KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Patsy Hughes felt sick when she learned a pregnant friend was killed and her baby was cut from her womb on the same day another friend claimed to have given birth under strange circumstances.
"Of course I was shocked," Hughes testified Wednesday in the federal trial of Lisa Montgomery. "Then I had a really uneasy feeling. My stomach was hurting."
Prosecutors allege Montgomery, 39, had been faking a pregnancy for about nine months when she drove to Bobbie Jo Stinnett's home in Skidmore on Dec. 16., 2004, and strangled the 23-year-old dog breeder.
Montgomery has pleaded not guilty, and her lawyers are pursuing an insanity defense.
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