On the ride home, she clamped the umbilical cord and cleaned the baby girl with wipes. They have been joined by a chorus of supportive voices from the legal field, including 41 former and current prosecutors, as well as human rights entities like the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who deserved mercy. Lisa Montgomery had little if any chance in life. 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. Nobody has said that Lisa should never have been punished. 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. 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. When I was eight and Lisa was four, social services came and rescued me from Judy, leaving Lisa and our other sister behind. Judy Shaughnessy and her boyfriend physical, psychological and sexual abuse Lisa. 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. At least five times after she was sterilized, she told people that she was pregnant. Montgomery has pleaded not guilty to kidnapping resulting in death. Montgomery's father, John Patterson, a 25-year-old in the military, was also an alcoholic. Theyre saying that a sentence of life without the possibility of parole is more than sufficient punishment for someone who has endured what she did.. 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. Kleiner and Shaughnessy divorced in 1985, with Shaughnessy contending she once walked in on Kleiner and Montgomery having sex. 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. 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. 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. Let it be done: Bobbie Jo Stinnetts hometown waits as killers execution date nears. Montgomery's cousin told her legal team that he lived with "regret for not speaking up about what happened to Lisa". "She was completely detached from reality.". U.S. District Judge Gary A. Fenner upheld the jury's recommendation the following April. 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.. I didn't know what to do or how to talk to my sister about it.". They gave me unconditional love, they taught me my self-worth, she said. When she called her attorneys that day, she could hardly speak. 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.. The baby girl survived, andMontgomery took her home and briefly passed her off as her own until investigators arrested her the next day. "There was so much pressure on her at that point," says Henry. A generation ago, it was the kind of place where you could "get your hair cut, see a show, buy rabbit feed and eat dinner" - but those days are long gone. In Montgomerys early childhood, her older sister, Diane, suffered the worst of the violence. The couple returned to their home near Melvern, which was being watched by investigators working to identify the woman who had told Stinnett she was Darlene Fischer. 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. Lisa's and my father was also mentally ill. In what Mattingly described as the most lucky thing to ever happen to her, she was placed with a loving foster family who showered her with affection. "She tried to throw her own brother under the bus for a crime that she committed.". The mom, Judy Shaughnessy, was so cruel she once beat the family dog to death in front of her kids, the petition states. Jurors heard an audiotape of Harper, Stinnett's mother, calling 911 after finding her body. Shaughnessy has since died. Montgomery claimed to live in northwest Missouri. 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. He recalled that Montgomery begged him not to tell anyone, for fear that Kleiner would kill her. 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. 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. Lisa Montgomery strangle one pregnant woman for Missouri before cutting and kidnapping her baby in 2004. . The following day, the police arrested Montgomery at her home. "It was violent and like a scene out of a horror movie," he said in a statement. 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. They introduced her as their daughter, Abigail, and made multiple other stops. Prosecutors said Montgomery was faking mental illness, notingthat many people are sexually abused, but few go on to kill. "I'm asking him to have compassion on her as a person that has been failed over and over and over again. Kevin Montgomery let investigators inside. One of those men started coming into their bedroom and raping Mattingly regularly, Mattingly said. She moved in 1999 to Melvern, a town about 40 miles south of Topeka with 375 people today. He said she stood out to the extentthere appeared to be something wrong" with her. Lisa Montgomery's current legal team has conducted some 450 interviews with family members, friends, case workers, doctors and social workers. More: Why the fate of the only woman on federal death row hinges on these Tennessee attorneys and their health, "Lisas trauma was so severe that it compromised her neurological functioning and development," they said in a written statement. Her lawyers are pursuing an insanity defense. In closing arguments, assistant U.S. Attorney Matt Whitworth asked the jury to think about Stinnett's daughter, Victoria Jo Stinnett. 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. 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. I felt sick watching the video. She was quiet and kind, they say. 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. Stitched together, they form a tapestry of family dysfunction, abuse, neglect, professional negligence, substance abuse and untreated mental illness. 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. "She is the most broken of the broken," Mattingly said. 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. Read about our approach to external linking. Kleiner built a makeshift shed on the side of the trailer for Montgomery, where he began molesting, and then raping, her. She enjoyed torturing the people around her," says Mattingly. 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. A few years after Mattingly was removed from the home, when Montgomery was in kindergarten, her mother remarried a man named Jack Kleiner. 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. Montgomerys legal team is fighting against the clock to gather the information needed for her clemency petition, which has been complicated by the coronavirus crisis. 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. Patterson was transferred after Montgomerys birth to Fort Riley inKansas, where their family lived when another daughter was born in 1970. And then go, 'Stand there and listen to the 911 call of [Stinnett's mother]. Shaughnessy knew that Mattingly was sensitive about abandonment due to her severed relationship with her birth mother, and so she would strip Mattingly naked and push her outside the front door, pretending that she was kicked out. They hold a collection and try to do something nice for Stinnett's mother. The girls father was often away from the house for long periods, and Shaughnessy would have other men over. 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. While all five are haunted by Stinnett's murder, they are also "bonded for life," Strong said. School friend Baumli says she's read the descriptions of Montgomery's abuse, but it mostly just makes her angry. More recently, the states that have been carrying out executions, such as Texas and Tennessee, have halted and delayed executions because of the pandemic. What you need to know about Montgomery and her victim, Bobbie Jo Stinnett. 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. She had brain damage, likely caused by exposure to alcohol when she was a. She describes Montgomery's ex-husband as cruel and harassing. Montgomery lived during her childhood in Washington, Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, California and Texas. Her victim's community said otherwise. "I would say, 'President Trump, I want you to look at the life that Lisa had led, I want to look at all the people that have failed her, I want you to look at the rape, the torture, the mental abuse, the physical abuse that this woman had endured,'" she says. Montgomery was represented briefly after her arrest by Ron Wurtz, a now-retired attorney who has represented dozens of capital case defendants. 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. For one thing, the wider world won't let them forget. She was forced to sit in a high chair for hours if she did not finish her food. The murder 16 years ago is never far from the minds of the town's residents. 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. Shaughnessy would beat Mattingly with whatever was in her hand, be it a belt or a broom, she said. 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. Theyre saying that a sentence of life without the possibility of parole is more than sufficient punishment for someone who has endured what she did.. She married her stepbrother at 18 and gave birth to four children in less than five years, before having a sterilization procedure. More: The U.S. has not executed a woman in 67 years. "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. "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.". In 1986, when Montgomery was 18, she married her stepbrother, Carl Boman. Part of HuffPost Crime. I was thinking, shes still back there. 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.". Shaughnessy also beat the girls with brooms and belts,Mattingly said. President Donald Trump can "break the chain of evil" experienced by Montgomery and other members of her family by granting clemency and commuting her sentence to life imprisonment, Mattingly said. The judge reached no conclusion aboutwhether sexual activity occurred but said he considered it "inexcusable" that Shaughnessy didn't report the situation to authorities and get counseling for Montgomery. "I was like, 'Oh, she was not.' It is hard to know if Montgomery understands that she is close to being executed; her mental state does not allow for much lucidity. When Lisa was a small child, Judy allowed men to rape her for money, including allowing her to be gang raped on multiple occasions. And then at the end, she was broken.". "And Lisa deserves to pay.". Montgomery then said she had given birth at home with help from two female friends and, later, that she had given birth alone. "Being loved unconditionally helped me heal, find a caring husband and raise two children who have hearts of gold," Mattingly wrote. . The judge in the case scolded Shaughnessy for not reporting the abuse - but did not report the abuse himself. If you or someone you know needs support for issues about emotional distress, these organisations may be able to help. "It was pretty awful.". "I don't think people understand how bad this was," Strong said. Her terror was well-founded, said Montgomery's attorneys, Kelley Henry and Amy Harwell. But the cousin, a sheriff's deputy, confessed to Montgomery's current legal team that he did nothing. Montgomery's execution date was subsequently bumped back to Jan. 12. The five investigators who went to Montgomery's home that day recently began communicating with oneanother again, said Strong, who is now sheriff ofNodaway County, which includes Maryville and Skidmore. 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. 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. Two other inmates are scheduled to die at Terre Haute prison before Mr Trump's presidency ends. They were also physically violent. She told Lisa she had to "earn her keep." Judy later. 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. As a teenager, Montgomery confided in a cousin, telling him the men would tie her up, beat her and even urinate on her afterwards. 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 often read her Bible or did things with her hands, including writing, quilting, and making placemats and bookmarks, Dorr said. That was ultimately dropped in favour of an insanity defence, but Henry believes the damage to Montgomery's credibility was already done. "Bobbie deserves to be here today. She was the first woman executed by the federal government in 67 years. She does not deserve to die. The tiny farming town of Skidmore sits in the far northwest corner of Missouri. Judy Shaughnessy, drank during pregnancy. But my hope is President Trump will stop Lisa's execution and commute her sentence to life in prison. The question is, should she be put to death for it? 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. 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. A lifelong opponent of the death penalty, Dorr said she wants the world to know about Lisa Montgomery the person. She gives herself as an example - when Stinnett was murdered, Baumli was in rehab for a drug addiction. When Floyd Gwin died last July at age 81, Mattingly was listed among the survivors in his obituary. Jack also raped Lisa for years. It is the only federal prison with an active death chamber. Read about our approach to external linking. Stinnett lived with her husband, Zeb, in Skidmore, Mo., a town near the state's northwest corner with fewerthan 300 people today. When Lisa Montgomery murdered pregnant Bobbie Jo Stinnett and ripped her unborn baby from her womb, the whole world reeled in horror. 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. The six-man, six-woman jury in October 2007 found Montgomery guilty and recommended she be executed. It would be 34 years before the half-sisters would see each other again. The clemency process enables convicted criminals to request mercy and ask the nation's executive branch to step in, Henry said. 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. When Lisa was a small child, Judy allowed men to rape her for money, including allowing her to be gang raped on multiple occasions. At least five of the 12 jurors and three alternate jurorswiped away tears. She has been let down over and over and over again by people in authority, people who were supposed to be caretakers for her, Mattingly said. Warnersaid the killinghad left Melvern residents stunned.. Only 18 death sentences were handed down in 2020 and the number of executions carried out hit a 30-year low. Some nights, she said, Shaughnessy would leave them in the house with a male babysitter. 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. Montgomery is scheduled to be put to death by a lethal injection of pentobarbital at Terre Haute prison in Indiana. Teddy Kleiner, the son of Shaughnessy and Jack Kleiner, was 45 years old when he was fatally shot in 2019 in North Topeka. At state level, the number of sentences and executions continues a historic decline. Henry said Montgomery was expected to be transferred by Jan. 10 to the penitentiary at TerreHaute, Ind., her designated place of execution. There was plenty of food, our clothes were clean, and the kids did our homework together. Shaughnessy drank excessively during her pregnancy, causing brain damage to Montgomery, according to court records. Montgomery took Stinnetts baby, clamped the umbilical cord and used baby wipes to clean her. 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. "If I had, would they have taken Lisa out of the home also?" Three federal inmates - Orlando Hall, Alfred Bourgeois and Brandon Bernard - have been put to death since the 3 November presidential election. The counselor noted that her mother appeared to have a lack of empathy for Montgomery, who was left with the distinct impression that the sexual abuse was her fault. Lisa Montgomery has been charged in the December 16 death of Bobbie Jo Stinnett, who was eight months pregnant at the time. Family members have claimed that Shaughnessy blamed Montgomery for the abuse and the divorce. 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 has exhausted all attempts to appeal her conviction and death sentence although her attorneys are exploring possible litigation. 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. At 1:31 AM on Wednesday, Lisa Montgomery was pronounced dead. "I'm sick of hearing about Lisa Montgomery and what she went through. 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 is worried that her fellow inmates will have trouble coping with her upcoming execution, said her friendToby Dorr. "She was really the first one to have a decent marriage, you know, and I guess looking at Bobbie Jo was like, what your dreams were when you were younger.". "She needs to be put to death.". "I looked to my right and there was Lisa Montgomery on the sofa, holding the baby," he said. Ive always said that I am bruised, but not broken, Mattingly said, her voice choked with tears. Another case with Missouri ties. 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. 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. As Fritz patted Montgomery on the back of her hand, Strong said he noticed dried blood and tissue embedded beneath her fingernails. Court records say Kleiner drank heavily, beat his wife and children, and made his daughters take off their clothes before he spanked them. "There were so many opportunities where people could have intervened and prevented this," says Henry. - 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. "When I squeezed her hand, she looked at me and smiled," 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. 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. He threatened to rape our little sister if Lisa resisted and said he would kill her whole family if she told anyone. In December 2004, Montgomery drove 281.5 km (175 miles) from her home in Kansas to Skidmore, where she had an appointment to look at some puppies owned by Stinnett. She learned Oct. 16 that she had been scheduled to die by lethal injection on Dec. 8. Nobody has said that Lisa should never have been punished. Eventually, Montgomery admitted she had acted alone in killing Stinnett and taking her baby. 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. Lisa Montgomery, who endured years of sexual and physical abuse, murdered an expectant mother and took the baby. She testified as. Friends and family began noticing Montgomery's tendency to slip into "a world of her own". According to her lawyers and witnesses, Montgomery suffered years of childhood abuse so severe it was akin to torture. 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