"They put her on suicide watch to keep her from killing herself, so that they can execute her," she said. 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. Read about our approach to external linking. 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. Henrysaid she was surprised to see Montgomery scheduled for execution so soon, considering 30 other inmates on federal death row were sentencedbefore her. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who. Both became infected with COVID-19, believing it to be transmitted duringthe prison visit. It was clear that she was traumatized, that she was somewhere else, he said. They found her cradling a new-born girl she claimed to have given birth to the previous day. A home videoshowsCarl Boman raping and beating Montgomery, said her half-brother, Teddy Kleiner, who gave a sworn statementsaying he had seen it. Mattingly said she and Montgomery share the same father, John Patterson, a decorated Vietnam War veteran whonever married Mattingly's mother. She missed the funeral because of it. 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. People confuse punishment with culpability, she went on. Judy later married a man named Jack who punched, kicked and choked his children, including Lisa. Her victim's community said otherwise. Montgomery took Stinnetts baby, clamped the umbilical cord and used baby wipes to clean her. 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. 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. He married Judy Shaughnessy, who would become Montgomery's mother, in 1967 in Miami, Okla. Patterson was the second of six husbands Shaughnessy . View the profiles of people named Judy Shaughnessy. Is it ethical to execute a woman for actions that cannot be meaningfully separated from her mental illness and ugly history of abuse? There were always different men around the house. She also told one of her stepbrothers about the sexual abuse around that time. "There was a lot of talk both ways on it," he said when contacted by phone at his new home in Texas. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who. 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. Montgomery also suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, bipolar disorder and major depression, jurors were told. Montgomerys family tree, on both her mother and fathers side, is filled with psychiatric and neurologic impairment, including mood disorders, intellectual disability, PTSD and schizophrenia. The couple returned to their home near Melvern, which was being watched by investigators working to identify the woman who had told Stinnett she was Darlene Fischer. "I fell in love immediately.". They married in 1986. Tommy Kleiner and Montgomery have stayed in touch. Montgomery was repeatedly molested by her stepdad Jack Kleiner, starting at . In addition to her brain damage, Lisa developed multiple mental disorders, including bipolar disorder, temporal lobe epilepsy, dissociative disorder, and Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. 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. Defense attorney Fred Duchardt told jurors that sexual abuse during her childhood had caused Montgomeryto become mentally ill and killed her soul. But the psychological abuse targeted at her was even more damaging. "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.". On her way out the door, Mattingly said, Shaughnessy leaned over and told her it was all her fault she was being taken away. She didnt have nobody there to protect her once I was out of the home.. "And then go, 'Look at this body'. Her daughter remembered her acting like a young child in public, twirling and skipping with her arms swinging with abandon. According to sworn statements from her family, her mental health declined rapidly after that. Montgomery was already vulnerable to serious mental illness, she added. 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. 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. Strong was a police detective in Maryville, Mo., 14 miles northeast of Skidmore, and Fritz was a detective at Cameron, also in northwest Missouri. 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. Montgomery is worried that her fellow inmates will have trouble coping with her upcoming execution, said her friendToby Dorr. I cant understand why they have to kill this woman, knowing her background and everything that happened, he said. When Montgomery was in her mid-teens,she was sexually assaulted by Kleiner and three or four of his friends, according to court records. Lisa was anally, orally, and vaginally raped by several men, one after the other for several hours at a time. She enacted this in the grip of a very broken mind.". "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.". A longtime death penalty opponent, Wurtz said he considers it "idiotic" that Montgomery is to be executed. More: Lisa Montgomery's execution, delayed by attorneys' COVID-19 cases, rescheduled for Jan. 12. Back home, the couple announced the birth of their daughter to their friends and relatives. The mom, Judy Shaughnessy, was so cruel she once beat the family dog to death in front of her kids, the petition states. "If I did speak up, maybe Zella and Floyd would have gone back for Lisa," she wrote. She is permitted Sudoku puzzles and coloring pages andone book at a time. Lisa Montgomery strangle one pregnant woman for Missouri before cutting and kidnapping her baby in 2004. . In the other cases, she said, prosecutors opted not to seek the death penalty or juries did not impose it because it was obvious the women were suffering from profound mental illnesses. 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. Strong said he and Fritz questioned Montgomery using a"good cop/bad cop" approach. 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. "It was pretty awful.". After five hours of deliberation, the jury found Montgomery guilty. 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. They also discovered that Shaughnessy prostituted. 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. Montgomery's cousin told her legal team that he lived with "regret for not speaking up about what happened to Lisa". 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. 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. But it was not a pet that she was to retrieve that day. Montgomery has exhausted all attempts to appeal her conviction and death sentence although her attorneys are exploring possible litigation. He recalled that Montgomery begged him not to tell anyone, for fear that Kleiner would kill her. As the oldest, I was the protector of Lisa and our baby sister. While all five are haunted by Stinnett's murder, they are also "bonded for life," Strong said. These days, she requires a regimen of psychotropic drugs to function. Kleiner and Shaughnessy divorced in 1985, with Shaughnessy contending she once walked in on Kleiner and Montgomery having sex. For one thing, the wider world won't let them forget. Im not a psychiatrist, so I cant go any further than that.. ", Strong said he arranged for that message to be shared with the four others, "because we were all a part of that.". 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. Montgomery suffers from severe mental illness. Lisa Montgomery, la nica mujer en el corredor de la muerte federal de Estados Unidos, fue ejecutada este mircoles por asesinato. 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. Newspaper accounts show Montgomery had upset other users of that board by making false statements, including claiming to be pregnant. The girls father was often away from the house for long periods, and Shaughnessy would have other men over. 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. The baby girl survived, andMontgomery took her home and briefly passed her off as her own until investigators arrested her the next day. When Floyd Gwin died last July at age 81, Mattingly was listed among the survivors in his obituary. She testified as. Patterson was transferred after Montgomerys birth to Fort Riley inKansas, where their family lived when another daughter was born in 1970. In addition to Strong and Fritz, those investigators were FBI Special Agents Mike Miller and Scott Gentine and Topeka police officer Tom Glor. As a result of her sexual torture, Lisa began to dissociate. 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. For Montgomery, her lawyers argue, it began before she was born. Only around 2% of inmates on death row are women. "I cried," says Strong. There are things children need to grow into healthy adults, among them love, praise and stability. Dr Katherine Porterfield, a clinical psychologist who evaluated Montgomery and spent about 18 hours with her, says that psychosis does not always look the way people expect it to. We cant travel to talk to witnesses or to prepare experts at this point, Harwell, Montgomerys lawyer, said. When Lisa was a small child, Judy allowed men to rape her for money, including allowing her to be gang raped on multiple occasions. If her execution goes forward, she will be the first federal female inmate to be executed in almost 70 years. 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. 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.. At 18, she married her stepbrother, who also beat and raped her. "We knew we were walking into the killer's house.". One was the presence of substantial planning and premeditation. The couple had four children in five years, but the relationship was not the escape from violence that Montgomery might have hoped it would be. The U.S. has not executed a woman in 67 years. 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. 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. It is hard to know if Montgomery understands that she is close to being executed; her mental state does not allow for much lucidity. 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. They recommended a sentence of death. I'm bruised, but I'm not broken. Other times, her behavior could be erratic and inappropriate. 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.. When Montgomery was 15, Shaughnessy and Kleiner separated. She is the only woman on federal death row. Montgomery's family moved from place to place during her adult years, continuing the pattern she hadknown as a child. You know, like, that doesn't happen to Bobbie," Morrow says. As one family story goes, Montgomerys first words as a toddler were, dont spank me.. The nature and circumstances of Montgomerys crime show she had lost touch with reality, says her half-sister, Diane Mattingly. She says it's not as if all the other people of Skidmore lead idyllic lives free from abuse, poverty and other destructive tragedies. 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. But it wasn't Montgomery that Stinnett was expecting, it was a woman who went by the name of Darlene Fischer. And then go, 'Stand there and listen to the 911 call of [Stinnett's mother]. She moved in 1999 to Melvern, a town about 40 miles south of Topeka with 375 people today. 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 often read her Bible or did things with her hands, including writing, quilting, and making placemats and bookmarks, Dorr said. Her mother also began trafficking her, allowing handymen like electricians and plumbers to sexually abuse Montgomery in exchange for work on the house. Court records say Kleiner drank heavily, beat his wife and children, and made his daughters take off their clothes before he spanked them. "As a result, Lisa has trouble processing information and navigating social relationships. "The whole story is tragic," says Kelley Henry, one of Montgomery's federal defence lawyers. "God, no, please," she said. "If I had, would they have taken Lisa out of the home also?" Judy Shaughnessy had already raised two convicted felons at the time. Nobody has said that Lisa should never have been punished. Lisa Montgomery had little if any chance in life. 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. Join Facebook to connect with Judy Shaughnessy and others you may know. Read about our approach to external linking. Mrs. As Montgomery grew up, court records say, observersnoticed that she increasingly appeared to be "spaced out," "not emotionally present" or in "her own little world.". [N]ot only was it bizarre behavior, but it was very embarrassing for me as her daughter, she said. 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. He was in her. 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. U.S. District Judge Gary A. Fenner upheld the jury's recommendation the following April. Dorr has since been released from prison and remarried. When children grow up in a chronic state of fear and terror, their brains adapt to survive, explained Katherine Porterfield, a clinical psychologist at the Bellevue/New York University Program for Survivors of Torture, who has evaluated Montgomery in prison. The following day, the police arrested Montgomery at her home. As the car drove further and further away, Mattingly began to vomit. 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 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. When Lisa was a small child, Judy allowed men to rape her for money, including allowing her to be gang raped on multiple occasions. Lisa Montgomery's friend, Toby Dorr, provided this photo she took of a letter Montgomery wrote to her in November using black crayon. But none of those other victims responded by killing a woman and cutting her baby out of her stomach, hesaid. Montgomery's mother, Judy Shaughnessy, drank while Montgomery was in utero, leaving her with brain damage, court documents say. Until July 2020, there had been no federal executions for 17 years. There was plenty of food, our clothes were clean, and the kids did our homework together. She would tell me I had to leave and I couldnt take anything with me because she bought everything, she recalled. A clemency petition asking Trump to reduce Montgomerys sentence to life without parole is expected to be filed in the coming weeks. Protecting her half-sister became her "sole purpose in life, she said. As long as she was given cigarettes, Montgomery continued to talk, Strong said. Montgomery graduated in 1986 from high school at Cleveland, Okla., with hopes of joining the Air Force to earn money for college. Two other inmates are scheduled to die at Terre Haute prison before Mr Trump's presidency ends. I never molested her in any way, shape or form, said Kleiner, who died in 2009. 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. "My sister was crying and in pain. That could change in Terre Haute. 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 and her half-sister Diane Mattingly as children, Judy Shaughnessy, Lisa Montgomery's mother, Bobbie Jo Stinnett's home lies empty today, Protest against federal executions of death row inmates - outside the US Justice Department, Washington DC, December 2020. When I was eight and Lisa was four, social services came and rescued me from Judy, leaving Lisa and our other sister behind. She liked to take her finger and poke it hard into her chest, over and over in the same spot. Two days before the crime, her former husband (and stepbrother) sought custody of two of her children. Judy ultimately married six times, and had multiple partners throughout Lisa's childhood. After she gave birth to four children, Judy pressured Lisa into an involuntary sterilization. I was thinking, shes still back there. She was born into a family rife with mental illness, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression. 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. 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. Lisa Montgomery, a federal prisoner, is now slated to be executed on Jan. 12. 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. She describes Montgomery's ex-husband as cruel and harassing. She went home with a newborn, one she acquired by murdering the babys pregnant mother. Another case with Missouri ties. She lives near Kansas City, Mo. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Montgomery, who confessed, was later sentenced to death for the especially heinous murder as decided by a jury who heard her trial. The crime itself shows that Lisa had lost all touch with reality. She does not deserve to die. It would be 34 years before the half-sisters would see each other again. In recommending execution, the jury spelled out six aggravating factors supporting capital punishment. Lisa Montgomery, a Kansas native scheduled within days to becomethe first woman executed by the federal government in 67 years, lived a childhood so abusive her attorneys call it akin to torture. He thanked the sheriff for recovering his daughter and allowing him to be the parent that his wife couldn't be. They slept in twin beds in a small bedroomand fell asleep most nights holding hands, Mattingly said. 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. 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. 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 didn't know what to do or how to talk to my sister about it.". She faked pregnancies several times during her marriages to Carl Boman and Kevin Montgomery, court records say. Judy drank throughout her pregnancy with Lisa and caused her to be born with brain damage. . Mattingly said her heart sank when she realized Montgomery wasn't coming with her. They introduced her as their daughter, Abigail, and made multiple other stops. Her death is scheduled a little over a month before the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, who has pledged to end the federal death penalty. Montgomery told Stinnett that she was also expecting, and the pair shared pregnancy stories. Ramachandran said Montgomery told him she didn't remember killing Stinnett or cutting the baby out of her body. Who was the last woman executed by the US government? The six-man, six-woman jury in October 2007 found Montgomery guilty and recommended she be executed. At that time, Montgomery was awaiting trial. The views expressed in this article are the author's own. Montgomery's older half-sister, Diane Mattingly, told reporters last week that Shaughnessy repeatedly beat Montgomery and Mattingly. Dorr's marriage was failing when she fell in love with John Manard, a convicted murderer 21 years her junior. Montgomery gave birth to three daughters and a son from1987 to1990, court records say. At the time of her murder, she was newly married and pregnant with her first child. For Diane Mattingly, there is one moment from her childhood for which she feels both enormous gratitude and guilt. They have been joined by a chorus of supportive voices from the legal field, including 41 former and current prosecutors, as well as human rights entities like the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Three federal inmates - Orlando Hall, Alfred Bourgeois and Brandon Bernard - have been put to death since the 3 November presidential election. Harper told a dispatcher her daughter's womb appeared to have "exploded" and that blood was "everywhere." She strangled Stinnett to death and cut the baby from her stomach. At 1:31 AM on Wednesday, Lisa Montgomery was pronounced dead. 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. Every time she has a birthday, it will also be the anniversary of the slaughter of her mother, Whitworth said. He said she stood out to the extentthere appeared to be something wrong" with her. "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'.". Montgomery's execution date was subsequently bumped back to Jan. 12. 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. For months, Montgomery had told her husband she was pregnant, even though she couldnt have any more children she had undergone a sterilization procedure before they met. Lisa's and my father was also mentally ill. Even at the age of 8, Mattingly recalled being worried about what would happen to Montgomery without her there. 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. Authorities also questioned Kevin Montgomery but concluded he wasn't involved. 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. Lisa Montgomery - the only female inmate on federal death row in the US - has been executed for murder in the state of Indiana. 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. 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