Murder of Bobbie Jo Stinnett
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Bobbie Jo Stinnett (December 4, 1981 – December 16, 2004) was an American, 23-year-old, pregnant 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 fetus (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]
Murder of Bobbie Jo Stinnett | |
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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
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Sentence | Death |
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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] |
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]