Police in Missouri seek killer, say unborn child could still be alive
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Updated: 12:07 p.m. ET Dec. 17, 2004SKIDMORE, Mo. - An eight-months-pregnant woman was slain in her home, and her fetus was then cut from her womb, authorities said. Believing the infant survived, they issued an Amber Alert early Friday.
Bobbi Jo Stinnett’s mother found her body Thursday afternoon. The 23-year-old woman had apparently been strangled. Early Friday, authorities issued an alert and said the missing child is believed to be a girl.
“The doctors who examined Bobbi Jo gave us information indicating we probably would have a live child if we could find it,” Nodaway County Sheriff Bill Espey said Friday. “The child would be in danger because of being one month premature.”
“Someone was wanting a baby awful bad,” he had said earlier.
There were no visible signs of struggle and no indication of forced entry into Stinnett’s home in this small community of 500 in the northwest corner of Missouri, the sheriff said.
“We know she was alive in the afternoon, within an hour of being found,” Espey said.
Authorities said they were looking for a person who may have blond hair and might have been driving a red vehicle.
Stinnett worked at a motor factory in nearby Maryville; she was expecting her first child.
A neighbor, Bill Dragoo, said Stinnett and her husband raised dogs and “didn’t bother anybody. It blows my mind that this happened. She was such a shy person. They didn’t deserve this.”
_________________ For your sake I hope heaven and hell are really there but I wouldn't hold my breath
Police found Gumaro de Dios Arias grilling the body parts when they raided his shack near the Caribbean resort of Playa del Carmen.
"He was preparing stews. There was a grill where he was cooking part of the heart and bits he had cut off the body," said Police Chief Martin Estrada. Bill Hoffmann, Wire Services
Police found Gumaro de Dios Arias grilling the body parts when they raided his shack near the Caribbean resort of Playa del Carmen.
"He was preparing stews. There was a grill where he was cooking part of the heart and bits he had cut off the body," said Police Chief Martin Estrada. Bill Hoffmann, Wire Services
If this guy isn't certified insane, I'll take out an ad in the paper declaring the end of the world.
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By MARGARET STAFFORD, Associated Press Writer
MARYVILLE, Mo. - A baby girl that had been cut out of her mother's womb was found after a frantic search, and authorities arrested the woman they say strangled the mother and stole the child.
The child was found Friday in seemingly good health in an eastern Kansas home. A red Toyota similar to a description offered earlier by police was in the driveway.
Lisa M. Montgomery, 36, of Melvern, Kan., was arrested later Friday and charged with kidnapping resulting in death.
Authorities say Bobbie Jo Stinnett, 23, was found Thursday in a pool of blood inside her small white home in Skidmore, a town in northwest Missouri.
Earlier, Stinnett, who was eight months pregnant, had been talking with her mother on the phone, and hung up saying a woman she had chatted with online had just arrived at her door, authorities said.
U.S. Attorney Todd Graves said Montgomery contacted Stinnett through an online message board, and authorities zeroed in on her using computer forensics. Montgomery was seeking to buy a dog from Stinnett, who raised rat terriers, he said.
Stinnett, married for little more than a year and expecting her first child, worked at an engine factory in nearby Maryville. Her husband was at work when she was killed, authorities said.
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's unclear when she lost the baby or under what circumstances, but the complaint said she had lied to her husband about giving birth. Graves declined to give a motive for the crime.
According to the criminal complaint, Montgomery traveled about 40 miles to Topeka, Kan., on Thursday to go shopping. Her husband received a call from her saying she had gone into labor and given birth.
Kevin Montgomery and the couple's two children met Lisa and the newborn at a parking lot in Topeka and drove home, according to the affidavit.
The next day, authorities say, Montgomery confessed that she strangled Stinnett from behind, laterally cut her open, removed the baby and cut her umbilical cord. She also admitted that she lied to her husband about the ordeal.
DNA tests positively confirming the child was the Stinnetts' were pending Friday.
"We're confident we have the little girl that was taken from Skidmore," Nodaway County Sheriff Ben Espey said.
The grisly slaying shocked neighbors in the towns where the two women lived.
"They're very normal country people," said Sandra Bullock, 45, who lives about a mile down the road from the Montgomerys. "It's too hard to believe."
Stinnetts' neighbor Bill Dragoo was equally surprised.
"It blows my mind that this happened," he said. "She was such a shy person. They didn't deserve this."
Missouri State Highway Patrol Sgt. Sheldon Lyon said the investigation was ongoing. He would not say if additional charges might be filed or if there were other suspects.
Several pregnant women have been killed in recent years by attackers who then removed their fetuses, in some cases to pass the children off as their own.
In one of the most recent cases, a 21-year-old woman was shot to death in Oklahoma in December 2003, allegedly by another woman who pretended the 6-month-old fetus was her child. The fetus died and prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.
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Associated Press Writer John Milburn in Melvern, Kan., contributed to this report.
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The sick broad has two kids.She lost the third one so she cuts it out of someone else?Why didnt she just get pregnant again?Is telling her husband that she had another child so important that its worth killing over?
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wow.i live in topeka and i just cant believe this,i've been to melvern and ive been in the hospital the babies at too many times to list,this is extremely shocking,i truly send my condolences to this baby and her father,and mother's familiy.
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bring out the straight-jacket
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