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.. The clemency process enables convicted criminals to request mercy and ask the nation's executive branch to step in, Henry said. Montgomery lived during her childhood in Washington, Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, California and Texas. 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. At one point, one of Montgomery's brothers found a home movie that showed Montgomery's husband raping and beating her. Shaughnessy has since died. 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. DNA testing later showed they were Stinnett's. "Come on, baby. She enacted this in the grip of a very broken mind.". "This was the act of a monster," he said. Montgomery told Stinnett that she was also expecting, and the pair shared pregnancy stories. "If I had, would they have taken Lisa out of the home also?" 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. "Today the death penalty has a face of my friend and I just can't be quiet about it," she said. After she strangled Stinnett, Montgomery is alleged to have cut her open and stolen her unborn child Victoria, who survived the attack and is now living with her father. Montgomery is worried that her fellow inmates will have trouble coping with her upcoming execution, said her friendToby Dorr. At 1:31 AM on Wednesday, Lisa Montgomery was pronounced dead. Lisa Montgomery tried to get counseling the year before she killed Stinnettbut wasn'tconnected to a quality provider, her attorneys said. Back home, the couple announced the birth of their daughter to their friends and relatives. 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. Dorr said she and Montgomery were in the same pod,in which inmates may gather outside their cells,in 2006 and 2007 at Leavenworth Detention Center, a for-profit federal facility in northeast Kansas. She had bought supplies, including a home birth kit, and searched online for how to perform a caesarean section. 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. But Lisa was broken. Mattingly said her heart sank when she realized Montgomery wasn't coming with her. 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. Mattingly said she saw terror in her half-sister's bright green eyes. I thought they knew what was going on, she said. Montgomery's execution date was subsequently bumped back to Jan. 12. 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. 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. The judge in the case scolded Shaughnessy for not reporting the abuse - but did not report the abuse himself. Kleiner told a reporter in 2005 that Shaughnessy's allegation was made up to support her divorce case and he was never found guilty of anything. A social worker found Lisa's allegations of abuse credible and turned the file. Stinnett bled to death. 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. Mattingly believes that by living with loving adults who nurtured her, she was able to process the trauma of her childhood and become a well-adjusted adult. He threatened to expose the imagined pregnancy and use it against her in the custody battle. 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. He continued the cycle of abuse, rapes and beatings, which he sadistically videotaped. Even at the age of 8, Mattingly recalled being worried about what would happen to Montgomery without her there. That was ultimately dropped in favour of an insanity defence, but Henry believes the damage to Montgomery's credibility was already done. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Teddy Kleiner, the son of Shaughnessy and Jack Kleiner, was 45 years old when he was fatally shot in 2019 in North Topeka. More: Who was the last woman executed by the US government? She didnt have nobody there to protect her once I was out of the home.. ", "I live with regret for not speaking up about what happened to Lisa," Kidwell said, adding that he just didnt know what to do.. 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. Diane Mattingly is the sister of Lisa Montgomery, who is scheduled for execution by the federal government on December 8, 2020. As long as she was given cigarettes, Montgomery continued to talk, Strong said. He thanked the sheriff for recovering his daughter and allowing him to be the parent that his wife couldn't be. However, the executions ordered by President Trump are continuing. Montgomery gave birth to three daughters and a son from1987 to1990, court records say. Multiple medical experts have given statements agreeing with that diagnosis. 2023 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved. As a teenager, Montgomery confided in a cousin, telling him the men would tie her up, beat her and even urinate on her afterwards. As one family story goes, Montgomerys first words as a toddler were, dont spank me.. "She always wanted to be a mom," says Baumli. 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. 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. Facebook gives people the. Montgomery has pleaded not guilty to kidnapping resulting in death. "We knew we were walking into the killer's house.". "But one of the things that the president can do is say - to women who have been trafficked, and who have been sexually abused - 'Your abuse matters'.". View the profiles of people named Judy Shaughnessy. Henrysaid she was surprised to see Montgomery scheduled for execution so soon, considering 30 other inmates on federal death row were sentencedbefore her. I was thinking, shes still back there. "God, no, please," she said. Mental health experts who examined her believe that her history of childhood trauma exacerbated a genetic predisposition to mental illness that ran in her family. she says. Montgomerys case is not about whether she is responsible for the crime; she is. "I don't think people understand how bad this was," Strong said. Lisa Montgomery's half-sister Diane Mattingly, who was separated from her in 1972 has taken a more high-profile role in trying to save her life. 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. She meets with Montgomery regularly, she said. Montgomery eventually divorced her first husband and married Kevin Montgomery. He testified that Montgomery had been in a dissociative state, or "mental fog," at the time. To help keep her mind occupied, Henry said, Montgomery was initially given one crayon and one piece of paper, but nothing else. 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.. Being loved unconditionally helped me heal, find a caring husband, and raise two children who have hearts of gold. Montgomery said she was seeking a dog for a Christmas gift. 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. Kleiner built a makeshift shed on the side of the trailer for Montgomery, where he began molesting, and then raping, her. "That's how evil this woman is," Strong said. Montgomery's mother, Judy Shaughnessy, drank while Montgomery was in utero, leaving her with brain damage, court documents say. 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. However, calls for Trump to be merciful are hardly unanimous. Lisa Montgomery be di 11th prisoner to receive di lethal injection since July when President Donald Trump, resume federal executions. Its also people hearing it, knowing it and doing nothing about it. The six-man, six-woman jury in October 2007 found Montgomery guilty and recommended she be executed. 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. At least five of the 12 jurors and three alternate jurorswiped away tears. I was put in foster care with a wonderful family. Montgomery first claimed to have had the baby at a Topeka birthing center but began changing her story after investigatorsseparated her from her husband and the infant, Strong said. "I was like, 'Oh, she was not.' She has exhausted all legal options except a last-ditch appeal for clemency from President Donald Trump, which was filed Christmas Eve. Shaughnessy drank excessively during her pregnancy, causing brain damage to Montgomery, according to court records. 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. 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. Who was the last woman executed by the US government? She struggles to maintain her own hygiene, loses focus during conversations with others and has trouble planning simple tasks.". In addition to Strong and Fritz, those investigators were FBI Special Agents Mike Miller and Scott Gentine and Topeka police officer Tom Glor. Shaughnessy's nephew, David Kidwell, testified that she believed Montgomery "had brought [the abuse] on herself, that she enticed him". There was plenty of food, our clothes were clean, and the kids did our homework together. Judy ultimately married six times, and had multiple partners throughout Lisa's childhood. Montgomery's execution, scheduled less than 60 days, will be the first of three federal executions in January before Trump leaves office. [N]ot only was it bizarre behavior, but it was very embarrassing for me as her daughter, she said. 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. When they came to take me, I thought they were coming to take all of us. But they were what we come to understand as neuro-physiological adaptations to survive being constantly under assault.. 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. 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. She also told one of her stepbrothers about the sexual abuse around that time. She pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. It turns out that it only takes a few people to save a child's life: being loved by my foster parents saved mine. 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. Judy Shaughnessy, drank during pregnancy. Is it ethical to execute a woman for actions that cannot be meaningfully separated from her mental illness and ugly history of abuse? It is the only federal prison with an active death chamber. Montgomery's older half-sister, Diane Mattingly, told reporters last week that Shaughnessy repeatedly beat Montgomery and Mattingly. Skidmore has suffered lasting effects as a result of Stinnett's murder, said Strong, the investigator who helped prodMontgomery to confess. 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.. She does not deserve to die. 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. 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. Mattingly, Montgomerys sister, is planning on visiting her next week. "As a result, Lisa has trouble processing information and navigating social relationships. 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. They introduced her as their daughter, Abigail, and made multiple other stops. When she was 18, Montgomery married her stepbrother. 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. Several high-profile figures had appealed for clemency in Brandon's case but Mr Trump did not heed those calls. "Being loved unconditionally helped me heal, find a caring husband and raise two children who have hearts of gold," Mattingly wrote. For the rest of her life.. As a teenager, Montgomery confided in her cousin, a deputy sheriff, that she was being raped by Kleiner and other men orally, vaginally and anally. Montgomery smelled like a sour ashtray and body sweat" as Don Fritz and Randy Strong interrogated her on Dec. 17, 2004, Strong recalled. "My sister was crying and in pain. Part of HuffPost Crime. 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. 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. Judy Shaughnessy and her boyfriend physical, psychological . I felt sick watching the video. . "The other sister stayed in that situation, and it got worse and worse and worse. Montgomery's father, John Patterson, a 25-year-old in the military, was also an alcoholic. A federal judge in November postponed Montgomery's execution from Dec. 8 until Jan. 12 to give her attorneys more time to file her clemency petition, after concluding that their COVID-19 symptoms limited their ability to file thepetition. Judy Shaughnessy, Montgomery's mother, testified Friday she found then-husband Jack Kleiner having sex with Montgomery in 1984, when Montgomery would have been about 16. It is hard to know if Montgomery understands that she is close to being executed; her mental state does not allow for much lucidity. "One sister got taken out and got put into a loving home and was nurtured and had time to heal," says Mattingly. Randy Strong, who investigated the case,is unhappy that some people are asking thatMontgomerys life be spared. At that time, Montgomery was awaiting trial. Prosecutors, in their closing argument, said that she had a filthy home, that she didnt cook and that she didnt clean, Babcock said. "The whole community over there's traumatised by this.". 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. 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. The murder 16 years ago is never far from the minds of the town's residents. Just the details: What you need to know about Montgomery and her victim, Bobbie Jo Stinnett. 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. The Trump administration announced it was reinstating executions last summer after an almost 20-year hiatus. 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. Until July 2020, there had been no federal executions for 17 years. If they all go ahead, the federal government will have executed more people than any administration in nearly 100 years. He was in her. Read about our approach to external linking. Zella Gwin survives. The cold, vicious, calculating and brutal nature of her crimes shows that Montgomery knew exactly what she was doing, Strong said. Montgomery was repeatedly molested by her stepdad Jack Kleiner, starting at . Many there believe the final moments of Bobbie Jo Stinnett were so horrific, the death sentence is warranted. "She tried to throw her own brother under the bus for a crime that she committed.". Montgomerys father, John Patterson, a 25-year-old in the military, was also an alcoholic. Lisa Montgomery, a federal prisoner, is now slated to be executed on Jan. 12. 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. Montgomery claimed to live in northwest Missouri. Her children were disturbed by it. Her story quickly fell apart and she confessed to the killing. 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. Harper told a dispatcher her daughter's womb appeared to have "exploded" and that blood was "everywhere." Montgomery was already vulnerable to serious mental illness, she added. "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. Her lawyers are pursuing an insanity defense. The tiny farming town of Skidmore sits in the far northwest corner of Missouri. Mattingly and Montgomery were best friends. Friends and family began noticing Montgomery's tendency to slip into "a world of her own". 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. Other friends of Kleiner, including a plumber and an electrician, raped her in that shed, Montgomery says, as a way of collecting payment for work done around the house. 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. I'm bruised, but I'm not broken. When Montgomery was in her mid-teens,she was sexually assaulted by Kleiner and three or four of his friends, according to court records. Many of the residents of Skidmore cite the details of the crime, and the amount of planning that went into it, as evidence that Montgomery was a calculating killer. "Bobbie deserves to be here today. The question is, should she be put to death for it? Montgomery has exhausted all attempts to appeal her conviction and death sentence although her attorneys are exploring possible litigation. While all five are haunted by Stinnett's murder, they are also "bonded for life," Strong 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. Montgomery's mother, Judy Shaughnessy, who was 20 at the time of her birth in 1968, drank heavily while pregnant with her daughter. I didn't know what to do or how to talk to my sister about it.". 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