"My sister was crying and in pain. Shaughnessy sat so unmoved during her daughter's testimony that the judge reprimanded her for lacking empathy. Mattingly has enjoyed a "blessed life," she said. Porterfield compared the chronic abuse to pouring lighter fluid onto a spark. Babies born naturally tend to have misshapen heads initially because of the pressure experienced as they go through the birth canal, he said. 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 was forced to sit in a high chair for hours if she did not finish her food. The baby was returned to her father, after being recovered from Montgomery. So my letters are important.. Montgomery's execution, scheduled less than 60 days, will be the first of three federal executions in January before Trump leaves office. 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. Patterson and Shaughnessy divorced in 1971, and Shaughnessy took custody of the girls. I didn't know what to do or how to talk to my sister about it.". She would tell me I had to leave and I couldnt take anything with me because she bought everything, she recalled. Two days before the crime, her former husband (and stepbrother) sought custody of two of her children. "Being loved unconditionally helped me heal, find a caring husband and raise two children who have hearts of gold," Mattingly wrote. There are things children need to grow into healthy adults, among them love, praise and stability. My sister, Lisa Montgomery, is broken. She didnt have nobody there to protect her once I was out of the home.. Several high-profile figures had appealed for clemency in Brandon's case but Mr Trump did not heed those calls. 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. Multiple medical experts have given statements agreeing with that diagnosis. The views expressed in this article are the author's own. The couple had three children in rapid succession. In recommending execution, the jury spelled out six aggravating factors supporting capital punishment. Montgomery lived during her childhood in Washington, Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, California and Texas. The question is, should she be put to death for it? The threat of losing her children, combined with the years of untreated trauma and severe mental illness, pushed Lisa over the edge. "The people that are defending [Montgomery], I wish I could take them back in time, and put them in that room," he says. "And then go, 'Look at this body'. 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. The girls' biological father left the home, and after a while, Mattingly was whisked away to foster care. "Being psychotic, it does not mean you are not intelligent, nor that you cannot act in a planful way," she says. I'm bruised, but I'm not broken. As one family story goes, Montgomerys first words as a toddler were, dont spank me.. 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. But it was not a pet that she was to retrieve that day. Henry says Montgomery's original legal defence after she was arrested and charged with murder was woefully inadequate, and presented few of the details about her abuse, trauma and mental illness. 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. Montgomery lamented that she couldn't be present to console them because she was in solitary confinement, said Dorr, Montgomery's friend since they met in a federal prison in 2006. "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. Lisa Montgomery - the only female inmate on federal death row in the US - has been executed for murder in the state of Indiana. It is the only federal prison with an active death chamber. Bobbie's family deserves her," says Meagan Morrow, a high school classmate of Stinnett's. I didn't know what to do or how to talk to my sister about it.". The Trump administration announced it was reinstating executions last summer after an almost 20-year hiatus. The baby girl survived, andMontgomery took her home and briefly passed her off as her own until investigators arrested her the next day. Only 18 death sentences were handed down in 2020 and the number of executions carried out hit a 30-year low. She liked to take her finger and poke it hard into her chest, over and over in the same spot. She gives herself as an example - when Stinnett was murdered, Baumli was in rehab for a drug addiction. 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. Prosecutors, in their closing argument, said that she had a filthy home, that she didnt cook and that she didnt clean, Babcock said. She learned Oct. 16 that she had been scheduled to die by lethal injection on Dec. 8. He stressed that the juryheard testimony about her mental illness and her history of being abused, yet still unanimously recommended her execution. You know, like, that doesn't happen to Bobbie," Morrow says. Lisa Montgomery strangle one pregnant woman for Missouri before cutting and kidnapping her baby in 2004. . After previously being allowed contact with a limited number of inmates, Montgomery was moved to a solitary confinement cell at Carswell and kept there 24 hours a day, seven days a week, Henry said. Montgomery has pleaded not guilty to kidnapping resulting in death. If her execution goes forward, she will be the first federal female inmate to be executed in almost 70 years. 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. 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. Around this time, she repeatedly claimed to be pregnant again, although she had undergone sterilisation after her fourth baby was born. He threatened to expose the imagined pregnancy and use it against her in the custody battle. They were also physically violent. He continued the cycle of abuse, rapes and beatings, which he sadistically videotaped. School friend Baumli says she's read the descriptions of Montgomery's abuse, but it mostly just makes her angry. During divorce proceedings, Shaughnessy admitted to the court that she had walked in on her husband raping Montgomery. Bobbie Jo's mother and husband have have not spoken publicly in many years. She became involved with Kevin Montgomery, a divorced electrician with children of his own, and theymarried the following year. If Mattinglycould speak directly to Trump, she said, she would tell him: "Please dont take my sister. They slept in twin beds in a small bedroomand fell asleep most nights holding hands, Mattingly said. And I am just asking for somebody - once - not to fail her.". And though there's been much recent debate over the fairness of Montgomery's sentence in courthouses and in the opinion pages of newspapers like the New York Times, a similar debate does not exist here. 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 . In 1986, when Montgomery was 18, she married her stepbrother, Carl Boman. 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. 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. Her story quickly fell apart and she confessed to the killing. Being loved unconditionally helped me heal, find a caring husband, and raise two children who have hearts of gold. It has been the subject of two books, multiple true crime television shows, documentaries and countless podcast episodes. Shaughnessy's nephew, David Kidwell, testified that she believed Montgomery "had brought [the abuse] on herself, that she enticed him". 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. At the time, Lisa had told her new husband that she was pregnant, which her former husband knew wasn't possible because of the forced sterilization. Mattingly said Patterson was often away, and Shaughnessy became increasingly abusive toward them, at times forcing Mattingly to eat raw onions as punishment and go outdoors into the cold naked. 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.. 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. As a result of her sexual torture, Lisa began to dissociate. Judy Shaughnessy and her boyfriend physical, psychological and sexual abuse Lisa. Mattingly said her heart sank when she realized Montgomery wasn't coming with her. Lisa Montgomery tried to get counseling the year before she killed Stinnettbut wasn'tconnected to a quality provider, her attorneys said. 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. He was in her. 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. "I don't think people understand how bad this was," Strong said. Another case with Missouri ties. They would beat and slap her if she was doing it wrong. When they were done, they urinated on her like she was trash.. 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. "The whole story is tragic," says Kelley Henry, one of Montgomery's federal defence lawyers. Diane Mattingly is the sister of Lisa Montgomery, who is scheduled for execution by the federal government on December 8, 2020. She lived with her children in poverty, without running water and other basic necessities, while her mental health deteriorated. Please, honey.". Montgomery was sentenced for the murder of a 23-year-old woman who was eight months pregnant. 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. He married Judy Shaughnessy, who would become Montgomery's mother, in 1967 in . The father was a teacher. 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. She meets with Montgomery regularly, she said. Even at the age of 8, Mattingly recalled being worried about what would happen to Montgomery without her there. It would be 34 years before the half-sisters would see each other again. There were always different men around the house. It is hard to know if Montgomery understands that she is close to being executed; her mental state does not allow for much lucidity. Lisa Montgomery has been charged in the December 16 death of Bobbie Jo Stinnett, who was eight months pregnant at the time. But Strong says this is the first year he's heard directly from Stinnett's husband. I was put in foster care with a wonderful family. Montgomery and Stinnett participated inthe "Ratter Chatter" online message board for rat terrier dog enthusiasts. Read about our approach to external linking. 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. She says it's not as if all the other people of Skidmore lead idyllic lives free from abuse, poverty and other destructive tragedies. My sister is on death row, Kleiner wrote in the lawsuit petition. At one point, one of Montgomery's brothers found a home movie that showed Montgomery's husband raping and beating her. 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. "When I squeezed her hand, she looked at me and smiled," she said. Nobody has said that Lisa should never have been punished. It was clear that she was traumatized, that she was somewhere else, he said. But the psychological abuse targeted at her was even more damaging. Her attorneys say that while Montgomery feels deep remorse for her crimes, her understanding of her situation waxes and wanes. "She needs to be put to death.". 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. Just the details: What you need to know about Montgomery and her victim, Bobbie Jo Stinnett. 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. Authorities also questioned Kevin Montgomery but concluded he wasn't involved. "I looked to my right and there was Lisa Montgomery on the sofa, holding the baby," he said. He testified that Montgomery had been in a dissociative state, or "mental fog," at the time. "There were so many opportunities where people could have intervened and prevented this," says Henry. While all five are haunted by Stinnett's murder, they are also "bonded for life," Strong said. ", Strong said he arranged for that message to be shared with the four others, "because we were all a part of that.". 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. For Montgomery, her lawyers argue, it began before she was born. 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. He had a daughter from a previous relationship, Diane, who was four years older than Montgomery. Judy ultimately married six times, and had multiple partners throughout Lisa's childhood. 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. 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. Randy Strong, who investigated the case,is unhappy that some people are asking thatMontgomerys life be spared. "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.". Dorr has since been released from prison and remarried. Stinnett came to, grabbing at Montgomery's knife and pulling out somehair before Montgomery strangledher to death. Ive always said that I am bruised, but not broken, Mattingly said, her voice choked with tears. Warnersaid the killinghad left Melvern residents stunned.. Prosecutors shared records showing Montgomery had visited a website featuring a video of a live C-section birth, described as lasting from first cut to last stitch, and had made a practice run by driving the roughly 350 miles from Melvern to Skidmore and back the day before the killing. In response to traumatic events, children may dissociate from their feelings and their bodies to protect themselves from experiencing what is happening. Nobody has said that Lisa should never have been punished. 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. Residents there tend to think her execution would bring an appropriate end to a painful chapter in their city's history, he 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. "Bobbie deserves to be here today. Another case with Missouri ties. One was the presence of substantial planning and premeditation. The clemency process enables convicted criminals to request mercy and ask the nation's executive branch to step in, Henry said. When Montgomery was in her mid-teens,she was sexually assaulted by Kleiner and three or four of his friends, according to court records. 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. Stinnett wasn't breathing and was cold. 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. She is permitted Sudoku puzzles and coloring pages andone book at a time. 2023 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved. As the car drove further and further away, Mattingly began to vomit. 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 Montgomery, a federal prisoner, is now slated to be executed on Jan. 12. She went home with a newborn, one she acquired by murdering the babys pregnant mother. She began prostituting Lisa to older men when Lisa was in her early teens. And to not fail her.". Shaughnessy in 1974 married her third husband, Jack Kleiner, a divorced father of five. As long as she was given cigarettes, Montgomery continued to talk, Strong said. When Stinnett answered the door, Montgomery overpowered the pregnant woman, strangled her with a piece of rope, and cut the baby out of her womb. Two other inmates are scheduled to die at Terre Haute prison before Mr Trump's presidency ends. Ramachandran said Montgomery told him she didn't remember killing Stinnett or cutting the baby out of her body. The population hovers around just 250, and everyone knew Bobbie Jo Stinnett and her family. In addition to Strong and Fritz, those investigators were FBI Special Agents Mike Miller and Scott Gentine and Topeka police officer Tom Glor. 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. They gave me unconditional love, they taught me my self-worth, she said. The six-man, six-woman jury in October 2007 found Montgomery guilty and recommended she be executed. "Little Lisa was in the bed next to mine every time," she said. Patterson made a mistake by abandoning them to "that crazy lady," he said at Montgomery's sentencing hearing in 2007. Lisa Montgomery has been held at theCarswell Federal Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, for 12 years. A clemency petition asking Trump to reduce Montgomerys sentence to life without parole is expected to be filed in the coming weeks. "I'm asking him to have compassion on her as a person that has been failed over and over and over again. She told Lisa she had to "earn her keep." Judy later. 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. I couldn't believe how good it felt to be part of a loving family. 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 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. 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. According to Gallup, while support for the death penalty in the US is at its lowest level in more than 50 years, 55% of Americans still believe it is an appropriate punishment for murder. Montgomery took Stinnetts baby, clamped the umbilical cord and used baby wipes to clean her. She had brain damage, likely caused by exposure to alcohol when she was a. 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. Montgomery gave birth to three daughters and a son from1987 to1990, court records say. She got into multiple car accidents, struggled to keep a job, moved around constantly, drank heavily, engaged in sex work and neglected her children. When Lisa was a small child, Judy allowed men to rape her for money, including allowing her to be gang raped on multiple occasions. When she called her attorneys that day, she could hardly speak. She struggles to maintain her own hygiene, loses focus during conversations with others and has trouble planning simple tasks.". Join half a million readers enjoying Newsweek's free newsletters, Everyone Practices Cancel Culture | Opinion, Deplatforming Free Speech is Dangerous | Opinion. I felt sick watching the video. One of the lead investigators in the case, Randy Strong, wants Montgomery executed. When Mattingly and Montgomery were young, Shaughnessy beat them and doled out cruel forms of punishment, like taping Montgomery's mouth shut, or pushing Mattingly out into the snow, naked. We lived in a house of horrors. Mattingly said she and Montgomery share the same father, John Patterson, a decorated Vietnam War veteran whonever married Mattingly's mother. 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. Judy Shaughnessy and her boyfriend physical, psychological . Im not a psychiatrist, so I cant go any further than that.. 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. After Mattingly was removed from the home by social services, Montgomery fell prey to her mother's new husband, who according to statements from his other children, was a violent alcoholic who began sexually abusing Montgomery when she was a pre-teen. It turns out that it only takes a few people to save a child's life: being loved by my foster parents saved mine. And then go, 'Stand there and listen to the 911 call of [Stinnett's mother]. These days, she requires a regimen of psychotropic drugs to function. Nationwide, only 54 women have been executed since 1900. When Lisa was a small child, Judy allowed men to rape her for money, including allowing her to be gang raped on multiple occasions. Montgomerys family tree, on both her mother and fathers side, is filled with psychiatric and neurologic impairment, including mood disorders, intellectual disability, PTSD and schizophrenia. 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 cold, vicious, calculating and brutal nature of her crimes shows that Montgomery knew exactly what she was doing, Strong said. Court records say Kleiner drank heavily, beat his wife and children, and made his daughters take off their clothes before he spanked them. View the profiles of people named Judy Shaughnessy. Facebook gives people the. At the instigation of Shaughnessys lawyer, Montgomery was connected to a therapist, but only briefly. Now, she called him to tell him that shed gone into labor while shopping and had given birth at a clinic. Montgomery, who confessed, was later sentenced to death for the especially heinous murder as decided by a jury who heard her trial. Lisa Montgomery be di 11th prisoner to receive di lethal injection since July when President Donald Trump, resume federal executions. On the ride home, she clamped the umbilical cord and cleaned the baby girl with wipes. Montgomery also suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, bipolar disorder and major depression, jurors were told. 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. What you need to know about Montgomery and her victim, Bobbie Jo Stinnett. 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. But they were what we come to understand as neuro-physiological adaptations to survive being constantly under assault.. But my hope is President Trump will stop Lisa's execution and commute her sentence to life in prison. Montgomery then said she had given birth at home with help from two female friends and, later, that she had given birth alone. Eventually, Montgomery admitted she had acted alone in killing Stinnett and taking her baby. Montgomery was represented briefly after her arrest by Ron Wurtz, a now-retired attorney who has represented dozens of capital case defendants. 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. When I was eight and Lisa was four, social services came and rescued me from Judy, leaving Lisa and our other sister behind. Montgomery was repeatedly molested by her stepdad Jack Kleiner, starting at . According to interviews with her half-siblings and others who spent time with the family, Montgomery's stepfather built a shed onto the trailer where he, and eventually his friends, raped and beat her. Lisa was anally, orally, and vaginally raped by several men, one after the other for several hours at a time. They hold a collection and try to do something nice for Stinnett's mother. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who. That could change in Terre Haute. A few years after Mattingly was removed from the home, when Montgomery was in kindergarten, her mother remarried a man named Jack Kleiner. Part of HuffPost Crime. Montgomery described feeling that she was unsure whether her environment was real, and confided that she used a strategy to ground herself in reality: She would look at a tree out the window and tell herself that the tree was real if she could see it. Lisa Montgomery - the only female inmate on federal death row in the US - has been executed for murder in the state of Indiana. After five hours of deliberation, the jury found Montgomery guilty. She has always accepted responsibility. Defense attorney Fred Duchardt told jurors that sexual abuse during her childhood had caused Montgomeryto become mentally ill and killed her soul. More: Who was the last woman executed by the US government? Montgomery often read her Bible or did things with her hands, including writing, quilting, and making placemats and bookmarks, Dorr said. Montgomery has exhausted all attempts to appeal her conviction and death sentence although her attorneys are exploring possible litigation. 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. At least five of the 12 jurors and three alternate jurorswiped away tears. 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