropped her off in the hands of her abusers. Montgomery was already vulnerable to serious mental illness, she added. "She needs to be put to death.". Diane Mattingly is the sister of Lisa Montgomery, who is scheduled for execution by the federal government on December 8, 2020. And theyre taking me away from her.. So my letters are important.. She began prostituting Lisa to older men when Lisa was in her early teens. It has been the subject of two books, multiple true crime television shows, documentaries and countless podcast episodes. She was born into a family rife with mental illness, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression. It was clear that she was traumatized, that she was somewhere else, he said. . I felt sick watching the video. 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. Meanwhile, her mother in 1985 had married Richard Boman, whose son Montgomery's stepbrother, Carl Boman got Montgomery pregnant. Judy Shaughnessy had already raised two convicted felons at the time. Montgomery was sentenced for the murder of a 23-year-old woman who was eight months pregnant. 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. When issuing his original stay of execution, the district. "There was a lot of talk both ways on it," he said when contacted by phone at his new home in Texas. 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. But the cousin, a sheriff's deputy, confessed to Montgomery's current legal team that he did nothing. "If I had, would they have taken Lisa out of the home also?" Shaughnessy would beat Mattingly with whatever was in her hand, be it a belt or a broom, she said. Montgomerys mother, Judy Shaughnessy, who was 20 at the time of her birth in 1968, drank heavily while pregnant with her daughter. Mattingly said her heart sank when she realized Montgomery wasn't coming with her. I was put in foster care with a wonderful family. She enjoyed torturing the people around her," says Mattingly. She is not the "worst of the worst" for whom the death penalty was intended. Kleiner told a reporter in 2005 that Shaughnessy's allegation was made up to support her divorce case and he was never found guilty of anything. Montgomery then said she had given birth at home with help from two female friends and, later, that she had given birth alone. . Strong said he and Fritz questioned Montgomery using a"good cop/bad cop" approach. Lisa's and my father was also mentally ill. 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. "As a result, Lisa has trouble processing information and navigating social relationships. "If I did speak up, maybe Zella and Floyd would have gone back for Lisa," she wrote. Fourteen of those offenders are serving long prison sentences, while the twoothers died by suicide in custody, according to a list Henry provided. More: The U.S. has not executed a woman in 67 years. 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. 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. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who. Montgomery's execution, scheduled less than 60 days, will be the first of three federal executions in January before Trump leaves office. "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. Defense attorney Fred Duchardt told jurors that sexual abuse during her childhood had caused Montgomeryto become mentally ill and killed her soul. The couple had three children in rapid succession. Montgomery lamented that she couldn't be present to console them because she was in solitary confinement, said Dorr, Montgomery's friend since they met in a federal prison in 2006. On the ride home, she clamped the umbilical cord and cleaned the baby girl with wipes. 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. Montgomery lived during her childhood in Washington, Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, California and Texas. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who. Join Facebook to connect with Judy Shaughnessy and others you may know. My heart goes out to the family of Bobbie Jo Stinnett and the loss that they have felt and are still feeling. The crime itself shows that Lisa had lost all touch with reality. 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. A herd of rat terriers greeted them. Read about our approach to external linking. "I get these images in my head of [Bobbie Jo's mother] finding her daughter that way.". Mrs. Around this time, she repeatedly claimed to be pregnant again, although she had undergone sterilisation after her fourth baby was born. She is the most broken of the broken. 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. 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. 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. 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. Montgomery often read her Bible or did things with her hands, including writing, quilting, and making placemats and bookmarks, Dorr said. Many there believe the final moments of Bobbie Jo Stinnett were so horrific, the death sentence is warranted. "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. The only woman on federal death row, Montgomery is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Dec. 8 at the federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana. The baby girl survived, andMontgomery took her home and briefly passed her off as her own until investigators arrested her the next day. Kleiner, the son of Shaughnessy and Jack Kleiner, was meeting witha parole officerat the time of the killing, Strong said. She meets with Montgomery regularly, she said. "It was violent and like a scene out of a horror movie," he said in a statement. On her way out the door, Mattingly said, Shaughnessy leaned over and told her it was all her fault she was being taken away. 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. "Let's say I didn't stay clean very long," she says. Montgomery is worried that her fellow inmates will have trouble coping with her upcoming execution, said her friendToby Dorr. Montgomery's alcoholic mother, Judy Shaughnessy, knew about the assaults but blamed Montgomery for bringing them upon herself. "She tried to throw her own brother under the bus for a crime that she committed.". People confuse punishment with culpability, she went on. 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. 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