Lisa Montgomery
- Active
- 2004–2004
- Region
- Skidmore, Missouri, USA
- Kind
- Single
- Status
- Executed
- Victims
- 1
On December 16, 2004, Bobbie Jo Stinnett, 23, a dog breeder who was eight months pregnant, was killed in her home in Skidmore, Missouri, by Lisa Montgomery, a Kansas woman who had contacted her online posing as a buyer for a puppy. Montgomery took the baby, who survived, and was arrested the next day at her home in Melvern, Kansas. A federal jury in Kansas City convicted her of kidnapping resulting in death in 2007 and recommended death. She was executed on January 13, 2021, the first woman put to death by the federal government in nearly seven decades.
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Victims
We remember the people whose lives were taken.
- Bobbie Jo Stinnett, 23 · December 16, 2004
A dog breeder in Skidmore; a high school friend remembered her as "one of the sweetest people you'd ever meet."
Timeline of locations
- December 16, 2004Stinnett home, Skidmore (Crime scene, approximate area)
Montgomery came to Stinnett's home in Skidmore under the pretext of buying a puppy and killed her there.
- December 17, 2004Montgomery's home, Melvern, Kansas (Arrest, approximate area)
Montgomery took the baby home to Melvern and tried to pass her off as her own. She was arrested at her farmhouse the next day, and the baby was returned safely to her father.
- October 22, 2007Charles Evans Whittaker U.S. Courthouse, Kansas City (Court / trial)
A federal jury rejected Montgomery's insanity defense and convicted her of kidnapping resulting in death on October 22, 2007, then recommended a death sentence, which was imposed in April 2008.
- January 13, 2021U.S. Penitentiary, Terre Haute, Indiana (Prison)
Montgomery was executed by lethal injection at the federal prison complex in Terre Haute.
Watch, listen, read
Read
- Murder in the Heartland (2006, M. William Phelps (Kensington))
Sources
- Murder of Bobbie Jo Stinnett (Wikipedia)
- Jury convicts Kansas woman in baby kidnapping case (St. Louis Public Radio / AP, 2007)
- Lisa Montgomery executed early Wednesday (WIBW / AP, 2021)
- Friend of slain pregnant woman Bobbie Jo Stinnett hopes for closure (KSHB)
Each location also lists its own sources in the data file.