Woman Set to Be Executed for Killing Woman, Cutting Baby From Womb

Woman Set to Be Executed for Killing Woman, Cutting Baby From Womb
Lisa Montgomery in a booking photo. Wyandotte County Sheriff's Department via Getty Images
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MISSION, Kansas—Becky Harper sobbed as she spoke to a Missouri dispatcher after stumbling across her expectant daughter in a pool of blood, her womb slashed open and the child she had been carrying missing.

“It’s like she exploded or something,” Harper told the dispatcher on Dec. 16, 2004, during the desperate yet futile attempt to get help for her daughter, Bobbie Jo Stinnett, who had been eight months pregnant.