Missouri amber alert

[linuxgeek]

It's the holiday season, all the crazies are out!

Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 11:34:06 -0800
From: Bryant Harper - CodeAmber <codeamber@topica.email-publisher.com>
Subject: Urgent - Amber Alert - Urgent

**** ALERT FOLLOWS **********************
Amber Alert Issued for Premature Missouri Baby
Posted: Friday December 17 1:00 PM CT


The Nodaway County, Missouri Sheriff's Department issued the Amber Alert early Friday morning after the unborn infant was cut from her murdered mother's body in Skidmore on Thursday afternoon.

The infant is approximately one month premature and police believe the child could have survived but will require medical attention.


Police do not have specific information on the suspect or suspects. A red late 80's or early 90's two-door hatchback, possibly a Honda, was seen in the driveway of the murdered woman's home in Skidmore Missouri on Thursday afternoon. Police are looking for the vehicles and three "persons of interest" that were seen at the home, two males and one female. One of them may have blond hair.


No further information is available at this time. Medical facilities in all surrounding states should be on the look out for an infant carried by an apparently health
individual with no signs of recent pregnancy.


Anyone with information is asked to call the Nodaway County Sheriff's Department at 660-582-7451 or dial 911.

Visit http://codeamber.c.topica.com/maacZjYabcEBucfsWTgbafpLR8/ for more information


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[Monazwx]

What a horrible tragedy.

 

[linuxgeek]

What a horrible tragedy.

hopefully, they will find the kid.

 

[Freya]

What the fuck?

 

[Olivianna]

what

 

[bad kitty]

Yeah, it's been all over the TV here all day.

 

[linuxgeek]

Yeah, it's been all over the TV here all day.

They release any better description of the vehicle or people they are looking for?

 

[marksgirl]

Holy shit that is some sick shit, I hope they find that baby!

 

[wildhoneyoh]

I just heard on the news that a baby was found in Kansas and they think it might be this little one. They are questioning two people who had the baby.

This would certainly be a miracle.

 

[marksgirl]

I just heard on the news that a baby was found in Kansas and they think it might be this little one. They are questioning two people who had the baby.

This would certainly be a miracle.

I pray it's that poor little baby.

 

[Monazwx]

I just heard on the news that a baby was found in Kansas and they think it might be this little one. They are questioning two people who had the baby.

This would certainly be a miracle.

Praying that this is the case.

 

[Bridget69]

That's really disturbing.

 

[nitengale]

We live is such a sick, sick, world.

What a sad and pathetic story.

 

[bad kitty]

The baby has been found and is in good health!!!!!!

The sick fuckers need to be locked up.

 

[Guest]

 

[bad kitty]

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=7129315

(It's on the news again right now)

Baby Cut Out of Murdered Mom Found Alive
Fri Dec 17, 2004 05:43 PM ET


KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Reuters) - Police in Missouri believe they have found alive a baby girl who was cut out of her murdered mother's womb and removed from the scene of the crime and said two people were being questioned.

The Nordaway County Sheriff's Department in Northwest Missouri said the baby was found on Friday in the neighboring state of Kansas, about 24 hours after the murder. Tests were being conducted to confirm the infant's identity.

The dead woman, Bobbi Stinnett, 23, was eight months pregnant. Her body was found by her mother at her home in the town of Skidmore on Thursday afternoon. The victim's husband was at work at the time and was not a suspect.

Investigators have not speculated on the motive. They said the baby was found apparently in good health but gave no other details. (Additional reporting by Mike Conlon in Chicago)

 

[RhumbRunner13]

Where was Scott Peterson, humm?

Rhumb

 

[linuxgeek]

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=7129315

(It's on the news again right now)

Baby Cut Out of Murdered Mom Found Alive
Fri Dec 17, 2004 05:43 PM ET

Looks like that was posted about the same time they ended the amber alert.

Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 17:46:44 -0800
From: Bryant Harper - CodeAmber <codeamber@topica.email-publisher.com>
Subject: Amber Alert Canceled for Premature Missouri Baby

**** AMBER ALERT CANCELED ****
Amber Alert Canceled for Premature Missouri Baby
Posted: Friday December 17 1:00 PM CT
Updated: Friday December 17 7:30 PM CT

The Nodaway County, Missouri Sheriff's Department canceled the Amber Alert Friday afternoon after the baby was found safe in Kansas. Police are waiting for DNA test results to positively identify the child but they are confident enough that she has been reunited with her father.

More information may be available at http://codeamber.c.topica.com/maacZo4abcFh6cfsWTgbafpLR8/

**** AMBER ALERT CANCELED ****

 

[Guest]

Where was Scott Peterson, humm?

Rhumb

shut up


I am not at all shocked by this. Sad though

 

[paganangel]

i fancy myself a pretty sick bastard and i can think of no crime worse than this. give me one reason why the person(s) responsible should be allowed to live.

 

[erosman]

Smacks of SRA.

 

[Ishmael]

i fancy myself a pretty sick bastard and i can think of no crime worse than this. give me one reason why the person(s) responsible should be allowed to live.

Not me.

Ishmael

 

[paganangel]

Smacks of SRA.

i confess my ignorance.

 

[La Huesera]

Baby stolen from slain mom believed found
Woman charged in grisly killing, kidnapping case

The Associated Press
Updated: 10:32 p.m. ET Dec. 17, 2004MARYVILLE, Mo. - Authorities Friday arrested a woman they allege came to the home of an eight-months-pregnant woman — purportedly to buy a dog — then strangled her and cut the baby from her womb. Authorities found the abducted infant in good health, ending a day of frantic searching.

According to a criminal complaint, Lisa M. Montgomery admitted she strangled Bobbie Jo Stinnett and took her baby. The complaint also said Montgomery lied to her husband about giving birth, although U.S. Attorney Todd Graves declined to give a motive for the crime.

Stinnett’s mother found the 23-year-old nearly dead Thursday in her home in the northwest Missouri town of Skidmore. Paramedics tried to revive her, but she was pronounced dead at a hospital.

The baby was found Friday in an eastern Kansas home; a red Honda hatchback matching a description offered earlier by police was in the driveway.

Although DNA tests were pending to confirm the baby’s identity, authorities called off the Amber Alert issued for the child.

“We’re confident we have the little girl that was taken from Skidmore,” Nodaway County Sheriff Ben Espey said during a news conference in Maryville. An FBI agent had said the father had already been reunited with the baby, but officials with the bureau and the Topeka, Kan., hospital where the baby was taken later said that was not the case.

Montgomery, 36, of Melvern, Kan., was charged with kidnapping resulting in death, Graves said. Montgomery, a mother of two, had been pregnant but lost a child, Graves said, though it was unclear when or under what circumstances.

Missouri State Highway Patrol Sgt. Sheldon Lyon said earlier in the day that authorities were questioning a man and a woman who were in the place where the baby was found. Graves said the investigation was ongoing but would not say if additional charges might be filed or if there was another suspect.

Online acquaintance
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.

According to the criminal complaint, Montgomery’s husband, Kevin, told officers he received a call Thursday from his wife, who said she was in Topeka, Kan., about 40 miles from Melvern, and 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 victim’s mother, Becky Harper, said her daughter called her about an hour before she found her, authorities said. She apparently hung up when someone showed up for an appointment to look at her dogs.

“Oh, they’re here,” Stinnett told her mother, according to the affidavit. “I’ve got to go.”

Espey said there was no indication of forced entry into Stinnett’s small white home in Skidmore, a community of about 500.

Espey said he believes Stinnett was strangled and resisted the attack.

“The autopsy is going to show us there was some blond hair probably found in her hands,” the sheriff said.

Amber Alert delayed for hours
A neighbor, Bill Dragoo, said Stinnett and her husband “didn’t bother anybody. It blows my mind that this happened. She was such a shy person. They didn’t deserve this.”

Espey was frustrated that it took hours for a statewide Amber Alert to be issued. The mother was found around 3:30 p.m., and the Amber Alert didn’t appear until nine hours later.

“We had a live baby, and I thought that should qualify as an Amber Alert,” he said. “The information I was getting was that we didn’t have enough information such as hair color, eye color, skin complexion, size and weight.”

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 at the time she was killed, authorities said.

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 the most recent case, 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.

© 2004 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

 

[Holly Delight]

This was a well-thought-out crime, had some flaws, but evil effort went into this scheme. This is the kind of crime that I could support the death penalty for.

That mother's family must be devastated.