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Woman put to death for gruesome murder in northwest Missouri

January 13, 2021 By Missourinet Contributor

-reported by Brent Martin, KFEQ radio, St. Joseph

Federal officials executed Lisa Montgomery by lethal injection early this (WED) morning at the federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Indiana. Montgomery was pronounced dead at 1:31 a.m.

Montgomery killed 23-year-old Bobbie Jo Stinnett in her Skidmore home in December 2004, but not before cutting out Stinnett’s baby. Montgomery returned home with the baby, claiming the girl as her own.

A federal judge had stayed the execution, but the United States Supreme Court declined to uphold the stay and allowed the execution to proceed, the first execution of a female inmate by the United States government in nearly seven decades.

Prosecutors say Montgomery traveled to Skidmore under the guise of adopting a Rat Terrier puppy. When she arrived, Montgomery used a rope to strangle Stinnett, who was eight months pregnant. Stinnett attempted to defend herself as Montgomery used a kitchen knife to cut the baby from the womb. Montgomery removed the baby and then killed Stinnett.

A jury rejected the defense contention that Montgomery had been suffering from delusions when she killed Stinnett. The Supreme Court refused to block the execution, rejecting the argument from Montgomery’s defense lawyers that she should be given a competency hearing.

Montgomery’s attorneys and family had appealed to President Donald Trump to commute her sentence to life without the possibility of parole.

Filed Under: Crime / Courts, News Tagged With: Bobbie Jo Stinnett, lethal injection, Lisa Montgomery, Skidmore

Rural Missouri “Skidmore Bully” case to be profiled by Sundance TV

August 1, 2019 By Brian Hauswirth

A 38-year-old unsolved Missouri killing that attracted national media attention and a best-selling book is being featured by Sundance TV.

The 1981 northwest Missouri case involves a man described by some as the “Skidmore Bully”. Skidmore is near Maryville.

Kenny Rex McElroy was killed in front of a tavern “in broad daylight”, as a 1991 NBC made-for-television movie called it. Townspeople had complained that McElroy terrorized the town.

No one was ever charged in the killing. The FBI reportedly conducted more than 100 interviews.

Sundance TV will be starting a six-part series on the case today.

Copyright © 2019 · Missourinet

Filed Under: Crime / Courts, News, Politics / Govt Tagged With: FBI, Kenny Rex McElroy, Skidmore, Sundance TV



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