She would be the first woman executed by the federal government in 67. View the profiles of people named Judy Shaughnessy. Kevin Montgomery let investigators inside. Some nights, she said, Shaughnessy would leave them in the house with a male babysitter. "Bobbie deserves to be here today. To help keep her mind occupied, Henry said, Montgomery was initially given one crayon and one piece of paper, but nothing else. Montgomery is scheduled to be put to death by a lethal injection of pentobarbital at Terre Haute prison in Indiana. If Mattinglycould speak directly to Trump, she said, she would tell him: "Please dont take my sister. Montgomery strangled Stinnett into unconsciousness, then sliced into her stomach with the steak knife, Strong said. Lisa Montgomery's friend, Toby Dorr, provided this photo she took of a letter Montgomery wrote to her in November using black crayon. Many there believe the final moments of Bobbie Jo Stinnett were so horrific, the death sentence is warranted. A home videoshowsCarl Boman raping and beating Montgomery, said her half-brother, Teddy Kleiner, who gave a sworn statementsaying he had seen it. At the instigation of Shaughnessys lawyer, Montgomery was connected to a therapist, but only briefly. It turns out that it only takes a few people to save a child's life: being loved by my foster parents saved mine. Her victim's community said otherwise. 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. Other times, her behavior could be erratic and inappropriate. Montgomery said she was seeking a dog for a Christmas gift. He threatened to expose the imagined pregnancy and use it against her in the custody battle. There is a decision that has to be made, separate from guilt, about whether someones behavior is so morally reprehensible that they deserve the death penalty, she said. The question is, should she be put to death for it. Lisa Montgomery has been held at theCarswell Federal Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, for 12 years. In the end, it was in prisonwhere she spent years on death row after committing a horrific crimethat she began to recover from a lifetime of nightmarish abuse. He stressed that the juryheard testimony about her mental illness and her history of being abused, yet still unanimously recommended her execution. 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. Today, residents are tired of Melvernbeing connected with Lisa Montgomery, said current Mayor Lyndon Weddle, who describesMelvern asafriendlyrural community where people wave when they pass each other. "Oh, they're here, I've got to go," she said. 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. ", "I live with regret for not speaking up about what happened to Lisa," Kidwell said, adding that he just didnt know what to do.. She also told one of her stepbrothers about the sexual abuse around that time. 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. 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. 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. Im not a psychiatrist, so I cant go any further than that.. Shaughnessy would beat Mattingly with whatever was in her hand, be it a belt or a broom, she said. At that time, Montgomery was awaiting trial. - Sandra Babcock, faculty director of the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide, Montgomery, who confessed, was later sentenced to death for the , The Trump administration announced it was. 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. She lived at 61 addresses in the 36 years before she went to prison, court documents show. Montgomery's family moved from place to place during her adult years, continuing the pattern she hadknown as a child. 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. 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. "Let's say I didn't stay clean very long," she says. Lisa Montgomery - the only female inmate on federal death row in the US - has been executed for murder in the state of Indiana. The cold, vicious, calculating and brutal nature of her crimes shows that Montgomery knew exactly what she was doing, Strong said. She went home with a newborn, one she acquired by murdering the babys pregnant mother. Jack also raped Lisa for years. The following day, the police arrested Montgomery at her home. The couple had four children in five years, but the relationship was not the escape from violence that Montgomery might have hoped it would be. In December 2004, Montgomery, who was 36 at the time, strangled Bobbie Jo Stinnett before cutting the baby out of her womb and kidnapping it. Another case with Missouri ties. After she gave birth to four children, Judy pressured Lisa into an involuntary sterilization. "The whole story is tragic," says Kelley Henry, one of Montgomery's federal defence lawyers. 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. Zella Gwin survives. Her children were disturbed by it. He had a daughter from a previous relationship, Diane, who was four years older than Montgomery. 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. 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. Bobbie's family deserves her," says Meagan Morrow, a high school classmate of Stinnett's. Lisa then took the baby home and cared for her as though she was her own. They also discovered that Shaughnessy prostituted. There are things children need to grow into healthy adults, among them love, praise and stability. The baby girl survived, andMontgomery took her home and briefly passed her off as her own until investigators arrested her the next day. 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. Lisa Montgomery strangle one pregnant woman for Missouri before cutting and kidnapping her baby in 2004. . She liked to take her finger and poke it hard into her chest, over and over in the same spot. He testified that Montgomery had been in a dissociative state, or "mental fog," at the time. 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. She had this ability to find what hurt you the most and use that against you, Mattingly 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Montgomery told Stinnett that she was also expecting, and the pair shared pregnancy stories. Babies born naturally tend to have misshapen heads initially because of the pressure experienced as they go through the birth canal, he said. "My sister was crying and in pain. "It was violent and like a scene out of a horror movie," he said in a statement. Henrysaid she was surprised to see Montgomery scheduled for execution so soon, considering 30 other inmates on federal death row were sentencedbefore her. She enjoyed torturing the people around her," says Mattingly. These days, she requires a regimen of psychotropic drugs to function. When Shaughnessy eventually split from her second husband, she and Montgomery testified in divorce proceedings about the sexual assaults. Montgomery often read her Bible or did things with her hands, including writing, quilting, and making placemats and bookmarks, Dorr said. Newspaper accounts show Montgomery had upset other users of that board by making false statements, including claiming to be pregnant. She lives near Kansas City, Mo. Montgomery's older half-sister, Diane Mattingly, told reporters last week that Shaughnessy repeatedly beat Montgomery and Mattingly. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who. Montgomerys father, John Patterson, a 25-year-old in the military, was also an alcoholic. . It is hard to know if Montgomery understands that she is close to being executed; her mental state does not allow for much lucidity. Mattingly said she saw terror in her half-sister's bright green eyes. The six-man, six-woman jury in October 2007 found Montgomery guilty and recommended she be executed. 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. But the cousin, a sheriff's deputy, confessed to Montgomery's current legal team that he did nothing. Stinnett wasn't breathing and was cold. At one point, one of Montgomery's brothers found a home movie that showed Montgomery's husband raping and beating her. Babcock said the constant in every case she has seen is an overwhelming history of trauma. She pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. 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. Kleiner was never charged. "If I had, would they have taken Lisa out of the home also?" 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. Lisa Montgomery be di 11th prisoner to receive di lethal injection since July when President Donald Trump, resume federal executions. When she was 18, Montgomery married her stepbrother. Montgomerys case is not about whether she is responsible for the crime; she is. Around this time, she repeatedly claimed to be pregnant again, although she had undergone sterilisation after her fourth baby was born. The tiny farming town of Skidmore sits in the far northwest corner of Missouri. 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. Stinnett came to, grabbing at Montgomery's knife and pulling out somehair before Montgomery strangledher to death. "Come on, baby. "One sister got taken out and got put into a loving home and was nurtured and had time to heal," says Mattingly. "She needs to be put to death.". 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. A longtime death penalty opponent, Wurtz said he considers it "idiotic" that Montgomery is to be executed. Montgomery was represented briefly after her arrest by Ron Wurtz, a now-retired attorney who has represented dozens of capital case defendants. 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. 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. [N]ot only was it bizarre behavior, but it was very embarrassing for me as her daughter, she said. "Last year, we got flowers, and gave her a $100-plus gift card and then paid her water bill," says Jena Baumli. As her big sister, Diane feels immense guilt about leaving Montgomery behind in that broken home, so many years ago. 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. Lisa Montgomery had little if any chance in life. Nobody has said that Lisa should never have been punished. 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. "Being loved unconditionally helped me heal, find a caring husband and raise two children who have hearts of gold," Mattingly wrote. Part of HuffPost Crime. President-elect Joe Biden has already pledged to end death penalty proceedings, although he hasn't said when. He married Judy Shaughnessy, who would become Montgomery's mother, in 1967 in . On the ride home, she clamped the umbilical cord and cleaned the baby girl with wipes. He threatened to rape our little sister if Lisa resisted and said he would kill her whole family if she told anyone. 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. Her daughter remembered her acting like a young child in public, twirling and skipping with her arms swinging with abandon. Lisa Montgomery is no different. Montgomery's execution, scheduled less than 60 days, will be the first of three federal executions in January before Trump leaves office. 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. Nationwide, only 54 women have been executed since 1900. "We knew we were walking into the killer's house.". Nobody has said that Lisa should never have been punished. Prosecutors said Montgomery was faking mental illness, notingthat many people are sexually abused, but few go on to kill. Montgomery's mother, Judy Shaughnessy, told The . She lived with her children in poverty, without running water and other basic necessities, while her mental health deteriorated. "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.". 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. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who deserved mercy. "If I did speak up, maybe Zella and Floyd would have gone back for Lisa," she wrote. Let it be done: Bobbie Jo Stinnetts hometown waits as killers execution date nears. "I felt sick watching the video. Mattingly has enjoyed a "blessed life," she said. "There were so many opportunities where people could have intervened and prevented this," says Henry. Mattingly and Montgomery were best friends. They slept in twin beds in a small bedroomand fell asleep most nights holding hands, Mattingly said. Ms. Her lawyers at the time also presented an alternative theory of the crime, which was that Montgomery's brother had actually committed the murder, even though he had an alibi. While a six-week time period to prepare for clemency might always be unreasonable, it is particularly arduous given the pandemic.. In the haze of her mental illness, she went to the home of a pregnant woman, killed her, and removed the baby. "This was the act of a monster," he said. 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. The judge in the case scolded Shaughnessy for not reporting the abuse - but did not report the abuse himself. Those were disconnections that were tragic in their consequences. She became involved with Kevin Montgomery, a divorced electrician with children of his own, and theymarried the following year. My sister, Lisa Montgomery, is broken. It has been the subject of two books, multiple true crime television shows, documentaries and countless podcast episodes. 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. In fact, he drove her back home and dropped her off in the hands of her abusers. Several high-profile figures had appealed for clemency in Brandon's case but Mr Trump did not heed those calls. And then at the end, she was broken.". The threat of losing her children, combined with the years of untreated trauma and severe mental illness, pushed Lisa over the edge. I cant understand why they have to kill this woman, knowing her background and everything that happened, he said. 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. Lisa's and my father was also mentally ill. But they were what we come to understand as neuro-physiological adaptations to survive being constantly under assault.. 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. Eventually, Montgomery admitted she had acted alone in killing Stinnett and taking her baby. I felt sick watching the video. That could change in Terre Haute. 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. Tommy Kleiner and Montgomery have stayed in touch. ", More: Only woman on federal death row asks President Trump to be a 'hero,' commute her sentence. As Strong crossed the threshold, hesaw a TV set airing an Amber Alert about the abduction of Stinnett's baby. 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. 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. Montgomery's mother, Judy Shaughnessy, who was 20 at the time of her birth in 1968, drank heavily while pregnant with her daughter. "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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Montgomery is worried that her fellow inmates will have trouble coping with her upcoming execution, said her friendToby Dorr. For Montgomery, her lawyers argue, it began before she was born. If her execution goes forward, she will be the first federal female inmate to be executed in almost 70 years. He continued the cycle of abuse, rapes and beatings, which he sadistically videotaped. One of the lead investigators in the case, Randy Strong, wants Montgomery executed. Montgomery lived during her childhood in Washington, Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, California and Texas. She has writtenopinion piecespublished in Elle and Newsweek. Join Facebook to connect with Judy Shaughnessy and others you may know. 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 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. 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. "And then go, 'Look at this body'. At the same time, she blames it for the fate of her younger half-sister, Lisa Montgomery. Lisa Montgomery and Bobbie Jo Stinnett got to know each other online through a shared love of dogs. If they all go ahead, the federal government will have executed more people than any administration in nearly 100 years. Montgomery also suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, bipolar disorder and major depression, jurors were told. One of those men started coming into their bedroom and raping Mattingly regularly, Mattingly said. Three federal inmates - Orlando Hall, Alfred Bourgeois and Brandon Bernard - have been put to death since the 3 November presidential election. Patterson made a mistake by abandoning them to "that crazy lady," he said at Montgomery's sentencing hearing in 2007. 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