All the blood left, all the pain, pain up.

All the blood left, all the pain, pain up.

Hey, Crime Salad listeners. Welcome back to another episode. My name is Ashley, and with me always is my partner in Crime Brickie.

And this is Crime Salad podcast.

Just this past December 8th, two dozen friends and family of Bobby Joe Stinett gathered around the town square in Skidmore, Missouri to remember their friend who was murdered 14 years ago.

Bobby Joe was a 23 year old woman who lived with her husband in town. Outside of her job and manufacturing, she worked at Happy Havens, which helped find homes for rat terriers and other homeless dogs.

In 2006, Bobby Joe was absolutely thrilled to find out she would be pregnant with her first child.

When she met Lisa Marie Montgomery online, who shared that she was also pregnant, and just as big as a lover of dogs as Bobby Joe was, she thought she had made a wonderful new friend.

Instead, Lisa Montgomery would become famous as only one of the 50 other women to be placed on death row for what she did to Bobby Joe.

In the past week, our case this week dives into the lives of these two women, what happened on the day they met, and the aftermath that found Lisa Marie scheduled to be the first woman executed in America in almost 70 years.

In early spring of 2004, Bobby Joe Stinett found out that she was pregnant with her first child.

She had gotten married to her childhood sweetheart, Zeb Stinett, about a year previous, and the couple were trying to save money to move out of their small rented home, into something more permanent where they could raise their daughter together.

Bobby Joe was 23, and Zeb was only a year older at 24, and they both worked at a local manufacturing plant.

And to make some extra money to put towards their future home, Bobby started up and ran her own dog breeding business called Happy Haven Farms, out of her home in Skinmore, Missouri.

Bobby Joe was a huge fan of rat terriers, a small, intelligent dog breed.

She had two of her own named Bell and Tippsie, as well as a much larger Dalmatian named Maddie.

She was a licensed breed inspector, a judge for the National Kennel Club, and would often travel around Midwest for various dog shows.

When friends and family would stop over to see the Stinett's, there were usually no less than four or five puppies running around.

Bobby Joe preferred it this way, she was just the biggest dog lover in Skinmore.

To promote her business, as well as just talk about her shared love of rat terriers, Bobby created a website for Happy Haven, where she would often post pictures of not just the dogs who needed a home, but also herself and her husband.

In addition to her website, she began to post on an online community dedicated to rat terriers.

Given her love for the dogs and her status in the dog breeding community, she was a popular member in the community, posting frequently about both dogs in her personal life.

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