Mental health experts who examined her believe that her history of childhood trauma exacerbated a genetic predisposition to mental illness that ran in her family. "She was completely detached from reality.". Montgomery is "evil personified," he said. The threat of losing her children, combined with the years of untreated trauma and severe mental illness, pushed Lisa over the edge. 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. At 18, she married her stepbrother, who also beat and raped her. And then there is the life that Montgomery and her siblings inhabited, one of domestic violence, dysfunction, humiliation, fear and pain. Her lawyers say that as she lost touch with reality, she fantasised about being pregnant. She has exhausted all legal options except a last-ditch appeal for clemency from President Donald Trump, which was filed Christmas Eve. When Lisa Montgomery murdered pregnant Bobbie Jo Stinnett and ripped her unborn baby from her womb, the whole world reeled in horror. Jurors heard an audiotape of Harper, Stinnett's mother, calling 911 after finding her body. "When I squeezed her hand, she looked at me and smiled," she said. On the ride home, she clamped the umbilical cord and cleaned the baby girl with wipes. Newspaper accounts show Montgomery had upset other users of that board by making false statements, including claiming to be pregnant. 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. In closing arguments, assistant U.S. Attorney Matt Whitworth asked the jury to think about Stinnett's daughter, Victoria Jo Stinnett. After she gave birth to four children, Judy pressured Lisa into an involuntary sterilization. There was plenty of food, our clothes were clean, and the kids did our homework together. I'm bruised, but I'm not broken. The baby was returned to her father, after being recovered from Montgomery. According to her lawyers and witnesses, Montgomery suffered years of childhood abuse so severe it was akin to torture. Shaughnessy in 1974 married her third husband, Jack Kleiner, a divorced father of five. Dorr has since been released from prison and remarried. She is the most broken of the broken. Join half a million readers enjoying Newsweek's free newsletters, Everyone Practices Cancel Culture | Opinion, Deplatforming Free Speech is Dangerous | Opinion. The family moved often. They married in 1986. At least five times after she was sterilized, she told people that she was pregnant. 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. She had catfished Stinnett online under a fake name. She says it's not as if all the other people of Skidmore lead idyllic lives free from abuse, poverty and other destructive tragedies. She helped him escape in a dog crate and went to prison after a vehicle chase 12 days later ended with their capture. After previously being allowed contact with a limited number of inmates, Montgomery was moved to a solitary confinement cell at Carswell and kept there 24 hours a day, seven days a week, Henry said. Protecting her half-sister became her "sole purpose in life, she said. A few years after Mattingly was removed from the home, when Montgomery was in kindergarten, her mother remarried a man named Jack Kleiner. "The whole story is tragic," says Kelley Henry, one of Montgomery's federal defence lawyers. 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. That could change in Terre Haute. He testified that Montgomery had been in a dissociative state, or "mental fog," at the time. Randy Strong, who investigated the case,is unhappy that some people are asking thatMontgomerys life be spared. The clemency process enables convicted criminals to request mercy and ask the nation's executive branch to step in, Henry said. It was clear that she was traumatized, that she was somewhere else, he said. She told Lisa she had to "earn her keep.". Her story quickly fell apart and she confessed to the killing. In 1986, when Montgomery was 18, she married her stepbrother, Carl Boman. Mattingly believes that by living with loving adults who nurtured her, she was able to process the trauma of her childhood and become a well-adjusted adult. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who deserved mercy. Friends and family began noticing Montgomery's tendency to slip into "a world of her own". Read about our approach to external linking. Two other inmates are scheduled to die at Terre Haute prison before Mr Trump's presidency ends. Her death is scheduled a little over a month before the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, who has pledged to end the federal death penalty. She has exhausted all legal options. Montgomery and Stinnett participated inthe "Ratter Chatter" online message board for rat terrier dog enthusiasts. When Montgomery was 15, Shaughnessy and Kleiner separated. 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.". He thanked the sheriff for recovering his daughter and allowing him to be the parent that his wife couldn't be. She had this ability to find what hurt you the most and use that against you, Mattingly said. She lived with her children in poverty, without running water and other basic necessities, while her mental health deteriorated. People confuse punishment with culpability, she went on. "Let's say I didn't stay clean very long," she says. Lisa was anally, orally, and vaginally raped by several men, one after the other for several hours at a time. She had bought supplies, including a home birth kit, and searched online for how to perform a caesarean section. 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. In asking for mercy, her family members and attorneys say the untreated trauma she experienced as a child exacerbated her brain damage and hergenetic disposition to severe mental illness, leading her to kill Stinnett during a psychotic episode a dissociative state similar to sleepwalking. 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. Stinnett bled to death. The cold, vicious, calculating and brutal nature of her crimes shows that Montgomery knew exactly what she was doing, Strong said. When I was eight and Lisa was four, social services came and rescued me from Judy, leaving Lisa and our other sister behind. What you need to know about Montgomery and her victim, Bobbie Jo Stinnett. "Last year, we got flowers, and gave her a $100-plus gift card and then paid her water bill," says Jena Baumli. 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. She was born in 1968, the child of two troubled alcoholics. 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. 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. And, in fact, blaming her for it.. 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. 2023 BBC. 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. 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. 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. The following day, the police arrested Montgomery at her home. Mattingly has enjoyed a "blessed life," she said. She didnt have nobody there to protect her once I was out of the home.. Zella Gwin survives. Judy Shaughnessy had already raised two convicted felons at the time. Lisa Montgomery lived a tortured life, from the day she was born in a small Washington town till the day she became the first woman in 67 years to be executed by the U.S. government. 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. 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. View the profiles of people named Judy Shaughnessy. Eventually, Montgomery admitted she had acted alone in killing Stinnett and taking her baby. "And then go, 'Look at this body'. "And Lisa deserves to pay.". "Maybe she could have been saved, too. I couldn't believe how good it felt to be part of a loving family. U.S. District Judge Gary A. Fenner upheld the jury's recommendation the following April. Montgomerys case is not about whether she is responsible for the crime; she is. . 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. She is not the "worst of the worst" for whom the death penalty was intended. You know, like, that doesn't happen to Bobbie," Morrow says. They were also physically violent. 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. 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. "There was so much pressure on her at that point," says Henry. 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. 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.. 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. Violent acts against pregnant women and their fetuses fall into that category. Who was the last woman executed by the US government? Babcock said the constant in every case she has seen is an overwhelming history of trauma. She is permitted Sudoku puzzles and coloring pages andone book at a time. A lifelong opponent of the death penalty, Dorr said she wants the world to know about Lisa Montgomery the person. Kleiner and Shaughnessy divorced in 1985, with Shaughnessy contending she once walked in on Kleiner and Montgomery having sex. "God, no, please," she said. Stitched together, they form a tapestry of family dysfunction, abuse, neglect, professional negligence, substance abuse and untreated mental illness. 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. "Come on, baby. Montgomery, who confessed, was later sentenced to death for the especially heinous murder as decided by a jury who heard her trial. "She was hyperventilating," Henry said. Even at the age of 8, Mattingly recalled being worried about what would happen to Montgomery without her there. The baby, who was uninjured, was returned to her father. When they came to take me, I thought they were coming to take all of us. Montgomery's second husband Kevin Montgomery, who lives near Melvern and remains married to her voiced support for her bid for clemency in a statement releasedthrough his wife's attorneys. For Montgomery, her lawyers argue, it began before she was born. However, in the tiny town of Skidmore, Missouri, where the crime was committed, there is little sympathy for that argument. Montgomery's father, John Patterson, a 25-year-old in the military, was also an alcoholic. They gave me unconditional love, they taught me my self-worth, she said. Montgomery's number of crayons and pieces of paper hassince been increased to 10 each. And I am just asking for somebody - once - not to fail her.". Bobbie Jo Stinnetts hometown waits as killers execution date nears. Henry said Montgomery was expected to be transferred by Jan. 10 to the penitentiary at TerreHaute, Ind., her designated place of execution. Her mother also began trafficking her, allowing handymen like electricians and plumbers to sexually abuse Montgomery in exchange for work on the house. Lisa Montgomery - the only female inmate on federal death row in the US - has been executed for murder in the state of Indiana. She had brain damage, likely caused by exposure to alcohol when she was a. When Floyd Gwin died last July at age 81, Mattingly was listed among the survivors in his obituary. She was forced to sit in a high chair for hours if she did not finish her food. She missed the funeral because of it. Mattingly, Montgomerys sister, is planning on visiting her next week. Please, honey.". School friend Baumli says she's read the descriptions of Montgomery's abuse, but it mostly just makes her angry. She is the only woman on federal death row. And nowhere is that support more palpably felt in this case than in Skidmore. It has been the subject of two books, multiple true crime television shows, documentaries and countless podcast episodes. That was ultimately dropped in favour of an insanity defence, but Henry believes the damage to Montgomery's credibility was already done. 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. He recalled that Montgomery begged him not to tell anyone, for fear that Kleiner would kill her. Lisa Montgomery has been charged in the December 16 death of Bobbie Jo Stinnett, who was eight months pregnant at the time. The question is, should she be put to death for it. Court records say Kleiner drank heavily, beat his wife and children, and made his daughters take off their clothes before he spanked them. She did not see her again until Montgomerys trial 34 years later. Judy ultimately married six times, and had multiple partners throughout Lisa's childhood. Part of HuffPost Crime. Lisa Montgomery, a federal prisoner, is now slated to be executed on Jan. 12. 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. He married Judy Shaughnessy, who would become Montgomery's mother, in 1967 in Miami, Okla. Patterson was the second of six husbands Shaughnessy . As Strongand other investigators were about to pull into the driveway of Montgomery's house, he said, he learned via a phone callthat the last email Stinnett received had come from that home. Kleiner built a makeshift shed on the side of the trailer for Montgomery, where he began molesting, and then raping, her. Fourteen of those offenders are serving long prison sentences, while the twoothers died by suicide in custody, according to a list Henry provided. In her interviews with Montgomery, Porterfield said, the woman showed symptoms of dissociation, including confused thinking, major gaps in memory, and an inability to recognize the reality of certain events. A social worker found Lisa's allegations of abuse credible and turned the file. Lisa's and my father was also mentally ill. And then go, 'Stand there and listen to the 911 call of [Stinnett's mother]. Often the woman, now 52 and a grandmother of 12, is knitting or doing needlepoint. 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. Since they began, the federal government has executed seven people. Montgomery said she was seeking a dog for a Christmas gift. Recibi una inyeccin letal en una prisin de Terre Haute,. 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. I was thinking, shes still back there. In addition to Strong and Fritz, those investigators were FBI Special Agents Mike Miller and Scott Gentine and Topeka police officer Tom Glor. She was born into a family rife with mental illness, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression. It is hard to know if Montgomery understands that she is close to being executed; her mental state does not allow for much lucidity. I was put in foster care with a wonderful family. And to not fail her.". She enjoyed torturing the people around her," says Mattingly. The girls' biological father left the home, and after a while, Mattingly was whisked away to foster care. "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.". Authorities also questioned Kevin Montgomery but concluded he wasn't involved. Her lawyers are pursuing an insanity defense. Many there believe the final moments of Bobbie Jo Stinnett were so horrific, the death sentence is warranted. 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. "There were so many opportunities where people could have intervened and prevented this," says Henry. 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. "This was a very coordinated and determined plan to ensure that as many people could be executed on federal death row as possible before the end of this administration term.". When she called her attorneys that day, she could hardly speak. For Montgomery, her lawyers argue, it began before she was born. Lisa Montgomery - the only female inmate on federal death row in the US - has been executed for murder in the state of Indiana. The infant found later that day to weigh 5 pounds, 11 ounces was "very still" and didn't cry, which concerned Strong. Family members have claimed that Shaughnessy blamed Montgomery for the abuse and the divorce. Lisa Montgomery be di 11th prisoner to receive di lethal injection since July when President Donald Trump, resume federal executions. The father was a teacher. 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. She lived at 61 addresses in the 36 years before she went to prison, court documents show. If they all go ahead, the federal government will have executed more people than any administration in nearly 100 years. I felt sick watching the video. 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. He said he was "reduced to tears" when Zeb Stinnett sent him a message last month on the 16th anniversary of Montgomery's arrest for the murder of his wife. 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. 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. 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. 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. Kevin Montgomery let investigators inside. Melvern residents want that perception to end, she said. . As Strong crossed the threshold, hesaw a TV set airing an Amber Alert about the abduction of Stinnett's baby. She lives near Kansas City, Mo. "I get these images in my head of [Bobbie Jo's mother] finding her daughter that way.". Henrysaid she was surprised to see Montgomery scheduled for execution so soon, considering 30 other inmates on federal death row were sentencedbefore her. He had a daughter from a previous relationship, Diane, who was four years older than Montgomery. She went home with a newborn, one she acquired by murdering the babys pregnant mother. According to sworn statements from her family, her mental health declined rapidly after that. My sister, Lisa Montgomery, is broken. A former paramedic who had watched the births of all three of his children, Strong also considered the baby's head to be unusually round. While a six-week time period to prepare for clemency might always be unreasonable, it is particularly arduous given the pandemic.. For one thing, the wider world won't let them forget. Lisa Montgomery's friend, Toby Dorr, provided this photo she took of a letter Montgomery wrote to her in November using black crayon. Is it ethical to execute a woman for actions that cannot be meaningfully separated from her mental illness and ugly history of abuse? 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. 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's alcoholic mother, Judy Shaughnessy, knew about the assaults but blamed Montgomery for bringing them upon herself. She pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. 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. More: The U.S. has not executed a woman in 67 years. This is the stuff of nightmares.". Im not a psychiatrist, so I cant go any further than that.. "It was violent and like a scene out of a horror movie," he said. . Friends recall her as a good student with a love of horses and dogs. The judge in the case scolded Shaughnessy for not reporting the abuse - but did not report the abuse himself. 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. Montgomery's mother, Judy Shaughnessy, who was 20 at the time of her birth in 1968, drank heavily while pregnant with her daughter. Nationwide, only 54 women have been executed since 1900. "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. At 18, Judy pressured Lisa to marry her stepbrother. When issuing his original stay of execution, the district. 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. And then at the end, she was broken.". Montgomery's mother, Judy Shaughnessy, told The . 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. 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. According to Gallup, while support for the death penalty in the US is at its lowest level in more than 50 years, 55% of Americans still believe it is an appropriate punishment for murder. She had four children in less than four years before being sterilized. It turns out that it only takes a few people to save a child's life: being loved by my foster parents saved mine. 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. 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. Judy Shaughnessy and her boyfriend physical, psychological . Her mother and father, teachers at school who suspected abuse, and the courts who learned of her victimization when she was a teen and did nothing. "Oh, they're here, I've got to go," she said. Montgomery was already vulnerable to serious mental illness, she added. And it's never about what my friend went through," she adds. More: Who was the last woman executed by the US government? 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. 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. The question is, should she be put to death for it? 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