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[Music] thank you foreign [Music] State Highway Patrol serves as the coordinating law
enforcement agency in Missouri to alert the public of missing or abducted children
today in the great state of Missouri just like many other states in this great country Amber Alerts are
distributed via the wireless emergency alerts program the mission of the Amber Alert program
is to develop and coordinate the efforts of law enforcement the media and transportation in order to increase
public participation and safely recovering abducted children through targeted education increased
communication and effective sharing of resources to avoid both false alarms and having alerts ignored as a wolf cry
the criteria for issuing an alert is rather strict each state Amber Alert plan sets its own criteria for activation
meaning that there are differences between alerting agencies as to which incidents are considered to justify the
use of the system however the U.S department of justice issues the following guidance which Most states are
said to adhere closely to one law enforcement must confirm that an abduction has taken place
two the child must be at risk of serious injury or death three there must be sufficient
descriptive information of child captor or captor's vehicle to issue an alert four the child must be under 17 years of
age December 16 2004 was the first time that an amber alert was issued for a fetus
lacking any sort of description the alert was initially denied as it had not been used before in an
unborn child's case and thus there was no description of the victim eventually after intervention by
Congressman Sam Graves the alert was implemented the baby's mother had been murdered just
hours before the alert went out to the citizens of Missouri and immediately people wondered who
could do something like that John Rayburn is the director of the infant response team for the national
Center for missing and exploited children and researches infant and Fetal abductions
Rayburn and other researchers have interviewed convicted abductors much like how the FBI interviews serial
killers to learn more he said that most abductors fit a fairly specific profile they're in a rocky relationship and
think a baby can save it they're having fertility problems they are overweight as it is easier to
get people to believe they are pregnant they have a history of Deceit they carefully research and plan the
crime and according to Rayburn they usually share another surprising quality the
vast majority of these women have had one or more babies of Their Own infant abductions are rare
the national Center for missing and exploited children reports as of December 2020 that there have been
327 infant abductions over the past 55 years in the United States as rare as infant abductions are fetal
abductions are even more so there appears to have been 25 of them in the last 40 years
most in the United States most fetal abductors surveil numerous targets before striking
fetal abductors research how to perform a cesarean section Rayburn said all of the fetal abductors
he has studied have little regard for the real mothers but they never intentionally hurt the
infants he explained the psychology of the women when they first pick up the infant quote
it's almost like an instant birth for that perpetrator this is True Crime garage
[Music] a good portion of today's trailer was from a fascinating article by the good
folks doing good work over at KCTV in the trailer we talked about the first time an amber alert was used when there
was no available description of an abducted child and that is the case that we're going to dive into today Bobby Joe
was born in the Tiny Town of Skidmore Missouri oddly enough she was the cousin of the young man whose case we featured
in the garage yesterday that is The Disappearance of Branson Perry growing up Bobby Joe was a good student
with the love of horses and dogs she was quiet and kind Bobby Joe graduated from
Norway Holt High School in 2000 a year after her cousin Branson and a couple of years later Bobby Joe married Zeb
stennett and a little over a year later she was pregnant and Zeb and Bobby Joe are expecting their first baby on
Thursday December 16 2004 Bobby Joe just 12 days ago celebrated her 23rd birthday
she is eight months pregnant at this time the young couple lived in a modest whitewashed clapboard house they both
worked at a Kawasaki Factory but on this day Zeb stennett was at work and Bobby Joe was at home
the senates raised and sold rat terrier puppies they also traveled to dog shows and showed their dogs at some of these
events most of the sails were generated through their website happyhavenfarms.com
at 3 38 pm on December 16th a 9-1-1 call came in Nottoway County 9-1-1 what is your
emergency a Nottoway County dispatcher said on the other end of the phone line it's
Becky Harper this is Bobby Joe's mother she is now at Zeb in Bobby Joe's home Becky is screaming uncontrollably
Becky Harper found her daughter's bloody lifeless body in the back bedroom of the
home this room was used to hold puppy Kennels Becky cried into the phone she told the
dispatcher that Bobby Joe was lying on the floor and there's blood everywhere the dispatcher asked her what happened
Becky replied quote she was pregnant and it's like her guts have exploded or something
very quickly Medics and police were on the scene paramedics tried to revive Bobby but
there was way too much blood and when you have that much blood you have very little hope as often it is already too
late unfortunately doctors pronounced her dead at 4 27 pm and what a horrific site
this has to be absolutely horrific walking into this finding your daughter in this manner and not really fully
being able to grasp what had actually happened right she's got to be in total shock now
investigators Captain were able to conclude the following fairly quickly it appeared to investigators that Bobby Joe
was attacked inside her home they found zero indicators of force entry into the home
the victim was strangled from behind someone had made a lateral cut across her abdomen and removed the fetus they
also concluded that the baby was likely alive but could be suffering by being born so
violently and not helping this horrific situation keep in mind she's only been pregnant for eight months so we are one
month early one because of the wounds law enforcement cannot you know deduce a possible motive yes that's correct
and again our victim she was attacked and strangled from behind but not without putting up one hell of a fight
God bless her and there were obvious signs of this at the scene first there was blood on the bottom of
Bobby Joe's feet this means that at some point during the struggle she stood in her own blood
right the child would have been cut from her while she was lying down on her back
the only blood is coming from her stomach area what this shows us is that she was
strangled choked out but not dead her killer likely thinking that she may have been
dead but she came too while the killer was in the process of taking the baby from her body well she got up back on
her feet standing in her own blood where before she was fighting for her own life at one
point now she's fighting for her baby well it's like holding man's strength for some reason mothers just have
that incredible mother strength yeah there was further Evidence too that she fought her attacker attempted to
fight off the attacker in fact she was found gripping strands of blonde hair in both hands when her mother discovered
her inside her home Nottoway County Sheriff Ben espie was the first emergency responder on the
scene from a law enforcement perspective and was notified that the child's in biblical cord was cut prompting him to
immediately get the help of outside agencies this including the FBI they're going to join in on the search
for this child who's never been seen by anybody right Sheriff Espy told reporters quote what we are looking at
is more likely this story so far sounds like something that you would see in a in a movie or
on um Law and Order episode doesn't seem quite real not at all Sheriff Espy told reporters quote what
we are looking at is more than likely our victim has been strangled and was probably deceased when the child was
removed from the womb evidence would show the baby was probably wrapped up and taken out of the
home now Becky Harper remember she's Bobby Joe's mother right would later say that
she was on the phone with Bobby Joe earlier that day and that Bobby was expecting someone to come look
at her dogs this about 2 30 P.M she told her mother on the phone oh they are here I've got
to go remember Becky found Bobby Joe and the 9-1-1 call came in Captain at 3 38 pm
Becky walked to the home after Bobby Joe failed to come to her house to pick her
up at a scheduled time so if the statement that Becky is giving to investigators is correct Bobby Joe
was attacked and killed and baby abducted between approximately 12 30 p.m and 3 30 P.M
that's quite a nice carved out little window for investigators to work with and her husband is at work at this time
Zeb Santa is working at the Kawasaki Factory during this the entirety of this day
now one tip that came in suggested that three people had killed Bobby Joe with the purpose of taking her
baby which they intended to sell I'm a little unclear where this tip came from but it was reported in the papers
and in the news at the time this story very quickly became very big news and the law enforcement agencies
that were working the case won the Nottoway County Sheriff's Office with Sheriff Espy
and the FBI and some other agencies particularly in the state of Missouri we're working very fast on this case and
working together and Sheriff Espy as well as I believe it was agent Jeff Lanza from the FBI
they were answering questions that the media had again very big news very early on in
this investigation yeah because we have two victims one victim is deceased and one victim's still out there possibly
alive so you got to work this case completely different than most other murder cases
and Sheriff SB and the FBI agent were asked directly about this tip that suggested that three people had killed
Bobby Joe and took the baby with the intention to sell to which Sheriff SB responded and told
the reporters this lead was possibly going to go up in smoke he said the third party has misled us so this lead
may have sounded promising to the local scuttlebutt into reporters but to law enforcement I'm sure they were able to
quickly set this tip aside Chicago butt's a good word I don't know if that's because they they were able to
discredit the person or the information where the tip came from or if it was simply that they had very
much more stronger leads and evidence pointing them in a completely different direction and this
they found almost immediately in this case Captain well it almost sounds from law enforcement's perspective that
this tip is maybe to even throw us off any other tips yes or simply could be somebody wanting to get involved in the
investigation because it is now a media circus right another one of the early leads in this investigation came from a
neighbor this was one of the neighbors of the stenets that reported seeing a red two-door hatchback car that was
parked in the driveway of the Senate's home at 430 West Elm Street sometime between the hours of 12 30 and 2 30 p.m
this on the day in question this was reported as a battered red two-door car with a hatchback at least
10 years old maybe even older now I like this red car tip now you take that from what we know to be true to the
time frame right let's go back to Bobby's mother's story that she's on the phone with Bobby Joe
and around 2 30ish Bobby Joe says oh someone's coming oh here they are I've got to go
and now an hour later Becky Harper is in her daughter's home finds her daughter dead
so now you have to wonder Captain the and these individuals are coming supposedly to look at dogs according to
Bobby Joe yes so now you have to wonder is this red car either directly related to the murder or at the
very least can the red car fill out a little more of our timeline and maybe even offer some additional information
maybe even they witness something of importance so we've got this one hour that we're really working with that
we're concerned about and we also have this red car we need to figure out who was driving that red car well also do we
have any eyewitnesses seeing one individual or multiple individuals in this vehicle from my understanding
there's a possibility that this eyewitness saw someone or some kind of activity going
on in the back of the vehicle it's a little unclear what it was that they thought they were
seeing or how it's directly related but um I think what's important here is that
description of the vehicle itself but the other thing that's nice for law enforcement is
this is a small town and like we said yesterday I don't even know if you can call it a
town so somebody noticing this vehicle it probably wouldn't take too many degrees of
Kevin Bacon to figure out who this car belongs to that's very interesting that you say that because I think that and
also the reverse of that is is this a vehicle that you recognize to be owned by anybody that you know from here
you know we're not talking about thousands fifty thousand sixty thousand vehicles in this general area there's
about under 300 people living in this town and I'm sure a lot of these people know
a good majority of the vehicles being driven by its residents well just think like when we went to high school uh you
know that it's probably more people in our high school than were in this town but if a crime was committed and the
police officers were asking us well have you ever noticed this car before we we probably again maybe only noticed it a
couple times but again we could probably figure out who that car is connected to
or well I don't know the individual's name but they're friends with so and so or yeah or rattle off a few people that
have vehicles matching that General description right well Captain you mentioned a data dump on yesterday's
episode so that's interesting because it is important to this case here today because police are armed with the
information that someone may have been coming to look and some dogs or purchase a dog that day
from Bobby Joe Stinnett yeah or that being their ruse to get inside the house to attack her and as we said earlier the
majority of the sales of those Rat Terriers that they raised came from their website from Bobby Joe
and zeb's website the happyhaven farms.com website tracking that website and tracking their phone logs were were
they able to get another suspect yeah what they were doing was they were trying to find a good lead here based
off of this general information and everything on the computer all that information that they found on
Bobby Joe's computer told investigators that she had made arrangements to meet with someone named Darlene Fisher and
this was for the purpose of a possible sale of a puppy this at that time period on the day of her murder
well who the hell is Darlene that's a good question so with several agencies working
diligently together this this whole thing is super Amplified this is your regular homicide investigation on
steroids maxed out because you are not only looking to solve someone's murder and we know how things you know the the
faster you can get the good leads the faster you can secure good evidence the better your case will be the better your
investigation will be it's not just about solving This Woman's murder there was a child that was ripped from her
body yeah it's about saving that baby's life right it's not just a kidnapped child this child could be in danger
simply because of how it was born and because how early it was born there's all kinds of complications here
so all of these agents and agencies working very diligently together using every resource available they could find
they couldn't find any record for a Darlene Fisher you know they're checking driver's
license State IDs anything that they would have on their databases they cannot find a Darlene Fisher and they
couldn't find anyone who even knew who she would be so now the investigators are terrified
because it's starting to look like to them that they are dealing with the suspect or at least a person that
they're trying to find that was using a fake name to meet with the murder victim
on that day not only are they using a fake name but this person is an absolute Savage
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the people in the back or to the billy goat cheers to the people up front don't forget about those
those people the fine people up front yeah they smell good so Captain while we have this all going on again all of
these agencies working together I do want to take a a quick step aside from the investigation and
throw a little shout out here this Sheriff asked me I'm a big fan of him and I know that it's really a reflection
on more modern day investigative efforts in law enforcement agencies and how they conduct themselves
but one thing that I noticed in several of this Sheriff's investigations and this one in particular
is that he is quick to identify a situation and go all right this is of a certain magnitude let's tap every
resource available and tap every other agency available to us and get all parties involved and let's just get it
done and get it done right he doesn't let ego stand in the way of asking for help getting others involved
right especially a case that is so serious as this one so while all of this is going on while we have individuals
trying to figure out who Darlene Fisher is or who could be using that fake name of Darlene Fisher at the same time we
have Sheriff Espy who is attempting to use one of those resources that being the Missouri State Amber Alert System
he is notifying the proper channels which I believe would be the state highway patrol according to the
information that we covered in the trailer today saying hey look we need to send out an amber alert well what does
the victim look like we don't know what does the abductor look like we don't know
um what can you tell us he's basically saying we can't we don't have any information other than the very simple
fact that we know that a fetus was abducted and somebody made off with that baby and roughly pot or or possibly
this the suspect's car right so he gets a no on his request they're like yeah that doesn't fit the
criteria for our state's Amber Alert System well SP doesn't like this answer and
he's not the kind of guy that just takes no for an answer when he knows that he needs help and as you pointed out
Captain this is a horribly tragic Savage crime this is of the utmost importance I
completely agree so he starts lobbying his local congressman saying you need to go
to bat for us and and get this done make this happen and through that channel he ends up being told
hey all right we're going to move forward with the amber alert for this abducted child well again look at this
case we we have a murder victim so when you have a murdered victim the the best outcome at that point is to get a
suspect collect the evidence charge them convict them and have them spend the rest of their life in jail and while we
have the work getting done to make the Amber Alert happen now we have to bring in the computer
forensic detectives right because since we can't figure out who Darlene Fisher is our next effort is going to be
tracing the communications from this so-called Darlene Fisher regarding the possible purchase of one of the dogs
through a lot of work they're able to very quickly Trace that back to a single IP address
and I'm going to shorten this version of the story Captain because it does get very complicated it's a lot of reaching
out to people in other states to find out some information that lead you to another piece of information and another
piece of information and speaking to but it's it's information that's it's Elementary to you since you studied
computer right that's correct and by the way there will be new computer shirts this week and the on the store Page they
trace this to a single IP address and then what they learn is that that is coming from a town in Melbourne Kansas
which is about 170 miles away they the IP address is traced to a telephone that was registered to a Kevin Montgomery
at South Adams Road in Melbourne well this is a really darn good lead isn't it so the FBI decide hey let's
start watching this house and soon they spot a dirty red Toyota Corolla with Kansas license plates pull
up to that address yeah yeah of course it's a dirty Toyota Corolla the agents now they're going to move into the
residence once inside they find a man and woman sitting on the couch and between them appears to be
a baby wrapped up in a sheet now they can't see you know any features of the baby they can't see the face or any skin
or anything like that in fact one of the agents says it really crossed my mind in
that moment considering everything I had just seen in the last 24 hours that the baby could be somewhere else
and that could be a shotgun or some kind of handgun wrapped up uh for for them to
grab easily right and take us out well they check on the situation they are right and find out that it was in fact a
baby it was in fact the missing baby that they were looking for sitting between these two people on the couch
they're just sitting there watching TV like nothing happened like like a couple of new parents and in fact oddly enough
they are watching the Amber Alert information that is coming out on their TV screen Jesus Savages
of course they arrest both of these individuals and the baby is sent off to the hospital and I won't leave anybody
hanging for too long I'll jump to this portion of the story the baby was determined to be healthy
okay nothing's wrong with the baby no injuries at all thank god well that's what I was saying about five minutes ago
but you interrupted me the the importance of moving all this stuff forward was like I was saying you have a
murdered victim or normally that's all you have a murdered victim so now you have to get the suspect get the evidence
you know charge them put them in jail and that's the best outcome but when you have
in this case the the victim taken by the murderers now you have another outcome and it's going to be on your hands and
that's how most law enforcement look at it hey it's on our hands if we do not capture these people in time and get
this baby back and have the baby be okay and have the baby be alive and not another murdered victim in their custody
the police now have Lisa Marie Montgomery and her husband Kevin Montgomery they've separated them
they're going to be interviewing them both of them are in their mid to late 30s sounds like a very bad country duo
now what Kevin Montgomery tells police during this interview process is that his wife Lisa
allegedly called him at 5 15 or around 5 15 p.m the day before this saying that on a shopping trip to
Topeka Kansas she had gone into labor and given birth he said that his wife told him she had
delivered the infant earlier in the day at a nearby Birthing Center and she asked him to pick her and the
baby up at a fast food restaurant this was in the parking lot of a Long John Silver's in Topeka Kansas
the next day the couple showed off the newborn at a diner a bank the courthouse and the
convenience store where Lisa Montgomery worked Lisa Montgomery had four children of her
own this from a previous marriage this was her second marriage to Kevin Montgomery
but she had her tubes tied in 1990. we're in 2004 right and according to they come they came
untied right according to Kevin Montgomery her husband he said that on at least one occasion
she claimed to have been pregnant this after the procedure I'm a little unclear here Captain if Kevin Montgomery
was fully aware of this procedure right I'm guessing he wasn't what ends up happening in the other room with Lisa
Montgomery she you know was trying to explain some things away and she's sticking to the
story of all she was pregnant and she had this baby and she's going to stick with that story but not for too long
eventually she breaks down and admits to police that the day before she drove to
Skidmore Missouri and met with Bobby Joe stennett in her home and attacked her from behind
and took the baby from Bobby Joe's body using a kitchen knife I mean this is one of the worst cases
we've ever covered that it is my friend and she drove apparently drove to this Long John Silver's restaurant in Topeka
Kansas and then called her husband saying hey I just gave birth to our kid come and pick
me up well I mean they do have good fish sandwiches and better dip fries now we're going to have to go to trial
captain and well first of all I mean just so we're clear they didn't have to do any tests or or
did they do tests just to prove because I'm glad you pointed that out you're you're absolutely right they did some
DNA testing and we're quickly able to determine that the child was not belonging to Lisa
Montgomery right and it did belong to Zeb stennett and to now deceased Bobby Jost in it and after the baby was
determined to be healthy the baby was returned to her father the baby's name by the way is Victoria
stennett yeah and you feel for him because again this was their first child and and
maybe they were planning on having more and and now you have to you raise the the
kid alone without without a mother it'd be a tough situation and your spot on Captain
this is one of the worst cases that we've had to cover but the the Silver Lining is of course
the baby's healthy and we're able to not have double the tragedy here again that's a applauding all law enforcement
involved every from from the simple uh Patrol officers from the patrol officers all the way up to the FBI to
the computer I can't talk today computer forensic team I mean all of them involved are are the
reason that that this child is still alive now this is going to be a different kind
of charge which will lead to a different kind of trial here Captain what Lisa Montgomery is eventually charged with is
in fact a federal offense of kidnapping resulting in death so what the prosecution is going to push
forward is that the removing of the baby abducting the baby from the mother's body is in fact at the end of the day
what killed this poor woman resulting in her death this was a crime that was established by
the federal kidnapping act way back in 1932. so she's going to be Tried by the U.S
federal government and if convicted she could face either life imprisonment at a
federal prison or the death penalty right and it's weird though too because she she basically broke down
during the interrogation so you think at some point that her and her lawyer would
be making some kind of plea deal yeah broke down and I got to tell you Captain the the only you know there's
very few portions of this story that you can gain any kind of joy out of you know the returning of
Victoria stennett the Baby Oh I thought uh the hard work of the investigators and the community but
she broke down I don't know what kind of mental and emotional tools Lisa Marie Montgomery was working with here
um right her defense team the lawyers presented an alternative theory of the crime of
how the crime was perpetrated and how it went down this theory was that Lisa Montgomery's brother had actually
committed the murder however oh that's great just throw everybody in your family under the bus
well the other problem with this idea of presenting this as a defense for Lisa Marie Montgomery is there's no evidence
to back any of this up right you know this you can't back up this Theory put forward by the defense team
so when this was seen by the defense team as a lost cause effort they ended up Switching gears during the course of the
trial and then they were going to go for an insanity defense right that's what they should have went with
probably initially but again why not just make a deal because you already confessed and try to save your life and
make a deal you're exactly right well you have all these you have so many victims in this case I mean one you have
any law enforcement that had to see that scene uh you have you know obviously Bobby Joe then you have her child do you
think you have her husband you have the whole Community then you have this lady's kids and then think about the her
husband he thought he was picking her up because they had a child right I have a
really hard time believing this husband guy that look there's some dumb ass men there's
some dumb ass men I can believe that he didn't know about the procedure the tube
tying procedure I can believe that I have a hard time believing that this guy's as smart as glue is what he is but
some of the people in the town of Malvern Kansas came to his defense and said look she fooled us too there were
other people in this community that she fooled for months leading up to and I and I've I've had this happen I had a
friend of mine you know she told him that she was uh pregnant so she could fake it for a little bit but she faked
it for months it took months and then this guy is not a doc he's not a dummy uh and it wasn't and and in his defense
he he never had a child before so he didn't know exactly you know what to look for but he but friends of his
started pointing out certain things to him but again a guy that's not he's not dumb and he was fake he was fooled for
for months um by his girlfriend and her telling him that she was pregnant and I'm not going to go to Lisa Marie's
defense I'm not going to look this this woman from everything that I've seen and we've talked about
this it feels like like dozens and dozens of times here in the garage captain that a lot of these
killers some of them have had horrible I mean I I I'm almost speechless when I when I begin to think of her childhood
but a lot of these killers have had horrible childhoods yes lots of abuse years of abuse her childhood
it would I mean it's up there with any of them that we've reviewed it might be the
worst one that I've ever reviewed as far as cases go here in the garage but again
I'm not going to go into detail about that because this show is not about Lisa Marie Montgomery it's about Bobby Joe
stennett and Victoria stennett Zeb stennett and uh Becky Harper yeah but it is interesting I mean that her
background is interesting but but also the more you dive into that the more you portray her as a victim
and it was reported that during the court proceedings about half of the jury were crying at times during
the trial itself and of course I think a lot of this is coming from this horrific
crime uh it being there's so many women that struggle to get pregnant to have carry pregnancy
to full term there's a lot of issues with that and and to have us this happen um it's just
it's devastating um if you're a defense lawyer and you're looking over at the jury and they're
crying you're thinking well this is not looking very good for us yeah I think this is one like I understand that we
have to have checks and balances we have to have prosecutors and defense attorneys but I think if I was a defense
attorney and they gave me this case I think I would just say I have to walk away I I can't I couldn't do
the best job for this individual or maybe I could because again like I said from the beginning you broke down you
already talked to law enforcement why not make a deal right and I think I think you're spot on there my friend
because remember when we reviewed John Wayne Gacy's case his his attorney his defense team they were I thought they
were incredibly intelligent and their view was look the our the best thing we can do for
this man is prevent him from getting the death penalty right we're not we're not
stopping him from going to prison this guy's a monster well yeah he's a one he's a monster just like this lady is a
monster but there's so much evidence there right we're not going to be able to beat That We're Not Gonna Get You to
walk out of here there's a lot of people that are against the death penalty and so maybe
Bobby Joe's family would be against that and so Justice would happen quicker and you could resolve this quicker and
and you can also save a life on October 22nd 2007 this just after five hours of deliberation the jury
found Lisa Marie Montgomery guilty rejecting the defense claim that the defendant was delusional four days later
the jury recommended the death sentence and the judge Gary Fenner agreed with that recommendation and formally
sentenced Lisa Montgomery to death Lisa Montgomery was executed by lethal injection on January 13th of 2021
at the United States penitentiary in Terre Haute Indiana when asked if she had any last words she simply replied no
she was pronounced dead at 1 31 am [Music] thank you foreign [Music] thank you for your continued support on
our way to 500 episodes of the main TCG show Colonel do we have any recommended reading this week this week we are
recommending Baby Be Mine by Diane Fanning this book as well some other materials were used in the research for
this week's story so if you want a deeper dive make sure you check out baby be mine the Shocking True Story of a
woman accused of murdering a pregnant mother to steal her child by Diane Fanning find that great title and
several other garage recommendations at True Crime garage.com and until next week be good be kind and don't listen
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Bobbie Jo Stinnett was found brutally murdered inside her home. The local Sheriff fought to get an Amber Alert out to the public. Someone stole the victim’s unborn baby. This week in the Garage we discuss this bizarre and rare crime.

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Brief Summary

Bobby Joe Stinnett was murdered in 2004, leading to the first Amber Alert for a fetus and the capture of Lisa Montgomery.

Key points

Amber Alert's First Fetus Case. The first Amber Alert for a fetus was issued after a mother was murdered.
The Tragic Case of Bobby Joe Stinnett. Bobby Joe was found murdered, and her baby abducted in a shocking crime.
The Investigation Intensifies. Law enforcement works urgently to solve the murder and find the abducted baby.
Sheriff Espy's Determination. Sheriff Espy refuses to take no for an answer in a tragic case.
The Baby's Safe Return. The missing baby is found healthy after a complex investigation.
The Abduction Case. Lisa Montgomery is charged with a horrific crime of kidnapping resulting in death.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

The things that you own end up owning you.

Nick introduces the captain.

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Tension

85/ 100High tension

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