Execution Veredict for Stolen Baby Case

Today in Kansas City a federal jury came to the decision on Friday that a woman guilty of killing a pregnant mother and removing her baby from her womb should receive the death penalty. In December 2004, Lisa Montgomery kidnapped and murdered Bobbi Jo Stinnett in the victims home. After showing off her infant baby who survived after being taken from the womb was arrested. Computer evidence found on Montgomery's computer shows searches on performing Cesareans. Federal prosecutor Roseann Ketchmark said Montgomery had hurt Stinnett in the "most wicked way possible," then did not seek medical attention for the infant four weeks early to her due date. Lisa Montgomery's attorney Fred Duchardt, claims sexual abuse during her childhood led to mental illness. He asked the jury to spare Lisa's life. He said abuse from her mother and sexual abuse from her stepfather "killed Lisa's soul." This did not help much considering not many people who are sexually abused commit murder afterwards.


Baby kidnappings have been happening for centuries. In this case, the baby was removed violently from the womb. In 1932 the twenty-month-old son of aviation hero Charles Lindbergh. Lindbergh, who had become famous five years earlier when he flew The Spirit of St. Louis across the Atlantic. His wife Anne discovered a ransom note in their child's empty room. The kidnapper used a ladder to climb up to the open second-floor window and left muddy footprints in the room. The ransom note demanded $50,000. Sadly, the baby was found dead not far from the home. Offerings from people around the world were donated to charity.


http://www.karisable.com/stinnett.htm

http://www.fbi.gov/libref/historic/famcases/lindber/lindbernew.htm