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Woman Charged With Kidnapping, Murder
Father Reunited With Stolen Baby, Which Is in Good Health
By JOHN MILBURN, AP

MARYVILLE, Mo. (Dec. 18) - A woman charged with killing an expectant mother and cutting the baby from her womb was showing the child off to people at a cafe and to her pastor hours before she was arrested, residents said Saturday.


Lisa M. Montgomery, 36, was charged with kidnapping resulting in murder and was expected to appear in federal court Monday. The baby, whose mother had been eight months pregnant, was in good condition.

Hours before her arrest, Montgomery and her husband showed off a newborn girl at a restaurant, said Kathy Sage, owner of the Whistle Stop Cafe.

Many customers were surprised to hear the infant was only a day old, Sage said. She knew an Amber Alert had been issued for a baby missing from Missouri but did not realize the Montgomerys' infant was connected until hearing from a reporter on Friday.

"You read about this stuff,'' she said. "It blows you away when it's here. This stuff is supposed to be in New York City or Los Angeles.''

Montgomery was arrested later in the death of Bobbie Jo Stinnett, who was found Thursday in a pool of blood inside her small white home in the northwest Missouri town of Skidmore. Montgomery's husband, Kevin, has not been charged in the case.


WHAT HAPPENED:
An eight-months-pregnant woman was killed and her fetus cut from the womb. The baby was found in good health.

THE SUSPECT:
Lisa Montgomery, 36, of Kansas, admitted strangling Stinnett and taking the baby, authorities say. Montgomery, a mother of two, had been pregnant but lost a child.


Authorities said Montgomery contacted Stinnett through an online message board, and investigators zeroed in on her using computer forensics. Montgomery was seeking to buy a dog from Stinnett, who raised rat terriers.

While the couple ate breakfast, another customer showed the baby off around the cafe. After eating, they took the girl to visit their pastor.

"It was a beautiful baby,'' Mike Wheatley said. "Absolutely beautiful.''

The pastor had not seen the couple since October, and everyone in the congregation was expecting her to give birth around Dec. 12.

Jeff Lanza, an FBI spokesman in Kansas City, Mo., declined to discuss motives and said the investigation is ongoing.

He would say only that Montgomery was being held in Kansas and is expected to make her first appearance in federal court Monday, though authorities do not know whether it will be in Missouri or Kansas.

The baby girl, named Victoria Jo, was in good condition Saturday. Several family members, including her father, had been reunited with her at a hospital late Friday.

The infant was in good condition Saturday in an intensive care unit. Hospital officials said she was responding normally for a baby taken from the womb one month premature.

"She's doing well,'' said Carol Wheeler, a spokeswoman for Stormont-Vail Regional Health Center.

The family was not speaking to reporters, but the child's father, Zeb Stinnett, issued a brief statement calling the child "a miracle.''

"I want to thank family, friends, Amber Alert and law enforcement officials for their support during this time,'' he said.

U.S. Attorney Todd Graves said Montgomery contacted Stinnett through an online message board after seeing a Web site about rat terriers that Stinnett bred and raised. The site included a picture of Stinnett, showing she was pregnant.

Montgomery is the mother of two high school-age children, but Graves said she had been pregnant with another child that was never born. It was unclear when she lost the baby or under what circumstances, but the complaint said she had lied to her husband about giving birth.

According to court documents, Montgomery traveled to Topeka on Thursday to go shopping. She called her husband from there, saying she had gone into labor and given birth.

Kevin Montgomery and the couple's two children met Lisa and the newborn in the parking lot of a fast-food restaurant in Topeka and drove home, according to an affidavit.

The arrest stunned many townspeople who apparently had believed for months that Lisa Montgomery was pregnant.

How "could you not know that your wife's not pregnant?'' said Gary Deskins, owner of a convenience store in Malvern, a community of about 420 residents about 30 miles south of Topeka. "There's something missing.''

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nanajoanie

Saw on the news last night tha tshe was captured. Halleluheauh!!!!

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ladybugbhb

my thing is two fold: how did he not know she was not pg AND if i had just given birth at a shopping ,all, i can assure you richard would not just drive me home!! maybe he is more involved???

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DAVESBABYDOLL

She may have told him a story,like she had already been checked by a doctor etc.As for not knowing his wife is pregnant..there are many ways to hide the fact that you are OR aren't pregnant.

I just happy that the baby is alive and doing well.

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wubbywa

Fishy as to why they would pick her up at the mall after having a baby. He has to be involved OR he isnt to smart.

DAVESBABYDOLL

I was thinking, he isn't too smart

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buttrfli

I am so glad the baby is ok. That very same thing happened here a few months back and the baby did not survive

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DivineMsDi

The alleged kidnapper/killer is a total moron...she was SHOWING OFF the baby?? I guess they will say she was mentally ill and get off...it is terrible for people REALLY ill...this story is shocking. The husband is a jerk, too. (The phrase not too bright keeps popping up).

I hate how they keep putting the INTERNET is EVIL slant on this story. You can have nuts in the neighborhood do something to you like this...The woman did not deserve to die for her poor judgement of meeting a stranger at her home. But, you know, she bred dogs. What if someone read about her dog breeding in the paper and turned out to be a nut?

My heart goes out to the victim's family...and to the perp...life in prision with a few chicks named Big Bertha....does MO have the death penalty?

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Nanc952

I agree she could have saw the ad in the newspaper just as easy. It is awful but you just don't know anymore.

What made me ill is what they had on the news today. Bless her she was still alive just when her Mother found her. So she was alive when the baby was cut out of her. That is just awful. I am thankful the baby is all right and doing well.

I hope they fry her but she will probably get off as mental. That should not be a excuse because with treatment then she might end back up on the street and want to have another baby or be grandma.

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callsheb

Yes Missouri has the death penalty and that is what she deserves i agree i dont understand how he would not know she is not pregnant but again he could of been one of those males that do not pay attention to details.

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queenangie

This woman gave birth 2 times before (she has 2 other kids).
Don't you consider the DH would remember how the other times went?

He must not be very bright.

Can you even imagine that poor victim's mother finding her (no longer pg)
dau still bearly alive, blood everywhere, no baby to be found.
This impacted all 3 generations of one family.

That woman and who ever helped with this horrible, horrible crime
deserve the severest sentence possible.
Sick! Sick! Sick!

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