"As a result, Lisa has trouble processing information and navigating social relationships. She has always accepted responsibility. We cant travel to talk to witnesses or to prepare experts at this point, Harwell, Montgomerys lawyer, said. Other friends of Kleiner, including a plumber and an electrician, raped her in that shed, Montgomery says, as a way of collecting payment for work done around the house. Authorities also questioned Kevin Montgomery but concluded he wasn't involved. Montgomerys mother, Judy Shaughnessy, who was 20 at the time of her birth in 1968, drank heavily while pregnant with her daughter. But those who believe she should be put to death say her lifetime of horrorscan't excuse what came next: OnDec. 16, 2004, she loaded a steak knife, umbilical cord clamps and part of a clothesline into her car anddrove 175 miles from her home in east-central Kansas to the northwest Missouri home of Bobbie Jo Stinnett, an expectant mother she had met at a dog show. "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.". But blind outrage over the brutality of the crime leaves little room for curiosity about why Montgomery committed the act, and whether she deserves the most severe penalty that exists in the criminal justice system. He was in her. 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. Mattingly said she saw terror in her half-sister's bright green eyes. Kleiner, the son of Shaughnessy and Jack Kleiner, was meeting witha parole officerat the time of the killing, Strong said. For the rest of her life.. 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. Nationwide, only 54 women have been executed since 1900. Today there is a single restaurant and few of the streets are paved. If that disconnection is brought about with enough frequency and intensity, it can become more of a steady state of being, she added. Shaughnessy sat so unmoved during her daughter's testimony that the judge reprimanded her for lacking empathy. 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.. The nature and circumstances of Montgomerys crime show she had lost touch with reality, says her half-sister, Diane Mattingly. 2023 BBC. Lisa then took the baby home and cared for her as though she was her own. As her big sister, Diane feels immense guilt about leaving Montgomery behind in that broken home, so many years ago. Mattingly said Patterson was often away, and Shaughnessy became increasingly abusive toward them, at times forcing Mattingly to eat raw onions as punishment and go outdoors into the cold naked. The baby, who was uninjured, was returned to her father. He was pumping her, Shaughnessy testified. It was clear that she was traumatized, that she was somewhere else, he said. The question is, should she be put to death for it? "She needs to be put to death.". "I have seen a lot of horrible things happen to women and children in my more than 40 years in law enforcement," Strongsaid. At the time of her murder, she was newly married and pregnant with her first child. Montgomery smelled like a sour ashtray and body sweat" as Don Fritz and Randy Strong interrogated her on Dec. 17, 2004, Strong recalled. Dorr met Montgomery after being imprisoned for helping an inmate escape in 2006 as Dorrran a dog training program for inmates at Lansing Correctional Facility in northeast Kansas. 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. Montgomery eventually divorced her first husband and married Kevin Montgomery. If you or someone you know needs support for issues about emotional distress, these organisations may be able to help. 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. At state level, the number of sentences and executions continues a historic decline. Montgomery has exhausted all attempts to appeal her conviction and death sentence although her attorneys are exploring possible litigation. 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. She does not deserve to die. As a teenager, Montgomery confided in a cousin, telling him the men would tie her up, beat her and even urinate on her afterwards. He married Judy Shaughnessy, who would become Montgomery's mother, in 1967 in . Patterson was transferred after Montgomerys birth to Fort Riley inKansas, where their family lived when another daughter was born in 1970. "There were so many opportunities where people could have intervened and prevented this," says Henry. For Montgomery, her lawyers argue, it began before she was born. 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. 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.. On the ride home, she clamped the umbilical cord and cleaned the baby girl with wipes. The couple had three children in rapid succession. Two days before the crime, her former husband (and stepbrother) sought custody of two of her children. They were also physically violent. 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. And theyre taking me away from her.. 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 seemed like a real personI could connect with and build a relationship with inside prison," Dorr said. He threatened to expose the imagined pregnancy and use it against her in the custody battle. In the cases where women are sentenced to death, prosecutors often use gender stereotypes against the defendants, she said, characterizing them as transgressive or not normal in some way. Montgomery and Carl Boman divorced, remarried and divorced again in 1998. It turns out that it only takes a few people to save a child's life: being loved by my foster parents saved mine. Patterson and Shaughnessy divorced in 1971, and Shaughnessy took custody of the girls. The question is, should she be put to death for it. 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. Jurors heard an audiotape of Harper, Stinnett's mother, calling 911 after finding her body. On the trip home, she stopped in Topeka and called her husband to say she had gone into labor while Christmas shopping and had given birth at a Topeka birthing center. Since 2008, Montgomery has been held in a federal prison in Texas for female inmates with special medical and psychological needs, where she has been receiving psychiatric care. She would tell me I had to leave and I couldnt take anything with me because she bought everything, she recalled. 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. ", Strong said he arranged for that message to be shared with the four others, "because we were all a part of that.". "Last year, we got flowers, and gave her a $100-plus gift card and then paid her water bill," says Jena Baumli. Shaughnessy in 1974 married her third husband, Jack Kleiner, a divorced father of five. Her lawyers say that as she lost touch with reality, she fantasised about being pregnant. 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. They found her cradling a new-born girl she claimed to have given birth to the previous day. That could change in Terre Haute. 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. "Bobbie deserves to be here today. He married Judy Shaughnessy, who would become Montgomery's mother, in 1967 in Miami, Okla. Patterson was the second of six husbands Shaughnessy . Montgomery gave birth to three daughters and a son from1987 to1990, court records say. She testified as. 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. When Lisa Montgomery murdered pregnant Bobbie Jo Stinnett and ripped her unborn baby from her womb, the whole world reeled in horror. 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. Judy drank throughout her pregnancy with Lisa and caused her to be born with brain damage. 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. And to not fail her.". Strong said he and Fritz questioned Montgomery using a"good cop/bad cop" approach. 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. The threat of losing her children, combined with the years of untreated trauma and severe mental illness, pushed Lisa over the edge. A herd of rat terriers greeted them. According to sworn statements from her family, her mental health declined rapidly after that. Dorr has since been released from prison and remarried. 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. She had catfished Stinnett online under a fake name. The baby girl survived, andMontgomery took her home and briefly passed her off as her own until investigators arrested her the next day. 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. Even at the age of 8, Mattingly recalled being worried about what would happen to Montgomery without her there. Bobbie Jo Stinnetts hometown waits as killers execution date nears. While all five are haunted by Stinnett's murder, they are also "bonded for life," Strong said. Montgomery then said she had given birth at home with help from two female friends and, later, that she had given birth alone. His physical abuse of the children had sexual undercurrents: He would make the girls strip naked before whipping them. [N]ot only was it bizarre behavior, but it was very embarrassing for me as her daughter, she said. I didn't know what to do or how to talk to my sister about it.". She faked pregnancies several times during her marriages to Carl Boman and Kevin Montgomery, court records say. Montgomery was already vulnerable to serious mental illness, she added. In response to traumatic events, children may dissociate from their feelings and their bodies to protect themselves from experiencing what is happening. 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. Lisa Montgomery - the only female inmate on federal death row in the US - has been executed for murder in the state of Indiana. Another case with Missouri ties. He testified that Montgomery had been in a dissociative state, or "mental fog," at the time. She also told one of her stepbrothers about the sexual abuse around that time. She struggles to maintain her own hygiene, loses focus during conversations with others and has trouble planning simple tasks.". But it was not a pet that she was to retrieve that day. 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. 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.". Montgomery's father, John Patterson, a 25-year-old in the military, was also an alcoholic. Harper told a dispatcher her daughter's womb appeared to have "exploded" and that blood was "everywhere." 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. 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. So my letters are important.. Montgomery's lawyers argue that because of a combination of years of horrific abuse, and a raft of psychological issues, she should never have been given the death penalty. "I looked to my right and there was Lisa Montgomery on the sofa, holding the baby," he said. Prosecutors said Montgomery was faking mental illness, notingthat many people are sexually abused, but few go on to kill. When Montgomery was in her mid-teens,she was sexually assaulted by Kleiner and three or four of his friends, according to court records. They also discovered that Shaughnessy prostituted. She has exhausted all legal options. More: Lisa Montgomery's execution, delayed by attorneys' COVID-19 cases, rescheduled for Jan. 12. He recalled that Montgomery begged him not to tell anyone, for fear that Kleiner would kill her. I am begging that somebody will finally stand up for her and say, shes been punished enough.. They would beat and slap her if she was doing it wrong. When they were done, they urinated on her like she was trash.. "It was violent and like a scene out of a horror movie," he said. She was born in 1968, the child of two troubled alcoholics. "When I squeezed her hand, she looked at me and smiled," she 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. 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. My heart goes out to the family of Bobbie Jo Stinnett and the loss that they have felt and are still feeling. 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. Recibi una inyeccin letal en una prisin de Terre Haute,. A longtime death penalty opponent, Wurtz said he considers it "idiotic" that Montgomery is to be executed. However, in the tiny town of Skidmore, Missouri, where the crime was committed, there is little sympathy for that argument. Babies born naturally tend to have misshapen heads initially because of the pressure experienced as they go through the birth canal, he said. Join Facebook to connect with Judy Shaughnessy and others you may know. Emotions ran high in 2007 as Montgomery was tried in federal court for kidnapping resulting in death. 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. Montgomery strangled Stinnett into unconsciousness, then sliced into her stomach with the steak knife, Strong said. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who. She became involved with Kevin Montgomery, a divorced electrician with children of his own, and theymarried the following year. Lisa's and my father was also mentally ill. In fact, he drove her back home and dropped her off in the hands of her abusers. However, calls for Trump to be merciful are hardly unanimous. This story was first published on 11 January - before Lisa Montgomery's execution on 13 January. Since they began, the federal government has executed seven people. Protecting her half-sister became her "sole purpose in life, she said. Nobody has said that Lisa should never have been punished. "It was pretty awful.". Mrs. 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. As Strong crossed the threshold, hesaw a TV set airing an Amber Alert about the abduction of Stinnett's baby. 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. She learned Oct. 16 that she had been scheduled to die by lethal injection on Dec. 8. Ive always said that I am bruised, but not broken, Mattingly said, her voice choked with tears. She enjoyed torturing the people around her," says Mattingly. Stinnett lived with her husband, Zeb, in Skidmore, Mo., a town near the state's northwest corner with fewerthan 300 people today. Stitched together, they form a tapestry of family dysfunction, abuse, neglect, professional negligence, substance abuse and untreated mental illness. She didnt have nobody there to protect her once I was out of the home.. Bobbie Jo's mother and husband have have not spoken publicly in many years. 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. "One sister got taken out and got put into a loving home and was nurtured and had time to heal," says Mattingly. Those were disconnections that were tragic in their consequences. Montgomery is "evil personified," he said. "The whole community over there's traumatised by this.". 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. As the oldest, I was the protector of Lisa and our baby sister. "The other sister stayed in that situation, and it got worse and worse and worse. She enacted this in the grip of a very broken mind.". And, in fact, blaming her for it.. Some nights, she said, Shaughnessy would leave them in the house with a male babysitter. Eventually, Montgomery admitted she had acted alone in killing Stinnett and taking her baby. 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. 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. Prosecutors, in their closing argument, said that she had a filthy home, that she didnt cook and that she didnt clean, Babcock said. Montgomerys entire life was marked by people who failed to protect her, Babcock said. The case was ruled a homicide and remains unsolved. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who. The baby was returned to her father, after being recovered from Montgomery. And it's never about what my friend went through," she adds. She would be the first woman executed by the federal government in 67. Montgomery also talked about the abuseshe had endured from her stepfather, Jack Kleiner, and the first of her two husbands, Carl Boman, Dorr said. The Trump administration announced it was reinstating executions last summer after an almost 20-year hiatus. Montgomerys case is not about whether she is responsible for the crime; she is. 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. It is hard to know if Montgomery understands that she is close to being executed; her mental state does not allow for much lucidity. 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. But Lisa was broken. I was thinking, shes still back there. She was forced to sit in a high chair for hours if she did not finish her food. "If I did speak up, maybe Zella and Floyd would have gone back for Lisa," she wrote. 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. Around this time, she repeatedly claimed to be pregnant again, although she had undergone sterilisation after her fourth baby was born. Lisa Montgomery and Bobbie Jo Stinnett got to know each other online through a shared love of dogs. "Maybe she could have been saved, too. The girls father was often away from the house for long periods, and Shaughnessy would have other men over. "I get these images in my head of [Bobbie Jo's mother] finding her daughter that way.". ", "I live with regret for not speaking up about what happened to Lisa," Kidwell said, adding that he just didnt know what to do.. Judy Shaughnessy and her boyfriend physical, psychological . He stressed that the juryheard testimony about her mental illness and her history of being abused, yet still unanimously recommended her execution. "And Lisa deserves to pay.". 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. 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. When she was 18, Montgomery married her stepbrother. The girls' biological father left the home, and after a while, Mattingly was whisked away to foster care. 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. Prosecutors shared records showing Montgomery had visited a website featuring a video of a live C-section birth, described as lasting from first cut to last stitch, and had made a practice run by driving the roughly 350 miles from Melvern to Skidmore and back the day before the killing. 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. Judy ultimately married six times, and had multiple partners throughout Lisa's childhood. 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. 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. In 1986, when Montgomery was 18, she married her stepbrother, Carl Boman. "I fell in love immediately.". 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. Montgomery clearly should spend the rest of her life in prison, but she is not among the "worst of the worst" for whom the death penalty is intended, Mattingly told The Topeka Capital-Journal. All the while, Lisa's mother was being paid to let strange men rape Lisa. She got into multiple car accidents, struggled to keep a job, moved around constantly, drank heavily, engaged in sex work and neglected her children. 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. Two other inmates are scheduled to die at Terre Haute prison before Mr Trump's presidency ends. When Montgomery was 15, Shaughnessy and Kleiner separated. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. View the profiles of people named Judy Shaughnessy. I never molested her in any way, shape or form, said Kleiner, who died in 2009. Her attorneys say that while Montgomery feels deep remorse for her crimes, her understanding of her situation waxes and wanes. At that time, Montgomery was awaiting trial. Mattingly says looking back to the moment life changed for her as an eight-year-old, she feels guilty that when the social workers came for her, she didn't tell them what was going on in that house. 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. The family treated Mattingly as one of their own, and gave her a sense of belonging and self-worth, she said. He married Judy Shaughnessy, who would become Montgomery's mother, in 1967 in Miami, Okla. 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