KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- In the community of dog breeders where Bobbie Jo Stinnett was well liked and respected for her knowledge of rat terriers, the feelings held about Lisa Montgomery were quite ...

SKIDMORE, Mo. -- This tiny town in northwest Missouri was acquainted with violence well before someone strangled Bobbie Jo Stinnett Thursday and cut open her belly to steal her unborn child. The town, ...

MARYVILLE, Mo. Hundreds of mourners gathered Tuesday in this small northwestern Missouri farming community for the funeral of a young pregnant woman who was strangled and whose baby girl was cut from ...

Lisa Montgomery, of Melvern, Kan., was set to appear Monday afternoon at the federal courthouse in Kansas City, Mo., before Chief Magistrate Judge John Maughmer. A spokesman for U.S. Attorney Todd ...

A woman accused of killing an expectant mother and cutting the baby from her womb asked for a public defender during a brief court appearance in Kansas City. It was not immediately known whether a ...

MARYVILLE, MO (AP) -- A baby girl who 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 thechild. The ...

MARYVILLE, Mo. - Hundreds of mourners gathered Tuesday in this small northwestern Missouri farming community for the funeral of a young pregnant woman who was strangled and whose baby girl was cut ...

Prosecutors hope to prove that Montgomery's desperation for a baby led her to plan the December 2004 killing of 23-year-old Bobbie Jo Stinnett of Skidmore, Missouri. Stinnett was eight months pregnant ...

KANSAS CITY (AP) - Lisa Montgomery briefly reconsidered her plan to kill Bobbie Jo Stinnett and cut her baby from her womb, but then decided to go ahead and commit the crime. That was the testimony ...

In 2004, Bobbie Jo Stinnett was found stabbed to death at her home in a small Missouri town. A 911 call from her mother described the scene, "She is lying on the floor with blood everywhere. She was ...

MISSION, Kan. (AP) - 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 ...