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Woman gets death sentence in fetus-snatching murder
Who: Lisa Montgomery
What: A woman convicted of murdering an expectant mother and kidnapping the baby from her womb received a federal death sentence.
When: Fri April 4, 2008 at 2:01 p.m.
Where: WASHINGTON
Why: U.S. District Judge Gary Fenner handed down the sentence in Kansas City, Missouri, on Friday. Lisa Montgomery becomes only the third woman on federal death row. Montgomery was convicted in October of the gruesome 2004 killing of Bobbie Jo Stinnett. The 23-year-old woman was found strangled in her rural home in Skidmore, Missouri. Her womb was cut open and the unborn child was missing.
How: A nationwide search and intense media coverage followed. Montgomery was found in neighboring Kansas, where she had claimed the baby, which survived, as her own. Prosecutors claimed at trial that Montgomery had first contacted Stinnett on the Internet, through their mutual interest in breeding rat terrier dogs, and later went to Stinnett's house.
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