| Murder of Bobbie Jo Stinnett | |
|---|---|
 Memorial to Bobbie Jo Stinnett in Skidmore, Missouri | |
| Location | Skidmore, Missouri, U.S. |
| Date | December 16, 2004 |
Attack type | Murder by strangulation, stabbing, kidnapping |
| Weapon | Knife |
| Deaths | 1 (Bobbie Jo Stinnett) |
| Convicted | Lisa Marie Montgomery |
| Verdict | Guilty |
| Convictions | Kidnapping resulting in death
|
| Sentence | Death |
| External images | |
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 Bobbie Jo Stinnett, in 2000 yearbook picture from Nodaway-Holt Junior Senior High [1] | |
| The home of Bobbi Jo Stinnett, in Skidmore, Missouri, December 17, 2004.[2] |
Bobbie Jo Stinnett (December 4, 1981 – December 16, 2004) was a 23-year-old pregnant American woman who was murdered in Skidmore, Missouri, in December 2004. The perpetrator, Lisa Marie Montgomery,[3] then aged 36 years old, strangled Stinnett to death and cut her unborn child (eight months into gestation) from her womb. Montgomery was arrested in Kansas the next day and charged with kidnapping resulting in death – a federal crime. Stinnett's baby, who had survived the crude caesarean section, was safely recovered by authorities and returned to the father.[4]
Montgomery was tried and found guilty in 2007. She was executed by lethal injection shortly after midnight on January 13, 2021, having exhausted the appeals process. Montgomery became the first female federal inmate since 1953 to be executed by the United States federal government, and the fourth overall.[5][6][7]
- ^ "Bobbie Jo Stinnett is shown in this 2000 yearbook picture from Nodaway-Holt Junior Senior High". Getty Images. December 18, 2018.
Bobbie Jo Stinnett is shown in this 2000 yearbook picture from Nodaway-Holt Junior Senior High. The 23-year-old woman was strangled on Thursday, December 16, 2004, and her eight-month-old baby was cut from her womb in Skidmore, Missouri. (mvw) 2004
- ^ Kozol, Greg Kozol. "Execution date rekindles memories in Skidmore". St. Joseph News-Press. Retrieved January 22, 2021.
- ^ Parker, R. J.; Slate, J. J. (September 14, 2014). Social Media Monsters: Internet Killers. Rj Parker Publishing, Inc. ISBN 9781500487065. Retrieved January 13, 2021 – via Google Books.
- ^ Hollingsworth, Heather (December 22, 2004). "Husband thought stolen baby was his". The Guardian.
- ^ Smolinski, Paulina (January 12, 2021). "Federal government conducts its first execution of a woman since 1953". CBS News. Retrieved January 13, 2021.
- ^ Michale Balsamo (October 18, 2020). "Feds to execute a woman for the first time in more than six decades". USA Today. Retrieved October 18, 2020.
- ^ Oppenheim, Maya (October 18, 2020). "Lisa Montgomery: Woman who cut pregnant woman's body open to become first female prisoner executed in 67 years". The Independent. Retrieved October 18, 2020.