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Heading south on Route 59 after leaving the blacktop road, Lisa Montgomery is believed to have hit Highway 29 and set a beeline for Topeka, Kansas. She had to be careful. It wouldn’t take much to get pulled over: running a red light, speeding, weaving, maybe a broken turn signal on her vehicle she didn’t even know of.

At some point during her trip, she pulled over on the side of the road, washed the baby, sealed her belly button with a pair of “clips” a hospital might use for the same purpose, and threw the bloodied towels and blankets into the trunk, where they sat next to the rope she allegedly used to strangle Bobbie Jo and the serrated paring knife she used to cut her open, law enforcement said.

Lisa admitted later that here, along the side of the road, she started to put her elaborate story of giving birth to the child into effect.

After cleaning up the child, she called Mike Wheatley, pastor of the First Church of God in downtown Melvern, Kansas, where Lisa’s children had been going to church for the past four years.

“I just gave birth,” she told Pastor Wheatley. She seemed excited.

“Congratulations, Lisa,” answered Wheatley.

Lisa pulled out from the side of the road, Bobbie Jo’s baby next to her in a carry-on car seat, and headed for Kansas.