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December 21, 2004
Story receives international attention
The front page of Sunday's New York Daily News featured a large photo of Lisa Montgomery with the huge headline, "GHOUL: Mad woman who butchered a mother for her fetus."
That paper's main competition in America's largest city, the New York Post, also featured Montgomery as the main news item on its Sunday front page, calling her a "BUTCHER," and told the story of the "Baby crazed womb raider's evil plot."
Although New York City's two large tabloid-sized dailies often compete to see which can blast the most sensational headline, those two newspapers were not the only publications outside Missouri to cover the story of Bobbie Jo Stinnett's murder and the theft of the baby she was carrying.
In fact, newspapers and broadcast news outlets around the globe have had their sights set on Skidmore, where the murder occurred, Melvern, Kan., where the baby was found, and Maryville, the center of the investigators' operations, since late Thursday.
Sunday's New York papers prove it: the murder and kidnapping was not just a national news story, it is the story.
And as the presses roll, northwest Missouri is once again in the spotlight for something local residents wish had never happened.
Several papers in India, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom ran stories about the murder, as well as media in Turkey, South Africa, Singapore, Russia, New Zealand, Taiwan and Japan to name a few.
As the closest daily newspaper to Skidmore, the Maryville Daily Forum has been inundated with phone calls for information and interview requests from nationwide news sources. Several Forum photographs have been picked up by the Associated Press, and the Forum ran a picture in its Saturday extra edition that no other news organization in the country had - a picture of Lisa Montgomery. By Saturday afternoon, this photo was in newspapers across the world; it was also the picture featured on the covers of the New York Post and Daily News.
The murder was also one of the most significant stories in area history. The Forum printed an extra edition on Saturday after baby Victoria Jo Stinnett has been found; it is believed that the Forum has never printed an extra in the paper's 135-year history.
Posted by Nealus at December 21, 2004 01:17 PM
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