Update 5/4/11
Lisa Montgomery’s conviction upheld
A
federal appeals court panel today upheld Lisa Montgomery’s conviction in the
2004 slaying of Bobbie Jo Stinnett of Skidmore, Mo., and the kidnapping of Stinnett’s
unborn child.A jury subsequently sentenced
Montgomery, 43, to death. She is incarcerated at a medical center for women
inmates in Fort Worth, Texas.The killing and the
intense search for the baby sparked a global media sensation. Investigators recovered
the child, Victoria Jo Stinnett, the day after the killing, taking her from
Montgomery’s arms at her Melvern, Kan., home.At her trial in October 2007, Montgomery’s lawyers
largely conceded that she had killed Stinnett, but they argued that a mental
disorder left her incapable of understanding that what she had done was wrong.The appeals court found, however, that Montgomery had
been properly charged with kidnapping resulting in death, and ruled that the
trial judge had properly excluded defense scientific evidence because it was
either not reliable or irrelevant.Montgomery’s
lawyer, Frederick A. Duchardt Jr., said he intends to
appeal the panel’s ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court.“We’re
saddened by the court’s decision and disagree with the legal conclusions
they’ve reached,” Duchardt said.
Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2011/04/05/2777822/lisa-montgomerys-conviction-upheld.html##ixzz1Ih594stG
Note: This Page Rank in Google English 27/10/07 is
in 8th Place for
Lisa Montgomery from 1.8 Million Pages.
October 26, 2007
Video: Victim Mother & US
Attorney Speaking After The Death Verdict
Jury: Lisa Montgomery should be executed
October 23, 2007
Video:Jury quickly finds Lisa Montgomery guilty in muder
case
October 11, 2007
Digital
Clues Led FBI to Slaying Suspect
By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH The Associated
Press Thursday, October 11, 2007; 3:27
AM
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Patsy Hughes felt sick when she learned a pregnant
friend was killed and her baby was cut from her womb on the same day another
friend claimed to have given birth under strange circumstances."Of
course I was shocked," Hughes testified Wednesday in the federal trial of
Lisa Montgomery. "Then I had a really uneasy feeling. My stomach was hurting."Prosecutors allege Montgomery, 39, had been
faking a pregnancy for about nine months when she drove to Bobbie Jo Stinnett's
home in Skidmore on Dec. 16., 2004, and strangled the 23-year-old dog breeder.Montgomery has pleaded not guilty, and her lawyers
are pursuing an insanity defense.Hughes, of Ozark,
Ala., shared an interest in dog breeding with Montgomery. Montgomery's
14-year-old daughter, Kayla Boman, was staying at
Hughes' home to learn about dog breeding when Stinnett was killed.Hughes
testified that Montgomery had sent her an e-mail on Dec. 13, 2004, saying one
of the twins she was expecting had died, but that she planned to give birth to
the other baby that week.Three days later, Kayla's
brother called and said the baby had arrived. He said the family was going to
pick up Montgomery at a Long John Silver's restaurant in Topeka, near the
birthing center where she claimed she had delivered.Hughes
said she eventually called northwest Missouri authorities to report her concerns.Around the same time, FBI agent Kurt Lipanovich was getting a crucial tip from another dog breeder.On the day before Stinnett was killed, someone
identifying herself as Darlene Fischer had posted a message to the victim on an
Internet rat terrier message board asking about buying one of Stinnett's puppies,
Lipanovich testified.About
an hour after the initial message was posted, Stinnett replied with a message
telling Fischer she had e-mailed directions to her home.Authorities
were searching for a Darlene Fischer when North Carolina dog breeder Dyanne Siktar called Lipanovich. Siktar said she had
been reviewing the message board traffic and gave the agent the e-mail address
Fischer had used in the exchange.The address,
fischer4kids@hotmail.com, immediately struck Lipanovich
as "strange.""The first thing I thought
was, 'Hunting for kids,'" Lipanovich testified.Authorities culled another important clue from
the message traffic, an 11-digit computer code called an IP address. With the
baby still missing, there was a hurried search to track Fischer's IP address back
to a dial-up connection at Montgomery's Melvern home.
Authorities found the baby in Montgomery's arms.Lipanovich
also testified Wednesday that a search of Montgomery's computer, cell phone and
bank records further linked her to Stinnett's death. Those records show she
bought gas at a station in Maryville, which is near Skidmore, the day before
the killing.On the day of Stinnett's death,
Montgomery borrowed one of her daughter's cell phones, Lipanovich
said, and records show calls from the phone bounced off cell towers located
progressively closer to Skidmore in the hours leading up to the killing.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/11/AR2007101100209_pf.html
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This
booking photo released Monday, Dec. 20,
2004, by the Wyandotte County Sheriff's Department shows Lisa Montgomery
Dec. 23: The first photograph
of the slain woman's baby, Victoria Jo Stinnett, has been released.
A photo gallery on Stinnett's own Web site -
http://www.imageevent.com/happyhaven - before
the site was closed down - includes pictures labeled as being from an April
2004 dog show in Abilene, Kan. One of the photos shows seven people holding rat
terriers: Stinnett at the right, with a purple ribbon, Lisa Montgomery second
in the back to the left holding the dog . Both Montgomery
and Stinnett, as well as Stinnett's husband, Zeb, at
the right behind her holding the purple ribbon , and one of Montgomery's
daughters Lisa's daughter, Kayla, is next to Lisa, are among the seven people
in the picture. – 4Law