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An Unimaginable Crime.
An Unlikely Place.
An Unrelenting Killer.

On December 16th, 2004, a Nodaway County, Missouri 911 operator received a frantic call from the mother of 23-year-old Bobbie Jo Stinnett. Bobbie Jo, and eight-months-pregnant mom-to-be, had been lying on her family room floor bleeding profusely and barely breathing. Her baby was gone!

More than 150 miles away in Melvern, Kansas, Lisa Montgomery dressed the baby she'd apparently kidnapped in a Winnie the Pooh outfit and called her husband to say she'd given birth to a baby girl she named Abigail. While television blared the nation's first Amber Alert for an unborn child, Lisa proudly showed of "her" new baby at church and a local diner, duping many while arousing the suspicions of others. And that was only the beginning of one of the most unthinkable events in American history, one that shocked the nation and left two Midwestern communities reeling in the crime's aftermath.

Investigative journalist and acclaimed author M. William Phelps deliver a definitive literary investigation of this compelling story, one that is as suspenseful as it is heartbreaking. With the exclusive cooperation of Lisa Montgomery's ex-husband, Carl Boman, Lisa's children and mother, law enforcement officials, friends, relatives, and neighbors, Phelps reveals what really happened that fateful day in December and traces the tortured history of sexual abuse, abandonment and desperation that planted the seeds of a potantial sociopath destined for "moral insanity". Here is the true story of the frantic search for a baby born under the most horrifying conditions imaginable, of the lucky break that led to the alleged killer, of Lisa's family's fears about her mental health, and of the shockwaves that linger in the two American towns that will never be the same again.

EXCELLENT USED CONDITION. Hardback. Bought brand new and read once. Black marker over UPC code on back cover of book jacket.

361 pages. 16 pages of photos.