One was the presence of substantial planning and premeditation. Patterson and Shaughnessy divorced in 1971, and Shaughnessy took custody of the girls. 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. As long as she was given cigarettes, Montgomery continued to talk, Strong said. Often the woman, now 52 and a grandmother of 12, is knitting or doing needlepoint. 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. She told Lisa she had to "earn her keep." Judy later. 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. Montgomery is worried that her fellow inmates will have trouble coping with her upcoming execution, said her friendToby Dorr. My sister, Lisa Montgomery, is broken. In Montgomerys early childhood, her older sister, Diane, suffered the worst of the violence. Diane Mattingly is the sister of Lisa Montgomery, who is scheduled for execution by the federal government on December 8, 2020. The mom, Judy Shaughnessy, was so cruel she once beat the family dog to death in front of her kids, the petition states. 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. They married in 1986. Judy Shaughnessy had already raised two convicted felons at the time. But Lisa was broken. I thought they knew what was going on, she said. Eventually, Montgomery admitted she had acted alone in killing Stinnett and taking her baby. There were always different men around the house. 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. 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. She has exhausted all legal options except a last-ditch appeal for clemency from President Donald Trump, which was filed Christmas Eve. Though capital case defendants tend to be confused and stunned, those emotions were heightened with Montgomery, who had trouble responding to questions, Wurtz said. She lapsed increasingly into mental illness and repeatedly faked pregnancy. Tommy Kleiner and Montgomery have stayed in touch. Back home, the couple announced the birth of their daughter to their friends and relatives. She enjoyed torturing the people around her," says Mattingly. Recibi una inyeccin letal en una prisin de Terre Haute,. Because of Stinnett's easy-going reputation, Morrow remembers instantly dismissing the initial reports of her murder. Her victim's community said otherwise. Jack also raped Lisa for years. It turns out that it only takes a few people to save a child's life: being loved by my foster parents saved mine. They gave me unconditional love, they taught me my self-worth, she said. The following day, the police arrested Montgomery at her home. He stressed that the juryheard testimony about her mental illness and her history of being abused, yet still unanimously recommended her execution. 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. 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. After she gave birth to four children, Judy pressured Lisa into an involuntary sterilization. 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. For Montgomery, her lawyers argue, it began before she was born. Her children were disturbed by it. Court records describe her as a quiet loner who spent a lot of time reading books. "I think that side of Lisa needs to be out there.". Judy was an alcoholic with mental illness who married six times over the course of her life. "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. "Little Lisa was in the bed next to mine every time," she said. I was put in foster care with a wonderful family. "I get these images in my head of [Bobbie Jo's mother] finding her daughter that way.". At state level, the number of sentences and executions continues a historic decline. "She needs to be put to death.". Lisa Montgomery, who endured years of sexual and physical abuse, murdered an expectant mother and took the baby. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who. The baby was returned to her father, after being recovered from Montgomery. 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. 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. It would be 34 years before the half-sisters would see each other again. 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. "Judy was manipulative and - I hate to use this word, but - evil. Harper told a dispatcher her daughter's womb appeared to have "exploded" and that blood was "everywhere." Montgomery's cousin told her legal team that he lived with "regret for not speaking up about what happened to Lisa". Montgomery's mother, Judy Shaughnessy, told The . Mattingly has enjoyed a "blessed life," she said. Babies born naturally tend to have misshapen heads initially because of the pressure experienced as they go through the birth canal, he said. Diane Mattingly has been speaking publicly for the first time in the hope it can make a difference. I couldn't believe how good it felt to be part of a loving family. 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. 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. "If I had, would they have taken Lisa out of the home also?" Montgomery has pleaded not guilty to kidnapping resulting in death. She told Lisa she had to "earn her keep.". Ramachandran said women who sufferchildhood sexual abuse and whose minds revolve around babies and pregnancy are predisposed to suffering pseudocyesis, a condition in which they show physical symptoms of pregnancy, including enlargement of the breasts and stomach, morning sickness and cravings for certain foods. Several high-profile figures had appealed for clemency in Brandon's case but Mr Trump did not heed those calls. She missed the funeral because of it. Judy Shaughnessy and her boyfriend physical, psychological and sexual abuse Lisa. Just the details: What you need to know about Montgomery and her victim, Bobbie Jo Stinnett. "I was like, 'Oh, she was not.' Judy ultimately married six times, and had multiple partners throughout Lisa's childhood. But my hope is President Trump will stop Lisa's execution and commute her sentence to life in prison. 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. There are certain crimes that are universally abhorred by the public, ones that evoke a primal response of disgust and revenge from those who hear about it. At 18, she married her stepbrother, who also beat and raped her. Montgomery's lawyers argue that because of a combination of years of horrific abuse, and a raft of psychological issues, she should never have been given the death penalty. That was ultimately dropped in favour of an insanity defence, but Henry believes the damage to Montgomery's credibility was already done. Stinnett came to, grabbing at Montgomery's knife and pulling out somehair before Montgomery strangledher to death. But they were what we come to understand as neuro-physiological adaptations to survive being constantly under assault.. 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. As Fritz patted Montgomery on the back of her hand, Strong said he noticed dried blood and tissue embedded beneath her fingernails. And then there is the life that Montgomery and her siblings inhabited, one of domestic violence, dysfunction, humiliation, fear and pain. 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. While the court admonished her for not reporting it to authorities, they did not report it either. Lisa Montgomery's friend, Toby Dorr, provided this photo she took of a letter Montgomery wrote to her in November using black crayon. Montgomery is "evil personified," he said. "I looked to my right and there was Lisa Montgomery on the sofa, holding the baby," he said. Montgomery was repeatedly molested by her stepdad Jack Kleiner, starting at . Residents there tend to think her execution would bring an appropriate end to a painful chapter in their city's history, he said. She is permitted Sudoku puzzles and coloring pages andone book at a time. "My sister was crying and in pain. Mattingly and Montgomery lived together until Mattingly was eight and her half-sister was four. 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. The judge in the case scolded Shaughnessy for not reporting the abuse - but did not report the abuse himself. Montgomery was sentenced for the murder of a 23-year-old woman who was eight months pregnant. It was a terrifying household, she says, where physical, psychological and sexual abuse at the hands of Judy Shaughnessy, Montgomery's mother, and her boyfriends was routine. She had brain damage, likely caused by exposure to alcohol when she was a. Every year. One theory her lawyers put forward regarding the chain of events that led to the murder, is that Montgomery feared her ex-husband would expose her lies about being pregnant and use it against her as he sought custody of their children. 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. "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.". 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. She faulted Montgomerys defense team at the time of the initial trial for failing to connect the dots between Montgomerys childhood trauma and her later behavior. ", Strong said he arranged for that message to be shared with the four others, "because we were all a part of that.". 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 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. She was born in 1968, the child of two troubled alcoholics. Both became infected with COVID-19, believing it to be transmitted duringthe prison visit. Bobbie Jo's mother and husband have have not spoken publicly in many years. 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. Shaughnessy would beat Mattingly with whatever was in her hand, be it a belt or a broom, she said. . Those were disconnections that were tragic in their consequences. Protecting her half-sister became her "sole purpose in life, she said. The case was ruled a homicide and remains unsolved. At the time of her murder, she was newly married and pregnant with her first child. "Last year, we got flowers, and gave her a $100-plus gift card and then paid her water bill," says Jena Baumli. Every time she has a birthday, it will also be the anniversary of the slaughter of her mother, Whitworth said. U.S. District Judge Gary A. Fenner upheld the jury's recommendation the following April. Montgomerys case is not about whether she is responsible for the crime; she is. Shaughnessy in 1974 married her third husband, Jack Kleiner, a divorced father of five. 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. 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.. While a six-week time period to prepare for clemency might always be unreasonable, it is particularly arduous given the pandemic.. When Lisa was a small child, Judy allowed men to rape her for money, including allowing her to be gang raped on multiple occasions. The crime itself shows that Lisa had lost all touch with reality. As Strong crossed the threshold, hesaw a TV set airing an Amber Alert about the abduction of Stinnett's baby. Judy drank throughout her pregnancy with Lisa and caused her to be born with brain damage. He recalled that Montgomery begged him not to tell anyone, for fear that Kleiner would kill her. 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. 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. The couple had three children in rapid succession. A home videoshowsCarl Boman raping and beating Montgomery, said her half-brother, Teddy Kleiner, who gave a sworn statementsaying he had seen it. In addition to Strong and Fritz, those investigators were FBI Special Agents Mike Miller and Scott Gentine and Topeka police officer Tom Glor. If you were to meet her, it would be inconceivable to you that she committed this crime, Harwell said. She was forced to sit in a high chair for hours if she did not finish her food. 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.. "That sent a chill up my spine," Strong said. Friends and family began noticing Montgomery's tendency to slip into "a world of her own". 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. I never molested her in any way, shape or form, said Kleiner, who died in 2009. The idea that that evidence of her bad mothering is part of what the jury could rely upon as a reason to sentence her to death its something you would never find in a case of a man.. This story was first published on 11 January - before Lisa Montgomery's execution on 13 January. 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. "Maybe she could have been saved, too. 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 divorce left Shaughnessy no longer entitled to be Mattingly's legal guardian. Around this time, she repeatedly claimed to be pregnant again, although she had undergone sterilisation after her fourth baby was born. Strong was a police detective in Maryville, Mo., 14 miles northeast of Skidmore, and Fritz was a detective at Cameron, also in northwest Missouri. In December 2004, Boman filed a court action seeking custody of two of their children who still lived with Montgomery while arguing that the pregnancy Montgomery was fakingillustrated she was an unfit mother, according to newspaper accounts. I was thinking, shes still back there. As her big sister, Diane feels immense guilt about leaving Montgomery behind in that broken home, so many years ago. "There was so much pressure on her at that point," says Henry. When Floyd Gwin died last July at age 81, Mattingly was listed among the survivors in his obituary. The cold, vicious, calculating and brutal nature of her crimes shows that Montgomery knew exactly what she was doing, Strong said. A few years after Mattingly was removed from the home, when Montgomery was in kindergarten, her mother remarried a man named Jack Kleiner. Since receiving her execution date, she's been placed on suicide watch in an isolated cell. 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. For one thing, the wider world won't let them forget. "We knew we were walking into the killer's house.". "She tried to throw her own brother under the bus for a crime that she committed.". She was sick. He thanked the sheriff for recovering his daughter and allowing him to be the parent that his wife couldn't be. "There was a lot of talk both ways on it," he said when contacted by phone at his new home in Texas. At 1:31 AM on Wednesday, Lisa Montgomery was pronounced dead. Shaughnessy has since died. Montgomery, who confessed, was later sentenced to death for the especially heinous murder as decided by a jury who heard her trial. 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. While all five are haunted by Stinnett's murder, they are also "bonded for life," Strong said. Even at the age of 8, Mattingly recalled being worried about what would happen to Montgomery without her there. That could change in Terre Haute. Montgomerys mother, Judy Shaughnessy, who was 20 at the time of her birth in 1968, drank heavily while pregnant with her daughter. She is not the "worst of the worst" for whom the death penalty was intended. . The family moved often. Montgomery's father, John Patterson, a 25-year-old in the military, was also an alcoholic. 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. 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