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. 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. 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 Montgomery has been held at theCarswell Federal Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, for 12 years. 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. At 1:31 AM on Wednesday, Lisa Montgomery was pronounced dead. In Montgomerys early teen years, Kleiner moved the family to an isolated trailer at the end of a dead-end road outside of Sperry, Oklahoma, a severely impoverished area north of Tulsa. The girls' biological father left the home, and after a while, Mattingly was whisked away to foster care. 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. 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. 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. The mom, Judy Shaughnessy, was so cruel she once beat the family dog to death in front of her kids, the petition states. Montgomery was represented briefly after her arrest by Ron Wurtz, a now-retired attorney who has represented dozens of capital case defendants. 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. Recibi una inyeccin letal en una prisin de Terre Haute,. A survivor of incest and sex trafficking, she is diagnosed with bipolar disorder with psychotic features, complex post-traumatic stress disorder, temporal lobe epilepsy, and cerebellar dysfunction, said Amy Harwell, a federal public defender in Tennessee who is working on Montgomerys case. At least five times after she was sterilized, she told people that she was pregnant. In her opinion, Montgomerys extreme childhood trauma created the conditions for her to grow into an adult with a disconnected sense of her emotions, a tenuous hold on reality, a completely warped view of human relationships, and a split and damaged sense of herself and of her body, according to expert testimony she provided for the defense. Babcock said the constant in every case she has seen is an overwhelming history of trauma. Montgomery gave birth to three daughters and a son from1987 to1990, court records say. When Lisa was a small child, Judy allowed men to rape her for money, including allowing her to be gang raped on multiple occasions. 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. 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. 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. . He was in her. Montgomery's execution date was subsequently bumped back to Jan. 12. The Trump administration announced it was reinstating executions last summer after an almost 20-year hiatus. Lisa Montgomery, who endured years of sexual and physical abuse, murdered an expectant mother and took the baby. At the time of her murder, she was newly married and pregnant with her first child. A home videoshowsCarl Boman raping and beating Montgomery, said her half-brother, Teddy Kleiner, who gave a sworn statementsaying he had seen it. Judy ultimately married six times, and had multiple partners throughout Lisa's childhood. Montgomery first claimed to have had the baby at a Topeka birthing center but began changing her story after investigatorsseparated her from her husband and the infant, Strong said. Violent acts against pregnant women and their fetuses fall into that category. And nowhere is that support more palpably felt in this case than in Skidmore. Montgomerys father, John Patterson, a 25-year-old in the military, was also an alcoholic. Mrs. 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. They also discovered that Shaughnessy prostituted. Teddy Kleiner, the son of Shaughnessy and Jack Kleiner, was 45 years old when he was fatally shot in 2019 in North Topeka. Montgomery strangled Stinnett into unconsciousness, then sliced into her stomach with the steak knife, Strong said. she says. "I'm sick of hearing about Lisa Montgomery and what she went through. Melvern residents want that perception to end, she said. 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. Stinnett's husband was at work, andStinnett was on the phone with her mother, Becky Harper, when Montgomery's dirty red Toyota pulled upon the afternoon of Dec. 16. "The whole story is tragic," says Kelley Henry, one of Montgomery's federal defence lawyers. While the court admonished her for not reporting it to authorities, they did not report it either. . She lapsed increasingly into mental illness and repeatedly faked pregnancy. 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. 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. He also noted that after she confessed to killing Stinnett, she changed her story to contend the murder was committed by her half-brotherTommy Kleiner. 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. 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. 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. "While my path to healing was very hard, the difference between Lisa and me is that no one ever intervened to rescue Lisa from a lifetime of abuse.". "I have seen a lot of horrible things happen to women and children in my more than 40 years in law enforcement," Strongsaid. Montgomery's mother, Judy Shaughnessy, drank while Montgomery was in utero, leaving her with brain damage, court documents say. 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. Shaughnessy would beat Mattingly with whatever was in her hand, be it a belt or a broom, she said. But they were what we come to understand as neuro-physiological adaptations to survive being constantly under assault.. She lives near Kansas City, Mo. Maybe you should focus your efforts on the fact that Lisa's mother, Judy Shaughnessy, was granted custody of a grandson the year prior to Lisa's crime. 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. 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. A social worker found Lisa's allegations of abuse credible and turned the file. When I was eight and Lisa was four, social services came and rescued me from Judy, leaving Lisa and our other sister behind. Patterson and Shaughnessy divorced in 1971, and Shaughnessy took custody of the girls. 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. 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. 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. Bobbie Jo's mother and husband have have not spoken publicly in many years. The girls father was often away from the house for long periods, and Shaughnessy would have other men over. She struggles to maintain her own hygiene, loses focus during conversations with others and has trouble planning simple tasks.". ", Strong said he arranged for that message to be shared with the four others, "because we were all a part of that.". Shaughnessy has since died. Another case with Missouri ties. President-elect Joe Biden has already pledged to end death penalty proceedings, although he hasn't said when. Facebook gives people the. On her way out the door, Mattingly said, Shaughnessy leaned over and told her it was all her fault she was being taken away. Kleiner built a makeshift shed on the side of the trailer for Montgomery, where he began molesting, and then raping, her. His physical abuse of the children had sexual undercurrents: He would make the girls strip naked before whipping them. She told Lisa she had to "earn her keep.". "The people that are defending [Montgomery], I wish I could take them back in time, and put them in that room," he says. 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. "I fell in love immediately.". Montgomery is scheduled to be put to death by a lethal injection of pentobarbital at Terre Haute prison in Indiana. More: The U.S. has not executed a woman in 67 years. Around age 8, she said, a man began raping her in the bedroom she shared with Montgomery, then 4, who lay in bed right next to her. 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. Montgomery, 39, is accused of killing Bobbie Joe Stinnett, 23, and cutting the baby from her womb on Dec. 16, 2004, at Stinnett's home in Skidmore. Montgomery's alcoholic mother, Judy Shaughnessy, knew about the assaults but blamed Montgomery for bringing them upon herself. One of those men started coming into their bedroom and raping Mattingly regularly, Mattingly said. Join Facebook to connect with Judy Shaughnessy and others you may know. The six-man, six-woman jury in October 2007 found Montgomery guilty and recommended she be executed. 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. Every time she has a birthday, it will also be the anniversary of the slaughter of her mother, Whitworth said. "She was completely detached from reality.". Porterfield compared the chronic abuse to pouring lighter fluid onto a spark. "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. Her mother also began trafficking her, allowing handymen like electricians and plumbers to sexually abuse Montgomery in exchange for work on the house. She had four children in less than four years before being sterilized. When Shaughnessy eventually split from her second husband, she and Montgomery testified in divorce proceedings about the sexual assaults. Investigators quickly realised that "Darlene Fischer" did not exist, and tracked Montgomery down the next day using her emails and computer IP address. At that time, Montgomery was awaiting trial. 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. 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. According to sworn statements from her family, her mental health declined rapidly after that. 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. Diane Mattingly is the sister of Lisa Montgomery, who is scheduled for execution by the federal government on December 8, 2020. "It was violent and like a scene out of a horror movie," he said. "She needs to be put to death.". "Judy was manipulative and - I hate to use this word, but - evil. The U.S. has not executed a woman in 67 years. Two other inmates are scheduled to die at Terre Haute prison before Mr Trump's presidency ends. "Being psychotic, it does not mean you are not intelligent, nor that you cannot act in a planful way," she says. They recommended a sentence of death. Her lawyers say that as she lost touch with reality, she fantasised about being pregnant. I didn't know what to do or how to talk to my sister about it.". "Today the death penalty has a face of my friend and I just can't be quiet about it," she said. "God, no, please," she said. Montgomery has exhausted all attempts to appeal her conviction and death sentence although her attorneys are exploring possible litigation. Nobody has said that Lisa should never have been punished. She has exhausted all legal options except a last-ditch appeal for clemency from President Donald Trump, which was filed Christmas Eve. 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. 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. Shaughnessy in 1974 married her third husband, Jack Kleiner, a divorced father of five. She describes Montgomery's ex-husband as cruel and harassing. "I think that in a lot of the opinion pieces that are being posted, in a lot of things that people are sharing, Bobbie Jo and her daughter, and her mother and her husband and other friends and family, are kind of being forgotten," says Tiffany Kirkland, another member of the class of 2000. For example, she said, the jury that recommended Montgomery be executed wasn't asked to consider the impact that would have on her four children and 12 grandchildren. "My sister was crying and in pain. "I don't think people understand how bad this was," Strong said. 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. On December 8, the federal government plans to execute her for a crime she committed in the grip of severe mental illness after a lifetime of living hell. They were also physically violent. Montgomery was repeatedly molested by her stepdad Jack Kleiner, starting at . Her story quickly fell apart and she confessed to the killing. 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. "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. Friends and family began noticing Montgomery's tendency to slip into "a world of her own". Lisa Montgomery and Bobbie Jo Stinnett got to know each other online through a shared love of dogs. "She got joy out of it.". She missed the funeral because of it. 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 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. More recently, the states that have been carrying out executions, such as Texas and Tennessee, have halted and delayed executions because of the pandemic. The tiny farming town of Skidmore sits in the far northwest corner of Missouri. Nobody has said that Lisa should never have been punished. "Oh, they're here, I've got to go," she said. She is permitted Sudoku puzzles and coloring pages andone book at a time. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who deserved mercy. This is the stuff of nightmares.". When Lisa was a small child, Judy allowed men to rape her for money, including allowing her to be gang raped on multiple occasions. 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. She went home with a newborn, one she acquired by murdering the babys pregnant mother. He continued the cycle of abuse, rapes and beatings, which he sadistically videotaped. 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. Mattingly and Montgomery lived together until Mattingly was eight and her half-sister was four. 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. For Montgomery, her lawyers argue, it began before she was born. This is someone who was deeply remorseful, once she became appropriately medicated and had full contact with reality, although that is a situation that waxes and wanes.. Montgomery claimed to live in northwest Missouri. Warnersaid the killinghad left Melvern residents stunned.. Zella Gwin survives. Victims of severe childhood sexual abuse can overcome their trauma with certain factors, Porterfield said, such as the presence of a nurturing adult who provides love and connects them to resources to promote healing. Both became infected with COVID-19, believing it to be transmitted duringthe prison visit. It has been the subject of two books, multiple true crime television shows, documentaries and countless podcast episodes. 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. Montgomery's execution, scheduled less than 60 days, will be the first of three federal executions in January before Trump leaves office. . 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. "There were so many opportunities where people could have intervened and prevented this," says Henry. What you need to know about Montgomery and her victim, Bobbie Jo Stinnett. She faked pregnancies several times during her marriages to Carl Boman and Kevin Montgomery, court records say. Montgomery also talked about the abuseshe had endured from her stepfather, Jack Kleiner, and the first of her two husbands, Carl Boman, Dorr said. She was beaten, repeatedly raped by her stepfather and his friends and sexually trafficked by her mother. But my hope is President Trump will stop Lisa's execution and commute her sentence to life in prison. They hold a collection and try to do something nice for Stinnett's mother. Her mouth was covered with duct tape so frequently that she learned not to cry. She didnt have nobody there to protect her once I was out of the home.. "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.". Her children were disturbed by it. Montgomery's cousin told her legal team that he lived with "regret for not speaking up about what happened to Lisa". 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. She said it was over and over, one man right after the other, and went on for hours, her cousin said in a sworn statement. Montgomery was already vulnerable to serious mental illness, she added. 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. Mattingly, Montgomerys sister, is planning on visiting her next week. The views expressed in this article are the author's own. Stinnett bled to death. She was quiet and kind, they say. I am begging that somebody will finally stand up for her and say, shes been punished enough.. Mattingly said she and Montgomery share the same father, John Patterson, a decorated Vietnam War veteran whonever married Mattingly's mother. Montgomery, who confessed, was later sentenced to death for the especially heinous murder as decided by a jury who heard her trial. 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. A newspaper article quoted him as saying he had been convinced his wife was pregnant and had given birth. 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]. "There's so many people that failed her throughout her whole life. "There was a lot of talk both ways on it," he said when contacted by phone at his new home in Texas. Lisa Montgomery had little if any chance in life. 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. More: Who was the last woman executed by the US government? Lisa Montgomery's friend, Toby Dorr, provided this photo she took of a letter Montgomery wrote to her in November using black crayon. Montgomery graduated in 1986 from high school at Cleveland, Okla., with hopes of joining the Air Force to earn money for college. 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. Lisa Montgomery - the only female inmate on federal death row in the US - has been executed for murder in the state of Indiana. She also told one of her stepbrothers about the sexual abuse around that time. [N]ot only was it bizarre behavior, but it was very embarrassing for me as her daughter, she said. As a result of her sexual torture, Lisa began to dissociate. "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.". Stitched together, they form a tapestry of family dysfunction, abuse, neglect, professional negligence, substance abuse and untreated mental illness. Montgomery was psychotic at the time of the crime, Harwell said. Kleiner told a reporter in 2005 that Shaughnessy's allegation was made up to support her divorce case and he was never found guilty of anything. The case was ruled a homicide and remains unsolved. "Little Lisa was in the bed next to mine every time," she said. 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. Residents of Melvern, where Montgomery lived, have beendivided about whether she shouldpay for her crimes with her life, said Joe Warner, who was mayor of Melvern at the time of the murder. Henry said Montgomery was expected to be transferred by Jan. 10 to the penitentiary at TerreHaute, Ind., her designated place of execution. "There was so much pressure on her at that point," says Henry. We cant travel to talk to witnesses or to prepare experts at this point, Harwell, Montgomerys lawyer, said. 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. 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. Being loved unconditionally helped me heal, find a caring husband, and raise two children who have hearts of gold. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. I cant understand why they have to kill this woman, knowing her background and everything that happened, he said. Judy Shaughnessy, Montgomery ' s mother, raised Lisa in poverty and chaos, with multiple stepfathers and in dozens of different homes, according to scores of interviews and documents cited. ", More: Only woman on federal death row asks President Trump to be a 'hero,' commute her sentence. In addition to Strong and Fritz, those investigators were FBI Special Agents Mike Miller and Scott Gentine and Topeka police officer Tom Glor. "The other sister stayed in that situation, and it got worse and worse and worse. If that disconnection is brought about with enough frequency and intensity, it can become more of a steady state of being, she added. He testified that Montgomery had been in a dissociative state, or "mental fog," at the time. At one point, one of Montgomery's brothers found a home movie that showed Montgomery's husband raping and beating her. When Montgomery was 15, Shaughnessy and Kleiner separated. All the while, Lisa's mother was being paid to let strange men rape Lisa. 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