Montgomery has pleaded not guilty to kidnapping resulting in death. At 1:31 AM on Wednesday, Lisa Montgomery was pronounced dead. Her lawyers are pursuing an insanity defense. He threatened to expose the imagined pregnancy and use it against her in the custody battle. The judge in the case scolded Shaughnessy for not reporting the abuse - but did not report the abuse himself. Jurors heard an audiotape of Harper, Stinnett's mother, calling 911 after finding her body. Ms. Montgomery has bipolar disorder, temporal lobe epilepsy, complex post-traumatic stress disorder, dissociative disorder, psychosis, traumatic brain injury and most likely fetal alcohol syndrome. Lisa Montgomery, a federal prisoner, is now slated to be executed on Jan. 12. "One sister got taken out and got put into a loving home and was nurtured and had time to heal," says Mattingly. Montgomery is "evil personified," he said. While all five are haunted by Stinnett's murder, they are also "bonded for life," Strong said. "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'.". Other times, her behavior could be erratic and inappropriate. 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 believes that if Montgomery had been rescued too, and given what she was given contact with loving, protective adults everything would have been different. Who was the last woman executed by the US government? She also told one of her stepbrothers about the sexual abuse around that time. "She was completely detached from reality.". Mattingly and Montgomery lived together until Mattingly was eight and her half-sister was four. 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. She had this ability to find what hurt you the most and use that against you, Mattingly said. "This was the act of a monster," he said. Her death is scheduled a little over a month before the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, who has pledged to end the federal death penalty. The cold, vicious, calculating and brutal nature of her crimes shows that Montgomery knew exactly what she was doing, Strong said. Lisa Montgomery and Bobbie Jo Stinnett got to know each other online through a shared love of dogs. 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. Montgomery has exhausted all attempts to appeal her conviction and death sentence although her attorneys are exploring possible litigation. To help keep her mind occupied, Henry said, Montgomery was initially given one crayon and one piece of paper, but nothing else. She helped him escape in a dog crate and went to prison after a vehicle chase 12 days later ended with their capture. 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. Lisa then took the baby home and cared for her as though she was her own. Jack also raped Lisa for years. A longtime death penalty opponent, Wurtz said he considers it "idiotic" that Montgomery is to be executed. They also discovered that Shaughnessy prostituted. Family members have claimed that Shaughnessy blamed Montgomery for the abuse and the divorce. The family moved often. Nationwide, only 54 women have been executed since 1900. Mattingly said she saw terror in her half-sister's bright green eyes. Kleiner was never charged. Montgomery's mother, Judy Shaughnessy, drank while Montgomery was in utero, leaving her with brain damage, court documents say. In addition to her brain damage, Lisa developed multiple mental disorders, including bipolar disorder, temporal lobe epilepsy, dissociative disorder, and Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. The question is, should she be put to death for it? she says. "Last year, we got flowers, and gave her a $100-plus gift card and then paid her water bill," says Jena Baumli. She began prostituting Lisa to older men when Lisa was in her early teens. Shaughnessy would beat Mattingly with whatever was in her hand, be it a belt or a broom, she said. Skidmore has suffered lasting effects as a result of Stinnett's murder, said Strong, the investigator who helped prodMontgomery to confess. A lifelong opponent of the death penalty, Dorr said she wants the world to know about Lisa Montgomery the person. Since they began, the federal government has executed seven people. President-elect Joe Biden has already pledged to end death penalty proceedings, although he hasn't said when. 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. And I am just asking for somebody - once - not to fail her.". Diane Mattingly has been speaking publicly for the first time in the hope it can make a difference. Lisa Montgomery has been charged in the December 16 death of Bobbie Jo Stinnett, who was eight months pregnant at the time. When Lisa Montgomery murdered pregnant Bobbie Jo Stinnett and ripped her unborn baby from her womb, the whole world reeled in horror. Montgomery's alcoholic mother, Judy Shaughnessy, knew about the assaults but blamed Montgomery for bringing them upon herself. Montgomery eventually divorced her first husband and married Kevin Montgomery. "She got joy out of it.". Mattingly and Montgomery were best friends. Mattingly, 57, recalled the day her half-sister was brought home in a pink bundle after being born Feb. 27, 1968, in Pierce County, Washington. 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. Two other inmates are scheduled to die at Terre Haute prison before Mr Trump's presidency ends. "Maybe she could have been saved, too. In addition to Strong and Fritz, those investigators were FBI Special Agents Mike Miller and Scott Gentine and Topeka police officer Tom Glor. Ms. "If I did speak up, maybe Zella and Floyd would have gone back for Lisa," she wrote. She said Montgomery's crimes have affected the way Melvern is perceived in the same manner anti-gay picketing by Westboro Baptist Church has influenced perceptions about Topeka. "She tried to throw her own brother under the bus for a crime that she committed.". 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. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who. In a letterin late November written with a black crayon, Montgomery told Dorr that other inmates at Carswell took it "really hard" when her execution date was set. 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. Montgomery was also prone to delusional thinking. She had brain damage, likely caused by exposure to alcohol when she was a. Montgomery and Carl Boman divorced, remarried and divorced again in 1998. Lisa Montgomery - the only female inmate on federal death row in the US - has been executed for murder in the state of Indiana. Because of Stinnett's easy-going reputation, Morrow remembers instantly dismissing the initial reports of her murder. For Diane Mattingly, there is one moment from her childhood for which she feels both enormous gratitude and guilt. As her big sister, Diane feels immense guilt about leaving Montgomery behind in that broken home, so many years ago. Residents there tend to think her execution would bring an appropriate end to a painful chapter in their city's history, he 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. Montgomery also suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, bipolar disorder and major depression, jurors were told. In fact, he drove her back home and dropped her off in the hands of her abusers. These days, she requires a regimen of psychotropic drugs to function. She told Lisa she had to "earn her keep.". The couple had three children in rapid succession. Montgomerys case is not about whether she is responsible for the crime; she is. As Fritz patted Montgomery on the back of her hand, Strong said he noticed dried blood and tissue embedded beneath her fingernails. She missed the funeral because of it. When Montgomery was in her mid-teens,she was sexually assaulted by Kleiner and three or four of his friends, according to court records. She enjoyed torturing the people around her," says Mattingly. "I cried," says Strong. She married her stepbrother at 18 and gave birth to four children in less than five years, before having a sterilization procedure. "I was like, 'Oh, she was not.' Multiple medical experts have given statements agreeing with that diagnosis. When I was eight and Lisa was four, social services came and rescued me from Judy, leaving Lisa and our other sister behind. She got into multiple car accidents, struggled to keep a job, moved around constantly, drank heavily, engaged in sex work and neglected her children. 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. Montgomerys legal team is fighting against the clock to gather the information needed for her clemency petition, which has been complicated by the coronavirus crisis. The case was ruled a homicide and remains unsolved. He married Judy Shaughnessy, who would become Montgomery's mother, in 1967 in . "We knew we were walking into the killer's house.". At that time, Montgomery was awaiting trial. Moving often was the norm to Montgomery; by the time she was a teenager, she had moved approximately 16 times. Lisa was anally, orally, and vaginally raped by several men, one after the other for several hours at a time. She was often spaced out, appearing disconnected from reality. Montgomery's number of crayons and pieces of paper hassince been increased to 10 each. "It was violent and like a scene out of a horror movie," he said in a statement. 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. "She always wanted to be a mom," says Baumli. Shaughnessy knew that Mattingly was sensitive about abandonment due to her severed relationship with her birth mother, and so she would strip Mattingly naked and push her outside the front door, pretending that she was kicked out. She lived with her children in poverty, without running water and other basic necessities, while her mental health deteriorated. As the oldest, I was the protector of Lisa and our baby sister. But Strong says this is the first year he's heard directly from Stinnett's husband. 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. "And then go, 'Look at this body'. As a teenager, Montgomery confided in a cousin, telling him the men would tie her up, beat her and even urinate on her afterwards. "God, no, please," she said. Her attorneys say that while Montgomery feels deep remorse for her crimes, her understanding of her situation waxes and wanes. 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. "I'm asking him to have compassion on her as a person that has been failed over and over and over again. They introduced her as their daughter, Abigail, and made multiple other stops. 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. Montgomery's father, John Patterson, a 25-year-old in the military, was also an alcoholic. It is hard to know if Montgomery understands that she is close to being executed; her mental state does not allow for much lucidity. Patterson and Shaughnessy divorced in 1971, and Shaughnessy took custody of the girls. Montgomery was represented briefly after her arrest by Ron Wurtz, a now-retired attorney who has represented dozens of capital case defendants. 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. 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. It was clear that she was traumatized, that she was somewhere else, he said. 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. 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. "They made this a priority at the risk of the health and lives of corrections officials, of the prisoners on death row, and the communities that all of those Bureau of Prisons officials who flew in from across the country were returning to," says Ngozi Ndulue, senior director of research and special projects at the Death Penalty Information Center. They found her cradling a new-born girl she claimed to have given birth to the previous day. He was in her. Her lawyers say that as she lost touch with reality, she fantasised about being pregnant. 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 the car drove further and further away, Mattingly began to vomit. 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. Lisa Montgomery - the only female inmate on federal death row in the US - has been executed for murder in the state of Indiana. 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. Until July 2020, there had been no federal executions for 17 years. It is extremely rare for women to be sentenced to death, said Sandra Babcock, faculty director of the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide and an expert on women and the death penalty. I'm bruised, but I'm not broken. Harper told a dispatcher her daughter's womb appeared to have "exploded" and that blood was "everywhere." Melvern residents want that perception to end, she said. 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. Judy Shaughnessy, drank during pregnancy. Every time she has a birthday, it will also be the anniversary of the slaughter of her mother, Whitworth said. "Oh, they're here, I've got to go," she said. 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. "Bobbie deserves to be here today. They recommended a sentence of death. 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. Her mother also began trafficking her, allowing handymen like electricians and plumbers to sexually abuse Montgomery in exchange for work on the house. Today there is a single restaurant and few of the streets are paved. 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. Her lawyers at the time also presented an alternative theory of the crime, which was that Montgomery's brother had actually committed the murder, even though he had an alibi. Another case with Missouri ties. Montgomery lived during her childhood in Washington, Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, California and Texas. 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. Kleiner, the son of Shaughnessy and Jack Kleiner, was meeting witha parole officerat the time of the killing, Strong said. 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. It would be 34 years before the half-sisters would see each other again. You know, like, that doesn't happen to Bobbie," Morrow says. "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. Stinnett bled to death. "I don't think people understand how bad this was," Strong said. 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. There were always different men around the house. She is the only woman on federal death row. 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. Montgomerys case is not about whether she is responsible for the crime; she is. His physical abuse of the children had sexual undercurrents: He would make the girls strip naked before whipping them. The question is, should she be put to death for it. 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. Kevin Montgomery let investigators inside. 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. 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. Lisa Montgomery, la nica mujer en el corredor de la muerte federal de Estados Unidos, fue ejecutada este mircoles por asesinato. She has exhausted all legal options. When Shaughnessy eventually split from her second husband, she and Montgomery testified in divorce proceedings about the sexual assaults. 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