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. "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'.". He was pumping her, Shaughnessy testified. Melvern residents want that perception to end, she said. "There was so much pressure on her at that point," says Henry. Jack also raped Lisa for years. At the instigation of Shaughnessys lawyer, Montgomery was connected to a therapist, but only briefly. The father was a teacher. He thanked the sheriff for recovering his daughter and allowing him to be the parent that his wife couldn't be. Montgomerys entire life was marked by people who failed to protect her, Babcock said. That was ultimately dropped in favour of an insanity defence, but Henry believes the damage to Montgomery's credibility was already done. In response to traumatic events, children may dissociate from their feelings and their bodies to protect themselves from experiencing what is happening. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who. He was being held in the Shawnee County Jail in 2018 when he filed a federal lawsuit contending the county was violating his constitutional rights by preventing him from sending letters to Montgomery. They married in 1986. As a result of her sexual torture, Lisa began to dissociate. At least five of the 12 jurors and three alternate jurorswiped away tears. Montgomery also talked about the abuseshe had endured from her stepfather, Jack Kleiner, and the first of her two husbands, Carl Boman, Dorr said. A few years after Mattingly was removed from the home, when Montgomery was in kindergarten, her mother remarried a man named Jack Kleiner. 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. 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. It would be 34 years before the half-sisters would see each other again. Multiple medical experts have given statements agreeing with that diagnosis. 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. 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. Residents there tend to think her execution would bring an appropriate end to a painful chapter in their city's history, he said. In December 2004, Boman filed a court action seeking custody of two of their children who still lived with Montgomery while arguing that the pregnancy Montgomery was fakingillustrated she was an unfit mother, according to newspaper accounts. A clemency petition asking Trump to reduce Montgomerys sentence to life without parole is expected to be filed in the coming weeks. Dorr has since been released from prison and remarried. 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. They hold a collection and try to do something nice for Stinnett's mother. 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. "She needs to be put to death.". 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. She lived at 61 addresses in the 36 years before she went to prison, court documents show. 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. 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. 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. In Montgomerys early childhood, her older sister, Diane, suffered the worst of the violence. I cant understand why they have to kill this woman, knowing her background and everything that happened, he said. "She seemed like a real personI could connect with and build a relationship with inside prison," Dorr said. Mattingly and Montgomery lived together until Mattingly was eight and her half-sister was four. Montgomerys case is not about whether she is responsible for the crime; she is. Lisa told me that when these men raped her, she would go away in her mind and try not to be present, the brother said in a court declaration. "I think that side of Lisa needs to be out there.". Please, honey.". Montgomery claimed to live in northwest Missouri. 2023 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved. Join half a million readers enjoying Newsweek's free newsletters, Everyone Practices Cancel Culture | Opinion, Deplatforming Free Speech is Dangerous | Opinion. They had corresponded for weeks on an online forum for rat terrier breeders and enthusiasts called "Ratter Chatter". Montgomery used the fake name of "Darlene Fischer" and the chilling email address of fischer4kids@hotmail.com as she set up a meeting with Stinnett, according to the charging affidavit in thecase. 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. The cold, vicious, calculating and brutal nature of her crimes shows that Montgomery knew exactly what she was doing, Strong said. She does not deserve to die. 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. Many there believe the final moments of Bobbie Jo Stinnett were so horrific, the death sentence is warranted. Only 18 death sentences were handed down in 2020 and the number of executions carried out hit a 30-year low. "I cried," says Strong. But my hope is President Trump will stop Lisa's execution and commute her sentence to life in prison. And to not fail her.". However, the executions ordered by President Trump are continuing. She has writtenopinion piecespublished in Elle and Newsweek. Montgomery and Stinnett participated inthe "Ratter Chatter" online message board for rat terrier dog enthusiasts. 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. Every year. We lived in a house of horrors. Prosecutors, in their closing argument, said that she had a filthy home, that she didnt cook and that she didnt clean, Babcock said. Montgomery's cousin told her legal team that he lived with "regret for not speaking up about what happened to Lisa". "Oh, they're here, I've got to go," she said. On the ride home, she clamped the umbilical cord and cleaned the baby girl with wipes. And then go, 'Stand there and listen to the 911 call of [Stinnett's mother]. And I am just asking for somebody - once - not to fail her.". "She always wanted to be a mom," says Baumli. Henry said Montgomery seemed out of touch with reality when Henry and Harwell, who work in Tennessee, traveled by plane to visit her in October and early November at Fort Worth. Shaughnessy also beat the girls with brooms and belts,Mattingly said. Strong said he and Fritz questioned Montgomery using a"good cop/bad cop" approach. Diane Mattingly is the sister of Lisa Montgomery, who is scheduled for execution by the federal government on December 8, 2020. "She got joy out of it.". She pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. Prosecutors said Montgomery was faking mental illness, notingthat many people are sexually abused, but few go on to kill. She was born in 1968, the child of two troubled alcoholics. 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. 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. 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. When Lisa Montgomery murdered pregnant Bobbie Jo Stinnett and ripped her unborn baby from her womb, the whole world reeled in horror. She didnt have nobody there to protect her once I was out of the home.. At that time, Montgomery was awaiting trial. Another case with Missouri ties. The nature and circumstances of Montgomerys crime show she had lost touch with reality, says her half-sister, Diane Mattingly. Henry stressed that no one faces a death sentence linked to the 16 other U.S. cases from 1987 to2015 in which a woman has attacked a pregnant woman and her unborn child in an effort to take the childand ended up killing one or both. As one family story goes, Montgomerys first words as a toddler were, dont spank me.. 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. They were also physically violent. He said she stood out to the extentthere appeared to be something wrong" with her. These days, she requires a regimen of psychotropic drugs to function. Judy Shaughnessy and her boyfriend physical, psychological and sexual abuse Lisa. . Other times, her behavior could be erratic and inappropriate. Court records describe her as a quiet loner who spent a lot of time reading books. Around this time, she repeatedly claimed to be pregnant again, although she had undergone sterilisation after her fourth baby was born. "Today the death penalty has a face of my friend and I just can't be quiet about it," she said. Sheriff Strong insists that the crime was meticulously planned and that the woman he arrested continued to lie until backed into a corner. I didn't know what to do or how to talk to my sister about it.". Montgomery suffers from severe mental illness. What you need to know about Montgomery and her victim, Bobbie Jo Stinnett. She began prostituting Lisa to older men when Lisa was in her early teens. However, calls for Trump to be merciful are hardly unanimous. Recently, there has been a virus outbreak on death row at the institution, and previous executions have been linked to outbreaks among the execution team and prison staff. This story was first published on 11 January - before Lisa Montgomery's execution on 13 January. Judy Shaughnessy and her boyfriend physical, psychological . 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. Stinnett wasn't breathing and was cold. He had a daughter from a previous relationship, Diane, who was four years older than Montgomery. I never molested her in any way, shape or form, said Kleiner, who died in 2009. After five hours of deliberation, the jury found Montgomery guilty. Skidmore has suffered lasting effects as a result of Stinnett's murder, said Strong, the investigator who helped prodMontgomery to confess. And it's never about what my friend went through," she adds. Newspaper accounts show Montgomery had upset other users of that board by making false statements, including claiming to be pregnant. Part of HuffPost Crime. Zella Gwin survives. My heart goes out to the family of Bobbie Jo Stinnett and the loss that they have felt and are still feeling. 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. A newspaper article quoted him as saying he had been convinced his wife was pregnant and had given birth. ", More: Only woman on federal death row asks President Trump to be a 'hero,' commute her sentence. Defense attorney Fred Duchardt told jurors that sexual abuse during her childhood had caused Montgomeryto become mentally ill and killed her soul. The Trump administration announced it was reinstating executions last summer after an almost 20-year hiatus. Montgomery's second husband Kevin Montgomery, who lives near Melvern and remains married to her voiced support for her bid for clemency in a statement releasedthrough his wife's attorneys. She told Lisa she had to "earn her keep." Judy later. For one thing, the wider world won't let them forget. He stressed that the juryheard testimony about her mental illness and her history of being abused, yet still unanimously recommended her execution. 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. 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. Why the fate of the only woman on federal death row hinges on these Tennessee attorneys and their health, Lisa Montgomery's execution, delayed by attorneys' COVID-19 cases, rescheduled for Jan. 12, Only woman on federal death row asks President Trump to be a 'hero,' commute her sentence, Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. Montgomery was also prone to delusional thinking. She had this ability to find what hurt you the most and use that against you, Mattingly said. "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.". It turns out that it only takes a few people to save a child's life: being loved by my foster parents saved mine. Porterfield compared the chronic abuse to pouring lighter fluid onto a spark. 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 was sick. 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. Patterson and Shaughnessy divorced in 1971, and Shaughnessy took custody of the girls. Kleiner built a makeshift shed on the side of the trailer for Montgomery, where he began molesting, and then raping, her. Some nights, she said, Shaughnessy would leave them in the house with a male babysitter. Montgomery is worried that her fellow inmates will have trouble coping with her upcoming execution, said her friendToby Dorr. Court records say Kleiner drank heavily, beat his wife and children, and made his daughters take off their clothes before he spanked them. People confuse punishment with culpability, she went on. A longtime death penalty opponent, Wurtz said he considers it "idiotic" that Montgomery is to be executed. Patterson made a mistake by abandoning them to "that crazy lady," he said at Montgomery's sentencing hearing in 2007. My sister, Lisa Montgomery, is broken. Bobbie's family deserves her," says Meagan Morrow, a high school classmate of Stinnett's. 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. One was the presence of substantial planning and premeditation. The question is, should she be put to death for it. One of those men started coming into their bedroom and raping Mattingly regularly, Mattingly said. But Fischer was a name that Montgomery had been using when she separately began messaging Stinnett from a different email address inquiring about buying one of her puppies. She told Lisa she had to "earn her keep.". 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. Montgomerys case is not about whether she is responsible for the crime; she is. It is the only federal prison with an active death chamber. ", "I live with regret for not speaking up about what happened to Lisa," Kidwell said, adding that he just didnt know what to do.. Judy Shaughnessy had already raised two convicted felons at the time. 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. According to her lawyers and witnesses, Montgomery suffered years of childhood abuse so severe it was akin to torture. Meanwhile, her mother in 1985 had married Richard Boman, whose son Montgomery's stepbrother, Carl Boman got Montgomery pregnant. "The whole story is tragic," says Kelley Henry, one of Montgomery's federal defence lawyers. While all five are haunted by Stinnett's murder, they are also "bonded for life," Strong said. Now, she called him to tell him that shed gone into labor while shopping and had given birth at a clinic. According to sworn statements from her family, her mental health declined rapidly after that. Judy Shaughnessy, drank during pregnancy. Mattingly has enjoyed a "blessed life," she said. "Maybe she could have been saved, too. By multiple accounts, Kleiner was an erratic, violent man who beat the kids and his wife regularly. Shaughnessy's nephew, David Kidwell, testified that she believed Montgomery "had brought [the abuse] on herself, that she enticed him". In 1986, when Montgomery was 18, she married her stepbrother, Carl Boman. "As a result, Lisa has trouble processing information and navigating social relationships. Montgomery told Stinnett that she was also expecting, and the pair shared pregnancy stories. Mattingly said her heart sank when she realized Montgomery wasn't coming with her. Nationwide, only 54 women have been executed since 1900. His message contained a "very heartfelt thank you. A lifetime of sexual torture causes her to lose touch with reality. When Mattingly attendedMontgomery's sentencing hearing in 2007, which was the first time she had seen her sister in about 35 years, she said Montgomery's face bore the same look of fear it had when they were separated. "The whole community over there's traumatised by this.". At the same time, she blames it for the fate of her younger half-sister, Lisa Montgomery. She lives near Kansas City, Mo. As a teenager, Montgomery confided in a cousin, telling him the men would tie her up, beat her and even urinate on her afterwards. 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. "There were so many opportunities where people could have intervened and prevented this," says Henry. Those were disconnections that were tragic in their consequences. "I felt sick watching the video. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who deserved mercy. Stinnett bled to death. 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. That could change in Terre Haute. I felt sick watching the video. Babcock noted that while at least a dozen other women across the U.S. have committed a similar crime in the past 20 years killing a pregnant woman to kidnap her baby Montgomery was the only one sentenced to death. 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. As long as she was given cigarettes, Montgomery continued to talk, Strong said. Lisa Montgomery - the only female inmate on federal death row in the US - has been executed for murder in the state of Indiana. She had brain damage, likely caused by exposure to alcohol when she was a. The U.S. has not executed a woman in 67 years. 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. Nobody has said that Lisa should never have been punished. "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.". Mattingly was 8 years old and Montgomery was 4 when Mattingly was removed in 1972 from Shaughnessy's mobile home at Ogden, a community of about 1,960 people in Riley County. In fact, he drove her back home and dropped her off in the hands of her abusers. They found her cradling a new-born girl she claimed to have given birth to the previous day. 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. Several high-profile figures had appealed for clemency in Brandon's case but Mr Trump did not heed those calls. To help keep her mind occupied, Henry said, Montgomery was initially given one crayon and one piece of paper, but nothing else. I didn't know what to do or how to talk to my sister about it.". Her mouth was covered with duct tape so frequently that she learned not to cry. Other inmates tended to keep Montgomery at arm's length because of the brutality of what she had done, Dorr said, but she liked Montgomery's quiet nature. 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. Since receiving her execution date, she's been placed on suicide watch in an isolated cell. 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. Montgomery also suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, bipolar disorder and major depression, jurors were told. Right: This cemetery at Melvern, where Lisa Montgomery formerly lived, has more than 1,800 gravesites, which is nearly five times the city's population. The tiny farming town of Skidmore sits in the far northwest corner of Missouri. "There's so many people that failed her throughout her whole life. 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. "She tried to throw her own brother under the bus for a crime that she committed.". Montgomery's mother, Judy Shaughnessy, who was 20 at the time of her birth in 1968, drank heavily while pregnant with her daughter. "If I had, would they have taken Lisa out of the home also?" At state level, the number of sentences and executions continues a historic decline. If you or someone you know needs support for issues about emotional distress, these organisations may be able to help. 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. My sister is on death row, Kleiner wrote in the lawsuit petition. There was plenty of food, our clothes were clean, and the kids did our homework together. More recently, the states that have been carrying out executions, such as Texas and Tennessee, have halted and delayed executions because of the pandemic. Until July 2020, there had been no federal executions for 17 years. 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.. Montgomery was sentenced for the murder of a 23-year-old woman who was eight months pregnant. She also told one of her stepbrothers about the sexual abuse around that time. But the cousin, a sheriff's deputy, confessed to Montgomery's current legal team that he did nothing. Montgomery gave birth to three daughters and a son from1987 to1990, court records say. Lisa Montgomery, a federal prisoner, is now slated to be executed on Jan. 12. Im not a psychiatrist, so I cant go any further than that.. In addition to Strong and Fritz, those investigators were FBI Special Agents Mike Miller and Scott Gentine and Topeka police officer Tom Glor. "This was the act of a monster," he said. More: Why the fate of the only woman on federal death row hinges on these Tennessee attorneys and their health, "Lisas trauma was so severe that it compromised her neurological functioning and development," they said in a written statement. During divorce proceedings, Shaughnessy admitted to the court that she had walked in on her husband raping Montgomery. But Strong says this is the first year he's heard directly from Stinnett's husband. "I don't think people understand how bad this was," Strong said. Because of Stinnett's easy-going reputation, Morrow remembers instantly dismissing the initial reports of her murder. He had a daughter from a previous relationship, Diane, who was four years older than Montgomery. Montgomery's number of crayons and pieces of paper hassince been increased to 10 each. 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. At one point, one of Montgomery's brothers found a home movie that showed Montgomery's husband raping and beating her. As the car drove further and further away, Mattingly began to vomit. She had catfished Stinnett online under a fake name. "I looked to my right and there was Lisa Montgomery on the sofa, holding the baby," he said. The girls' biological father left the home, and after a while, Mattingly was whisked away to foster care. Patterson was transferred after Montgomerys birth to Fort Riley inKansas, where their family lived when another daughter was born in 1970. When she was 18, Montgomery married her stepbrother. Two other inmates are scheduled to die at Terre Haute prison before Mr Trump's presidency ends. Shaughnessy drank excessively during her pregnancy, causing brain damage to Montgomery, according to court records. When Floyd Gwin died last July at age 81, Mattingly was listed among the survivors in his obituary. Her lawyers are pursuing an insanity defense. "Judy was manipulative and - I hate to use this word, but - evil. 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. "We've seen crime for years and years in our country in which people enact terrible violence coming out of a psychotic set of beliefs or thought process. Mattingly, Montgomerys sister, is planning on visiting her next week. Lisa Montgomery had little if any chance in life. I couldn't believe how good it felt to be part of a loving family. She faulted Montgomerys defense team at the time of the initial trial for failing to connect the dots between Montgomerys childhood trauma and her later behavior. There are things children need to grow into healthy adults, among them love, praise and stability. 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. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. She lives in Lebanon, Ky., is married with two adult children and has worked the past 19 years for the state of Kentucky. But it was not a pet that she was to retrieve that day. "I fell in love immediately.". Lisa Montgomery - the only female inmate on federal death row in the US - has been executed for murder in the state of Indiana. 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. 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