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[spidey]

Anyone keeping up with that story of the pregnant woman in MO who was strangled and her fetus cut out and kidnapped?

She was only 23 yrs old; had been married less than a year and was expecting her first child. Some crazy bitch who had miscarried her own baby strangled her, cut her baby out and tried to pass it off as her own.

She confessed to the crime too (after she was caught) so you know she will plead insanity. I sure hope it doesn't work. OF COURSE she is insane. What sane person would do something like that. That doesn't mean she should not be held accountable though. I hope they fry that bitch.

[bad14u]

Originally posted by spidey
I hope they fry that bitch.

Gotta agree with you there!

[redneck99]

woah... haven't heard about that shit.... sad sad shit.. fry the bitch!

[house1]

spidey, the sad thing is nothing surprises me anymore-

its becoming a sad world

[Face]

Thats really sick....... Its amazing how screwed up peoples minds are....

[spidey]

KANSAS CITY, Kansas (CNN) -- Funeral services were held Tuesday in Maryville, Missouri, for a 23-year-old woman police say was strangled before her fetus was cut from her body.

Bobbie Jo Stinnett's private funeral was followed by a public burial service at Hillcrest Cemetery in Skidmore, Missouri, according to Price's Funeral Home director Richard Dowden.

Afterward, the town of Skidmore, population about 300, planned to hold a reception in Stinnett's honor.

Stinnett died Thursday at her Skidmore home. She was eight months pregnant, and police said her fetus was removed from her body.

Lisa Montgomery, 36, of Melvern, Kansas, faces a federal charge of kidnapping resulting in death in connection with the slaying and the kidnapping of the fetus. The FBI said she has confessed to the crime.

Pastor Herald Hamon of Skidmore Christian Church, the same minister that married Stinnett and her husband, Zeb, was to speak at her funeral.

"To lose a 23-year-old mother, that's the toughest thing in the world," said Nodaway County, Missouri, Sheriff Ben Espey. He remembers Stinnett as "a nice girl, a nice lady" who came from "a nice family that didn't have any enemies, that just didn't deserve anything like this and didn't deserve it the week before Christmas."

Stinnett is the third member of her family to be murdered within the last four years, Jim Flink, a reporter for KMBC television, told CNN's Larry King. One of her cousins was stomped to death by a boyfriend in 2000, he said, and another disappeared two years ago.

Montgomery is due in federal court again on Thursday in Kansas City, Kansas. She made an initial appearance Monday, sitting motionless and silent, never looking up from the complaint in front of her as her court-appointed attorneys answered all questions.

Officials have said they expect Montgomery to waive extradition Thursday, and she will be transferred to Missouri, where she is to stand trial. She was arrested in Kansas and charged in Missouri.

A hearing to confirm her identity will also be held.

Authorities said Montgomery met Stinnett through an online chat room and -- using a fictitious name -- expressed interest in a rat-terrier dog, a type the Stinnetts bred and sold. Montgomery allegedly obtained directions to Stinnett's home and visited her there Thursday. Hours later, officials have said, Stinnett's mother found her body.

The baby, who has since been named Victoria Jo, was located in Montgomery's custody the following day, police said. She was taken to Stormont-Vail Regional Health Care Center in Topeka, Kansas, and was released Monday night after being united with her father, Zeb Stinnett.

"She was in remarkably good condition, considering all she's been through," Carol Wheeler, vice president of Stormont-Vail Health Care, told CNN's "American Morning" on Tuesday. "When she arrived, she was also in very good condition."

That surprised health care workers, Wheeler said, because normally babies born a month premature are in an intensive-care setting and supervised by doctors during their first day of life. Obviously, that did not happen in Victoria Jo's case, she said, but "clearly, she was a very healthy fetus and had done really well during those first 24 hours."

A woman involved in the rat-terrier breeding and showing community -- also a visitor to the chat room -- said Montgomery and Stinnett met long before Montgomery allegedly went to Stinnett's home.

"They definitely knew each other," said the woman, who was identified as Nancy Strudl on ABC's "Good Morning America." She believes the two communicated on the Internet and met face-to-face for the first time at a dog show in Abilene, Kansas, in November 2003. Strudl, who was also at the show, has a photograph showing both women.

Stinnett was "a real shy lady, but real sweet, and wouldn't hurt anybody or anything," Strudl said. "Very trusting, but very intelligent. She was a really sweet lady."

Members of the rat-terrier community did not trust Montgomery, she said. "We knew that she lied a lot. ... Lisa had been telling the entire rat-terrier community for months and months and months that she was pregnant."

About a month and a half ago, Montgomery claimed that she was pregnant with twins but had lost one of them, she said.

"The girl was skinny as a rail," Strudl said. "She never gained an ounce. None of us believed that she could be pregnant."

Strudl said she believed Stinnett would not have given Montgomery directions to her house and let her in, and wondered if Montgomery disguised herself in addition to using a fictitious name.

Still others who knew the couple, however, said they had no reason to doubt her claims of pregnancy.

"That's why it's such a shock to the community," family friend Darrel Schultze said on "Larry King Live." "Knowing the family as we do, it's just hard to understand for us."

Residents of the town where Montgomery and her husband, Kevin, live said she had shown the day-old baby around. Montgomery claimed to have given birth to the girl she named Abigail at a Topeka birthing center. Those who knew her, including her pastor and her husband, had believed she was pregnant and due in December. Pastor Mike Wheatly said Kevin Montgomery told him he felt the fetus kick.

Kevin Montgomery told reporters outside his wife's hearing Monday that his heart was broken for the Stinnett family as well as his own. "That was a precious baby," he said, choking back tears.

An FBI affidavit says Montgomery confessed to strangling Stinnett and removing the fetus. "Lisa Montgomery further admitted the baby she had was Stinnett's baby and that she had lied to her husband about giving birth to a child."

If convicted, Montgomery could face the death penalty or life in prison.

[buccaneer19]

you're very right house1, it's becoming a very sad world. what ever happened to the good ole days

[Puddles]

Scarey world at times. I had to change the news the first time I heard of this story. Hard to imagine anyone doing such a thing.

[Pumpdogg]

The good Lord will give her the punishment she deserves soon enough. It is a shame for the young woman and her family.

PD

[realconan]

Oh wow, that's aweful. That kid's life has been screwed up too. I can't even imagine what her family must be going through. It just makes me sick to hear stuff like that.

[meat12]

Yeah It's kind of sick how a story like this doesn't seem to suprise me at all. I have a feeling this crazy bitch will get away with it too. That is pretty f*cked up