NH HARMONY MONTGOMERY: Missing from Manchester, NH - Nov/Dec 2019 (Reported December 2021) - Age 5 *GUILTY*

Girl last seen in Manchester in October 2019; police seek tips from public

Manchester police said they are "begging" for tips from the public about the disappearance of a girl not seen in more than two years.

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Girl last seen in Manchester in October 2019; police seek tips from public​

Manchester police are seeking tips from the public about the disappearance of a girl not seen in more than two years.

Harmony Montgomery, 7, was last seen in a home in Manchester in October 2019, when she was 5, police said.

Police said they first learned Harmony went missing earlier this week. Chief Allen Aldenberg did not specify who reported the girl missing but said his department has been in touch with multiple family members and will continue to speak with them.

Aldenberg said police are not searching for any adult or vehicle in connection with the case. Investigators are focusing on the whereabouts of Harmony.

"No time is a good time for a child to go missing," Aldenberg said. "I'm begging the community. I don't care if you saw this young girl a year ago and you think it's irrelevant. Call us."

Aldenberg said at a news conference Friday his detectives are working to confirm where Harmony is from and where she went to school before her disappearance.

Harmony is estimated to be approximately 4 feet tall and 50 pounds. Investigators said she has blonde hair, blue eyes and should be wearing glasses.

"We need help," Aldenberg said. "This remains a very active investigation."


MEDIA - HARMONY MONTGOMERY: Missing from Manchester, NH since October 2019 (Reported December 2021) - Age 5

 

[Summer_Breeze]

Sentencing date set after Adam Montgomery found guilty on all weapons charges

Adam Montgomery has been found guilty of all six weapons charges he was facing, including the most serious charges of being an armed career criminal.

www.wmur.com

Updated: 8:42 AM EDT Jun 13, 2023
KC Downey
Digital Media Manager

MANCHESTER, N.H. —
Adam Montgomery is scheduled to be sentenced on his weapons convictions on Aug. 7.

Last week, a jury found him guilty on all six charges, which include two counts of being an armed career criminal, a charge that carries a minimum sentence of 10 years.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Attorney, filmmaker seek access to Harmony Montgomery recordings | Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly

With the help of his legal advisor, an award-winning documentary filmmaker has already peeled back the curtain a tiny bit on child custody proceedings that have historically been shrouded in secrecy, and now he has his sights set on further illuminating one of New England’s most disturbing and...

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Attorney, filmmaker seek access to Harmony Montgomery recordings​

With the help of his legal advisor, an award-winning documentary filmmaker has already peeled back the curtain a tiny bit on child custody proceedings that have historically been shrouded in secrecy, and now he has his sights set on further illuminating one of New England’s most disturbing and tragic tales in recent memory.

With Charlestown attorney Jennifer M. Lamanna by his side, Bill Lichtenstein was headed into Essex Juvenile Court on June 13 to lobby for the release of the audio recordings of care and protection proceedings involving Harmony Montgomery, a 5-year-old authorities believe was killed in December 2019 by her father, Adam, who is now facing a second-degree murder charge.


Lichtenstein staunchly believes that more “sunlight” is a critical first step in charting the future course of the child welfare system. Rather than getting only part of the picture from what may be self-interested stakeholders in the system, Lichtenstein seeks to provide a full airing of cases like Montgomery’s and then let the chips fall where they may.

Lichtenstein’s pending petition in Essex Juvenile Court seeks access to audio recordings of four separate Juvenile Court proceedings in the Montgomery case between August 2014 and February 2019, which were referenced in the Office of the Child Advocate’s report.

 

[Summer_Breeze]

Police say Harmony Montgomery’s father hid and moved her body for months after murder

A New Hampshire man charged in the murder of his missing 5-year-old daughter, Harmony Montgomery, spent months moving and hiding her body before disposing of it, according to a police affidavit released Tuesday.Adam Montgomery, 33, pleaded not guilty...

www.concordmonitor.com

By HOLLY RAMER
Associated Press
Published: 6/20/2023 3:38:00 PM

A New Hampshire man charged in the murder of his missing 5-year-old daughter, Harmony Montgomery, spent months moving and hiding her body before disposing of it, according to a police affidavit released Tuesday.

Adam Montgomery, 33, pleaded not guilty in October to second-degree murder, falsifying physical evidence and abuse of a corpse charges. His daughter was reported missing in November 2021, nearly two years after police believe she was killed in Manchester. Her body has not been found.

Although prosecutors requested that information about the case remain sealed, a judge released the affidavit Tuesday in response to a public records request from WMUR-TV. Much of it is based on interviews with Montgomery’s estranged wife, Kayla Montgomery, 32, who agreed to cooperate with prosecutors after reaching a plea deal in a separate perjury case.

According to the affidavit, Kayla Montgomery told police that Adam Montgomery killed Harmony on Dec. 7, 2019, while the family lived in their car. Kayla Montgomery, who was Harmony’s stepmother, said he was driving to a fast food restaurant when he turned around and repeatedly punched Harmony in the face and head because he was angry that she was having bathroom accidents in the car.

“I think I really hurt her this time. I think I did something,” he said, according to Kayla Montgomery.

The couple noticed Harmony was dead hours later when the car broke down, at which time Montgomery put her body in a duffel bag, Kayla Montgomery said.

For the next three months, investigators allege, Adam Montgomery moved the body from container to container and place to place. According to his wife, the locations included the trunk of a friend’s car, a cooler in the hallway of his mother-in-law’s apartment building, the ceiling vent of a homeless shelter and an apartment freezer.

At one point, the remains were kept in a tote bag from a hospital maternity ward, and Kayla Montgomery said she placed it in between her own young children in a stroller and brought it to her husband’s workplace. An employee at the now-closed restaurant told police he saw it there but never questioned Montgomery “since he knew he had children.”

Investigators allege that Montgomery disposed of the body in early March 2020 using a rented moving truck. Toll data shows the truck in question crossed the Tobin Bridge in Boston multiple times, but the affidavit has no other location information to indicate the location Harmony’s body. In April, police searched a marshy area in Revere, Massachusetts.

 

[Mel70]

This absolutely evil piece of s*** deserves the death penalty. Which New Hampshire does have. But I can see what is going to happen if that was an option. It would be taken off the table to be led to her body. This poor little, Adorable girl.

 

[Summer_Breeze]

Where is Harmony Montgomery’s body? Unsealed documents offer some clues

Unsealed documents claim that Adam Montgomery used a U-Haul van to dispose of Harmony Montgomery's body after moving her to various locations for months.

www.masslive.com

• Published: Jun. 22, 2023, 5:17 a.m.
• By Liesel Nygard | LNygard@masslive.com
  
  
  Editor’s note: This story contains a description of the abuse and death of a child and could be disturbing to some readers.
  
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  This article has a few more details from the affidavit than the article posted earlier, but no real indication of where Harmony's body or body parts might be. ~Summer
  

 

[Mel70]

Where is Harmony Montgomery’s body? Unsealed documents offer some clues

Unsealed documents claim that Adam Montgomery used a U-Haul van to dispose of Harmony Montgomery's body after moving her to various locations for months.

www.masslive.com

• Published: Jun. 22, 2023, 5:17 a.m.
• By Liesel Nygard | LNygard@masslive.com
  
  
  Editor’s note: This story contains a description of the abuse and death of a child and could be disturbing to some readers.
  
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  This article has a few more details from the affidavit than the article posted earlier, but no real indication of where Harmony's body or body parts might be. ~Summer

Seems to me he just looked at her as evidence to dispose of. He "F***** up". His wife, Friend as his girlfriend helped in this! 4 people!!! Getting rid of bagS. That indicates to me he may have dismembered her. Kept her in a ceiling, A fridge. This is just so evil and sickening!!! He deserves DEATH!!! UNBELIEVABLE!!! And he had assaulted her many times before. This poor baby girl. This one really bothers me. Not only does the justice system need to fix the very big early parole problem. To stop allowing more victims. They are pretty much giving them a free ticket to do so. But also, If not the death penalty for crimes like this. That the person NEVER EVER has a chance WHATSOEVER to get out of prison! Life WITHOUT parole means just that! And we have seen too many times where it doesn't.

 

[Mel70]

And IIRC. Dumping her remains in another state makes it a federal offense. Automatically making it a death penalty case. I may be wrong. It may be if someone was transported to another state and murdered there.

 

[Summer_Breeze]

MSN

Story by John R. Ellement • Wednesday

New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu is calling on the public to help authorities locate the body of Harmony Montgomery after a police affidavit provided new information Tuesday about the death of the 5-year-old girl. With the death allegedly at the hands of her father, he is accused of hiding her remains, possibly in the Greater Boston area.

In a statement Tuesday, Sununu called the details that became public after the affidavit was ordered unsealed by a Rockingham Superior Court judge “heinous.”

“Such heinous acts of violence, especially towards a child, deserve the maximum punishment the law permits,” the governor said. “Harmony deserves justice and justice must be served. Anyone with relevant information regarding this case is urged to come forward.”

Manchester police have reactivated a special tip line for the Harmony Montgomery investigation. “If you have any information about the location of Harmony’s remains or the circumstances of her murder, please call or text the 24-hour tip line dedicated to Harmony Montgomery at 603-203-6060.”

 

[Guess Who]

Police say Harmony Montgomery’s father hid and moved her body for months after murder

A New Hampshire man charged in the murder of his missing 5-year-old daughter, Harmony Montgomery, spent months moving and hiding her body before disposing of it, according to a police affidavit released Tuesday.Adam Montgomery, 33, pleaded not guilty...

www.concordmonitor.com

By HOLLY RAMER
Associated Press
Published: 6/20/2023 3:38:00 PM

A New Hampshire man charged in the murder of his missing 5-year-old daughter, Harmony Montgomery, spent months moving and hiding her body before disposing of it, according to a police affidavit released Tuesday.

Adam Montgomery, 33, pleaded not guilty in October to second-degree murder, falsifying physical evidence and abuse of a corpse charges. His daughter was reported missing in November 2021, nearly two years after police believe she was killed in Manchester. Her body has not been found.

Although prosecutors requested that information about the case remain sealed, a judge released the affidavit Tuesday in response to a public records request from WMUR-TV. Much of it is based on interviews with Montgomery’s estranged wife, Kayla Montgomery, 32, who agreed to cooperate with prosecutors after reaching a plea deal in a separate perjury case.

According to the affidavit, Kayla Montgomery told police that Adam Montgomery killed Harmony on Dec. 7, 2019, while the family lived in their car. Kayla Montgomery, who was Harmony’s stepmother, said he was driving to a fast food restaurant when he turned around and repeatedly punched Harmony in the face and head because he was angry that she was having bathroom accidents in the car.

“I think I really hurt her this time. I think I did something,” he said, according to Kayla Montgomery.

The couple noticed Harmony was dead hours later when the car broke down, at which time Montgomery put her body in a duffel bag, Kayla Montgomery said.

For the next three months, investigators allege, Adam Montgomery moved the body from container to container and place to place. According to his wife, the locations included the trunk of a friend’s car, a cooler in the hallway of his mother-in-law’s apartment building, the ceiling vent of a homeless shelter and an apartment freezer.

At one point, the remains were kept in a tote bag from a hospital maternity ward, and Kayla Montgomery said she placed it in between her own young children in a stroller and brought it to her husband’s workplace. An employee at the now-closed restaurant told police he saw it there but never questioned Montgomery “since he knew he had children.”

Investigators allege that Montgomery disposed of the body in early March 2020 using a rented moving truck. Toll data shows the truck in question crossed the Tobin Bridge in Boston multiple times, but the affidavit has no other location information to indicate the location Harmony’s body. In April, police searched a marshy area in Revere, Massachusetts.

Does some of this seem a bit far fetched to the rest of you? I have absolutely no question that he killed her and possibly moved her a few times, but in a ceiling vent of a homeless shelter, a cooler in an apt hallway, etc and nobody noticed what would have to be at least an odor???

 

[Summer_Breeze]

Does some of this seem a bit far fetched to the rest of you? I have absolutely no question that he killed her and possibly moved her a few times, but in a ceiling vent of a homeless shelter, a cooler in an apt hallway, etc and nobody noticed what would have to be at least an odor???

Nope.

I find this whole story to be insane! Yes, I believe he really did those things.

Horrifying new details of Harmony Montgomery's murder revealed in unsealed affidavit

Harmony Montgomery's tragic final moments before her murder are detailed in a newly unsealed affidavit that alleges her father beat her to death for having accidents in their car.

www.foxnews.com

By Rebecca Rosenberg | Fox News
Published June 21, 2023 7:30am EDT

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In late December 2019, the family moved into a homeless shelter and allegedly brought Harmony's body with them.

Adam Montgomery stuffed his daughter's body into the ceiling above their bedroom, but liquid seeped from Harmony's corpse and other residents complained about a foul odor, the affidavit says.

Investigators returned to the room in June 2022, opened the ceiling and located a large stained region that tested positive for Harmony's DNA.

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They later dumped Harmony's frozen body under a shower to thaw it out and added lime to the tote bag to help with the decomposition process, Kayla Montgomery told detectives.

"Kayla said Harmony wasn't bones; she had skin, teeth and hair and Kayla could still tell it was her," the court documents say.

When Adam Montgomery tried to fit Harmony back in the bag, he struggled.

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Affidavit linked here: ~Summer

New details released about Harmony Montgomery's death: Read the documents

Editor’s note: Some of the details included in the story below may be disturbing for some readers. Court documents released Tuesday morning include gruesome new details about the death of Harmony Montgomery. The disappearance of the 5-year-old girl and subsequent arrest of her father, Adam...

www.nbcboston.com

Affidavit Details Last Moments of 5-Year-Old Harmony Montgomery's Life: 'I Think I Really Hurt Her'

A New Hampshire court unsealed documents Tuesday detailing Harmony Montgomery's death, noting that she was “dismembered or grossly distorted” in the months that followed

people.com

 

[Guess Who]

Nope.

I find this whole story to be insane! Yes, I believe he really did those things.

Horrifying new details of Harmony Montgomery's murder revealed in unsealed affidavit

Harmony Montgomery's tragic final moments before her murder are detailed in a newly unsealed affidavit that alleges her father beat her to death for having accidents in their car.

www.foxnews.com

By Rebecca Rosenberg | Fox News
Published June 21, 2023 7:30am EDT

<snip>

In late December 2019, the family moved into a homeless shelter and allegedly brought Harmony's body with them.

Adam Montgomery stuffed his daughter's body into the ceiling above their bedroom, but liquid seeped from Harmony's corpse and other residents complained about a foul odor, the affidavit says.

Investigators returned to the room in June 2022, opened the ceiling and located a large stained region that tested positive for Harmony's DNA.

<snip>

They later dumped Harmony's frozen body under a shower to thaw it out and added lime to the tote bag to help with the decomposition process, Kayla Montgomery told detectives.

"Kayla said Harmony wasn't bones; she had skin, teeth and hair and Kayla could still tell it was her," the court documents say.

When Adam Montgomery tried to fit Harmony back in the bag, he struggled.

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Affidavit linked here: ~Summer

New details released about Harmony Montgomery's death: Read the documents

Editor’s note: Some of the details included in the story below may be disturbing for some readers. Court documents released Tuesday morning include gruesome new details about the death of Harmony Montgomery. The disappearance of the 5-year-old girl and subsequent arrest of her father, Adam...

www.nbcboston.com

Affidavit Details Last Moments of 5-Year-Old Harmony Montgomery's Life: 'I Think I Really Hurt Her'

A New Hampshire court unsealed documents Tuesday detailing Harmony Montgomery's death, noting that she was “dismembered or grossly distorted” in the months that followed

people.com

What I can't understand though, is that NOBODY noticed nor inquired!

 

[Guess Who]

What is being reported as "noticed" was not questioned enough by anybody.

 

[Summer_Breeze]

What I can't understand though, is that NOBODY noticed nor inquired!

Breathtakingly sad my fellow poster, is it not? So very heart breaking.

 

[Guess Who]

Breathing taking sad my fellow poster, is it not? So very heart breaking.

I mean, were these places so stench inducing that it wasn't a give away to tell them to remove a cooler that had to have a stench? That nobody would think "much" about a stench coming from a homeless shelter room to not take the person that actually did report the smell seriously? Were the residents of all these places all so numb on narcotics that they really didn't notice? This is the only logical explanation I can come up with and seems par with these two as to where they would be residing.

 

[Summer_Breeze]

I mean, were these places so stench inducing that it wasn't a give away to tell them to remove a cooler that had to have a stench? That nobody would think "much" about a stench coming from a homeless shelter room to not take the person that actually did report the smell seriously? Were the residents of all these places all so numb on narcotics that they really didn't notice? This is the only logical explanation I can come up with and seems par with these two as to where they would be residing.

I hear you so much!!!! Or was it just plain indifference? Not wanting to become involved. I don't know what a decomposing body smells like. And I hope I never do......

Just saying....

 

[Guess Who]

I hear you so much!!!! Or was it just plain indifference? Not wanting to become involved. I don't know what a decompsing body smells like. And I hope I never do......

Just saying....

I unfortunately do! It is not a smell you just don't notice, especially in a populated area.

I thought it was just a dead deer I could smell down on a levee road that had gotten hit and fell down the overgrown ditch, where you couldn't see what was there from the car I drove at the time. It was definitely something "big" and a horrible stench. I would have never assumed it being anything but a deer where it was, but it was nothing you could ignore kind of smell. Found out later that evening they had found it was a person that had evidently gotten hit while walking along that very dark road and got thrown in the ditch from the impact. It was a truck driver that saw a piece of clothing from his much higher vantage point while noting the smell. He had been reported missing a couple of days earlier and had been walking home from work and didn't make it home.

 

[GrandmaBear]

What is being reported as "noticed" was not questioned enough by anybody.

It does say they complained. Why didn't those they complained to do anything to check it out? There will probably be more to come about it, this is early stages.

AWFUL people. She is LUCKY making her deal. Not sure she deserves one.

 

[Guess Who]

It does say they complained. Why didn't those they complained to do anything to check it out? There will probably be more to come about it, this is early stages.

AWFUL people. She is LUCKY making her deal. Not sure she deserves one.

That's why I am wondering if the place stinks to start with or if the ones that would be able to actually do something about it were so out of their minds to care, like it was just too much effort.

 

[GrandmaBear]

I mean, were these places so stench inducing that it wasn't a give away to tell them to remove a cooler that had to have a stench? That nobody would think "much" about a stench coming from a homeless shelter room to not take the person that actually did report the smell seriously? Were the residents of all these places all so numb on narcotics that they really didn't notice? This is the only logical explanation I can come up with and seems par with these two as to where they would be residing.

I don't think it is fair to thihk all people in a homeless shelter are numb on narcotics but they probably don't want to make waves and it did say they complained. Maybe the person complained to thinks all homeless people have things that reek or stink? If so, they aren't the right person to be running the shelter.

But yeah, I get your point. This child was never noticed nor found during all these movements nor any one called over the oddness or odor?

Referring to a dead abused little girl's odor is about as far as I can go. This/they are HORRENDOUS people.

 

[Guess Who]

I don't think it is fair to thihk all people in a homeless shelter are numb on narcotics but they probably don't want to make waves and it did say they complained. Maybe the person complained to think all homeless people have things that reek or stink? If so, they aren't the right person to be running the shelter.

But yeah, I get your point. This child was never noticed nor found during all these movements nor any one called over the oddness or odor?

Referring to a dead abused little girl's odor is about as far as I can go. This/they are HORRENDOUS people.

I am far from calling all homeless shelters are like that. I am just wondering if THAT one is like that for them not to inquire much about the report of a stench coming from that room.

We have volunteered a a few different shelters and I can guarantee you, the management would have been all over that in those. There are rules of cleanliness in the ones I am familiar with that allow families to stay. The men's shelter is a whole different story, but I am sure they still would have been on "that" smell.

Yes, it's disgusting that we have come to discussing her as an odor, but it's very much a part of the story now, unfortunately.