If you or someone you know needs support for issues about emotional distress, these organisations may be able to help. "There were so many opportunities where people could have intervened and prevented this," says Henry. Montgomery smelled like a sour ashtray and body sweat" as Don Fritz and Randy Strong interrogated her on Dec. 17, 2004, Strong recalled. She liked going down to the Nodaway River to swim, and playing Nintendo games at slumber parties. 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. As one family story goes, Montgomerys first words as a toddler were, dont spank me.. For Montgomery, her lawyers argue, it began before she was born. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who deserved mercy. What you need to know about Montgomery and her victim, Bobbie Jo Stinnett. The family treated Mattingly as one of their own, and gave her a sense of belonging and self-worth, she said. Lisa Montgomery, a federal prisoner, is now slated to be executed on Jan. 12. She has exhausted all legal options except a last-ditch appeal for clemency from President Donald Trump, which was filed Christmas Eve. I never molested her in any way, shape or form, said Kleiner, who died in 2009. Montgomery gave birth to three daughters and a son from1987 to1990, court records say. Mrs. The couple had three children in rapid succession. 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. The baby girl survived, andMontgomery took her home and briefly passed her off as her own until investigators arrested her the next day. 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. Montgomery's number of crayons and pieces of paper hassince been increased to 10 each. When Lisa was a small child, Judy allowed men to rape her for money, including allowing her to be gang raped on multiple occasions. Bobbie Jo Stinnetts hometown waits as killers execution date nears. 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. 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. Ms. Skidmore has suffered lasting effects as a result of Stinnett's murder, said Strong, the investigator who helped prodMontgomery to confess. "I get these images in my head of [Bobbie Jo's mother] finding her daughter that way.". She pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. Montgomery often read her Bible or did things with her hands, including writing, quilting, and making placemats and bookmarks, Dorr said. Kleiner built a makeshift shed on the side of the trailer for Montgomery, where he began molesting, and then raping, her. She gives herself as an example - when Stinnett was murdered, Baumli was in rehab for a drug addiction. Another case with Missouri ties. After she gave birth to four children, Judy pressured Lisa into an involuntary sterilization. As the car drove further and further away, Mattingly began to vomit. For one thing, the wider world won't let them forget. As a teenager, Montgomery confided in a cousin, telling him the men would tie her up, beat her and even urinate on her afterwards. She is the only woman on federal death row. He married Judy Shaughnessy, who would become Montgomery's mother, in 1967 in . Montgomery wasn't allowed eyeglasses, though she is far-sighted and near-sighted, or a CPAP machine, which has been prescribed since 2015 for her sleep apnea, Henry said. Only around 2% of inmates on death row are women. Randy Strong, one of the investigators who would later get Montgomery to confess, said she apparently used part of a clotheslineto create a garrote, slipping it over Stinnett's head from behind, probably as she was on her knees putting a puppy into a dog carrier. As a result of her sexual torture, Lisa began to dissociate. Friends recall her as a good student with a love of horses and dogs. Judy later married a man named Jack who punched, kicked and choked his children, including Lisa. "There was so much pressure on her at that point," says Henry. 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. "If I had, would they have taken Lisa out of the home also?" 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. She went home with a newborn, one she acquired by murdering the babys pregnant mother. "I don't think people understand how bad this was," Strong said. Montgomery's cousin told her legal team that he lived with "regret for not speaking up about what happened to Lisa". 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. But what happened at the modest clapboard house where Stinnett lived with her husband still haunts some of those involved in the investigation. But the psychological abuse targeted at her was even more damaging. Authorities also questioned Kevin Montgomery but concluded he wasn't involved. Lisa Montgomery - the only female inmate on federal death row in the US - has been executed for murder in the state of Indiana. Montgomery's mother, Judy Shaughnessy, drank while Montgomery was in utero, leaving her with brain damage, court documents say. 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. Montgomery was also prone to delusional thinking. His message contained a "very heartfelt thank you. She was sick. More: The U.S. has not executed a woman in 67 years. "One sister got taken out and got put into a loving home and was nurtured and had time to heal," says Mattingly. Mattingly and Montgomery were best friends. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who. Patterson made a mistake by abandoning them to "that crazy lady," he said at Montgomery's sentencing hearing in 2007. 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. If that disconnection is brought about with enough frequency and intensity, it can become more of a steady state of being, she added. Lisa Montgomery, la nica mujer en el corredor de la muerte federal de Estados Unidos, fue ejecutada este mircoles por asesinato. Tommy Kleiner and Montgomery have stayed in touch. As an adult, Montgomerys dysfunctional life mimicked that of her childhood. "I looked to my right and there was Lisa Montgomery on the sofa, holding the baby," he said. She has always accepted responsibility. As her big sister, Diane feels immense guilt about leaving Montgomery behind in that broken home, so many years ago. A former paramedic who had watched the births of all three of his children, Strong also considered the baby's head to be unusually round. The views expressed in this article are the author's own. Montgomery eventually divorced her first husband and married Kevin Montgomery. Montgomery has pleaded not guilty to kidnapping resulting in death. Moving often was the norm to Montgomery; by the time she was a teenager, she had moved approximately 16 times. Diane Mattingly is the sister of Lisa Montgomery, who is scheduled for execution by the federal government on December 8, 2020. She would tell me I had to leave and I couldnt take anything with me because she bought everything, she recalled. Henry said Montgomery was expected to be transferred by Jan. 10 to the penitentiary at TerreHaute, Ind., her designated place of execution. Mattingly said her heart sank when she realized Montgomery wasn't coming with her. In her opinion, Montgomerys extreme childhood trauma created the conditions for her to grow into an adult with a disconnected sense of her emotions, a tenuous hold on reality, a completely warped view of human relationships, and a split and damaged sense of herself and of her body, according to expert testimony she provided for the defense. As Strong crossed the threshold, hesaw a TV set airing an Amber Alert about the abduction of Stinnett's baby. The idea that that evidence of her bad mothering is part of what the jury could rely upon as a reason to sentence her to death its something you would never find in a case of a man.. Her mouth was covered with duct tape so frequently that she learned not to cry. There were always different men around the house. Two days before the crime, her former husband (and stepbrother) sought custody of two of her children. ", Strong said he arranged for that message to be shared with the four others, "because we were all a part of that.". And it's never about what my friend went through," she adds. "They put her on suicide watch to keep her from killing herself, so that they can execute her," she said. 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. They hold a collection and try to do something nice for Stinnett's mother. In Trumps final days in office, Lisa Montgomery a mentally ill victim of sex trafficking is set to be the first woman the U.S. executes in 70 years. She describes Montgomery's ex-husband as cruel and harassing. As long as she was given cigarettes, Montgomery continued to talk, Strong said. Every year. Patterson and Shaughnessy divorced in 1971, and Shaughnessy took custody of the girls. And to not fail her.". However, calls for Trump to be merciful are hardly unanimous. At the same time, she blames it for the fate of her younger half-sister, Lisa Montgomery. 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. 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. Harper told a dispatcher her daughter's womb appeared to have "exploded" and that blood was "everywhere." Ramachandran said Montgomery told him she didn't remember killing Stinnett or cutting the baby out of her body. Montgomery was represented briefly after her arrest by Ron Wurtz, a now-retired attorney who has represented dozens of capital case defendants. "That's how evil this woman is," Strong said. She began prostituting Lisa to older men when Lisa was in her early teens. 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. "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. 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. Montgomery told Stinnett that she was also expecting, and the pair shared pregnancy stories. 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. A herd of rat terriers greeted them. "She seemed like a real personI could connect with and build a relationship with inside prison," Dorr said. "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. I didn't know what to do or how to talk to my sister about it.". Lisa Montgomery is no different. 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. 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.. I didn't know what to do or how to talk to my sister about it.". This story was first published on 11 January - before Lisa Montgomery's execution on 13 January. In fact, he drove her back home and dropped her off in the hands of her abusers. When they came to take me, I thought they were coming to take all of us. She had brain damage, likely caused by exposure to alcohol when she was a. . 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. The nature and circumstances of Montgomerys crime show she had lost touch with reality, says her half-sister, Diane Mattingly. 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. She didnt have nobody there to protect her once I was out of the home.. And theyre taking me away from her.. 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. 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. 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.". As the oldest, I was the protector of Lisa and our baby sister. The baby, who was uninjured, was returned to her father. Since they began, the federal government has executed seven people. 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.. They gave me unconditional love, they taught me my self-worth, she said. ", "I live with regret for not speaking up about what happened to Lisa," Kidwell said, adding that he just didnt know what to do.. It is the only federal prison with an active death chamber. 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 lived with her children in poverty, without running water and other basic necessities, while her mental health deteriorated. Montgomery also suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, bipolar disorder and major depression, jurors were told. Zella Gwin survives. She was often spaced out, appearing disconnected from reality. She lapsed increasingly into mental illness and repeatedly faked pregnancy. These days, she requires a regimen of psychotropic drugs to function. 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. Eventually, Montgomery admitted she had acted alone in killing Stinnett and taking her baby. 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. "It was pretty awful.". 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. Montgomerys case is not about whether she is responsible for the crime; she is. She liked to take her finger and poke it hard into her chest, over and over in the same spot. Lisa Montgomery has been held at theCarswell Federal Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, for 12 years. Around this time, Shaughnessy and Patterson separated, and Mattingly was removed from the house by child protective services an act which she credits for saving her life. She had this ability to find what hurt you the most and use that against you, Mattingly said. In addition to Strong and Fritz, those investigators were FBI Special Agents Mike Miller and Scott Gentine and Topeka police officer Tom Glor. She had catfished Stinnett online under a fake name. Only 18 death sentences were handed down in 2020 and the number of executions carried out hit a 30-year low. Montgomery graduated in 1986 from high school at Cleveland, Okla., with hopes of joining the Air Force to earn money for college. Montgomery suffers from severe mental illness. When she was 18, Montgomery married her stepbrother. 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. Stinnett bled to death. 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. The judge in the case scolded Shaughnessy for not reporting the abuse - but did not report the abuse himself. My heart goes out to the family of Bobbie Jo Stinnett and the loss that they have felt and are still feeling. 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. But my hope is President Trump will stop Lisa's execution and commute her sentence to life in prison. Being loved unconditionally helped me heal, find a caring husband, and raise two children who have hearts of gold. Lisa Montgomery - the only female inmate on federal death row in the US - has been executed for murder in the state of Indiana. Nationwide, only 54 women have been executed since 1900. By multiple accounts, Kleiner was an erratic, violent man who beat the kids and his wife regularly. 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. Lisa then took the baby home and cared for her as though she was her own. 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. He recalled that Montgomery begged him not to tell anyone, for fear that Kleiner would kill her. "The whole community over there's traumatised by this.". It is hard to know if Montgomery understands that she is close to being executed; her mental state does not allow for much lucidity. Judy was an alcoholic with mental illness who married six times over the course of her life. 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. . Lisa Montgomery, a Kansas native scheduled within days to become the first woman executed by the federal government in 67 years, lived a childhood so abusive her attorneys call it akin to torture. "Being loved unconditionally helped me heal, find a caring husband and raise two children who have hearts of gold," Mattingly wrote. Lisa Montgomery - the only female inmate on federal death row in the US - has been executed for murder in the state of Indiana. 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. On the ride home, she clamped the umbilical cord and cleaned the baby girl with wipes. That was ultimately dropped in favour of an insanity defence, but Henry believes the damage to Montgomery's credibility was already done. I cant understand why they have to kill this woman, knowing her background and everything that happened, he said. However, the executions ordered by President Trump are continuing. "God, no, please," she said. And then at the end, she was broken.". 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. 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. In 1986, when Montgomery was 18, she married her stepbrother, Carl Boman. He had a daughter from a previous relationship, Diane, who was four years older than Montgomery. She was the first woman executed by the federal government in 67 years. 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. Montgomery strangled Stinnett into unconsciousness, then sliced into her stomach with the steak knife, Strong said. "Bobbie deserves to be here today. When Floyd Gwin died last July at age 81, Mattingly was listed among the survivors in his obituary. She has exhausted all legal options. But they were what we come to understand as neuro-physiological adaptations to survive being constantly under assault.. At least five times after she was sterilized, she told people that she was pregnant. Her victim's community said otherwise. Nobody has said that Lisa should never have been punished. Henrysaid she was surprised to see Montgomery scheduled for execution so soon, considering 30 other inmates on federal death row were sentencedbefore her. While all five are haunted by Stinnett's murder, they are also "bonded for life," Strong said. Montgomery is "evil personified," he said. He said he was "reduced to tears" when Zeb Stinnett sent him a message last month on the 16th anniversary of Montgomery's arrest for the murder of his wife. She was quiet and kind, they say. The crime itself shows that Lisa had lost all touch with reality. Those were disconnections that were tragic in their consequences. Nobody has said that Lisa should never have been punished. Lisa Montgomery, who endured years of sexual and physical abuse, murdered an expectant mother and took the baby. Judy Shaughnessy and her boyfriend physical, psychological . The question is, should she be put to death for it. She was forced to sit in a high chair for hours if she did not finish her food. Montgomery's mother, Judy Shaughnessy, who was 20 at the time of her birth in 1968, drank heavily while pregnant with her daughter. Her daughter remembered her acting like a young child in public, twirling and skipping with her arms swinging with abandon. A sworn statement from David Kidwell Sr. identified as being Montgomery's cousin and a deputy sheriff said shecried as she told him Kleiner and his friends on more than one occasion had raped her for hours, then "urinated on her like trash. It would be 34 years before the half-sisters would see each other again. And I am just asking for somebody - once - not to fail her.". 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