She does not deserve to die. View the profiles of people named Judy Shaughnessy. 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. They would beat and slap her if she was doing it wrong. When they were done, they urinated on her like she was trash.. And I am just asking for somebody - once - not to fail her.". She meets with Montgomery regularly, she said. Jack also raped Lisa for years. "She needs to be put to death.". For Montgomery, her lawyers argue, it began before she was born. As the car drove further and further away, Mattingly began to vomit. 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. 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. Ms. Montgomery has bipolar disorder, temporal lobe epilepsy, complex post-traumatic stress disorder, dissociative disorder, psychosis, traumatic brain injury and most likely fetal alcohol syndrome. "If I had, would they have taken Lisa out of the home also?" School friend Baumli says she's read the descriptions of Montgomery's abuse, but it mostly just makes her angry. 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. I was put in foster care with a wonderful family. Authorities also questioned Kevin Montgomery but concluded he wasn't involved. As Fritz patted Montgomery on the back of her hand, Strong said he noticed dried blood and tissue embedded beneath her fingernails. But Lisa was broken. 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. "I was like, 'Oh, she was not.' For Diane Mattingly, there is one moment from her childhood for which she feels both enormous gratitude and guilt. Zella Gwin survives. Judy Shaughnessy and her boyfriend physical, psychological . At one point, one of Montgomery's brothers found a home movie that showed Montgomery's husband raping and beating her. "And then go, 'Look at this body'. She lives in Lebanon, Ky., is married with two adult children and has worked the past 19 years for the state of Kentucky. Her terror was well-founded, said Montgomery's attorneys, Kelley Henry and Amy Harwell. I never molested her in any way, shape or form, said Kleiner, who died in 2009. When she was 18, Montgomery married her stepbrother. He testified that Montgomery had been in a dissociative state, or "mental fog," at the time. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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. After playing with the dogs in the backyard that day, Montgomery strangled Bobbie Jo Stinnett, 23, who was pregnant, and cut open her abdomen to remove her 8-month-old fetus. She would be the first woman executed by the federal government in 67. If her execution goes forward, she will be the first federal female inmate to be executed in almost 70 years. . When Lisa was a small child, Judy allowed men to rape her for money, including allowing her to be gang raped on multiple occasions. Babies born naturally tend to have misshapen heads initially because of the pressure experienced as they go through the birth canal, he said. The population hovers around just 250, and everyone knew Bobbie Jo Stinnett and her family. 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. 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. Porterfield compared the chronic abuse to pouring lighter fluid onto a spark. She didnt have nobody there to protect her once I was out of the home.. Being loved unconditionally helped me heal, find a caring husband, and raise two children who have hearts of gold. Lisa Montgomery has been held at theCarswell Federal Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, for 12 years. She had bought supplies, including a home birth kit, and searched online for how to perform a caesarean section. "It was violent and like a scene out of a horror movie," he said. Her story quickly fell apart and she confessed to the killing. 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. On the ride home, she clamped the umbilical cord and cleaned the baby girl with wipes. I cant understand why they have to kill this woman, knowing her background and everything that happened, he said. Since receiving her execution date, she's been placed on suicide watch in an isolated cell. "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 they came to take me, I thought they were coming to take all of us. And then at the end, she was broken.". Montgomery clearly should spend the rest of her life in prison, but she is not among the "worst of the worst" for whom the death penalty is intended, Mattingly told The Topeka Capital-Journal. "Little Lisa was in the bed next to mine every time," she said. Montgomery has pleaded not guilty to kidnapping resulting in death. Montgomery also suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, bipolar disorder and major depression, jurors were told. Mental health experts who examined her believe that her history of childhood trauma exacerbated a genetic predisposition to mental illness that ran in her family. Harper told a dispatcher her daughter's womb appeared to have "exploded" and that blood was "everywhere." All the while, Lisa's mother was being paid to let strange men rape Lisa. 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. According to sworn statements from her family, her mental health declined rapidly after that. And it's never about what my friend went through," she adds. "I fell in love immediately.". "Bobbie deserves to be here today. Montgomery's execution, scheduled less than 60 days, will be the first of three federal executions in January before Trump leaves office. Since they began, the federal government has executed seven people. For the rest of her life.. But the psychological abuse targeted at her was even more damaging. Montgomery is worried that her fellow inmates will have trouble coping with her upcoming execution, said her friendToby Dorr. That could change in Terre Haute. Her victim's community said otherwise. 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. One was the presence of substantial planning and premeditation. And, in fact, blaming her for it.. My heart goes out to the family of Bobbie Jo Stinnett and the loss that they have felt and are still feeling. Montgomery was repeatedly molested by her stepdad Jack Kleiner, starting at . Other times, her behavior could be erratic and inappropriate. Lisa Montgomery, la nica mujer en el corredor de la muerte federal de Estados Unidos, fue ejecutada este mircoles por asesinato. They believe that at the time of the crime, Montgomery was psychotic and out of touch with reality. 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. The baby girl survived, andMontgomery took her home and briefly passed her off as her own until investigators arrested her the next day. 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. 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. In addition to Strong and Fritz, those investigators were FBI Special Agents Mike Miller and Scott Gentine and Topeka police officer Tom Glor. She had four children in less than four years before being sterilized. They also discovered that Shaughnessy prostituted. Mrs. 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. She struggles to maintain her own hygiene, loses focus during conversations with others and has trouble planning simple tasks.". Lisa Montgomery lived a tortured life, from the day she was born in a small Washington town till the day she became the first woman in 67 years to be executed by the U.S. government. 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 TerreHaute, Ind. Shaughnessy in 1974 married her third husband, Jack Kleiner, a divorced father of five. 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. But the cousin, a sheriff's deputy, confessed to Montgomery's current legal team that he did nothing. Bobbie Jo's mother and husband have have not spoken publicly in many years. Shaughnessy also beat the girls with brooms and belts,Mattingly said. Montgomery was psychotic at the time of the crime, Harwell said. Around this time, Shaughnessy and Patterson separated, and Mattingly was removed from the house by child protective services an act which she credits for saving her life. 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. 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. Facebook gives people the. Lisa Montgomery, a federal prisoner, is now slated to be executed on Jan. 12. She had brain damage, likely caused by exposure to alcohol when she was a. Montgomerys father, John Patterson, a 25-year-old in the military, was also an alcoholic. Henry said Montgomery was expected to be transferred by Jan. 10 to the penitentiary at TerreHaute, Ind., her designated place of execution. "Maybe she could have been saved, too. She was born into a family rife with mental illness, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression. Another case with Missouri ties. . In fact, he drove her back home and dropped her off in the hands of her abusers. When Floyd Gwin died last July at age 81, Mattingly was listed among the survivors in his obituary. "We knew we were walking into the killer's house.". Every time she has a birthday, it will also be the anniversary of the slaughter of her mother, Whitworth said. Back home, the couple announced the birth of their daughter to their friends and relatives. Montgomery, 52, the only woman on federal death row, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection Jan. 12 in the U.S. Penitentiary at Terre Haute, Ind. As long as she was given cigarettes, Montgomery continued to talk, Strong said. DNA testing later showed they were Stinnett's. When issuing his original stay of execution, the district. While the court admonished her for not reporting it to authorities, they did not report it either. Is it ethical to execute a woman for actions that cannot be meaningfully separated from her mental illness and ugly history of abuse? A herd of rat terriers greeted them. 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. The family moved often. At the time of her murder, she was newly married and pregnant with her first child. 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. Lisa then took the baby home and cared for her as though she was her own. Montgomery has exhausted all attempts to appeal her conviction and death sentence although her attorneys are exploring possible litigation. Her attorneys say that while Montgomery feels deep remorse for her crimes, her understanding of her situation waxes and wanes. When Montgomery was in her mid-teens,she was sexually assaulted by Kleiner and three or four of his friends, according to court records. Carl Boman wasn't the father of one of the girls, according to court records, which say Montgomery was sterilized after the last birth in 1990. This story was first published on 11 January - before Lisa Montgomery's execution on 13 January. She is permitted Sudoku puzzles and coloring pages andone book at a time. 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. [N]ot only was it bizarre behavior, but it was very embarrassing for me as her daughter, she said. Mattingly said she and Montgomery share the same father, John Patterson, a decorated Vietnam War veteran whonever married Mattingly's mother. Stinnett bled to death. And then go, 'Stand there and listen to the 911 call of [Stinnett's mother]. He continued the cycle of abuse, rapes and beatings, which he sadistically videotaped. 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.. He threatened to expose the imagined pregnancy and use it against her in the custody battle. They slept in twin beds in a small bedroomand fell asleep most nights holding hands, Mattingly said. "The other sister stayed in that situation, and it got worse and worse and worse. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who. Fourteen of those offenders are serving long prison sentences, while the twoothers died by suicide in custody, according to a list Henry provided. 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. 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. 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. Multiple medical experts have given statements agreeing with that diagnosis. Violent acts against pregnant women and their fetuses fall into that category. Some nights, she said, Shaughnessy would leave them in the house with a male babysitter. And then there is the life that Montgomery and her siblings inhabited, one of domestic violence, dysfunction, humiliation, fear and pain. Stinnett wasn't breathing and was cold. Mattingly, Montgomerys sister, is planning on visiting her next week. . Now, she called him to tell him that shed gone into labor while shopping and had given birth at a clinic. More: Who was the last woman executed by the US government? Judy later married a man named Jack who punched, kicked and choked his children, including Lisa. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who. It makes him even angrier that it was Stinnett's mother who discovered her that way. But none of those other victims responded by killing a woman and cutting her baby out of her stomach, hesaid. 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. 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