
MURDER in the HEARTLAND
AN UNIMAGINABLE CRIME.
AN UNLIKELY PLACE.
AN UNRELENTING KILLER.
On December 16, 2004, a
Nodaway County, Missouri, 911 operator received a frantic call
from the mother of 23-year-old Bobbie Jo Stinnett. The
eight-months-pregnant mom-to-be, Bobbie Jo, had been found lying
on her family room floor bleeding profusely and barely
breathing. Most disturbing of all, her baby was gone.
Only 187 miles away in Melvern, Kansas, Bobbie Jo's killer, Lisa
Montgomery, dressed the baby she'd brutally kidnapped in a
Winnie-the-Pooh outfit and called her husband to say that she'd
given birth to a baby girl she called Abigail. While televisions
blared the nation's first Amber Alert for an unborn child, Lisa
proudly showed off "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.
Now, investigative journalist and acclaimed author M. William
Phelps delivers a definitive literary investigation of this
compelling story, one that is as suspenseful as it is
heartbreaking. Working 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 potential sociopath
destined for "moral insanity." Here is the true story of the
frantic search for a baby born under the most horrific
conditions imaginable, of the lucky break that led to the
killer, of Lisa's family's fears about her mental health, and of
the shock waves that still linger in two small American towns
that will never be the same again.
Like Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, Murder in the
Heartland takes an unflinching look at an American tragedy,
exploring its terrible trajectory with unparalleled courage,
insight, and compassion.

SLEEP IN
HEAVENLY PEACE
"An exceptional book ... exposing long-hidden secrets, disquieting
truths, probing the disturbed mind of a mother guilty of the
ultimate betrayal." - Kathryn Casey, author
of She Wanted It All and A Warrant to Kill
"M. William Phelps is the best true-crime writer to come
along in years . . . and the future of the genre." - New York Times bestselling author
Gregg Olsen

EVERY MOVE YOU
MAKE
"You've got to
read [Every Move You Make] ... truth is stranger than
fiction. Amazing story by M. William Phelps!" - Catherine Crier, author
of NY Times bestseller A Deadly Game

LETHAL GUARDIAN
"An intense
roller-coaster of a crime story," says New York Times
bestselling author Steve Jackson. "Phelps's book Lethal
Guardian is at once complex, with a plethora of twists and
turns worthy of any great detective mystery, and yet so
well-laid out, so crisply written with such detail to character
and place that it reads more like a novel than your standard
non-fiction crime book."
PREFECT POISON
"A
first-rate investigative examination." - Dr. Michael Baden,
forensic pathologist, host of HBO's Autopsy series, and author
of Dead Reckoning: The New Science of Catching Killers
and Unnatural Death: Confessions of a Medical Examiner
"A stunner from beginning to end, Phelps renders the story
expertly, with flawless research and an explosive narrative." -
Gregg Olsen, author of several best-selling true crime books,
including Bitter Almonds, Abandoned Prayers,
Mockingbird, and If Loving You Is Wrong: The Shocking
True Story of Mark Kay Letourneau
"In perfect harmony with the best true crime writers, Phelps
unmasks the psychopath with facts, insight and journalistic leg
work." - Lowell Cauffiel, author of Masquerade, Eye of
the Beholder, Forever and Five Days and House of
Secrets
"Captivating, exciting, a jolt-a-minute. With his encyclopedic
knowledge of police procedures, Phelps earns a deserved place
among the best." - Harvey Rachlin, author of 13 books, including
The Making of a Detective and The Making of a Cop
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