He stressed that the juryheard testimony about her mental illness and her history of being abused, yet still unanimously recommended her execution. 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. A clemency petition asking Trump to reduce Montgomerys sentence to life without parole is expected to be filed in the coming weeks. 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. Now, she called him to tell him that shed gone into labor while shopping and had given birth at a clinic. Thats happened since Montgomery's childhood, when theterror she experienced while being raped forced her to retreat emotionally into an imaginary house,where everything is fine, Henry said. Skidmore has suffered lasting effects as a result of Stinnett's murder, said Strong, the investigator who helped prodMontgomery to confess. Jurors heard an audiotape of Harper, Stinnett's mother, calling 911 after finding her body. 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. Family members have claimed that Shaughnessy blamed Montgomery for the abuse and the divorce. Lisa Montgomery has been held at theCarswell Federal Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, for 12 years. I couldn't believe how good it felt to be part of a loving family. 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. Friends recall her as a good student with a love of horses and dogs. 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. In the haze of her mental illness, she went to the home of a pregnant woman, killed her, and removed the baby. 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. He recalled that Montgomery begged him not to tell anyone, for fear that Kleiner would kill her. Shaughnessy also beat the girls with brooms and belts,Mattingly said. And theyre taking me away from her.. Emotions ran high in 2007 as Montgomery was tried in federal court for kidnapping resulting in death. On the ride home, she clamped the umbilical cord and cleaned the baby girl with wipes. She did not see her again until Montgomerys trial 34 years later. Often the woman, now 52 and a grandmother of 12, is knitting or doing needlepoint. Her mother also began trafficking her, allowing handymen like electricians and plumbers to sexually abuse Montgomery in exchange for work on the house. He married Judy Shaughnessy, who would become Montgomery's mother, in 1967 in . Montgomery also talked about the abuseshe had endured from her stepfather, Jack Kleiner, and the first of her two husbands, Carl Boman, Dorr said. Back home, the couple announced the birth of their daughter to their friends and relatives. At state level, the number of sentences and executions continues a historic decline. Montgomery is scheduled to be put to death by a lethal injection of pentobarbital at Terre Haute prison in Indiana. I didn't know what to do or how to talk to my sister about it.". The threat of losing her children, combined with the years of untreated trauma and severe mental illness, pushed Lisa over the edge. His message contained a "very heartfelt thank you. The baby girl survived, andMontgomery took her home and briefly passed her off as her own until investigators arrested her the next day. Stitched together, they form a tapestry of family dysfunction, abuse, neglect, professional negligence, substance abuse and untreated mental illness. They believe that at the time of the crime, Montgomery was psychotic and out of touch with reality. Babies born naturally tend to have misshapen heads initially because of the pressure experienced as they go through the birth canal, he 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. At the time of her murder, she was newly married and pregnant with her first child. The U.S. has not executed a woman in 67 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. Montgomery is worried that her fellow inmates will have trouble coping with her upcoming execution, said her friendToby Dorr. Montgomery and Stinnett participated inthe "Ratter Chatter" online message board for rat terrier dog enthusiasts. She helped him escape in a dog crate and went to prison after a vehicle chase 12 days later ended with their capture. 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. Mrs. 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.. He thanked the sheriff for recovering his daughter and allowing him to be the parent that his wife couldn't be. Lisa Montgomery be di 11th prisoner to receive di lethal injection since July when President Donald Trump, resume federal executions. But they were what we come to understand as neuro-physiological adaptations to survive being constantly under assault.. "If I had, would they have taken Lisa out of the home also?" Please, honey.". 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. Until July 2020, there had been no federal executions for 17 years. Mattingly, Montgomerys sister, is planning on visiting her next week. Montgomery graduated in 1986 from high school at Cleveland, Okla., with hopes of joining the Air Force to earn money for college. 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. "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.". Fourteen of those offenders are serving long prison sentences, while the twoothers died by suicide in custody, according to a list Henry provided. 2023 BBC. 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. Judy later married a man named Jack who punched, kicked and choked his children, including Lisa. 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. Lisa Montgomery's friend, Toby Dorr, provided this photo she took of a letter Montgomery wrote to her in November using black crayon. Diane Mattingly has been speaking publicly for the first time in the hope it can make a difference. 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. 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's biggest regret, she said, is that she didnt tell her foster family about being beaten and raped, because she feared they wouldn't want her any more if she did. Join Facebook to connect with Judy Shaughnessy and others you may know. Although the alumni have scattered somewhat, in recent years, the Nodaway-Holt R-VII High School graduating class of 2000 - which had only 22 members - has a tradition to mark the anniversary of the death of their classmate Bobbie Jo Stinnett. According to 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 ultimately married six times, and had multiple partners throughout Lisa's childhood. They found her cradling a new-born girl she claimed to have given birth to the previous day. However, calls for Trump to be merciful are hardly unanimous. 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. Harper told a dispatcher her daughter's womb appeared to have "exploded" and that blood was "everywhere." 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. For the rest of her life.. These days, she requires a regimen of psychotropic drugs to function. 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. Randy Strong, who investigated the case,is unhappy that some people are asking thatMontgomerys life be spared. 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 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. 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. If that disconnection is brought about with enough frequency and intensity, it can become more of a steady state of being, she added. The couple had three children in rapid succession. Let it be done: Bobbie Jo Stinnetts hometown waits as killers execution date nears. Authorities also questioned Kevin Montgomery but concluded he wasn't involved. Her mouth was covered with duct tape so frequently that she learned not to cry. "It was violent and like a scene out of a horror movie," he said. She became involved with Kevin Montgomery, a divorced electrician with children of his own, and theymarried the following year. He had a daughter from a previous relationship, Diane, who was four years older than Montgomery. Since receiving her execution date, she's been placed on suicide watch in an isolated cell. Multiple medical experts have given statements agreeing with that diagnosis. Her children were disturbed by it. She married her stepbrother at 18 and gave birth to four children in less than five years, before having a sterilization procedure. Judy was an alcoholic with mental illness who married six times over the course of her life. When Floyd Gwin died last July at age 81, Mattingly was listed among the survivors in his obituary. "It was pretty awful.". 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. The family moved from place to place dozens of times, but it was in a trailer in Sperry, Oklahoma, where her lawyers say the abuse turned into something more akin to torture. 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. "She was completely detached from reality.". According to sworn statements from her family, her mental health declined rapidly after that. 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 Terre Haute, Ind. She was quiet and kind, they say. 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. The crime itself shows that Lisa had lost all touch with reality. Shaughnessy drank excessively during her pregnancy, causing brain damage to Montgomery, according to court records. It was clear that she was traumatized, that she was somewhere else, he said. I thought they knew what was going on, she said. 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. A home videoshowsCarl Boman raping and beating Montgomery, said her half-brother, Teddy Kleiner, who gave a sworn statementsaying he had seen it. 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. Shaughnessy in 1974 married her third husband, Jack Kleiner, a divorced father of five. Lisa Montgomery - the only female inmate on federal death row in the US - has been executed for murder in the state of Indiana. It is the only federal prison with an active death chamber. He had a daughter from a previous relationship, Diane, who was four years older than Montgomery. Another case with Missouri ties. She credits this moment for her "fairly normal" life - a house on eight peaceful acres, a loving relationship with her children, nearly two decades at a job working for the state of Kentucky. They were also physically violent. "I was like, 'Oh, she was not.' 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. Sheriff Strong insists that the crime was meticulously planned and that the woman he arrested continued to lie until backed into a corner. Violent acts against pregnant women and their fetuses fall into that category. And to not fail her.". Just the details: What you need to know about Montgomery and her victim, Bobbie Jo Stinnett. Kleiner was never charged. The only woman on federal death row, Montgomery is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Dec. 8 at the federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana. 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. "I think that side of Lisa needs to be out there.". Judy drank throughout her pregnancy with Lisa and caused her to be born with brain damage. Warnersaid the killinghad left Melvern residents stunned.. He threatened to expose the imagined pregnancy and use it against her in the custody battle. The girls' biological father left the home, and after a while, Mattingly was whisked away to foster care. "That's how evil this woman is," Strong said. Montgomery was psychotic at the time of the crime, Harwell said. Mattingly and Montgomery were best friends. He testified that Montgomery had been in a dissociative state, or "mental fog," at the time. 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. I felt sick watching the video. "There was so much pressure on her at that point," says Henry. My heart goes out to the family of Bobbie Jo Stinnett and the loss that they have felt and are still feeling. At least five of the 12 jurors and three alternate jurorswiped away tears. She has exhausted all legal options except a last-ditch appeal for clemency from President Donald Trump, which was filed Christmas Eve. To help keep her mind occupied, Henry said, Montgomery was initially given one crayon and one piece of paper, but nothing else. So my letters are important.. 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. She says it's not as if all the other people of Skidmore lead idyllic lives free from abuse, poverty and other destructive tragedies. U.S. District Judge Gary A. Fenner upheld the jury's recommendation the following April. Being loved unconditionally helped me heal, find a caring husband, and raise two children who have hearts of gold. Montgomery took Stinnetts baby, clamped the umbilical cord and used baby wipes to clean her. She liked going down to the Nodaway River to swim, and playing Nintendo games at slumber parties. 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. 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. 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.. Nobody has said that Lisa should never have been punished. She is not the "worst of the worst" for whom the death penalty was intended. But what happened at the modest clapboard house where Stinnett lived with her husband still haunts some of those involved in the investigation. 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. Those were disconnections that were tragic in their consequences. Montgomery often read her Bible or did things with her hands, including writing, quilting, and making placemats and bookmarks, Dorr said. Montgomery strangled Stinnett into unconsciousness, then sliced into her stomach with the steak knife, Strong 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. Investigators quickly realised that "Darlene Fischer" did not exist, and tracked Montgomery down the next day using her emails and computer IP address. Lisa Montgomery has been charged in the December 16 death of Bobbie Jo Stinnett, who was eight months pregnant at the time. 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. 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. One of those men started coming into their bedroom and raping Mattingly regularly, Mattingly said. Montgomery's father, John Patterson, a 25-year-old in the military, was also an alcoholic. "Bobbie deserves to be here today. Prosecutors, in their closing argument, said that she had a filthy home, that she didnt cook and that she didnt clean, Babcock said. she says. Montgomery suffers from severe mental illness. The nature and circumstances of Montgomerys crime show she had lost touch with reality, says her half-sister, Diane Mattingly. She learned Oct. 16 that she had been scheduled to die by lethal injection on Dec. 8. 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. 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. I was thinking, shes still back there. The case was ruled a homicide and remains unsolved. "Today the death penalty has a face of my friend and I just can't be quiet about it," she said. 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. She had bought supplies, including a home birth kit, and searched online for how to perform a caesarean section. 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. Lisa Montgomery - the only female inmate on federal death row in the US - has been executed for murder in the state of Indiana. Stinnett bled to death. The baby was returned to her father, after being recovered from Montgomery. One theory her lawyers put forward regarding the chain of events that led to the murder, is that Montgomery feared her ex-husband would expose her lies about being pregnant and use it against her as he sought custody of their children. Is it ethical to execute a woman for actions that cannot be meaningfully separated from her mental illness and ugly history of abuse? They recommended a sentence of death. Her attorneys say that while Montgomery feels deep remorse for her crimes, her understanding of her situation waxes and wanes. 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. 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. Her terror was well-founded, said Montgomery's attorneys, Kelley Henry and Amy Harwell. 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. 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 was anally, orally, and vaginally raped by several men, one after the other for several hours at a time. The divorce left Shaughnessy no longer entitled to be Mattingly's legal guardian. 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.". I never molested her in any way, shape or form, said Kleiner, who died in 2009. A few years after Mattingly was removed from the home, when Montgomery was in kindergarten, her mother remarried a man named Jack Kleiner. For Diane Mattingly, there is one moment from her childhood for which she feels both enormous gratitude and guilt. Friends and family began noticing Montgomery's tendency to slip into "a world of her own". Teddy Kleiner, the son of Shaughnessy and Jack Kleiner, was 45 years old when he was fatally shot in 2019 in North Topeka. Lisa Montgomery, a federal prisoner, is now slated to be executed on Jan. 12. 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. Both became infected with COVID-19, believing it to be transmitted duringthe prison visit. She had this ability to find what hurt you the most and use that against you, Mattingly said. The Trump administration announced it was reinstating executions last summer after an almost 20-year hiatus. They hold a collection and try to do something nice for Stinnett's mother. "The whole story is tragic," says Kelley Henry, one of Montgomery's federal defence lawyers. She began prostituting Lisa to older men when Lisa was in her early teens. Montgomery's number of crayons and pieces of paper hassince been increased to 10 each. "The Lisa I knew was a good person who cared about the other women in the pod and was quiet and generous and kind," Dorr said. When Montgomery was 15, Shaughnessy and Kleiner separated. The baby, who was uninjured, was returned to her father. "My sister was crying and in pain. 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. At the same time, she blames it for the fate of her younger half-sister, Lisa Montgomery. 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. Even at the age of 8, Mattingly recalled being worried about what would happen to Montgomery without her there. Several high-profile figures had appealed for clemency in Brandon's case but Mr Trump did not heed those calls. 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. 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