But prosecutors said Montgomery carefully planned the fatal meeting at Stinnett's home in Skidmore, Missouri, pretending she wanted to purchase a rat terrier puppy. He said Lisa Montgomery told him she had given birth to the child at a birthing center in Topeka. "But most of all, we're very, very, very sad.". The killer then tried to pass the infant girl off as her own child. Montgomery cut Stinnett’s fetus from the womb, but the child survived. "There were actual contacts we were able to pick up from the suspect's computer," he said. A witness to the execution has confirmed that the killer refused to give any final words before her sentence was carried out, and said that she gasped for air as the pentobarbital – the drug administered for a lethal injection – entered her veins through an IV drip. Graves said authorities will proceed with the case in Missouri. He then shot Todd and ordered his accomplices to pour lighter fluid in the trnk and car. To supplement their income, they also worked at Kawasaki Motors Manufacturing Co. in nearby Maryville. Keith Dwayne Nelson (left), 45, kidnapped 10-year-old Pamela Butler (right) on October 12, 1999. Dustin Honken, 52, dubbed 'Iowa's Walter White' after he went from being a nerdy chemistry student to a methamphetamine kingpin and murderer, became the third to be executed this year on July 17. Kandi and Amber each had a single bullet hole in the back of their heads. The lawyer also argued that the Psychopathy Checklist - Revised (PCL-R), a psychological assessment that was presented to the jury during the penalty phase, is scientifically flawed. Her victim, 23-year-old Bobbie Jo Stinnett, bled to death but her baby was safely recovered and returned to her family. They also argued that she had post-traumatic stress disorder brought on by mental, physical and sexual abuse in her childhood. In this case, the 2nd Appellant, who is a Jehovah's Witness, gave birth to a son, Tega, on 19th April 1997 at the Chevron Clinic, Lekki Peninsula, Lagos. Why do people have to be so damn evil. DeGeus's body was found in a field a few miles away, face down in a shallow hole with a severely fragmented skull having been shot one or more times. Daniel Lewis Lee was the first person to be put to death in a federal execution in 17 years. The last woman to be federally executed was Bonnie Heady in 1953 over the murder of a 6-year-old boy. Darlene told Bobbie that she was interested in purchasing one of her puppies so they agreed to meet the next day. William Emmett LeCroy is on death row for the rape and murder of Joann Lee Tiesler (pictured), a 30-year-old nurse, in 2001. Skidmore was the focus of national media in 1981, when Ken Rex McElroy, a town bully, was shot to death in his pickup in front of more than 40 witnesses, none of the witnesses would identify the killer. A woman named Lisa Montgomery was convicted of the killing three years later and sentenced to death. Bobbie Jo Stinnett. Lanza said that investigators believe Montgomery likely acted alone. Bobbie Jo and Zeb Stinnett before her brutal murder in 2004, Victoria Jo Stinnett, who is now 16 years old, was cut from her mother's womb by Montgomery. Jehovah's Witnesses. 'But her severe mental illness and the devastating impacts of her childhood trauma make executing her a profound injustice.'. Tom Wood. In a statement to DailyMail.com, Lee's attorney Morris Moon last year said that his case 'exemplifies many of the serious flaws in the federal death penalty system.'. When they arrived at his home in Lansing, about 30 miles away, Purkey took Jennifer into his basement. William Mueller, his daughter Sarah Powell, and wife Nancy (together above) were all tortured and killed in their Arkansas home in 1996, before their bodies were dumped in a river. Authorities said Montgomery, 36, confessed to strangling Bobbie Jo Stinnett of Skidmore, Mo., Thursday, and allegedly cutting out her fetus and allegedly taking the baby back to Kansas. Bobbie planned to meet Darlene and then afterwards she told her mother, Becky Harper, that she would collect her from work at 3.30pm. Montgomery, a 36-year-old mother of two high-school age children, faces a federal charge of kidnapping resulting in death, which carries possible sentences of life in prison or death if she is convicted. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. However, Lee's attorney insisted that 'Kehoe was alone responsible for the death of the child in this case.'. Montgomery's mother and sister also had been telling Montgomery's husband and his parents that it was impossible for her to carry a child. In the shocking crime, Lee and the ringleader of the Aryan People's Republic, Chevie Kehoe, dressed in police raid clothing and lay in wait for Mueller in his home, according to court documents. KANSAS CITY, Kansas (CNN) -- Lisa Montgomery, accused of strangling a 23-year-old Missouri woman and cutting the fetus out of her womb, sat motionless Monday as a judge read the charge against her in U.S. District Court. Montgomery was convicted in 2007 in Missouri of kidnapping and strangling Bobbie Jo Stinnett, then eight months pregnant. Montgomery traveled to Skidmore in northwestern Missouri on Thursday, police said. would YOU want to be sane and live with the knowledge that you had STRANGLED someone then GUTTED THEM and CUT OUT THEIR BABY! 'Lisa Montgomery has long accepted full responsibility for her crime, and she will never leave prison,' Henry said in a statement. Bobbi Jo Stinnett was murdered December 16 by confessed killer, Lisa M. Montgomery. Bobbie Jo Stinnett (December 4, 1981 – December 16, 2004) was a pregnant 23-year-old American woman found murdered in her home in Skidmore, Missouri. The boy ended up being buried in Heady's back yard. Purkey told Bales his employer charged a lot for the job she needed, and he offered to return later to do the work under the table if she would pay him $70 up front. 'The only good thing that comes from this tragedy is that little Victoria is a healthy baby and is reunited with her family,' US Attorney John F. Wood said at the time of the trial. In 2007, a US District Court for the Western District of Missouri sentenced Montgomery to death for the crimes. 149 Replies – The husband of murdered womb-snatch victim Bobbie Jo Stinnett yesterday lovingly showed off a tender picture of him cradling the … The woman strangled 23-year-old Bobbie Jo Stinnett in the northwest Missouri town of Skidmore in December 2004. He confessed that he then grew fearful, and as Jennifer tried to escape his house, he grabbed her leg and forced her to the ground. They died together in the Missouri gas chamber in December 1953. Honken also provided his attorney with a VHS tape of Nicholson saying Honken was not guilty of the charges against him. Bobbie Jo Stinnett and the woman accused of strangling her and cutting her baby from her womb were photographed together at a dog show months before last week's attack, a … Stacey had survived the shooting and died from smoke inhalation. Don Ledford, spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office in Kansas City, Missouri, said Montgomery's next federal court appearance is set for 9:30 a.m. (10:30 a.m. I say cut her open and take what's from her gut. He made off with Tiesler's vehicle and fled to the Canadian border, where he was arrested. She was a rat terrier breeder with her husband Zeb. The baby, now named Victoria Jo, was recovered and united with her father in a hospital in Topeka, Kansas, after Montgomery was arrested Friday night. Five days later, Honken appeared for his plea hearing, but declined to plead guilty. "She's the only one charged. By Reuters and James Gordon and Rachel Sharp For Dailymail.com, Published: 20:09 EDT, 16 October 2020 | Updated: 02:11 EDT, 17 October 2020, Convicted killer Lisa Montgomery (pictured) will be put to death on December 8 by lethal injection. He offered no final words as the victim's family watched him be put to death. She was convicted in October of kidnapping resulting in death in the Dec. 16, 2004, killing of Bobbie Jo Stinnett. Honken was arrested on state drug charges, but made bond. ET) in Maryville, Missouri, just north of Skidmore, and are closed to media and the public, the funeral director said. Her victim, 23-year-old Bobbie Jo Stinnett, bled to death but her baby was safely recovered and returned to her family. Wesley Ira Purkey, 67, was executed on July 16 for kidnapping, raping and killing 16-year-old Jennifer Long before dismembering, burning and then dumping her body in a septic pond in 1998. 4,160,991 posts in 130,058 topics Personal Experiences & Reunions Todd and Stacey Bagley, murdered by Christopher Andre Vialva. The last woman to be executed by the U.S. government was Bonnie Heady, who was put to death in a gas chamber in Missouri in 1953, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Witness Reveals Final Moments Of Lisa Montgomery Before Her Execution. But an appeals court held the violation did not in itself amount to 'irreparable harm' and allowed federal executions to proceed. A pregnant Bobbie Jo Stinnett was murdered in 2004 Credit: Getty Images - Getty Afterward, Montgomery, of Melvern, Kansas will be transferred to Missouri, where she is to stand trial, he said. She was involved in the kidnapping and subsequent murder of 6-year-old Bobby Greenlease in October 1953. She was murdered by Ms. Montgomery. We were angry," Wheatly said. Montgomery is the first female federal inmate to be put to death by the US government in 67 years. Kehoe, however, was sentenced to three consecutive life sentences - a disparity that Lee's attorney said illustrates the 'grave injustice' of the federal death penalty. He then took her into a forest behind a church, raped her and strangled her to death with a wire. Telling the prostitute that someone who lived in the home owed him money, Purkey went inside with a toolbox from his truck and bludgeoned Bales to death in her bedroom with a claw hammer. jw I thought I'd heard of all possible crimes. On October 14, 2004, a jury in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa found Honken guilty of numerous offenses, including five counts of murder during the course of a continuing criminal enterprise, and he was sentenced to death. In August, a federal judge in Washington, D.C. ruled the Justice Department was violating the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act in not seeking a doctor's prescription to administer the highly regulated barbiturate. Their bodies were found five months after they went missing. Sheriff Ben Espey of Nodaway County, Missouri, said Montgomery had a miscarriage sometime this year. There is such a thing as evil . The judge did not impose a court order, instead asking lawyers to behave professionally, according to legal guidelines. The infant was released Monday evening from Stormont-Vail Regional Health Center in Topeka, according to the hospital's Web site. Montgomery was to be moved from the Wyandotte County jail in Kansas City, Kansas, to a federal detention center in Leavenworth, Kansas, which is used by both Kansas and Missouri, Ledford said. A custody hearing had been set for January 2005. She paid, and Purkey left, using Bales's money to hire a prostitute and buy several rocks of crack cocaine the next morning. BOBBIE Jo Stinnett was pregnant with a baby girl when was she brutally murdered in 2004. Made me numb. Women faking pregnancy and then when 9 months is up, they get desperate...they like the attention that being pregnant brings...very sad but I am glad little Victoria Jo is alive. Police arrested Montgomery the next day at her farmhouse and the baby, who miraculously survived, was returned to her father Zeb Stinnett. Getty Images. On January 22, 1998, Purkey, drove from his home in Kansas to Kansas City, Missouri for a job interview with a plumbing company. On November 5, 2003, a jury in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri found Purkey guilty of kidnapping a child resulting in the child's death, and he was sentenced to death. U.S. Attorney Todd Graves said Monday that the decision on what penalty to pursue would come much later. 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