The AP story in The Manhattan Mercury also reported how Montgomery’s husband at the time of Stinnett’s murder, Kevin Montgomery, testified that she also lied to him about being pregnant. On December 10, 2004, days before the kidnapping, Boman filed a motion for change of custody of the two minor children who lived with Montgomery said that she would prove them wrong. He and his wife sent emails to Montgomery, telling her that they planned to expose her deception and use it against her in the custody proceedings. He knew that Montgomery was unable to become pregnant and that she was again claiming that she was pregnant. Throughout the fall of 2004, Montgomery was involved in a custody dispute with Boman. That was also reflected in the court record: Boman also testified that he had a court date set - January of 2005 - to gain custody of two of the four children they had together and he planned on using evidence of her faked pregnancies to win. However, Boman testified that Montgomery told him she was pregnant twice after she had the procedure before they split up. According to a 2007 Associated Press wire story featured in The Manhattan Mercury, Boman testified that after her fourth child was born more than two months premature, a doctor recommended that she undergo tubal litigation because he was “afraid (she) would not be able to carry another pregnancy to term.”Ĭourt records detail that, in 1990, “Montgomery claimed that her mother and Boman forced her to undergo the sterilization procedure.” A pretrial examination of Montgomery found that she would have been unable to conceive the baby she later confessed to kidnapping. Montgomery had four children between January of 19 with Boman, according to court records. Lisa Montgomery, a convicted killer from Kansas, is scheduled to be executed in December Montgomery’s First Husband Said That She Had a History of Faking Pregnancies The Daily News also said the couple had a “back-to-the-land” lifestyle, raising livestock and using a spinning wheel they had to make wool.Ģ. The Des Moines Register reported that Montgomery worked at Casey’s Carry Out Pizza while The New York Daily News reported that Kevin worked as an electrician. “Everybody that’s met her said she’s not quite right.” June Harred, the owner of a barbershop, told The New York Daily that she had been suspicious of Montgomery after hearing that she had had an earlier miscarriage. They also described her as friendly, but some said she was odd. After they divorced, Montgomery married Kevin Montgomery.Īccording to the Des Moines Register, Lisa and Kevin Montgomery lived in a farmhouse very close to town. Kleiner was not prosecuted for the abuse and from that point on, Montgomery “endured a tumultuous relationship with her mother.”Ĭourt records show that Montgomery married her step-brother, Carl Boman, once she turned 18. Montgomery’s stepfather, Jack Kleiner, “sexually assault(ed) Movant around the age of fourteen” and in February of 1984, her mother divorced Kleiner after she saw him raping Montgomery, according to the court record. Later on, Diane Mattingly, Montgomery’s half-sister testified that she remembered “walking on egg shells” as a child and “being made to feel like she was not good enough.” Her parents divorced when she was three and her half-sister, Diane, was removed from the home. The court record noted that Montgomery’s father was an alcoholic and her mother drank alcohol “to the point of inebriation” while pregnant with Montgomery. Īccording to court documents from Montgomery’s death penalty appeal, Montgomery - whose maiden name was Movant - was physically and sexually abused by her biological and stepfather. She’s been diagnosed with severe mental illness. After falsely telling friends she was pregnant, she killed a pregnant woman and took the baby. As a child, Lisa Montgomery was repeatedly raped by her stepfather and severely beaten.
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