Her mouth was covered with duct tape so frequently that she learned not to cry. 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. Judy Shaughnessy had already raised two convicted felons at the time. They had corresponded for weeks on an online forum for rat terrier breeders and enthusiasts called "Ratter Chatter". 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. Her attorneys say that while Montgomery feels deep remorse for her crimes, her understanding of her situation waxes and wanes. Montgomery was put on suicide watch as soon as her execution date was set, Henry said, adding thatMontgomery had previously attempted suicide but not since 2012. One of those men started coming into their bedroom and raping Mattingly regularly, Mattingly said. She lived at 61 addresses in the 36 years before she went to prison, court documents show. She is permitted Sudoku puzzles and coloring pages andone book at a time. Since 2008, Montgomery has been held in a federal prison in Texas for female inmates with special medical and psychological needs, where she has been receiving psychiatric care. Back home, the couple announced the birth of their daughter to their friends and relatives. 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. One was the presence of substantial planning and premeditation. Stinnett lived with her husband, Zeb, in Skidmore, Mo., a town near the state's northwest corner with fewerthan 300 people today. Montgomery then said she had given birth at home with help from two female friends and, later, that she had given birth alone. Kevin Montgomery let investigators inside. She was often spaced out, appearing disconnected from reality. Lawyer Kelley Henry says one of the things that disturbs her most is that adults in positions of authority were told about what was going on but did nothing. At state level, the number of sentences and executions continues a historic decline. "One sister got taken out and got put into a loving home and was nurtured and had time to heal," says Mattingly. A social worker found Lisa's allegations of abuse credible and turned the file. A generation ago, it was the kind of place where you could "get your hair cut, see a show, buy rabbit feed and eat dinner" - but those days are long gone. Shaughnessy's nephew, David Kidwell, testified that she believed Montgomery "had brought [the abuse] on herself, that she enticed him". Residents there tend to think her execution would bring an appropriate end to a painful chapter in their city's history, he said. 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. 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. 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. Shaughnessy beat her children with belts, cords and hangers, put them in cold showers and put duct tape over Montgomery's mouth to silence her, the attorneys said. She lived with her children in poverty, without running water and other basic necessities, while her mental health deteriorated. In Montgomerys early childhood, her older sister, Diane, suffered the worst of the violence. Court records describe her as a quiet loner who spent a lot of time reading books. Skidmore has suffered lasting effects as a result of Stinnett's murder, said Strong, the investigator who helped prodMontgomery to confess. 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. Eventually, Montgomery admitted she had acted alone in killing Stinnett and taking her baby. I couldn't believe how good it felt to be part of a loving family. We lived in a house of horrors. In addition to Strong and Fritz, those investigators were FBI Special Agents Mike Miller and Scott Gentine and Topeka police officer Tom Glor. In 1986, when Montgomery was 18, she married her stepbrother, Carl Boman. The case was ruled a homicide and remains unsolved. "Let's say I didn't stay clean very long," she says. Babies born naturally tend to have misshapen heads initially because of the pressure experienced as they go through the birth canal, he said. A home videoshowsCarl Boman raping and beating Montgomery, said her half-brother, Teddy Kleiner, who gave a sworn statementsaying he had seen it. 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. 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 was beaten, repeatedly raped by her stepfather and his friends and sexually trafficked by her mother. Lisa Montgomery, a federal prisoner, is now slated to be executed on Jan. 12. Montgomery's mother, Judy Shaughnessy, drank while Montgomery was in utero, leaving her with brain damage, court documents say. 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. 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. Bobbie Jo's mother and husband have have not spoken publicly in many years. 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. 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. "I would say, 'President Trump, I want you to look at the life that Lisa had led, I want to look at all the people that have failed her, I want you to look at the rape, the torture, the mental abuse, the physical abuse that this woman had endured,'" she says. Dorr's marriage was failing when she fell in love with John Manard, a convicted murderer 21 years her junior. She lapsed increasingly into mental illness and repeatedly faked pregnancy. Dorr has since been released from prison and remarried. Often, theyd physically fight, and Mattingly would try to protect Montgomery from the chaos. For the rest of her life.. She strangled Stinnett to death and cut the baby from her stomach. View the profiles of people named Judy Shaughnessy. As a teenager, Montgomery confided in a cousin, telling him the men would tie her up, beat her and even urinate on her afterwards. At least five times after she was sterilized, she told people that she was pregnant. At the same time, she blames it for the fate of her younger half-sister, Lisa Montgomery. Nationwide, only 54 women have been executed since 1900. "She got joy out of it.". They found her cradling a new-born girl she claimed to have given birth to the previous day. In closing arguments, assistant U.S. Attorney Matt Whitworth asked the jury to think about Stinnett's daughter, Victoria Jo Stinnett. "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.". Though capital case defendants tend to be confused and stunned, those emotions were heightened with Montgomery, who had trouble responding to questions, Wurtz said. After she gave birth to four children, Judy pressured Lisa into an involuntary sterilization. Mattingly said she saw terror in her half-sister's bright green eyes. More: Lisa Montgomery's execution, delayed by attorneys' COVID-19 cases, rescheduled for Jan. 12. 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. 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.. I thought they knew what was going on, she said. But they were what we come to understand as neuro-physiological adaptations to survive being constantly under assault.. The threat of losing her children, combined with the years of untreated trauma and severe mental illness, pushed Lisa over the edge. We cant travel to talk to witnesses or to prepare experts at this point, Harwell, Montgomerys lawyer, said. But it wasn't Montgomery that Stinnett was expecting, it was a woman who went by the name of Darlene Fischer. Randy Strong, who investigated the case,is unhappy that some people are asking thatMontgomerys life be spared. 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. In the cases where women are sentenced to death, prosecutors often use gender stereotypes against the defendants, she said, characterizing them as transgressive or not normal in some way. Henrysaid she was surprised to see Montgomery scheduled for execution so soon, considering 30 other inmates on federal death row were sentencedbefore her. Some nights, she said, Shaughnessy would leave them in the house with a male babysitter. I felt sick watching the video. She struggles to maintain her own hygiene, loses focus during conversations with others and has trouble planning simple tasks.". 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. "I think that side of Lisa needs to be out there.". U.S. District Judge Gary A. Fenner upheld the jury's recommendation the following April. The divorce left Shaughnessy no longer entitled to be Mattingly's legal guardian. 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. "She is the most broken of the broken," Mattingly said. 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. Lisa Montgomery, who endured years of sexual and physical abuse, murdered an expectant mother and took the baby. 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. At 18, Judy pressured Lisa to marry her stepbrother. 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. These days, she requires a regimen of psychotropic drugs to function. It turns out that it only takes a few people to save a child's life: being loved by my foster parents saved mine. Her case is one of the most extreme of all the cases that Ive looked at, in terms of the severity and repetition of the violence that she experienced, she said. "And Lisa deserves to pay.". 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. Kleiner and Shaughnessy divorced in 1985, with Shaughnessy contending she once walked in on Kleiner and Montgomery having sex. She went home with a newborn, one she acquired by murdering the babys pregnant mother. She became involved with Kevin Montgomery, a divorced electrician with children of his own, and theymarried the following year. But Lisa was broken. 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. At the instigation of Shaughnessys lawyer, Montgomery was connected to a therapist, but only briefly. Her daughter remembered her acting like a young child in public, twirling and skipping with her arms swinging with abandon. If her execution goes forward, she will be the first federal female inmate to be executed in almost 70 years. Lisa Montgomery - the only female inmate on federal death row in the US - has been executed for murder in the state of Indiana. "There's so many people that failed her throughout her whole life. ", "I live with regret for not speaking up about what happened to Lisa," Kidwell said, adding that he just didnt know what to do.. Montgomerys mother, Judy Shaughnessy, who was 20 at the time of her birth in 1968, drank heavily while pregnant with her daughter. Henry said there is no question that Montgomery has severe mental illness, noting that federal authorities have administered her antipsychotic medications since her arrest in 2004. Warnersaid the killinghad left Melvern residents stunned.. 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. Diane Mattingly has been speaking publicly for the first time in the hope it can make a difference. In an interview with HuffPost her first ever Diane Mattingly, now 57 and a longtime state government employee living in Kentucky, described what it was like growing up in a home without love or affection. In recommending execution, the jury spelled out six aggravating factors supporting capital punishment. I didn't know what to do or how to talk to my sister about it.". She was the first woman executed by the federal government in 67 years. As her big sister, Diane feels immense guilt about leaving Montgomery behind in that broken home, so many years ago. At the time of her murder, she was newly married and pregnant with her first child. Im not a psychiatrist, so I cant go any further than that.. "Being psychotic, it does not mean you are not intelligent, nor that you cannot act in a planful way," she says. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Prosecutors said Montgomery was faking mental illness, notingthat many people are sexually abused, but few go on to kill. 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. 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. 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. "I'm sick of hearing about Lisa Montgomery and what she went through. The judge in the case scolded Shaughnessy for not reporting the abuse - but did not report the abuse himself. School friend Baumli says she's read the descriptions of Montgomery's abuse, but it mostly just makes her angry. "I looked to my right and there was Lisa Montgomery on the sofa, holding the baby," he said. Mattingly said she shielded her half-sister from random baby-sitters, often older men, whom their mother left with them during her near-nightly outings to a local bar. After their biological father left the home, Mattingly says they were left alone with Shaughnessy's boyfriends, at least one of whom started raping Mattingly. 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. Those were disconnections that were tragic in their consequences. She was born into a family rife with mental illness, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression. 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. Babcock said the constant in every case she has seen is an overwhelming history of trauma. Strong was a police detective in Maryville, Mo., 14 miles northeast of Skidmore, and Fritz was a detective at Cameron, also in northwest Missouri. Montgomery's family moved from place to place during her adult years, continuing the pattern she hadknown as a child. 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. 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. Shaughnessy has since died. 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. He stressed that the juryheard testimony about her mental illness and her history of being abused, yet still unanimously recommended her execution. It would be 34 years before the half-sisters would see each other again. As Strong crossed the threshold, hesaw a TV set airing an Amber Alert about the abduction of Stinnett's baby. When Lisa was a small child, Judy allowed men to rape her for money, including allowing her to be gang raped on multiple occasions. 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. 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. When I was eight and Lisa was four, social services came and rescued me from Judy, leaving Lisa and our other sister behind. She says it's not as if all the other people of Skidmore lead idyllic lives free from abuse, poverty and other destructive tragedies. Montgomery claimed to live in northwest Missouri. Sheriff Strong insists that the crime was meticulously planned and that the woman he arrested continued to lie until backed into a corner. You know, like, that doesn't happen to Bobbie," Morrow says. The six-man, six-woman jury in October 2007 found Montgomery guilty and recommended she be executed. She didnt have nobody there to protect her once I was out of the home.. The next morning, Lisa and Kevin Montgomery showed off a newborn girl dressed in a pink bonnet as they ate breakfast at the Whistle Stop Cafe in downtown Melvern. "I cried," says Strong. She would be the first woman executed by the federal government in 67. 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. Montgomery lived during her childhood in Washington, Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, California and Texas. They would beat and slap her if she was doing it wrong. When they were done, they urinated on her like she was trash.. 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. 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. "She needs to be put to death.". Its also people hearing it, knowing it and doing nothing about it. she says. There were always different men around the house. "I was like, 'Oh, she was not.' As the car drove further and further away, Mattingly began to vomit. 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. During divorce proceedings, Shaughnessy admitted to the court that she had walked in on her husband raping Montgomery. He was pumping her, Shaughnessy testified. Judy drank throughout her pregnancy with Lisa and caused her to be born with brain damage. Patterson was transferred after Montgomerys birth to Fort Riley inKansas, where their family lived when another daughter was born in 1970. She pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. "It was pretty awful.". My heart goes out to the family of Bobbie Jo Stinnett and the loss that they have felt and are still feeling. Montgomery has exhausted all attempts to appeal her conviction and death sentence although her attorneys are exploring possible litigation. In the haze of her mental illness, she went to the home of a pregnant woman, killed her, and removed the baby. Mattingly said she and Montgomery share the same father, John Patterson, a decorated Vietnam War veteran whonever married Mattingly's mother. This story was first published on 11 January - before Lisa Montgomery's execution on 13 January. Shaughnessy forced Montgomery to have sex with men in exchange for money and services, and also punished her children by killing the family dog in front of them,smashing its head with a shovel, the attorneys said. He married Judy Shaughnessy, who would become Montgomery's mother, in 1967 in . Lisa Montgomery's current legal team has conducted some 450 interviews with family members, friends, case workers, doctors and social workers. Montgomery's cousin told her legal team that he lived with "regret for not speaking up about what happened to Lisa". The crime itself shows that Lisa had lost all touch with reality. My sister is on death row, Kleiner wrote in the lawsuit petition. He had a daughter from a previous relationship, Diane, who was four years older than Montgomery. "She was hyperventilating," Henry said. According to sworn statements from her family, her mental health declined rapidly after that. Zella Gwin survives. Even at the age of 8, Mattingly recalled being worried about what would happen to Montgomery without her there. - Sandra Babcock, faculty director of the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide, Montgomery, who confessed, was later sentenced to death for the , The Trump administration announced it was. Her terror was well-founded, said Montgomery's attorneys, Kelley Henry and Amy Harwell. Henry said Montgomery was expected to be transferred by Jan. 10 to the penitentiary at TerreHaute, Ind., her designated place of execution. "Last year, we got flowers, and gave her a $100-plus gift card and then paid her water bill," says Jena Baumli. ", More: Only woman on federal death row asks President Trump to be a 'hero,' commute her sentence. "I'm asking him to have compassion on her as a person that has been failed over and over and over again. 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. I never molested her in any way, shape or form, said Kleiner, who died in 2009. Left: "Melvern Pride" is the focus of this sign standing at the city limits of Melvern, the community in east-central Kansas where Lisa Montgomery lived. Montgomery's father, John Patterson, a 25-year-old in the military, was also an alcoholic. 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. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who. Friends and family began noticing Montgomery's tendency to slip into "a world of her own". Violent acts against pregnant women and their fetuses fall into that category. One of the lead investigators in the case, Randy Strong, wants Montgomery executed. "She tried to throw her own brother under the bus for a crime that she committed.". The population hovers around just 250, and everyone knew Bobbie Jo Stinnett and her family. She meets with Montgomery regularly, she said. She had this ability to find what hurt you the most and use that against you, Mattingly said. As the oldest, I was the protector of Lisa and our baby sister. 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. The question is, should she be put to death for it. She moved in 1999 to Melvern, a town about 40 miles south of Topeka with 375 people today. It makes him even angrier that it was Stinnett's mother who discovered her that way. Moving often was the norm to Montgomery; by the time she was a teenager, she had moved approximately 16 times. 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