She was beaten, repeatedly raped by her stepfather and his friends and sexually trafficked by her mother. 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. But they were what we come to understand as neuro-physiological adaptations to survive being constantly under assault.. Who was the last woman executed by the US government? 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. 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. Porterfield compared the chronic abuse to pouring lighter fluid onto a spark. Stinnett's husband was at work, andStinnett was on the phone with her mother, Becky Harper, when Montgomery's dirty red Toyota pulled upon the afternoon of Dec. 16. Judy Shaughnessy and her boyfriend physical, psychological . "She always wanted to be a mom," says Baumli. Investigators quickly realised that "Darlene Fischer" did not exist, and tracked Montgomery down the next day using her emails and computer IP address. More: Who was the last woman executed by the US government? He stressed that the juryheard testimony about her mental illness and her history of being abused, yet still unanimously recommended her execution. ", Strong said he arranged for that message to be shared with the four others, "because we were all a part of that.". She is not the "worst of the worst" for whom the death penalty was intended. 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. Bobbie Jo's mother and husband have have not spoken publicly in many years. 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. Lawyer Kelley Henry says one of the things that disturbs her most is that adults in positions of authority were told about what was going on but did nothing. She has always accepted responsibility. "There was a lot of talk both ways on it," he said when contacted by phone at his new home in Texas. . Lisa Montgomery strangle one pregnant woman for Missouri before cutting and kidnapping her baby in 2004. . 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. 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. Ms. Diane Mattingly has been speaking publicly for the first time in the hope it can make a difference. But it was not a pet that she was to retrieve that day. 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. If her execution goes forward, she will be the first federal female inmate to be executed in almost 70 years. And, in fact, blaming her for it.. As a teenager, Montgomery confided in a cousin, telling him the men would tie her up, beat her and even urinate on her afterwards. Montgomery's father, John Patterson, a 25-year-old in the military, was also an alcoholic. His physical abuse of the children had sexual undercurrents: He would make the girls strip naked before whipping them. Shaughnessy also beat the girls with brooms and belts,Mattingly said. 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. Fourteen of those offenders are serving long prison sentences, while the twoothers died by suicide in custody, according to a list Henry provided. It is hard to know if Montgomery understands that she is close to being executed; her mental state does not allow for much lucidity. I couldn't believe how good it felt to be part of a loving family. 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. But none of those other victims responded by killing a woman and cutting her baby out of her stomach, hesaid. Lisa Montgomery, la nica mujer en el corredor de la muerte federal de Estados Unidos, fue ejecutada este mircoles por asesinato. "I don't think people understand how bad this was," Strong said. One of the lead investigators in the case, Randy Strong, wants Montgomery executed. At the time of her murder, she was newly married and pregnant with her first child. DNA testing later showed they were Stinnett's. She lived at 61 addresses in the 36 years before she went to prison, court documents show. Montgomerys case is not about whether she is responsible for the crime; she is. 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. She helped him escape in a dog crate and went to prison after a vehicle chase 12 days later ended with their capture. A social worker found Lisa's allegations of abuse credible and turned the file. Prosecutors said Montgomery was faking mental illness, notingthat many people are sexually abused, but few go on to kill. At the same time, she blames it for the fate of her younger half-sister, Lisa Montgomery. 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. "God, no, please," she said. Often the woman, now 52 and a grandmother of 12, is knitting or doing needlepoint. And then at the end, she was broken.". Shaughnessy beat her children with belts, cords and hangers, put them in cold showers and put duct tape over Montgomery's mouth to silence her, the attorneys 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. The nature and circumstances of Montgomerys crime show she had lost touch with reality, says her half-sister, Diane Mattingly. 2023 BBC. And I am just asking for somebody - once - not to fail her.". I felt sick watching the video. Patterson was transferred after Montgomerys birth to Fort Riley inKansas, where their family lived when another daughter was born in 1970. She believes that if Montgomery had been rescued too, and given what she was given contact with loving, protective adults everything would have been different. Dorr's marriage was failing when she fell in love with John Manard, a convicted murderer 21 years her junior. Being loved unconditionally helped me heal, find a caring husband, and raise two children who have hearts of gold. Warnersaid the killinghad left Melvern residents stunned.. 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 has exhausted all legal options except a last-ditch appeal for clemency from President Donald Trump, which was filed Christmas Eve. "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. Montgomerys father, John Patterson, a 25-year-old in the military, was also an alcoholic. 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 and Carl Boman divorced, remarried and divorced again in 1998. 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. Montgomery contacted Stinnett, 23, after meeting her at a dog show earlier that year at Abilene, in north-central Kansas, where they posed with others in a photo. ", "I live with regret for not speaking up about what happened to Lisa," Kidwell said, adding that he just didnt know what to do.. Weddle said she moved to Melvern when she retired nine years ago because she wanted peace and quiet after more than 30 years as a Topeka police officer. After their biological father left the home, Mattingly says they were left alone with Shaughnessy's boyfriends, at least one of whom started raping Mattingly. Other times, her behavior could be erratic and inappropriate. She liked to take her finger and poke it hard into her chest, over and over in the same spot. It would be 34 years before the half-sisters would see each other again. . Montgomery has pleaded not guilty to kidnapping resulting in death. That could change in Terre Haute. "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.". 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. She meets with Montgomery regularly, she said. "Judy was manipulative and - I hate to use this word, but - evil. 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. 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. But Strong says this is the first year he's heard directly from Stinnett's husband. 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. "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.". You know, like, that doesn't happen to Bobbie," Morrow says. He threatened to rape our little sister if Lisa resisted and said he would kill her whole family if she told anyone. The baby was returned to her father, after being recovered from Montgomery. At that time, Montgomery was awaiting trial. 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. Its not just the childhood maltreatment and psychological abuse and neglect, or the incredible sexual abuse by her stepfather, or the sex trafficking, Porterfield said. 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.. "I'm asking him to have compassion on her as a person that has been failed over and over and over again. "That's how evil this woman is," Strong said. She was born in 1968, the child of two troubled alcoholics. They gave me unconditional love, they taught me my self-worth, she said. And to not fail her.". Emotions ran high in 2007 as Montgomery was tried in federal court for kidnapping resulting in death. The cold, vicious, calculating and brutal nature of her crimes shows that Montgomery knew exactly what she was doing, Strong said. 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. 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 is permitted Sudoku puzzles and coloring pages andone book at a time. The U.S. has not executed a woman in 67 years. "And then go, 'Look at this body'. 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. Newspaper accounts show Montgomery had upset other users of that board by making false statements, including claiming to be pregnant. Shaughnessy sat so unmoved during her daughter's testimony that the judge reprimanded her for lacking empathy. They hold a collection and try to do something nice for Stinnett's mother. "She got joy out of it.". "We knew we were walking into the killer's house.". 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. They also discovered that Shaughnessy prostituted. Multiple medical experts have given statements agreeing with that diagnosis. Many there believe the final moments of Bobbie Jo Stinnett were so horrific, the death sentence is warranted. The girls father was often away from the house for long periods, and Shaughnessy would have other men over. "There were so many opportunities where people could have intervened and prevented this," says Henry. For months, Montgomery had told her husband she was pregnant, even though she couldnt have any more children she had undergone a sterilization procedure before they met. "She was hyperventilating," Henry said. He testified that Montgomery had been in a dissociative state, or "mental fog," at the time. I cant understand why they have to kill this woman, knowing her background and everything that happened, he said. 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. Montgomery told investigators she was surprised at how nicely they had treated her, considering what she had done. She does not deserve to die. I'm bruised, but I'm not broken. Zella Gwin survives. As a result of her sexual torture, Lisa began to dissociate. That was ultimately dropped in favour of an insanity defence, but Henry believes the damage to Montgomery's credibility was already done. "I was like, 'Oh, she was not.' Montgomery's number of crayons and pieces of paper hassince been increased to 10 each. One of those men started coming into their bedroom and raping Mattingly regularly, Mattingly said. I didn't know what to do or how to talk to my sister about it.". 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. Defense attorney Fred Duchardt told jurors that sexual abuse during her childhood had caused Montgomeryto become mentally ill and killed her soul. When Lisa was a small child, Judy allowed men to rape her for money, including allowing her to be gang raped on multiple occasions. 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. After playing with the dogs in the backyard that day, Montgomery strangled Bobbie Jo Stinnett, 23, who was pregnant, and cut open her abdomen to remove her 8-month-old fetus. 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. Montgomery's mother, Judy Shaughnessy, who was 20 at the time of her birth in 1968, drank heavily while pregnant with her daughter. 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. Shaughnessy forced Montgomery to have sex with men in exchange for money and services, and also punished her children by killing the family dog in front of them,smashing its head with a shovel, the attorneys said. When Montgomery was 15, Shaughnessy and Kleiner separated. School friend Baumli says she's read the descriptions of Montgomery's abuse, but it mostly just makes her angry. Montgomerys entire life was marked by people who failed to protect her, Babcock said. 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. More: Lisa Montgomery's execution, delayed by attorneys' COVID-19 cases, rescheduled for Jan. 12. She was often spaced out, appearing disconnected from reality. They married in 1986. Montgomery graduated in 1986 from high school at Cleveland, Okla., with hopes of joining the Air Force to earn money for college. 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. But my hope is President Trump will stop Lisa's execution and commute her sentence to life in prison. She had brain damage, likely caused by exposure to alcohol when she was a. 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. 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. She describes Montgomery's ex-husband as cruel and harassing. Prosecutors, in their closing argument, said that she had a filthy home, that she didnt cook and that she didnt clean, Babcock said. As the car drove further and further away, Mattingly began to vomit. He recalled that Montgomery begged him not to tell anyone, for fear that Kleiner would kill her. One was the presence of substantial planning and premeditation. The baby girl survived, andMontgomery took her home and briefly passed her off as her own until investigators arrested her the next day. She testified as. "That sent a chill up my spine," Strong said. 2023 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved. Both became infected with COVID-19, believing it to be transmitted duringthe prison visit. "Today the death penalty has a face of my friend and I just can't be quiet about it," she said. "There was so much pressure on her at that point," says Henry. She had catfished Stinnett online under a fake name. "She was completely detached from reality.". Her lawyers say that as she lost touch with reality, she fantasised about being pregnant. Her lawyers are pursuing an insanity defense. 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. According to Gallup, while support for the death penalty in the US is at its lowest level in more than 50 years, 55% of Americans still believe it is an appropriate punishment for murder. She began prostituting Lisa to older men when Lisa was in her early teens. When she was 18, Montgomery married her stepbrother. At 18, she married her stepbrother, who also beat and raped her. 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. 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. The tiny farming town of Skidmore sits in the far northwest corner of Missouri. 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. As long as she was given cigarettes, Montgomery continued to talk, Strong said. "Oh, they're here, I've got to go," she said. A herd of rat terriers greeted them. Judy drank throughout her pregnancy with Lisa and caused her to be born with brain damage. The murder 16 years ago is never far from the minds of the town's residents. The Trump administration announced it was reinstating executions last summer after an almost 20-year hiatus. "It was violent and like a scene out of a horror movie," he said in a statement. 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. There are things children need to grow into healthy adults, among them love, praise and stability. Bobbie's family deserves her," says Meagan Morrow, a high school classmate of Stinnett's. I thought they knew what was going on, she said. She is the only woman on federal death row. They believe that at the time of the crime, Montgomery was psychotic and out of touch with reality. When Shaughnessy eventually split from her second husband, she and Montgomery testified in divorce proceedings about the sexual assaults. This story was first published on 11 January - before Lisa Montgomery's execution on 13 January. 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. Randy Strong, who investigated the case,is unhappy that some people are asking thatMontgomerys life be spared. "Let's say I didn't stay clean very long," she says. However, in the tiny town of Skidmore, Missouri, where the crime was committed, there is little sympathy for that argument. Since they began, the federal government has executed seven people. she says. 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. She lives near Kansas City, Mo. 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.. Mattingly, Montgomerys sister, is planning on visiting her next week. Every time she has a birthday, it will also be the anniversary of the slaughter of her mother, Whitworth said. A newspaper article quoted him as saying he had been convinced his wife was pregnant and had given birth. Nodaway County Sheriff Randy Strong says that the scene that he and his four colleagues found that day was so bloody, they are still traumatised by it. . By multiple accounts, Kleiner was an erratic, violent man who beat the kids and his wife regularly. 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. My sister, Lisa Montgomery, is broken. "If I had, would they have taken Lisa out of the home also?" 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. 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. 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. She moved in 1999 to Melvern, a town about 40 miles south of Topeka with 375 people today. Lisa Montgomery is no different. 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. Today there is a single restaurant and few of the streets are paved. Shaughnessy would beat Mattingly with whatever was in her hand, be it a belt or a broom, she said. Lisa's and my father was also mentally ill. 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." 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