Woman kills woman, cuts her open,takes unborn baby

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Baby stolen from slain mom believed found

 

Baby stolen from slain mom believed found

Woman charged in grisly killing, kidnapping case

 

Todd Weddle / St. Joseph News-Press via AP

The home of slaying victim Bobbie Jo Stinnett in Skidmore, Mo., on Friday. 

The Associated Press

Updated: 11:50 p.m. ET Dec. 17, 2004MARYVILLE, Mo. - Authorities Friday arrested a woman they allege came to the home of an eight-months-pregnant woman — purportedly to buy a dog — then strangled her and cut the baby from her womb. Authorities found the abducted infant in good health, ending a day of frantic searching.

 

 

 

According to a criminal complaint, Lisa M. Montgomery admitted she strangled Bobbie Jo Stinnett and took her baby. The complaint also said Montgomery lied to her husband about giving birth, although U.S. Attorney Todd Graves declined to give a motive for the crime.

 

Stinnett’s mother found the 23-year-old nearly dead Thursday in her home in the northwest Missouri town of Skidmore. Paramedics tried to revive her, but she was pronounced dead at a hospital.

 

Baby found in Kansas

The baby was found Friday in an eastern Kansas home; a red Toyota similar to a description offered earlier by police was in the driveway.

 

Although DNA tests were pending to confirm the baby’s identity, authorities called off the Amber Alert issued for the child.

 

“We’re confident we have the little girl that was taken from Skidmore,” Nodaway County Sheriff Ben Espey said during a news conference in Maryville. An FBI agent had said the father had already been reunited with the baby, but officials with the bureau and the Topeka, Kan., hospital where the baby was taken later said that was not the case.

 

Montgomery, 36, of Melvern, Kan., was charged with kidnapping resulting in death, Graves said. Montgomery, a mother of two, had been pregnant but lost a child, Graves said, though it was unclear when or under what circumstances.

 

Missouri State Highway Patrol Sgt. Sheldon Lyon said earlier in the day that authorities were questioning a man and a woman who were in the place where the baby was found. Graves said the investigation was ongoing but would not say if additional charges might be filed or if there was another suspect.

 

Online acquaintance

Graves said Montgomery contacted Stinnett through an online message board, and authorities zeroed in on her using computer forensics. Montgomery was seeking to buy a dog from Stinnett, who raised rat terriers, he said.

 

 

According to the criminal complaint, Montgomery’s husband, Kevin, told officers he received a call Thursday from his wife, who said she was in Topeka, Kan., about 40 miles from Melvern, and had gone into labor and given birth.

 

Kevin Montgomery and the couple’s two children met Lisa and the newborn at a parking lot in Topeka and drove home, according to the affidavit.

 

The victim’s mother, Becky Harper, said her daughter called her about an hour before she found her, authorities said. She apparently hung up when someone showed up for an appointment to look at her dogs.

 

“Oh, they’re here,” Stinnett told her mother, according to the affidavit. “I’ve got to go.”

 

Espey said there was no indication of forced entry into Stinnett’s small white home in Skidmore, a community of about 500.

 

Espey said he believes Stinnett was strangled and resisted the attack.

 

“The autopsy is going to show us there was some blond hair probably found in her hands,” the sheriff said.

 

A neighbor, Bill Dragoo, said Stinnett and her husband “didn’t bother anybody. It blows my mind that this happened. She was such a shy person. They didn’t deserve this.”

 

Amber Alert delayed

Espey was frustrated that it took hours for a statewide Amber Alert to be issued. The mother was found around 3:30 p.m., and the Amber Alert didn’t appear until nine hours later.

 

“We had a live baby, and I thought that should qualify as an Amber Alert,” he said. “The information I was getting was that we didn’t have enough information such as hair color, eye color, skin complexion, size and weight.”

 

Stinnett, married for little more than a year and expecting her first child, worked at an engine factory in nearby Maryville. Her husband was at work at the time she was killed, authorities said.

 

Several pregnant women have been killed in recent years by attackers who then removed their fetuses, in some cases to pass the children off as their own.

 

In the most recent case, a 21-year-old woman was shot to death in Oklahoma in December 2003, allegedly by another woman who pretended the 6-month-old fetus was her child. The fetus died and prosecutors are seeking the death penalty

 

 

That's just fucked up. Without getting into the "life begins at conception/life begins at birth/life begins when you're old enough to drink" arguement, she cut open the woman and removed the baby. At a minimum she should get life in jail, but I'm sure she'll plead insanity and get off easier.

[Highland 0]

This bitch, not Scott Peterson, should be the one facing the death penalty.

[Vern Gagne 0]

No. They both should be. What Peterson did, not only to his wife, but son who could easily of survived outside the womb is sickening.

[Ced 0]

To think this woman already had kids...

 

She needs to be taken out of society, and I won't shed tears if it's by virtue of a bullet to the head.

[Jobber of the Week 0]

This bitch, not Scott Peterson, should be the one facing the death penalty.

Absolutely agreed. Who the hell can argue that there's no possibility this woman won't go so fucking crazy again with anything less?

[Guest Failed Mascot]

This is one of the craziest things I've ever read. The woman is obviously insane to do something like this. I'm surprised the baby survived though...that's pretty amazing in itself.

[2GOLD 0]

We all know where this one is headed.

Insanity plea. Mental Hospital. Out in 10 years or less.

 

Happy Holidays.

 

Absolutely sick that someone can and would do this. This person should not be given a second chance after doing something like this. No way, no how.

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

She better say she's sorry or there'll be hell to pay...

[Slayer 0]

Hooray for Kansas

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She better say she's sorry or there'll be hell to pay...

Yeah if she isn't sorry she might get an extra year in a mental house or something. I'm just waiting for people to start defending her. I'm sure her lawyer will come up with some fun stuff.

[Open the Muggy Gate 0]

Give her the fucking death peanlty for God sakes... that is fucking wrong.

[Guest LooneyTune]

What... the FUCK!? Some people are seriously fucked up. No other way I can think of describing this incident other than wanting to puke.

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

Yeah if she isn't sorry she might get an extra year in a mental house or something. I'm just waiting for people to start defending her. I'm sure her lawyer will come up with some fun stuff.

Oh yeah, she's going in the crazy house. Gloria Aldred and her feminazis-in-arms will argue she's suffering from Post-Election Depression or something. Might as well get all the outrage out of your system now...

[MrRant 0]

This is type of thing is somewhat common. That's why there is security in the newborn rooms at the hospitals. Crazy women who can't have kids and want them so bad they will steal them.

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It's funny there are so many unwanted kids, yet the ones that kid stolen aren't them.

[treble 0]

The best thing was the reporter at the new conference the other day that kept asking what the baby was wearing when it was found. He seriously asked like 4 or 5 times and no one would answer him.

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Just to let some of you know, the state psych wards aren't club med. In the one she'll be going to I wouldn't be surprised if she was beaten and raped by the guards a few time. Some of those facilities are a fate worse than death.

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Just to let some of you know, the state psych wards aren't club med. In the one she'll be going to I wouldn't be surprised if she was beaten and raped by the guards a few time. Some of those facilities are a fate worse than death.

Good, that's what she deserves.