Judy Shaughnessy and her boyfriend physical, psychological and sexual abuse Lisa. My sister is on death row, Kleiner wrote in the lawsuit petition. 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. That could change in Terre Haute. There is a decision that has to be made, separate from guilt, about whether someones behavior is so morally reprehensible that they deserve the death penalty, she said. 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. In asking for mercy, her family members and attorneys say the untreated trauma she experienced as a child exacerbated her brain damage and hergenetic disposition to severe mental illness, leading her to kill Stinnett during a psychotic episode a dissociative state similar to sleepwalking. "Today the death penalty has a face of my friend and I just can't be quiet about it," she said. Montgomery became the first female federal prisoner executed in 67 years, the first woman executed in the United States since Kelly Gissendaner in 2015, and the first person executed in the United States in 2021. She also told one of her stepbrothers about the sexual abuse around that time. Warnersaid the killinghad left Melvern residents stunned.. 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.. Join half a million readers enjoying Newsweek's free newsletters, Everyone Practices Cancel Culture | Opinion, Deplatforming Free Speech is Dangerous | Opinion. The baby was returned to her father, after being recovered from Montgomery. Montgomery told investigators she was surprised at how nicely they had treated her, considering what she had done. 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. According to her lawyers and witnesses, Montgomery suffered years of childhood abuse so severe it was akin to torture. She told Lisa she had to "earn her keep." Judy later. "If I did speak up, maybe Zella and Floyd would have gone back for Lisa," she wrote. Montgomery is worried that her fellow inmates will have trouble coping with her upcoming execution, said her friendToby Dorr. "I was like, 'Oh, she was not.' Mattingly said her heart sank when she realized Montgomery wasn't coming with her. A lifelong opponent of the death penalty, Dorr said she wants the world to know about Lisa Montgomery the person. Multiple medical experts have given statements agreeing with that diagnosis. Lisa Montgomery has been held at theCarswell Federal Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, for 12 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. "It was violent and like a scene out of a horror movie," he said in a statement. Protecting her half-sister became her "sole purpose in life, she said. 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. 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. Now, she called him to tell him that shed gone into labor while shopping and had given birth at a clinic. The following day, the police arrested Montgomery at her home. DNA testing later showed they were Stinnett's. 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. She was the first woman executed by the federal government in 67 years. 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. Jurors heard an audiotape of Harper, Stinnett's mother, calling 911 after finding her body. And, in fact, blaming her for it.. 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. 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. One of those men started coming into their bedroom and raping Mattingly regularly, Mattingly said. But my hope is President Trump will stop Lisa's execution and commute her sentence to life in prison. Nobody has said that Lisa should never have been punished. 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. He continued the cycle of abuse, rapes and beatings, which he sadistically videotaped. 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. Part of HuffPost Crime. "I get these images in my head of [Bobbie Jo's mother] finding her daughter that way.". If her execution goes forward, she will be the first federal female inmate to be executed in almost 70 years. U.S. District Judge Gary A. Fenner upheld the jury's recommendation the following April. She has always accepted responsibility. Montgomery smelled like a sour ashtray and body sweat" as Don Fritz and Randy Strong interrogated her on Dec. 17, 2004, Strong recalled. . Montgomery and Stinnett participated inthe "Ratter Chatter" online message board for rat terrier dog enthusiasts. Montgomery then said she had given birth at home with help from two female friends and, later, that she had given birth alone. At the time, Lisa had told her new husband that she was pregnant, which her former husband knew wasn't possible because of the forced sterilization. I thought they knew what was going on, she said. She liked going down to the Nodaway River to swim, and playing Nintendo games at slumber parties. For one thing, the wider world won't let them forget. More recently, the states that have been carrying out executions, such as Texas and Tennessee, have halted and delayed executions because of the pandemic. Jack also raped Lisa for years. Shaughnessy has since died. Another case with Missouri ties. By multiple accounts, Kleiner was an erratic, violent man who beat the kids and his wife regularly. I didn't know what to do or how to talk to my sister about it.". 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. Montgomerys case is not about whether she is responsible for the crime; she is. Shaughnessy would beat Mattingly with whatever was in her hand, be it a belt or a broom, she said. She was born in 1968, the child of two troubled alcoholics. As long as she was given cigarettes, Montgomery continued to talk, Strong said. The couple had three children in rapid succession. She lapsed increasingly into mental illness and repeatedly faked pregnancy. Violent acts against pregnant women and their fetuses fall into that category. 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. I am begging that somebody will finally stand up for her and say, shes been punished enough.. She missed the funeral because of it. The girls' biological father left the home, and after a while, Mattingly was whisked away to foster care. They introduced her as their daughter, Abigail, and made multiple other stops. She pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. "There was a lot of talk both ways on it," he said when contacted by phone at his new home in Texas. 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. President-elect Joe Biden has already pledged to end death penalty proceedings, although he hasn't said when. Nodaway County Sheriff Randy Strong says that the scene that he and his four colleagues found that day was so bloody, they are still traumatised by it. Montgomery gave birth to three daughters and a son from1987 to1990, court records say. She has writtenopinion piecespublished in Elle and Newsweek. "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'.". Read about our approach to external linking. Her story quickly fell apart and she confessed to the killing. So my letters are important.. 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. Ramachandran said Montgomery told him she didn't remember killing Stinnett or cutting the baby out of her body. Those records say questions were raised about her ability to function as an effective parent afterher house was found to be "filthy," her children were seen running naked in her yard and one of her daughters, then 2years old,ingested a bottle of Tylenol in 1993. That was ultimately dropped in favour of an insanity defence, but Henry believes the damage to Montgomery's credibility was already done. 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. Lisa Montgomery has been charged in the December 16 death of Bobbie Jo Stinnett, who was eight months pregnant at the time. During divorce proceedings, Shaughnessy admitted to the court that she had walked in on her husband raping Montgomery. The murder 16 years ago is never far from the minds of the town's residents. Montgomerys case is not about whether she is responsible for the crime; she is. . Mattingly, Montgomerys sister, is planning on visiting her next week. 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. His message contained a "very heartfelt thank you. Dorr's marriage was failing when she fell in love with John Manard, a convicted murderer 21 years her junior. 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. Ive always said that I am bruised, but not broken, Mattingly said, her voice choked with tears. "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. "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. Her terror was well-founded, said Montgomery's attorneys, Kelley Henry and Amy Harwell. This story was first published on 11 January - before Lisa Montgomery's execution on 13 January. 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 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.". Kleiner was never charged. 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. At 18, she married her stepbrother, who also beat and raped her. 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. Several high-profile figures had appealed for clemency in Brandon's case but Mr Trump did not heed those calls. She went home with a newborn, one she acquired by murdering the babys pregnant mother. I couldn't believe how good it felt to be part of a loving family. "Bobbie deserves to be here today. Judy was an alcoholic with mental illness who married six times over the course of her life. Bobbie's family deserves her," says Meagan Morrow, a high school classmate of Stinnett's. Montgomery eventually divorced her first husband and married Kevin Montgomery. And it's never about what my friend went through," she adds. One of the lead investigators in the case, Randy Strong, wants Montgomery executed. For Montgomery, her lawyers argue, it began before she was born. Until July 2020, there had been no federal executions for 17 years. "Judy was manipulative and - I hate to use this word, but - evil. The question is, should she be put to death for it? I never molested her in any way, shape or form, said Kleiner, who died in 2009. Zella Gwin survives. My sister, Lisa Montgomery, is broken. Bobbie Jo Stinnetts hometown waits as killers execution date nears. Mattingly said she was fortunate to have been moved to a lovinghome of high school history teacher and coach Floyd Gwin;his wife, Zella Gwin;and their three biological children. 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. Mattingly and Montgomery were best friends. 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. Diane Mattingly is the sister of Lisa Montgomery, who is scheduled for execution by the federal government on December 8, 2020. Randy Strong, who investigated the case,is unhappy that some people are asking thatMontgomerys life be spared. When Judy, Lisa's mother and my stepmother, came to beat us, I stood between her and the younger girls and took the beating, whether it was belts, cords or hangers. Often the woman, now 52 and a grandmother of 12, is knitting or doing needlepoint. Judy later married a man named Jack who punched, kicked and choked his children, including Lisa. On the ride home, she clamped the umbilical cord and cleaned the baby girl with wipes. At the instigation of Shaughnessys lawyer, Montgomery was connected to a therapist, but only briefly. Patterson made a mistake by abandoning them to "that crazy lady," he said at Montgomery's sentencing hearing in 2007. Henry said Montgomery was expected to be transferred by Jan. 10 to the penitentiary at TerreHaute, Ind., her designated place of execution. "One sister got taken out and got put into a loving home and was nurtured and had time to heal," says Mattingly. Both became infected with COVID-19, believing it to be transmitted duringthe prison visit. She liked to take her finger and poke it hard into her chest, over and over in the same spot. He had a daughter from a previous relationship, Diane, who was four years older than Montgomery. 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. She has exhausted all legal options except a last-ditch appeal for clemency from President Donald Trump, which was filed Christmas Eve. Lisa Montgomery strangle one pregnant woman for Missouri before cutting and kidnapping her baby in 2004. . Montgomery achieved considerable emotional growth once she was put in a stable environment where she felt safe and was receiving psychiatric medications for the first time, Dorrsaid. He married Judy Shaughnessy, who would become Montgomery's mother, in 1967 in Miami, Okla. Patterson was the second of six husbands Shaughnessy . 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. Lisa Montgomery, a federal prisoner, is now slated to be executed on Jan. 12. 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. 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. 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. He married Judy Shaughnessy, who would become Montgomery's mother, in 1967 in . Mattingly and Montgomery lived together until Mattingly was eight and her half-sister was four. Every time she has a birthday, it will also be the anniversary of the slaughter of her mother, Whitworth said. 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. He stressed that the juryheard testimony about her mental illness and her history of being abused, yet still unanimously recommended her execution. Mrs. "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.". They would beat and slap her if she was doing it wrong. When they were done, they urinated on her like she was trash.. Is it ethical to execute a woman for actions that cannot be meaningfully separated from her mental illness and ugly history of abuse? As a result of her sexual torture, Lisa began to dissociate. 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. 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. She was born into a family rife with mental illness, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression. After she strangled Stinnett, Montgomery is alleged to have cut her open and stolen her unborn child Victoria, who survived the attack and is now living with her father. 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. "Maybe she could have been saved, too. "And then go, 'Look at this body'. A clemency petition asking Trump to reduce Montgomerys sentence to life without parole is expected to be filed in the coming weeks. Prosecutors, in their closing argument, said that she had a filthy home, that she didnt cook and that she didnt clean, Babcock said. 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. The family treated Mattingly as one of their own, and gave her a sense of belonging and self-worth, she said. Multiple medical experts have given statements agreeing with that diagnosis. She has exhausted all legal options. He thanked the sheriff for recovering his daughter and allowing him to be the parent that his wife couldn't be. Nobody has said that Lisa should never have been punished. She enjoyed torturing the people around her," says Mattingly. School friend Baumli says she's read the descriptions of Montgomery's abuse, but it mostly just makes her angry. There were always different men around the house. When Mattingly attendedMontgomery's sentencing hearing in 2007, which was the first time she had seen her sister in about 35 years, she said Montgomery's face bore the same look of fear it had when they were separated. At one point, one of Montgomery's brothers found a home movie that showed Montgomery's husband raping and beating her. Her lawyers at the time also presented an alternative theory of the crime, which was that Montgomery's brother had actually committed the murder, even though he had an alibi. 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. 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. 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. She struggles to maintain her own hygiene, loses focus during conversations with others and has trouble planning simple tasks.". 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, the son of Shaughnessy and Jack Kleiner, was meeting witha parole officerat the time of the killing, Strong said. She moved in 1999 to Melvern, a town about 40 miles south of Topeka with 375 people today. But it wasn't Montgomery that Stinnett was expecting, it was a woman who went by the name of Darlene Fischer. At 1:31 AM on Wednesday, Lisa Montgomery was pronounced dead. Investigators quickly realised that "Darlene Fischer" did not exist, and tracked Montgomery down the next day using her emails and computer IP address. A social worker found Lisa's allegations of abuse credible and turned the file. A few years after Mattingly was removed from the home, when Montgomery was in kindergarten, her mother remarried a man named Jack Kleiner. She is not the "worst of the worst" for whom the death penalty was intended. She would tell me I had to leave and I couldnt take anything with me because she bought everything, she recalled. She gives herself as an example - when Stinnett was murdered, Baumli was in rehab for a drug addiction. 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. The case was ruled a homicide and remains unsolved. Nationwide, only 54 women have been executed since 1900. "I'm sick of hearing about Lisa Montgomery and what she went through. The question is, should she be put to death for it. "That's how evil this woman is," Strong said. 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. 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. Judy drank throughout her pregnancy with Lisa and caused her to be born with brain damage. And that would be from across a courtroom, where lawyers for the US government were trying to persuade a jury to sentence Montgomery to death. 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. In fact, he drove her back home and dropped her off in the hands of her abusers. She is the most broken of the broken. Read about our approach to external linking. After five hours of deliberation, the jury found Montgomery guilty. 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. Today, residents are tired of Melvernbeing connected with Lisa Montgomery, said current Mayor Lyndon Weddle, who describesMelvern asafriendlyrural community where people wave when they pass each other. 'S brothers found a home movie that showed Montgomery 's credibility was already done Mattingly and lived. Lawyer, Montgomery was expected to be transferred by Jan. 10 to the killing only 54 have. 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