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 got into multiple car accidents, struggled to keep a job, moved around constantly, drank heavily, engaged in sex work and neglected her children. "We knew we were walking into the killer's house.". Lisa Montgomery, a federal prisoner, is now slated to be executed on Jan. 12. Montgomery told Stinnett that she was also expecting, and the pair shared pregnancy stories. According to sworn statements from her family, her mental health declined rapidly after that. "I felt sick watching the video. As the car drove further and further away, Mattingly began to vomit. I was thinking, shes still back there. Judy was an alcoholic with mental illness who married six times over the course of her life. Diane Mattingly has been speaking publicly for the first time in the hope it can make a difference. In Montgomerys early childhood, her older sister, Diane, suffered the worst of the violence. A longtime death penalty opponent, Wurtz said he considers it "idiotic" that Montgomery is to be executed. Lisa's and my father was also mentally ill. A lifetime of sexual torture causes her to lose touch with reality. Dorr's marriage was failing when she fell in love with John Manard, a convicted murderer 21 years her junior. He threatened to expose the imagined pregnancy and use it against her in the custody battle. 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. There was plenty of food, our clothes were clean, and the kids did our homework together. And then there is the life that Montgomery and her siblings inhabited, one of domestic violence, dysfunction, humiliation, fear and pain. "She was hyperventilating," Henry said. It was clear that she was traumatized, that she was somewhere else, he said. Montgomery's family moved from place to place during her adult years, continuing the pattern she hadknown as a child. Her children were disturbed by it. "Last year, we got flowers, and gave her a $100-plus gift card and then paid her water bill," says Jena Baumli. Moving often was the norm to Montgomery; by the time she was a teenager, she had moved approximately 16 times. Mattingly said she saw terror in her half-sister's bright green eyes. Her lawyers are pursuing an insanity defense. Judy Shaughnessy, Montgomery's mother, testified Friday she found then-husband Jack Kleiner having sex with Montgomery in 1984, when Montgomery would have been about 16. Lisa Montgomery and Bobbie Jo Stinnett got to know each other online through a shared love of dogs. Mattingly said she and Montgomery share the same father, John Patterson, a decorated Vietnam War veteran whonever married Mattingly's mother. "Judy was manipulative and - I hate to use this word, but - evil. Mattingly and Montgomery lived together until Mattingly was eight and her half-sister was four. Back home, the couple announced the birth of their daughter to their friends and relatives. And then go, 'Stand there and listen to the 911 call of [Stinnett's mother]. The tiny farming town of Skidmore sits in the far northwest corner of Missouri. "If I did speak up, maybe Zella and Floyd would have gone back for Lisa," she wrote. Mattingly, Montgomerys sister, is planning on visiting her next week. Montgomery suffers from severe mental illness. And, in fact, blaming her for it.. When she was 18, Montgomery married her stepbrother. Judy ultimately married six times, and had multiple partners throughout Lisa's childhood. Montgomery and Stinnett participated inthe "Ratter Chatter" online message board for rat terrier dog enthusiasts. "Let's say I didn't stay clean very long," she says. She liked to take her finger and poke it hard into her chest, over and over in the same spot. He said he was "reduced to tears" when Zeb Stinnett sent him a message last month on the 16th anniversary of Montgomery's arrest for the murder of his wife. The views expressed in this article are the author's own. When issuing his original stay of execution, the district. She said Montgomery's crimes have affected the way Melvern is perceived in the same manner anti-gay picketing by Westboro Baptist Church has influenced perceptions about Topeka. She went home with a newborn, one she acquired by murdering the babys pregnant mother. "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.". While a six-week time period to prepare for clemency might always be unreasonable, it is particularly arduous given the pandemic.. Henrysaid she was surprised to see Montgomery scheduled for execution so soon, considering 30 other inmates on federal death row were sentencedbefore her. Patterson was transferred after Montgomerys birth to Fort Riley inKansas, where their family lived when another daughter was born in 1970. If that disconnection is brought about with enough frequency and intensity, it can become more of a steady state of being, she added. That could change in Terre Haute. 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. Her daughter remembered her acting like a young child in public, twirling and skipping with her arms swinging with abandon. Even at the age of 8, Mattingly recalled being worried about what would happen to Montgomery without her there. The population hovers around just 250, and everyone knew Bobbie Jo Stinnett and her family. "The other sister stayed in that situation, and it got worse and worse and worse. She was the first woman executed by the federal government in 67 years. Likewise, that jury wasn't directed to consider whether Montgomery was severely mentally ill, which Montgomery's attorneys are asking the president to take into account. Kleiner was never charged. 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. 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. Judy Shaughnessy had already raised two convicted felons at the time. "There was a lot of talk both ways on it," he said when contacted by phone at his new home in Texas. She says it's not as if all the other people of Skidmore lead idyllic lives free from abuse, poverty and other destructive tragedies. More recently, the states that have been carrying out executions, such as Texas and Tennessee, have halted and delayed executions because of the pandemic. She lives near Kansas City, Mo. The U.S. has not executed a woman in 67 years. Montgomery was already vulnerable to serious mental illness, she added. As Fritz patted Montgomery on the back of her hand, Strong said he noticed dried blood and tissue embedded beneath her fingernails. "Being psychotic, it does not mean you are not intelligent, nor that you cannot act in a planful way," she says. At state level, the number of sentences and executions continues a historic decline. The six-man, six-woman jury in October 2007 found Montgomery guilty and recommended she be executed. 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. One was the presence of substantial planning and premeditation. He threatened to rape our little sister if Lisa resisted and said he would kill her whole family if she told anyone. He had a daughter from a previous relationship, Diane, who was four years older than Montgomery. "I have seen a lot of horrible things happen to women and children in my more than 40 years in law enforcement," Strongsaid. 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. 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. In recommending execution, the jury spelled out six aggravating factors supporting capital punishment. She had four children in less than four years before being sterilized. The judge reached no conclusion aboutwhether sexual activity occurred but said he considered it "inexcusable" that Shaughnessy didn't report the situation to authorities and get counseling for Montgomery. 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. Lisa Montgomery has been held at theCarswell Federal Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, for 12 years. A former paramedic who had watched the births of all three of his children, Strong also considered the baby's head to be unusually round. Join Facebook to connect with Judy Shaughnessy and others you may know. 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. But it is something that she carries with her and that she mourns not only for the effect on her life and that of her family, but for the terrible effect on Mrs. Stinnett, who was killed, and also her family who was left behind.. And to not fail her.". "Today the death penalty has a face of my friend and I just can't be quiet about it," she said. Today there is a single restaurant and few of the streets are paved. 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. As one family story goes, Montgomerys first words as a toddler were, dont spank me.. Every year. The counselor noted that her mother appeared to have a lack of empathy for Montgomery, who was left with the distinct impression that the sexual abuse was her fault. 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. 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 . She struggles to maintain her own hygiene, loses focus during conversations with others and has trouble planning simple tasks.". She didnt have nobody there to protect her once I was out of the home.. She was sick. "Being loved unconditionally helped me heal, find a caring husband and raise two children who have hearts of gold," Mattingly wrote. Montgomery was repeatedly molested by her stepdad Jack Kleiner, starting at . Montgomery's alcoholic mother, Judy Shaughnessy, knew about the assaults but blamed Montgomery for bringing them upon herself. "She is the most broken of the broken," Mattingly 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. She has exhausted all legal options. Lisa Montgomery's friend, Toby Dorr, provided this photo she took of a letter Montgomery wrote to her in November using black crayon. Its also people hearing it, knowing it and doing nothing about it. My heart goes out to the family of Bobbie Jo Stinnett and the loss that they have felt and are still feeling. Kleiner built a makeshift shed on the side of the trailer for Montgomery, where he began molesting, and then raping, her. In addition to Strong and Fritz, those investigators were FBI Special Agents Mike Miller and Scott Gentine and Topeka police officer Tom Glor. She began prostituting Lisa to older men when Lisa was in her early teens. My sister, Lisa Montgomery, is broken. Babcock said the constant in every case she has seen is an overwhelming history of trauma. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who deserved mercy. 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. 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. Those were disconnections that were tragic in their consequences. At 18, Judy pressured Lisa to marry her stepbrother. 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. "One sister got taken out and got put into a loving home and was nurtured and had time to heal," says Mattingly. 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. 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. 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. Part of HuffPost Crime. Just the details: What you need to know about Montgomery and her victim, Bobbie Jo Stinnett. "She needs to be put to death.". 2023 BBC. And it's never about what my friend went through," she adds. They found her cradling a new-born girl she claimed to have given birth to the previous day. Violent acts against pregnant women and their fetuses fall into that category. Fourteen of those offenders are serving long prison sentences, while the twoothers died by suicide in custody, according to a list Henry provided. 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. At the time of her murder, she was newly married and pregnant with her first child. Authorities also questioned Kevin Montgomery but concluded he wasn't involved. He was pumping her, Shaughnessy testified. That could change in Terre Haute. It turns out that it only takes a few people to save a child's life: being loved by my foster parents saved mine. ", More: Only woman on federal death row asks President Trump to be a 'hero,' commute her sentence. Friends and family began noticing Montgomery's tendency to slip into "a world of her own". The baby girl survived, andMontgomery took her home and briefly passed her off as her own until investigators arrested her the next day. 2023 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved. Stitched together, they form a tapestry of family dysfunction, abuse, neglect, professional negligence, substance abuse and untreated mental illness. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Patterson and Shaughnessy divorced in 1971, and Shaughnessy took custody of the girls. She lives in Lebanon, Ky., is married with two adult children and has worked the past 19 years for the state of Kentucky. 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. Nobody has said that Lisa should never have been punished. View the profiles of people named Judy Shaughnessy. Lisa Montgomery - the only female inmate on federal death row in the US - has been executed for murder in the state of Indiana. But they were what we come to understand as neuro-physiological adaptations to survive being constantly under assault.. "The whole story is tragic," says Kelley Henry, one of Montgomery's federal defence lawyers. What you need to know about Montgomery and her victim, Bobbie Jo Stinnett. She has exhausted all legal options except a last-ditch appeal for clemency from President Donald Trump, which was filed Christmas Eve. "There's so many people that failed her throughout her whole life. 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. One of the lead investigators in the case, Randy Strong, wants Montgomery executed. His message contained a "very heartfelt thank you. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who. 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. 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. One of those men started coming into their bedroom and raping Mattingly regularly, Mattingly said. The baby was returned to her father, after being recovered from Montgomery. Her lawyers say that as she lost touch with reality, she fantasised about being pregnant. Montgomery was left behind with her mother. 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. Montgomery's cousin told her legal team that he lived with "regret for not speaking up about what happened to Lisa". She was quiet and kind, they say. The judge in the case scolded Shaughnessy for not reporting the abuse - but did not report the abuse himself. 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. "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.". He married Judy Shaughnessy, who would become Montgomery's mother, in 1967 in Miami, Okla. Patterson was the second of six husbands Shaughnessy . She moved in 1999 to Melvern, a town about 40 miles south of Topeka with 375 people today. In response to traumatic events, children may dissociate from their feelings and their bodies to protect themselves from experiencing what is happening. 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. When they came to take me, I thought they were coming to take all of us. Mattingly has enjoyed a "blessed life," she said. But none of those other victims responded by killing a woman and cutting her baby out of her stomach, hesaid. They recommended a sentence of death. 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. She missed the funeral because of it. 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. Stinnett wasn't breathing and was cold. U.S. District Judge Gary A. Fenner upheld the jury's recommendation the following April. "We've seen crime for years and years in our country in which people enact terrible violence coming out of a psychotic set of beliefs or thought process. Montgomery's mother, Judy Shaughnessy, who was 20 at the time of her birth in 1968, drank heavily while pregnant with her daughter. "But one of the things that the president can do is say - to women who have been trafficked, and who have been sexually abused - 'Your abuse matters'.". For one thing, the wider world won't let them forget. Montgomery's execution date was subsequently bumped back to Jan. 12. 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. A lifelong opponent of the death penalty, Dorr said she wants the world to know about Lisa Montgomery the person. "They put her on suicide watch to keep her from killing herself, so that they can execute her," she said. "When I squeezed her hand, she looked at me and smiled," she said. Though capital case defendants tend to be confused and stunned, those emotions were heightened with Montgomery, who had trouble responding to questions, Wurtz said. 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. Mrs. "There was so much pressure on her at that point," says Henry. 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. 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 receiving her execution date, she's been placed on suicide watch in an isolated cell. He had a daughter from a previous relationship, Diane, who was four years older than Montgomery. Emotions ran high in 2007 as Montgomery was tried in federal court for kidnapping resulting in death. Montgomery smelled like a sour ashtray and body sweat" as Don Fritz and Randy Strong interrogated her on Dec. 17, 2004, Strong recalled. 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. 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