The Trump administration announced it was reinstating executions last summer after an almost 20-year hiatus. When Lisa Montgomery murdered pregnant Bobbie Jo Stinnett and ripped her unborn baby from her womb, the whole world reeled in horror. Montgomery's father, John Patterson, a 25-year-old in the military, was also an alcoholic. People confuse punishment with culpability, she went on. 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. Those were disconnections that were tragic in their consequences. 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. In the other cases, she said, prosecutors opted not to seek the death penalty or juries did not impose it because it was obvious the women were suffering from profound mental illnesses. A social worker found Lisa's allegations of abuse credible and turned the file. Lisa Montgomery - the only female inmate on federal death row in the US - has been executed for murder in the state of Indiana. The question is, should she be put to death for it? Montgomery took Stinnetts baby, clamped the umbilical cord and used baby wipes to clean her. He had a daughter from a previous relationship, Diane, who was four years older than Montgomery. Lisa Montgomery and Bobbie Jo Stinnett got to know each other online through a shared love of dogs. And nowhere is that support more palpably felt in this case than in Skidmore. It has been the subject of two books, multiple true crime television shows, documentaries and countless podcast episodes. Meanwhile, her mother in 1985 had married Richard Boman, whose son Montgomery's stepbrother, Carl Boman got Montgomery pregnant. That is exactly what Lisa Montgomery developed into, which is a person who had profound disconnection from her body, from her mind, from her experience, Porterfield said. 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. He threatened to rape our little sister if Lisa resisted and said he would kill her whole family if she told anyone. 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. The couple had three children in rapid succession. Randy Strong, who investigated the case,is unhappy that some people are asking thatMontgomerys life be spared. Shaughnessy would beat Mattingly with whatever was in her hand, be it a belt or a broom, she said. Mattingly said she shielded her half-sister from random baby-sitters, often older men, whom their mother left with them during her near-nightly outings to a local bar. Lisa's mother, Judy Shaughnessy, abused her "in extreme and sadistic ways," according to interviews with nearly 450 family members, neighbors, lawyers, social workers, and teachers. She does not deserve to die. And I am just asking for somebody - once - not to fail her.". Dorr's marriage was failing when she fell in love with John Manard, a convicted murderer 21 years her junior. "And then go, 'Look at this body'. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who deserved mercy. Montgomery achieved considerable emotional growth once she was put in a stable environment where she felt safe and was receiving psychiatric medications for the first time, Dorrsaid. The tiny farming town of Skidmore sits in the far northwest corner of Missouri. The nature and circumstances of Montgomerys crime show she had lost touch with reality, says her half-sister, Diane Mattingly. 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. You know, like, that doesn't happen to Bobbie," Morrow says. Even at the age of 8, Mattingly recalled being worried about what would happen to Montgomery without her there. I was put in foster care with a wonderful family. 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. 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. U.S. District Judge Gary A. Fenner upheld the jury's recommendation the following April. My sister, Lisa Montgomery, is broken. This is the stuff of nightmares.". 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. The family treated Mattingly as one of their own, and gave her a sense of belonging and self-worth, she said. She went home with a newborn, one she acquired by murdering the babys pregnant mother. It is hard to know if Montgomery understands that she is close to being executed; her mental state does not allow for much lucidity. Diane Mattingly is the sister of Lisa Montgomery, who is scheduled for execution by the federal government on December 8, 2020. The question is, should she be put to death for it. In fact, he drove her back home and dropped her off in the hands of her abusers. "I'm asking him to have compassion on her as a person that has been failed over and over and over again. Dorr has since been released from prison and remarried. At the instigation of Shaughnessys lawyer, Montgomery was connected to a therapist, but only briefly. "I felt sick watching the video. 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. . It turns out that it only takes a few people to save a child's life: being loved by my foster parents saved mine. Montgomery also talked about the abuseshe had endured from her stepfather, Jack Kleiner, and the first of her two husbands, Carl Boman, Dorr said. They were also physically violent. Montgomery has exhausted all attempts to appeal her conviction and death sentence although her attorneys are exploring possible litigation. When she was 18, Montgomery married her stepbrother. A newspaper article quoted him as saying he had been convinced his wife was pregnant and had given birth. 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. Strong was a police detective in Maryville, Mo., 14 miles northeast of Skidmore, and Fritz was a detective at Cameron, also in northwest Missouri. View the profiles of people named Judy Shaughnessy. "The whole story is tragic," says Kelley Henry, one of Montgomery's federal defence lawyers. 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.. A herd of rat terriers greeted them. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who. 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. Patterson was transferred after Montgomerys birth to Fort Riley inKansas, where their family lived when another daughter was born in 1970. And then at the end, she was broken.". "Little Lisa was in the bed next to mine every time," she said. 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. "I cried," says Strong. Every year. 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 her interviews with Montgomery, Porterfield said, the woman showed symptoms of dissociation, including confused thinking, major gaps in memory, and an inability to recognize the reality of certain events. 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. DNA testing later showed they were Stinnett's. In Montgomerys early teen years, Kleiner moved the family to an isolated trailer at the end of a dead-end road outside of Sperry, Oklahoma, a severely impoverished area north of Tulsa. 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. If you or someone you know needs support for issues about emotional distress, these organisations may be able to help. Her children were disturbed by it. Many there believe the final moments of Bobbie Jo Stinnett were so horrific, the death sentence is warranted. Sheriff Strong insists that the crime was meticulously planned and that the woman he arrested continued to lie until backed into a corner. "Let's say I didn't stay clean very long," she says. "She got joy out of it.". At 18, Judy pressured Lisa to marry her stepbrother. As the car drove further and further away, Mattingly began to vomit. Montgomery suffers from severe mental illness. 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. The judge in the case scolded Shaughnessy for not reporting the abuse - but did not report the abuse himself. Other times, her behavior could be erratic and inappropriate. To help keep her mind occupied, Henry said, Montgomery was initially given one crayon and one piece of paper, but nothing else. 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. President-elect Joe Biden has already pledged to end death penalty proceedings, although he hasn't said when. In the end, it was in prisonwhere she spent years on death row after committing a horrific crimethat she began to recover from a lifetime of nightmarish abuse. The crime itself shows that Lisa had lost all touch with reality. "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. "I get these images in my head of [Bobbie Jo's mother] finding her daughter that way.". 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. 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. Montgomery's cousin told her legal team that he lived with "regret for not speaking up about what happened to Lisa". "God, no, please," she said. She struggles to maintain her own hygiene, loses focus during conversations with others and has trouble planning simple tasks.". Judy ultimately married six times, and had multiple partners throughout Lisa's childhood. 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. It makes him even angrier that it was Stinnett's mother who discovered her that way. Kleiner and Shaughnessy divorced in 1985, with Shaughnessy contending she once walked in on Kleiner and Montgomery having sex. Lisa was anally, orally, and vaginally raped by several men, one after the other for several hours at a time. Kevin Montgomery let investigators inside. Montgomery's mother, Judy Shaughnessy, told The . He married Judy Shaughnessy, who would become Montgomery's mother, in 1967 in Miami, Okla. Patterson was the second of six husbands Shaughnessy would have during her life, which ended in 2013. 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. 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. Ramachandran said Montgomery told him she didn't remember killing Stinnett or cutting the baby out of her body. One was the presence of substantial planning and premeditation. 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. "When I squeezed her hand, she looked at me and smiled," she said. 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. They recommended a sentence of death. 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. Montgomery graduated in 1986 from high school at Cleveland, Okla., with hopes of joining the Air Force to earn money for college. She had bought supplies, including a home birth kit, and searched online for how to perform a caesarean section. 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. "Come on, baby. [N]ot only was it bizarre behavior, but it was very embarrassing for me as her daughter, she said. Montgomery also suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, bipolar disorder and major depression, jurors were told. Maybe you should focus your efforts on the fact that Lisa's mother, Judy Shaughnessy, was granted custody of a grandson the year prior to Lisa's crime. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who. One of those men started coming into their bedroom and raping Mattingly regularly, Mattingly said. Part of HuffPost Crime. 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. She missed the funeral because of it. 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. Moving often was the norm to Montgomery; by the time she was a teenager, she had moved approximately 16 times. When Floyd Gwin died last July at age 81, Mattingly was listed among the survivors in his obituary. He said she stood out to the extentthere appeared to be something wrong" with her. Shaughnessy in 1974 married her third husband, Jack Kleiner, a divorced father of five. - Sandra Babcock, faculty director of the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide, Montgomery, who confessed, was later sentenced to death for the , The Trump administration announced it was. She had this ability to find what hurt you the most and use that against you, Mattingly said. When Shaughnessy eventually split from her second husband, she and Montgomery testified in divorce proceedings about the sexual assaults. 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. More: Who was the last woman executed by the US government? Montgomery was represented briefly after her arrest by Ron Wurtz, a now-retired attorney who has represented dozens of capital case defendants. As Strong crossed the threshold, hesaw a TV set airing an Amber Alert about the abduction of Stinnett's baby. 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. When I was eight and Lisa was four, social services came and rescued me from Judy, leaving Lisa and our other sister behind. 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. He had a daughter from a previous relationship, Diane, who was four years older than Montgomery. 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. She began prostituting Lisa to older men when Lisa was in her early teens. Montgomerys case is not about whether she is responsible for the crime; she is. Often the woman, now 52 and a grandmother of 12, is knitting or doing needlepoint. At one point, one of Montgomery's brothers found a home movie that showed Montgomery's husband raping and beating her. Lisa Montgomery, la nica mujer en el corredor de la muerte federal de Estados Unidos, fue ejecutada este mircoles por asesinato. I'm bruised, but I'm not broken. On December 8, the federal government plans to execute her for a crime she committed in the grip of severe mental illness after a lifetime of living hell. The 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.. Multiple medical experts have given statements agreeing with that diagnosis. As the oldest, I was the protector of Lisa and our baby sister. Another case with Missouri ties. They married in 1986. She liked going down to the Nodaway River to swim, and playing Nintendo games at slumber parties. Montgomery was already vulnerable to serious mental illness, she added. For Montgomery, her lawyers argue, it began before she was born. The clemency process enables convicted criminals to request mercy and ask the nation's executive branch to step in, Henry said. Shaughnessy's nephew, David Kidwell, testified that she believed Montgomery "had brought [the abuse] on herself, that she enticed him". She lapsed increasingly into mental illness and repeatedly faked pregnancy. 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. Lisa Montgomery's current legal team has conducted some 450 interviews with family members, friends, case workers, doctors and social workers. She faked pregnancies several times during her marriages to Carl Boman and Kevin Montgomery, court records say. Judy drank throughout her pregnancy with Lisa and caused her to be born with brain damage. The views expressed in this article are the author's own. Montgomery's older half-sister, Diane Mattingly, told reporters last week that Shaughnessy repeatedly beat Montgomery and Mattingly. 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. Mattingly said her heart sank when she realized Montgomery wasn't coming with her. She was quiet and kind, they say. Mrs. Im not a psychiatrist, so I cant go any further than that.. 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. 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. One of the lead investigators in the case, Randy Strong, wants Montgomery executed. Three federal inmates - Orlando Hall, Alfred Bourgeois and Brandon Bernard - have been put to death since the 3 November presidential election. Jack also raped Lisa for years. The baby girl survived, andMontgomery took her home and briefly passed her off as her own until investigators arrested her the next day. Mattingly has enjoyed a "blessed life," she said. "Last year, we got flowers, and gave her a $100-plus gift card and then paid her water bill," says Jena Baumli. She describes Montgomery's ex-husband as cruel and harassing. "There were so many opportunities where people could have intervened and prevented this," says Henry. 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." Montgomery's first stepfather . 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