![]() ![]() 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. Protecting her half-sister became her "sole purpose in life,” she said. Shaughnessy also beat the girls with brooms and belts, Mattingly said. Mattingly said Patterson was often away, and Shaughnessy became increasingly abusive toward them, at times forcing Mattingly to eat raw onions as punishment and go outdoors into the cold naked. They slept in twin beds in a small bedroom and fell asleep most nights holding hands, Mattingly said. Patterson was transferred after Montgomery’s birth to Fort Riley in Kansas, where their family lived when another daughter was born in 1970. Mattingly and Montgomery were best friends. ![]() Provided by attorneys for Lisa Montgomery This photo of Lisa Montgomery as a girl was provided by her attorneys. Shaughnessy drank excessively during her pregnancy, causing brain damage to Montgomery, according to court records. Patterson was the second of six husbands Shaughnessy would have during her life, which ended in 2013. He married Judy Shaughnessy, who would become Montgomery's mother, in 1967 in Miami, Okla. ![]() Mattingly said she and Montgomery share the same father, John Patterson, a decorated Vietnam War veteran who never married Mattingly's mother. "When I squeezed her hand, she looked at me and smiled," she said. Mattingly, 57, recalled the day her half-sister was brought home in a pink bundle after being born Feb. Just the details: What you need to know about Montgomery and her victim, Bobbie Jo Stinnett Abused by father, mother, stepfather, lawyers say "She is the most broken of the broken," Mattingly said. ![]() 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. The nature and circumstances of Montgomery’s crime show she had lost touch with reality, says her half-sister, Diane Mattingly. In asking for mercy, her family members and attorneys say the untreated trauma she experienced as a child exacerbated her brain damage and her genetic disposition to severe mental illness, leading her to kill Stinnett during a psychotic episode - a dissociative state similar to sleepwalking. "This was the act of a monster," he said. The cold, vicious, calculating and brutal nature of her crimes shows that Montgomery knew exactly what she was doing, Strong said. One of the lead investigators in the case, Randy Strong, wants Montgomery executed. She has exhausted all legal options except a last-ditch appeal for clemency from President Donald Trump, which was filed Christmas Eve. Montgomery, 52, the only woman on federal death row, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection Jan. The baby girl survived, and Montgomery took her home and briefly passed her off as her own until investigators arrested her the next day. She strangled Stinnett to death and cut the baby from her stomach. 16, 2004, she loaded a steak knife, umbilical cord clamps and part of a clothesline into her car and drove 175 miles from her home in east-central Kansas to the northwest Missouri home of Bobbie Jo Stinnett, an expectant mother she had met at a dog show. She lapsed increasingly into mental illness and repeatedly faked pregnancy.īut those who believe she should be put to death say her lifetime of horrors can't excuse what came next: On Dec. She had four children in less than four years before being sterilized. She was beaten, repeatedly raped by her stepfather and his friends and sexually trafficked by her mother.Īt 18, she married her stepbrother, who also beat and raped her. Lisa Montgomery, a Kansas native scheduled within days to become the first woman executed by the federal government in 67 years, lived a childhood so abusive her attorneys call it akin to torture. ![]()
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