So my letters are important.. Babies born naturally tend to have misshapen heads initially because of the pressure experienced as they go through the birth canal, he said. 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. Montgomery's alcoholic mother, Judy Shaughnessy, knew about the assaults but blamed Montgomery for bringing them upon herself. Judy Shaughnessy, drank during pregnancy. Is it ethical to execute a woman for actions that cannot be meaningfully separated from her mental illness and ugly history of abuse? Randy Strong, who investigated the case,is unhappy that some people are asking thatMontgomerys life be spared. We cant travel to talk to witnesses or to prepare experts at this point, Harwell, Montgomerys lawyer, said. 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. 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. Nobody has said that Lisa should never have been punished. In fact, he drove her back home and dropped her off in the hands of her abusers. Residents there tend to think her execution would bring an appropriate end to a painful chapter in their city's history, he said. At the same time, she blames it for the fate of her younger half-sister, Lisa Montgomery. She is not the "worst of the worst" for whom the death penalty was intended. She has always accepted responsibility. She strangled Stinnett to death and cut the baby from her stomach. At the time, Lisa had told her new husband that she was pregnant, which her former husband knew wasn't possible because of the forced sterilization. When Lisa Montgomery murdered pregnant Bobbie Jo Stinnett and ripped her unborn baby from her womb, the whole world reeled in horror. Every time she has a birthday, it will also be the anniversary of the slaughter of her mother, Whitworth said. The infant found later that day to weigh 5 pounds, 11 ounces was "very still" and didn't cry, which concerned Strong. The population hovers around just 250, and everyone knew Bobbie Jo Stinnett and her family. She was often spaced out, appearing disconnected from reality. Nationwide, only 54 women have been executed since 1900. "I think that side of Lisa needs to be out there.". She struggles to maintain her own hygiene, loses focus during conversations with others and has trouble planning simple tasks.". Lisa Montgomery's current legal team has conducted some 450 interviews with family members, friends, case workers, doctors and social workers. 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. We lived in a house of horrors. Stinnett came to, grabbing at Montgomery's knife and pulling out somehair before Montgomery strangledher to death. She didnt have nobody there to protect her once I was out of the home.. 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. Zella Gwin survives. Read about our approach to external linking. Montgomery's number of crayons and pieces of paper hassince been increased to 10 each. 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. Patterson made a mistake by abandoning them to "that crazy lady," he said at Montgomery's sentencing hearing in 2007. Fourteen of those offenders are serving long prison sentences, while the twoothers died by suicide in custody, according to a list Henry provided. When they came to take me, I thought they were coming to take all of us. The divorce left Shaughnessy no longer entitled to be Mattingly's legal guardian. 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. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who. But it wasn't Montgomery that Stinnett was expecting, it was a woman who went by the name of Darlene Fischer. You know, like, that doesn't happen to Bobbie," Morrow says. Judy later married a man named Jack who punched, kicked and choked his children, including Lisa. Ramachandran said Montgomery told him she didn't remember killing Stinnett or cutting the baby out of her body. On her way out the door, Mattingly said, Shaughnessy leaned over and told her it was all her fault she was being taken away. Protecting her half-sister became her "sole purpose in life, she said. Prosecutors said Montgomery was faking mental illness, notingthat many people are sexually abused, but few go on to kill. 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. One of those men started coming into their bedroom and raping Mattingly regularly, Mattingly said. One of the lead investigators in the case, Randy Strong, wants Montgomery executed. Now, she called him to tell him that shed gone into labor while shopping and had given birth at a clinic. Bobbie Jo's mother and husband have have not spoken publicly in many years. She was broken by people who were supposed to be her caregivers. He had a daughter from a previous relationship, Diane, who was four years older than Montgomery. Stinnett lived with her husband, Zeb, in Skidmore, Mo., a town near the state's northwest corner with fewerthan 300 people today. "I don't think people understand how bad this was," Strong said. 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. Kleiner built a makeshift shed on the side of the trailer for Montgomery, where he began molesting, and then raping, her. It would be 34 years before the half-sisters would see each other again. This story was first published on 11 January - before Lisa Montgomery's execution on 13 January. In an interview with HuffPost her first ever Diane Mattingly, now 57 and a longtime state government employee living in Kentucky, described what it was like growing up in a home without love or affection. She got into multiple car accidents, struggled to keep a job, moved around constantly, drank heavily, engaged in sex work and neglected her children. 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. 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. Jack also raped Lisa for years. Montgomery's older half-sister, Diane Mattingly, told reporters last week that Shaughnessy repeatedly beat Montgomery and Mattingly. That could change in Terre Haute. Montgomery's execution, scheduled less than 60 days, will be the first of three federal executions in January before Trump leaves office. "That's how evil this woman is," Strong said. She liked going down to the Nodaway River to swim, and playing Nintendo games at slumber parties. 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. All the while, Lisa's mother was being paid to let strange men rape Lisa. At 18, Judy pressured Lisa to marry her stepbrother. Porterfield compared the chronic abuse to pouring lighter fluid onto a spark. She would tell me I had to leave and I couldnt take anything with me because she bought everything, she recalled. However, calls for Trump to be merciful are hardly unanimous. When issuing his original stay of execution, the district. Montgomery's father, John Patterson, a 25-year-old in the military, was also an alcoholic. As Fritz patted Montgomery on the back of her hand, Strong said he noticed dried blood and tissue embedded beneath her fingernails. "I looked to my right and there was Lisa Montgomery on the sofa, holding the baby," he said. She married her stepbrother at 18 and gave birth to four children in less than five years, before having a sterilization procedure. Montgomery was put on suicide watch as soon as her execution date was set, Henry said, adding thatMontgomery had previously attempted suicide but not since 2012. Montgomery graduated in 1986 from high school at Cleveland, Okla., with hopes of joining the Air Force to earn money for college. 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. Mattingly said she saw terror in her half-sister's bright green eyes. Stitched together, they form a tapestry of family dysfunction, abuse, neglect, professional negligence, substance abuse and untreated mental illness. He married Judy Shaughnessy, who would become Montgomery's mother, in 1967 in Miami, Okla. Patterson was the second of six husbands Shaughnessy . Montgomery was represented briefly after her arrest by Ron Wurtz, a now-retired attorney who has represented dozens of capital case defendants. "I fell in love immediately.". "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. A home videoshowsCarl Boman raping and beating Montgomery, said her half-brother, Teddy Kleiner, who gave a sworn statementsaying he had seen it. This is the stuff of nightmares.". Montgomery often read her Bible or did things with her hands, including writing, quilting, and making placemats and bookmarks, Dorr said. Family members have claimed that Shaughnessy blamed Montgomery for the abuse and the divorce. Montgomery eventually divorced her first husband and married Kevin Montgomery. She went home with a newborn, one she acquired by murdering the babys pregnant mother. Join Facebook to connect with Judy Shaughnessy and others you may know. 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. For Montgomery, her lawyers argue, it began before she was born. When she was 18, Montgomery married her stepbrother. The judge in the case scolded Shaughnessy for not reporting the abuse - but did not report the abuse himself. The nature and circumstances of Montgomerys crime show she had lost touch with reality, says her half-sister, Diane Mattingly. Henry said Montgomery was expected to be transferred by Jan. 10 to the penitentiary at TerreHaute, Ind., her designated place of execution. . Her victim's community said otherwise. Judy Shaughnessy, Montgomery ' s mother, raised Lisa in poverty and chaos, with multiple stepfathers and in dozens of different homes, according to scores of interviews and documents cited. Court records say Kleiner drank heavily, beat his wife and children, and made his daughters take off their clothes before he spanked them. 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. 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. Montgomery strangled Stinnett into unconsciousness, then sliced into her stomach with the steak knife, Strong said. One was the presence of substantial planning and premeditation. 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. On the ride home, she clamped the umbilical cord and cleaned the baby girl with wipes. "And then go, 'Look at this body'. 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. Kleiner and Shaughnessy divorced in 1985, with Shaughnessy contending she once walked in on Kleiner and Montgomery having sex. Even at the age of 8, Mattingly recalled being worried about what would happen to Montgomery without her there. 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.. 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. 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. She lapsed increasingly into mental illness and repeatedly faked pregnancy. Montgomerys father, John Patterson, a 25-year-old in the military, was also an alcoholic. Read about our approach to external linking. It has been the subject of two books, multiple true crime television shows, documentaries and countless podcast episodes. Lisa Montgomery has been held at theCarswell Federal Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, for 12 years. 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. If that disconnection is brought about with enough frequency and intensity, it can become more of a steady state of being, she added. As her big sister, Diane feels immense guilt about leaving Montgomery behind in that broken home, so many years ago. Teddy Kleiner, the son of Shaughnessy and Jack Kleiner, was 45 years old when he was fatally shot in 2019 in North Topeka. Another case with Missouri ties. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who deserved mercy. "Last year, we got flowers, and gave her a $100-plus gift card and then paid her water bill," says Jena Baumli. 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. She had catfished Stinnett online under a fake name. At the instigation of Shaughnessys lawyer, Montgomery was connected to a therapist, but only briefly. Kleiner was never charged. Two days before the crime, her former husband (and stepbrother) sought custody of two of her children. Facebook gives people the. 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. A longtime death penalty opponent, Wurtz said he considers it "idiotic" that Montgomery is to be executed. "Come on, baby. DNA testing later showed they were Stinnett's. Judy drank throughout her pregnancy with Lisa and caused her to be born with brain damage. "She always wanted to be a mom," says Baumli. I was thinking, shes still back there. Her children were disturbed by it. She says it's not as if all the other people of Skidmore lead idyllic lives free from abuse, poverty and other destructive tragedies. Lisa then took the baby home and cared for her as though she was her own. There were always different men around the house. I felt sick watching the video. 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. That is exactly what Lisa Montgomery developed into, which is a person who had profound disconnection from her body, from her mind, from her experience, Porterfield said. At 1:31 AM on Wednesday, Lisa Montgomery was pronounced dead. They also discovered that Shaughnessy prostituted. Judy was an alcoholic with mental illness who married six times over the course of her life. 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. He threatened to rape our little sister if Lisa resisted and said he would kill her whole family if she told anyone. 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. Montgomery was sentenced for the murder of a 23-year-old woman who was eight months pregnant. 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. 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. Montgomerys case is not about whether she is responsible for the crime; she is. Those were disconnections that were tragic in their consequences. "I was like, 'Oh, she was not.' I didn't know what to do or how to talk to my sister about it.". "I'm sick of hearing about Lisa Montgomery and what she went through. A newspaper article quoted him as saying he had been convinced his wife was pregnant and had given birth. Several high-profile figures had appealed for clemency in Brandon's case but Mr Trump did not heed those calls. 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. "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. She was born into a family rife with mental illness, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression. Recibi una inyeccin letal en una prisin de Terre Haute,. The following day, the police arrested Montgomery at her home. Montgomery and Stinnett participated inthe "Ratter Chatter" online message board for rat terrier dog enthusiasts. 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 execution date was subsequently bumped back to Jan. 12. She was sick. She had bought supplies, including a home birth kit, and searched online for how to perform a caesarean section. For one thing, the wider world won't let them forget. 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. "It was violent and like a scene out of a horror movie," he said. Eventually, Montgomery admitted she had acted alone in killing Stinnett and taking her baby. Her lawyers are pursuing an insanity defense. Sheriff Strong insists that the crime was meticulously planned and that the woman he arrested continued to lie until backed into a corner. Montgomery suffers from severe mental illness. If you were to meet her, it would be inconceivable to you that she committed this crime, Harwell said. 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 was beaten, repeatedly raped by her stepfather and his friends and sexually trafficked by her mother. 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. "I cried," says Strong. Montgomery, her sister said, was repeatedly failed: by the deputy sheriff who was told of her abuse; by the judge who was aware she was being molested; by her trial. When Shaughnessy eventually split from her second husband, she and Montgomery testified in divorce proceedings about the sexual assaults. Lisa Montgomery's friend, Toby Dorr, provided this photo she took of a letter Montgomery wrote to her in November using black crayon. she says. 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. They were also physically violent. Montgomerys entire life was marked by people who failed to protect her, Babcock said. [N]ot only was it bizarre behavior, but it was very embarrassing for me as her daughter, she said. 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. Dorr's marriage was failing when she fell in love with John Manard, a convicted murderer 21 years her junior. She became involved with Kevin Montgomery, a divorced electrician with children of his own, and theymarried the following year. 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. "Judy was manipulative and - I hate to use this word, but - evil. It makes him even angrier that it was Stinnett's mother who discovered her that way. Montgomery told investigators she was surprised at how nicely they had treated her, considering what she had done. "Little Lisa was in the bed next to mine every time," she said. 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. 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. Judy Shaughnessy had already raised two convicted felons at the time. 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. 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. If Mattinglycould speak directly to Trump, she said, she would tell him: "Please dont take my sister. But none of those other victims responded by killing a woman and cutting her baby out of her stomach, hesaid. When Stinnett answered the door, Montgomery overpowered the pregnant woman, strangled her with a piece of rope, and cut the baby out of her womb. By multiple accounts, Kleiner was an erratic, violent man who beat the kids and his wife regularly. She would be the first woman executed by the federal government in 67. 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. These days, she requires a regimen of psychotropic drugs to function. Meanwhile, her mother in 1985 had married Richard Boman, whose son Montgomery's stepbrother, Carl Boman got Montgomery pregnant. Montgomerys case is not about whether she is responsible for the crime; she is. 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. And theyre taking me away from her.. Three federal inmates - Orlando Hall, Alfred Bourgeois and Brandon Bernard - have been put to death since the 3 November presidential election. 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. I was put in foster care with a wonderful family. They married in 1986. 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. If her execution goes forward, she will be the first federal female inmate to be executed in almost 70 years. They recommended a sentence of death. Montgomery was already vulnerable to serious mental illness, she added. Montgomery's mother, Judy Shaughnessy, drank while Montgomery was in utero, leaving her with brain damage, court documents say. While a six-week time period to prepare for clemency might always be unreasonable, it is particularly arduous given the pandemic.. . 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. She had four children in less than four years before being sterilized. The mom, Judy Shaughnessy, was so cruel she once beat the family dog to death in front of her kids, the petition states. 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 . They slept in twin beds in a small bedroomand fell asleep most nights holding hands, Mattingly said. She is permitted Sudoku puzzles and coloring pages andone book at a time. "There were so many opportunities where people could have intervened and prevented this," says Henry. The question is, should she be put to death for it? They found her cradling a new-born girl she claimed to have given birth to the previous day. And it's never about what my friend went through," she adds. She was quiet and kind, they say. Victims of severe childhood sexual abuse can overcome their trauma with certain factors, Porterfield said, such as the presence of a nurturing adult who provides love and connects them to resources to promote healing. At that time, Montgomery was awaiting trial. 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. She liked to take her finger and poke it hard into her chest, over and over in the same spot. Lisa Montgomery has been charged in the December 16 death of Bobbie Jo Stinnett, who was eight months pregnant at the time. But my hope is President Trump will stop Lisa's execution and commute her sentence to life in prison. Lisa Montgomery be di 11th prisoner to receive di lethal injection since July when President Donald Trump, resume federal executions. Montgomery has exhausted all attempts to appeal her conviction and death sentence although her attorneys are exploring possible litigation. 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. . My sister is on death row, Kleiner wrote in the lawsuit petition. 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