She said Montgomery's crimes have affected the way Melvern is perceived in the same manner anti-gay picketing by Westboro Baptist Church has influenced perceptions about Topeka. Montgomery eventually divorced her first husband and married Kevin Montgomery. In her opinion, Montgomerys extreme childhood trauma created the conditions for her to grow into an adult with a disconnected sense of her emotions, a tenuous hold on reality, a completely warped view of human relationships, and a split and damaged sense of herself and of her body, according to expert testimony she provided for the defense. Nobody has said that Lisa should never have been punished. The cold, vicious, calculating and brutal nature of her crimes shows that Montgomery knew exactly what she was doing, Strong said. Montgomery then said she had given birth at home with help from two female friends and, later, that she had given birth alone. She was born into a family rife with mental illness, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression. Babies born naturally tend to have misshapen heads initially because of the pressure experienced as they go through the birth canal, he said. On December 8, the federal government plans to execute her for a crime she committed in the grip of severe mental illness after a lifetime of living hell. 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. Every time she has a birthday, it will also be the anniversary of the slaughter of her mother, Whitworth said. When Lisa was a small child, Judy allowed men to rape her for money, including allowing her to be gang raped on multiple occasions. Montgomery's mother, Judy Shaughnessy, drank while Montgomery was in utero, leaving her with brain damage, court documents say. Sheriff Strong insists that the crime was meticulously planned and that the woman he arrested continued to lie until backed into a corner. "But one of the things that the president can do is say - to women who have been trafficked, and who have been sexually abused - 'Your abuse matters'.". Her attorneys say that while Montgomery feels deep remorse for her crimes, her understanding of her situation waxes and wanes. The baby girl survived, andMontgomery took her home and briefly passed her off as her own until investigators arrested her the next day. 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. 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. As Strong crossed the threshold, hesaw a TV set airing an Amber Alert about the abduction of Stinnett's baby. Around this time, Shaughnessy and Patterson separated, and Mattingly was removed from the house by child protective services an act which she credits for saving her life. Residents there tend to think her execution would bring an appropriate end to a painful chapter in their city's history, he said. She lived with her children in poverty, without running water and other basic necessities, while her mental health deteriorated. And nowhere is that support more palpably felt in this case than in Skidmore. She had bought supplies, including a home birth kit, and searched online for how to perform a caesarean section. When Lisa was a small child, Judy allowed men to rape her for money, including allowing her to be gang raped on multiple occasions. Shaughnessy would beat Mattingly with whatever was in her hand, be it a belt or a broom, she said. A federal judge in November postponed Montgomery's execution from Dec. 8 until Jan. 12 to give her attorneys more time to file her clemency petition, after concluding that their COVID-19 symptoms limited their ability to file thepetition. She liked to take her finger and poke it hard into her chest, over and over in the same spot. 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.". Both became infected with COVID-19, believing it to be transmitted duringthe prison visit. They had been called in as part of the Northwest Missouri Major Case Squad, which was workingwith the FBI to identify Stinnett's killer and find the missing child. More: The U.S. has not executed a woman in 67 years. He stressed that the juryheard testimony about her mental illness and her history of being abused, yet still unanimously recommended her execution. The population hovers around just 250, and everyone knew Bobbie Jo Stinnett and her family. View the profiles of people named Judy Shaughnessy. Being loved unconditionally helped me heal, find a caring husband, and raise two children who have hearts of gold. The tiny farming town of Skidmore sits in the far northwest corner of Missouri. Porterfield compared the chronic abuse to pouring lighter fluid onto a spark. Emotions ran high in 2007 as Montgomery was tried in federal court for kidnapping resulting in death. Stinnett lived with her husband, Zeb, in Skidmore, Mo., a town near the state's northwest corner with fewerthan 300 people today. Montgomerys case is not about whether she is responsible for the crime; she is. "And then go, 'Look at this body'. Montgomery described feeling that she was unsure whether her environment was real, and confided that she used a strategy to ground herself in reality: She would look at a tree out the window and tell herself that the tree was real if she could see it. In closing arguments, assistant U.S. Attorney Matt Whitworth asked the jury to think about Stinnett's daughter, Victoria Jo Stinnett. As her attorneys fight for her life, Montgomery has at times seemed out of touch with reality,Henry said:Hermental illness causesher to disconnectwhen life becomes too terrible to endure. For one thing, the wider world won't let them forget. The question is, should she be put to death for it. "I looked to my right and there was Lisa Montgomery on the sofa, holding the baby," he said. . Shaughnessy in 1974 married her third husband, Jack Kleiner, a divorced father of five. But Strong says this is the first year he's heard directly from Stinnett's husband. 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. "I'm asking him to have compassion on her as a person that has been failed over and over and over again. A lifelong opponent of the death penalty, Dorr said she wants the world to know about Lisa Montgomery the person. 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. The mom, Judy Shaughnessy, was so cruel she once beat the family dog to death in front of her kids, the petition states. After playing with the dogs in the backyard that day, Montgomery strangled Bobbie Jo Stinnett, 23, who was pregnant, and cut open her abdomen to remove her 8-month-old fetus. Judy Shaughnessy, drank during pregnancy. She also told one of her stepbrothers about the sexual abuse around that time. 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. "I get these images in my head of [Bobbie Jo's mother] finding her daughter that way.". Some nights, she said, Shaughnessy would leave them in the house with a male babysitter. I'm bruised, but I'm not broken. Other inmates tended to keep Montgomery at arm's length because of the brutality of what she had done, Dorr said, but she liked Montgomery's quiet nature. Ms. When Judy, Lisa's mother and my stepmother, came to beat us, I stood between her and the younger girls and took the beating, whether it was belts, cords or hangers. . Montgomery was repeatedly molested by her stepdad Jack Kleiner, starting at . Three federal inmates - Orlando Hall, Alfred Bourgeois and Brandon Bernard - have been put to death since the 3 November presidential election. Lisa Montgomery strangle one pregnant woman for Missouri before cutting and kidnapping her baby in 2004. . "I cried," says Strong. Harper told a dispatcher her daughter's womb appeared to have "exploded" and that blood was "everywhere." When Mattingly attendedMontgomery's sentencing hearing in 2007, which was the first time she had seen her sister in about 35 years, she said Montgomery's face bore the same look of fear it had when they were separated. "My sister was crying and in pain. They married in 1986. 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 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. I felt sick watching the video. Violent acts against pregnant women and their fetuses fall into that category. But the psychological abuse targeted at her was even more damaging. Kleiner built a makeshift shed on the side of the trailer for Montgomery, where he began molesting, and then raping, her. Montgomery was psychotic at the time of the crime, Harwell said. One was the presence of substantial planning and premeditation. 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. 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. Bobbie's family deserves her," says Meagan Morrow, a high school classmate of Stinnett's. "She seemed like a real personI could connect with and build a relationship with inside prison," Dorr said. She lives near Kansas City, Mo. "The people that are defending [Montgomery], I wish I could take them back in time, and put them in that room," he says. Bobbie Jo's mother and husband have have not spoken publicly in many years. Tommy Kleiner and Montgomery have stayed in touch. 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. Montgomery suffers from severe mental illness. Montgomery took Stinnetts baby, clamped the umbilical cord and used baby wipes to clean her. There were always different men around the house. Lisa Montgomery's friend, Toby Dorr, provided this photo she took of a letter Montgomery wrote to her in November using black crayon. She was quiet and kind, they say. I couldn't believe how good it felt to be part of a loving family. She liked going down to the Nodaway River to swim, and playing Nintendo games at slumber parties. This story was first published on 11 January - before Lisa Montgomery's execution on 13 January. "She was completely detached from reality.". Her mother also began trafficking her, allowing handymen like electricians and plumbers to sexually abuse Montgomery in exchange for work on the house. Lisa then took the baby home and cared for her as though she was her own. "If I did speak up, maybe Zella and Floyd would have gone back for Lisa," she wrote. "Last year, we got flowers, and gave her a $100-plus gift card and then paid her water bill," says Jena Baumli. She was often spaced out, appearing disconnected from reality. During divorce proceedings, Shaughnessy admitted to the court that she had walked in on her husband raping Montgomery. 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. This is the stuff of nightmares.". 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. 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. When Shaughnessy eventually split from her second husband, she and Montgomery testified in divorce proceedings about the sexual assaults. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who. It would be 34 years before the half-sisters would see each other again. The father was a teacher. The girls' biological father left the home, and after a while, Mattingly was whisked away to foster care. 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. Montgomery is "evil personified," he said. Lisa Montgomery be di 11th prisoner to receive di lethal injection since July when President Donald Trump, resume federal executions. She told Lisa she had to "earn her keep." Judy later. 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. "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. Lisa's mother, Judy Shaughnessy, abused her "in extreme and sadistic ways," according to interviews with nearly 450 family members, neighbors, lawyers, social workers, and teachers. Montgomery also talked about the abuseshe had endured from her stepfather, Jack Kleiner, and the first of her two husbands, Carl Boman, Dorr said. Judy ultimately married six times, and had multiple partners throughout Lisa's childhood. She says it's not as if all the other people of Skidmore lead idyllic lives free from abuse, poverty and other destructive tragedies. The following day, the police arrested Montgomery at her home. Kleiner and Shaughnessy divorced in 1985, with Shaughnessy contending she once walked in on Kleiner and Montgomery having sex. In recommending execution, the jury spelled out six aggravating factors supporting capital punishment. After she gave birth to four children, Judy pressured Lisa into an involuntary sterilization. We cant travel to talk to witnesses or to prepare experts at this point, Harwell, Montgomerys lawyer, said. Since 2008, Montgomery has been held in a federal prison in Texas for female inmates with special medical and psychological needs, where she has been receiving psychiatric care. 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. These days, she requires a regimen of psychotropic drugs to function. She has exhausted all legal options except a last-ditch appeal for clemency from President Donald Trump, which was filed Christmas Eve. "The whole community over there's traumatised by this.". Court records describe her as a quiet loner who spent a lot of time reading books. Montgomery's execution date was subsequently bumped back to Jan. 12. Montgomery was also prone to delusional thinking. Other friends of Kleiner, including a plumber and an electrician, raped her in that shed, Montgomery says, as a way of collecting payment for work done around the house. Lisa Montgomery and Bobbie Jo Stinnett got to know each other online through a shared love of dogs. In a letterin late November written with a black crayon, Montgomery told Dorr that other inmates at Carswell took it "really hard" when her execution date was set. "I have seen a lot of horrible things happen to women and children in my more than 40 years in law enforcement," Strongsaid. "Being loved unconditionally helped me heal, find a caring husband and raise two children who have hearts of gold," Mattingly wrote. 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. About a week before Christmas in 2004, Lisa Montgomery, a 36-year-old mother of four, drove from her home in Kansas to Missouri, ostensibly to buy a rat terrier puppy from a woman shed met at a dog show earlier that year. 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. 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 . Montgomerys entire life was marked by people who failed to protect her, Babcock said. She lives in Lebanon, Ky., is married with two adult children and has worked the past 19 years for the state of Kentucky. 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. Dr Katherine Porterfield, a clinical psychologist who evaluated Montgomery and spent about 18 hours with her, says that psychosis does not always look the way people expect it to. 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. Her mouth was covered with duct tape so frequently that she learned not to cry. Mattingly said she saw terror in her half-sister's bright green eyes. He threatened to expose the imagined pregnancy and use it against her in the custody battle. She helped him escape in a dog crate and went to prison after a vehicle chase 12 days later ended with their capture. Montgomery also suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, bipolar disorder and major depression, jurors were told. She was beaten, repeatedly raped by her stepfather and his friends and sexually trafficked by her mother. 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, who confessed, was later sentenced to death for the especially heinous murder as decided by a jury who heard her trial. 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. 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. ", Strong said he arranged for that message to be shared with the four others, "because we were all a part of that.". DNA testing later showed they were Stinnett's. She had catfished Stinnett online under a fake name. When Floyd Gwin died last July at age 81, Mattingly was listed among the survivors in his obituary. The divorce left Shaughnessy no longer entitled to be Mattingly's legal guardian. But it wasn't Montgomery that Stinnett was expecting, it was a woman who went by the name of Darlene Fischer. A clemency petition asking Trump to reduce Montgomerys sentence to life without parole is expected to be filed in the coming weeks. Shaughnessy sat so unmoved during her daughter's testimony that the judge reprimanded her for lacking empathy. Montgomery said she was seeking a dog for a Christmas gift. 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. 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. She had brain damage, likely caused by exposure to alcohol when she was a. Montgomerys case is not about whether she is responsible for the crime; she is. JUDY SHAUGHNESSY OBITUARY Judy K. Shaughnessy Judy K. Shaughnessy, 66, Topeka, formerly of Lyndon, entered into the kingdom of heaven Saturday, November 2, 2013 at Midland Hospice House. She is not the "worst of the worst" for whom the death penalty was intended. 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. My sister is on death row, Kleiner wrote in the lawsuit petition. 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. 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. And it's never about what my friend went through," she adds. The nature and circumstances of Montgomerys crime show she had lost touch with reality, says her half-sister, Diane Mattingly. "As a result, Lisa has trouble processing information and navigating social relationships. The girls father was often away from the house for long periods, and Shaughnessy would have other men over. That could change in Terre Haute. In response to traumatic events, children may dissociate from their feelings and their bodies to protect themselves from experiencing what is happening. A social worker found Lisa's allegations of abuse credible and turned the file. Judy later married a man named Jack who punched, kicked and choked his children, including Lisa. 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. 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