Talk:Murder of Bobbie Jo Stinnett

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alive while baby was cut from womb?[edit]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,299859,00.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.227.226.243 (talk) 07:34, 7 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Lisa K. Montgomery article[edit]

The corresponding biographic article for Lisa K. Montgomery needs to be expanded. Areas that need coverage include Lisa Montgomery's early life, the motivation for the attack, details of the murder/arrest/trial, and current events as they unfold. If anyone is doing research on Bobbie Jo Stinnett, please take a moment and help improve the Lisa K. Montgomery article. Thanks! -- Biobaby89 20:59, 23 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There was also an excellent and informative book published by M. William Phelps in 2006 about the case titled /Murder in the Heartland/. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.59.174.46 (talk) 21:16, 9 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Merger proposal[edit]

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Agree to merging of article(s) to the Murder of Bobbie Jo Stinnett article as per wp:N/CA, wp:Crime, and wp:Notable. Non-Administrative closure-- GenQuest ^{"Talk to Me"} 19:16, 2 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

I feel that this should be merged with the Lisa M. Montgomery page. Neither are quite notable in and of themselves. I would imagine that that a single page for the crime itself such as Death of Bobby Jo Stinnett would be most appropriate.--Bellerophon5685 (talk) 23:26, 12 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Comment:This proposal, made when the title here was simply "Bobbie Jo Stinnett", was overtaken by this page move in November, A new merge proposal, for the content of the "Lisa M. Montgomery" page to be merged here, was made on 8 January 2018.(Added for clarity by Swanny18 (talk) 00:38, 20 January 2018 (UTC))[reply]

Oppose - this is a noted crime and criminal. --BabbaQ (talk) 22:07, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I support this merger; the pattern for articles on crimes where both perpetrator and victim are notable for one event only is to consolidate the information in an article about the event, See also WP:N/CA ("Criminal Acts") and WP:CRIME. Swanny18 (talk) 00:42, 20 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Support per User:Swanny18. We do not have biographical articles for Michael Skakel (who killed Martha Moxley in 1975), David Alan Westerfield (who killed Danielle Van Dam in 2002), Jodi Arias (convicted of killing Travis Alexander in 2008), Mark Hacking (who killed his wife Lori in 2004), Jules Mikus (who killed Teresa Cormack in 1987), etc. so what makes this woman different from any other murderer? The Legendary Ranger (talk) 22:42, 8 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Federal jurisdiction[edit]

Coverage of the recent execution of the perpetrator in this case has highlighted that the penalty was carried out by the federal government. But it's not entirely clearly to me why this was prosecuted by the federal government in the first place, instead of by the state of Missouri. Is it because Montgomery lived over the border in Kansas, and took the baby there after the murder? Is it the crossing of a state line with a captive that brings a crime like this under federal jurisdiction? Beorhtwulf (talk) 15:08, 13 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It seems that murder-kidnap is a federal crime. Ceoil (talk) 15:14, 13 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. That article suggests the federal involvement comes about when (among other possibilities) state lines are crossed, not that murder-kidnap per se is a federal crime. Here is the law the article links to: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1201 Beorhtwulf (talk) 16:05, 13 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Without having read too far into it (not from the US), I got the impression that it was "potential for" state line crossing. Also, when murder arises from another serious crime, it then is sometimes classed as federal (afaik). Ceoil (talk) 20:38, 14 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Inclusion of speculation[edit]

I’m sure I’ll be sorry I asked, but as a matter of policy what is the justification for including unverified speculation in the Murder_of_Bobbie_Jo_Stinnett#Perpetrator section? Innisfree987 (talk) 02:53, 17 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Should it be “Killing of Bobbie Jo Stinnett“?[edit]

This may be semantics but Montgomery was never convicted of murder specifically, she was convicted of “kidnapping resulting in death”. According to Wikipedia:Naming conventions (violence and deaths), a page should only be titled “Murder of” if there’s a murder conviction. Should the article be renamed to fit these conventions? TheXuitts (talk) 01:48, 22 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The flowchart is only to be used when there is no clear WP:COMMONNAME. Editors should only resort to this flowchart when such efforts fail or a consensus cannot be reached on what the COMMONNAME is from among the reliable secondary sources. The COMMONNAME in this case is clearly "Murder." Some1 (talk) 02:12, 22 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ah alright, thank you for the clarification TheXuitts (talk) 05:47, 22 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Conflation of trial testimony with private assessments[edit]

There are some factual and clarity issues in the trial section of this article, and possibly the Perpetrator section as well. It seems to stem from using op eds like this one, which uncritically presents the claims of Montgomery's family, those of her appeal lawyers, and those of private individuals uninvolved in the investigation or trial, made years after the trial, as if they constituted exculpatory evidence that was omitted from trial. Claims from these articles are being misleadingly included in the section on the trial as if they played or ought to have played a role in the trial. It's very confusing. I didn't put it together until I had spent 45 minutes reading the sources, so I can only imagine what most people skimming this page are going to think. Aminomancer (talk) 10:00, 13 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I think I'll go through the sources now -- Python Drink (talk) 13:51, 13 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]