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

 

[Cousin Dupree]

GUILTY on all charges!!!

 

[GrandmaBear]

Here it is. She is not on the entire time of the length of this. Just in the beginning until done. For anyone who couldn't watch it all, and all was worth it, just listen to this witness. All ties together and more but she is outstanding imo.

 

[GrandmaBear]

She was a nurse. And she wins the round with the defense. They tried to trip her to no avail. She circumvented them.

 

[GrandmaBear]

I am actually rewatching it. It isn't the part which is significant also, with the prosecution so much, as how she deals with the defense.

 

[GrandmaBear]

With prosecution it comes out that he said he hated Harmony so that is big. Her entire testimony and the way she looks to the jury and all, she is just a GOOD witness. And an inmate to boot.

 

[GrandmaBear]

Lol she looks at the jury and says she is a criminal. Says it to defense who wants to go through it. Says yes if you say so. I am a criminal I am telling you that. Lol. I don't deny it. Don't know why it would make a difference. And so on.

 

[GrandmaBear]

She never interrupts, so is not admonished but she gets her point across always. Admits to being a criminal. She was Kelsey's friends.

Always been a lot of questions as to Kelsey's death too...

 

[GrandmaBear]

Maybe it's just me and she definitely has drug issues and was no perfect citizen but she faces it, tells it and despite Adam being her friiend, she tells it for Harmony.

 

[GrandmaBear]

 

[GrandmaBear]

Vinnie maybe as impassioned seeming as I've ever seen.

 

[Summer_Breeze]

‘Failures’: Emotional Manchester police chief calls for accountability in wake of Montgomery trial

While Aldenberg did not delve into specifics, the veteran police chief lobbed blame at the feet of Massachusetts and New Hampshire state officials.

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By Bryan Lambert, Boston 25 News Staff and Litsa Pappas, Boston 25 News
February 22, 2024 at 9:32 pm EST

Moments after Adam Montgomery was convicted of second-degree murder by a jury in the death of his 5-year-old daughter, Manchester Police Chief Allen Aldenberg said Thursday represented a milestone, but not a celebration in the quest for justice for Harmony Montgomery.

“It’s never a good day with these things. Is it about winning or losing? This is about a five-year-old girl that was murdered, by her father. And I can think of no worse crime,” Aldenberg said as tears welled in his eyes.

<snip>

Before her murder, Harmony was in and out of DCF foster homes in Massachusetts for four years until February 2019, when a judge awarded permanent custody to her father Adam, who has a long criminal history. Harmony was sent to live out of state without an ICPC, an Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children, between Ma and NH child welfare agencies.

Even though there was no interstate compact in place, 25 Investigates uncovered police and DCYF were at Harmony’s Manchester home multiple times between February and December 2019, when she ultimately disappeared.

While Aldenberg did not delve into specifics, the veteran police chief lobbed blame at the feet of Massachusetts and New Hampshire state officials.

“There’s been there’s been some failures here. And those failures were not on the part of the Manchester Police Department,” said Aldenberg. “I will stand by that, till the end of my career. I still firmly believe that some people in some other agencies need to be held accountable. And I’m asking for that. This little five-year-old girl, she deserves somebody to be held accountable that failed along the way. Because we wouldn’t be standing here today if other people had done their job.”

In May, The Massachusetts Office of Child Advocates released a scathing report that found the Massachusetts system prioritized parental rights over the safety and well-being of Harmony.

<snip>

“One of the things that we could not state before but we can more clearly state now after the verdict is that during the trial, people heard the last place Adam Montgomery had driven that U-Hhaul to. I have some specifics on that and I hope people are paying attention,” Agati said. “He drove 133 miles on that U-Haul. Subtracting the 3.2 miles back and forth from the rental, that left him with roughly a 106-mile road trip all the way down at least through the Tobin Bridge tolls, we know. Northbound, southbound, and northbound again through those tolls, and then back to Manchester. That only left him with 26 miles of driving that he could have done between where he was at the Econo Lodge in Manchester and going through the Tobin those three times.”

Aldenberg pleaded for Adam to reveal the location of Harmony’s body.

“Maybe within him is a small shred of decency, that causes him to, maybe let us know where Harmony is because he knows. So maybe somewhere in that soul or whatever’s going on there. Let’s do the right thing,” said Aldenberg.

 

[RoundPeg]

‘Failures’: Emotional Manchester police chief calls for accountability in wake of Montgomery trial

While Aldenberg did not delve into specifics, the veteran police chief lobbed blame at the feet of Massachusetts and New Hampshire state officials.

www.boston25news.com

By Bryan Lambert, Boston 25 News Staff and Litsa Pappas, Boston 25 News
February 22, 2024 at 9:32 pm EST

Moments after Adam Montgomery was convicted of second-degree murder by a jury in the death of his 5-year-old daughter, Manchester Police Chief Allen Aldenberg said Thursday represented a milestone, but not a celebration in the quest for justice for Harmony Montgomery.

“It’s never a good day with these things. Is it about winning or losing? This is about a five-year-old girl that was murdered, by her father. And I can think of no worse crime,” Aldenberg said as tears welled in his eyes.

<snip>

Before her murder, Harmony was in and out of DCF foster homes in Massachusetts for four years until February 2019, when a judge awarded permanent custody to her father Adam, who has a long criminal history. Harmony was sent to live out of state without an ICPC, an Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children, between Ma and NH child welfare agencies.

Even though there was no interstate compact in place, 25 Investigates uncovered police and DCYF were at Harmony’s Manchester home multiple times between February and December 2019, when she ultimately disappeared.

While Aldenberg did not delve into specifics, the veteran police chief lobbed blame at the feet of Massachusetts and New Hampshire state officials.

“There’s been there’s been some failures here. And those failures were not on the part of the Manchester Police Department,” said Aldenberg. “I will stand by that, till the end of my career. I still firmly believe that some people in some other agencies need to be held accountable. And I’m asking for that. This little five-year-old girl, she deserves somebody to be held accountable that failed along the way. Because we wouldn’t be standing here today if other people had done their job.”

In May, The Massachusetts Office of Child Advocates released a scathing report that found the Massachusetts system prioritized parental rights over the safety and well-being of Harmony.

<snip>

“One of the things that we could not state before but we can more clearly state now after the verdict is that during the trial, people heard the last place Adam Montgomery had driven that U-Hhaul to. I have some specifics on that and I hope people are paying attention,” Agati said. “He drove 133 miles on that U-Haul. Subtracting the 3.2 miles back and forth from the rental, that left him with roughly a 106-mile road trip all the way down at least through the Tobin Bridge tolls, we know. Northbound, southbound, and northbound again through those tolls, and then back to Manchester. That only left him with 26 miles of driving that he could have done between where he was at the Econo Lodge in Manchester and going through the Tobin those three times.”

Aldenberg pleaded for Adam to reveal the location of Harmony’s body.

“Maybe within him is a small shred of decency, that causes him to, maybe let us know where Harmony is because he knows. So maybe somewhere in that soul or whatever’s going on there. Let’s do the right thing,” said Aldenberg.

I completely agree.

 

[Summer_Breeze]

Adam Montgomery found guilty of murdering 5-year-old daughter, Harmony

A jury has found Adam Montgomery guilty of murdering his 5-year-old daughter, Harmony.

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Updated: 10:13 PM EST Feb 22, 2024
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<snip>

Sentencing likely will be scheduled for sometime after April 1, but it could be as late as May. Prosecutors said they plan to file a request to require that Adam Montgomery be present for sentencing.

Adam Montgomery was not in court as the verdicts were read, and he had not attended the trial since jury selection.

<snip>

Adam Montgomery faces a sentence of 35 years to life in prison on the second-degree murder charge. Agati said that is the minimum sentence that should be imposed because the victim was younger than 13 years old.

The felony charges of second-degree assault, falsifying physical evidence and tampering with a witness carry sentences of three-and-a-half to seven years in prison, while the abuse of a corpse misdemeanor charge has a maximum sentence of 12 months in jail.

 

[Kimster]

Reading the details was bad enough. I completely agree. He will NEVER divulge where her body is. Like you said. It's his last thing he has control of. He has absolutely nothing to gain from giving the information. That would be the only reason IMO, That he would. The jury. I am glad they found him guilty on ALL 5 COUNTS!!!!

From the evidence given in the trial, I don’t think her body can be found.

 

[GrandmaBear]

Well said by the police chief! It isn't only DCYF, there is also a judge who placed her with this felon of sperm donor. Only Adam killed her but they sent her into the hands of her killer with no escape from the horrors to be had. I would add they can blame the other state, however, there was also a worker who did nothing over the reported black eye was there not, in their state? He ran off with her to hide her and when seen a week later, there was still evidence of it. Both agencies and a judge severelly failed. There were MANY times something could have went differently.
An abandoned car that had been full of children and two parents living in it. At an intersection. Was anything looked into with that? Kayla certainly failed although I do believe she was a battered woman, she still failed.

It is gut wrenching that this child could not win, she had NO escape from he repeated horrors.

Good for him for calling it out and this better not get shoved under the rug.

I've said it in other cases where there are such failures that these people need to be criminally charged in some cases if you ask me. If a female cop in Mpls can go to prison over mixing up her taser with her gun unintentionally, well then what happened here has people in their jobs that deserve even more time. Hey, it's my opinion and is shared by many and it isn't the only one that is. Talk of understaffing or needing more money it always is. Bulls**t. Extra money would end up in the wrong place and more staff would only do the same. It is far more than that, it is a total failure to perform one's duties and neglect in many of these cases.

Then on the other hand we have cases where they snatch the child from someone who is not the worst and place them with far worse.

This man's record alone was enough reason for her to never be placed with him! They weren't prioritizing family first although what a great excuse. They were washing their hands and getting one off their plate sending her to a completely different state without paperwork or agreement.

As is always the case, one never hears the names of these offenders until if it ever comes to it (rarely does) one has to be named. And they generally end up blaming just some low level worker and lack of training or some such with a small slap at the agency to clean it up or change this thing or that. In the few that ever proceed to anything and it still ends up shoved under the rug with an apparent reprimand or two and firing or two.

We see case after case after case with children lost by the system and never checked or followed up on or them placed in the hands of monsters, whether foster parents that should never have been approved and PAID, adoptive parents the same, or biological parents who kept claiming her after death for food benefits and on their taxes. Oh yes, taxes too for anyone who didn't watch. Adam told Kayla to claim her when they discussed what to do on their tax return. Homeless but they are going to get that tax refund for all the kids. No income but we know money comes in big to those with many children despite never paying in. The major need to get that refund on top of their constant need for drugs and money that never lasted that came from who knows where? To get the rental vehicle and enough money to dispose of Harmony for once and for all and quit reducing her and carrying her around.

This man is SUCH a monster. He hated his own daughter and said as much and I believe every word of that.

This child suffered greatly and could not win no matter what she did or did not do. She was a nuisance to them, imo they all were. She was expected to be the five year old caretaker as well of her brothers and keep them shut up or she got it from Adam but then if she tried to shut them up to save the wrath from "daddy" she got bashed around the room. He said her "accidents" were on purpose. BULL!!! She couldn't win if she had to go and said something and was an inconvenience or if she kept quiet to save the wrath and went in her pants. Abuse also regresses formerly potty trained children.

There are a lot of heads that need to roll here yet and I don't mean Kayla as detestable as her lack of spine and backbone is, she too stuck with a monster. Harmony had nowhere to escape and Kayla too had someone handing her a phone when seeing her battered injuries and Adam ripped it out of the person's hands to ensure she could call no one.

I don't like deals and Kayla did get one but I don't feel the way about it i do in some other cases like Homolka and Frazee/Kenney. Those women had true outs at any time imo and were INVOLVED in all the acts and as sick as their counterpart. Kayla is no gem but she didn't do this and was also with this maniac.

And more than one who worried about their own lives and troubles testified whether they wanted to or not for Harmony and were in prison. Apparently for no further deal and at their own peril.

They DID. Bandero did. NOW where are the OFFICIALS like the judge and the DCYF employees who sent Harmony to her death and into the hands of her killer?

I'll tell ya what would help fix such problems. True and criminal consequences for those that did this. It would on one hand stop some from going into the position if such could happen to them the type that aren't going to do their job and due diligence and it would make the ones that do go into such a position ones that have every intent of doing their job and doing it right. It would be a start. We see it now with cops. Not all good but not all bad in that they are called out and criminally prosecuted for a failure in their job or abuse. I am sure it has many stepping away, doing things right or not going into the career and helps weed out. And judges who actually do their job, oh my, now that's a harder one....But a HUGE need.

Just my strong opinion and no one has to agree but many out there sure do so I know I'm not out of line.

Softness, hope and it is what it is will not change anything or lack of care. I have no need to know or hear this stuff as none of us want to but that's just burying one's head and not even on a computer keyboard standing up for what is right.

Neither will now allowing defendants to not come to court. Harmony couldn't go where she wanted. And was made to do as many dead children are what they shouldn't have had dto do. Adam though can sit in jail with his bubba and ignore the trial of the death of HIS child that he asked for (the trial) and not attend.

Finally, it is as sick as can be that acts such as this, repeated acts only qualify for second degree charges. This needs to be rethought and the law changed. First degree should apply to repeated heinous acts when the person after one, or two, or three or kazillion certainly should know better by then and while that may not exactly be premeditated, it is knowledge you did it before, are doing it again and some abuser like that KNOWS they likely will again as is the case here. Things need to change and laws maybe need to be updated with the times. Lord knows on the other side of things they sure are changing where now a defedant is not ordered to come to court, things are delayed at their behest for a decade in some cases and so on. They are let out of jail or get a deal when they have a clear record of they are never going to change their felonious ways. That all changes. Time for the other side of it to change too and for some DCYF people and maybe a judge to face some charges.

I won't get into the DP but Adam Montgomery deserves such. That's another topic that oh, don't go there right... Harmony got the death penalty and was beaten repeatedly and had nowhere to turn. This trial was not as bad to watch as many feared as to details, we knew them all already but just like all such, they don't need to say them because we can all imagine living in a car with no toilet, with parents scared to be found in a parking lot living there, doing drugs and you name it that there was NO chance of going to the toilet if asking nicely or even peeing outside the car in the parking lot. They had FIVE people in a car and no life and were drugging. Three children. Nothing needs to be said in detail too much in court for any average person to although we did not live it, magine the problems with that and the stress.

Two in diapers on top of Harmony. OMG. No water. No bathroom.

This poor child deserves to be found would be the only other ending that needs to happen to make what can never be right or fair a bit better. I don't hve a lot of hope with that. He won't tell, this man's nature imo will never have him doing that. I don't think there is much less. The team in this case though did one fantastic job of investigating and turning over ever piece of anything and ever witness, whether a stellar citizen or not, and finding the best case they could for this child and they WON and their serious efforts paid off. They have the distance where she is as said above and I saw elsewhere last night narrowed down majorly. Even in a not so many mile stretch we have a little girl almost reduced to probably nothingness to find, still a needle in a haystack.

But Harmony is fine and safer than she has ever been in her short life. Not her choice to leave but she is in a better place. Not having her remains or giving them up is the last control now for this evil POS sperm donor. And it bites for family but those are the physical remains that he desecrated repeatedly. SHE isn't there wherever that is.

Working a week or more of watching it through. And trying to settle.

Big step done. Convicted on ALL FIVE CHARGES. Stellar job by the team for Harmony. Stellar smart seeing jury.

But it is not over. Others need to be taken down. In the drug world or in Adam and Kayla's world? No. In the world of officials and agencies.

RIP you beautiful child. One of imo the worst things is the story of her silencing or trying to the brother, as if she was some evil killing child. Of course she wasn't. She was trying to not get daddy mad at her/them all if the baby cried when she was to be watching him when he was taking a sh*t which I doubt by the way that that was all there was to it, more likely he was drugging or some other or even who knows, not home or watching any of them. That's his story.

And he hated her.

Just processing to get through watching almost all of it.

RIP Harmony. People are here now and care. Too late. Maybe your case if no one stops about it or does see the further parts through can help change things for others or save even one.

Sorry. Need to process through this and talk it out. I have watched it morning and night.

Just my strong opinions, not milktoast ones. I don't find that odd since a child was brutalized here and stuck in he77. I have no milktoast in me.
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[Mel70]

‘Failures’: Emotional Manchester police chief calls for accountability in wake of Montgomery trial

While Aldenberg did not delve into specifics, the veteran police chief lobbed blame at the feet of Massachusetts and New Hampshire state officials.

www.boston25news.com

By Bryan Lambert, Boston 25 News Staff and Litsa Pappas, Boston 25 News
February 22, 2024 at 9:32 pm EST

Moments after Adam Montgomery was convicted of second-degree murder by a jury in the death of his 5-year-old daughter, Manchester Police Chief Allen Aldenberg said Thursday represented a milestone, but not a celebration in the quest for justice for Harmony Montgomery.

“It’s never a good day with these things. Is it about winning or losing? This is about a five-year-old girl that was murdered, by her father. And I can think of no worse crime,” Aldenberg said as tears welled in his eyes.

<snip>

Before her murder, Harmony was in and out of DCF foster homes in Massachusetts for four years until February 2019, when a judge awarded permanent custody to her father Adam, who has a long criminal history. Harmony was sent to live out of state without an ICPC, an Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children, between Ma and NH child welfare agencies.

Even though there was no interstate compact in place, 25 Investigates uncovered police and DCYF were at Harmony’s Manchester home multiple times between February and December 2019, when she ultimately disappeared.

While Aldenberg did not delve into specifics, the veteran police chief lobbed blame at the feet of Massachusetts and New Hampshire state officials.

“There’s been there’s been some failures here. And those failures were not on the part of the Manchester Police Department,” said Aldenberg. “I will stand by that, till the end of my career. I still firmly believe that some people in some other agencies need to be held accountable. And I’m asking for that. This little five-year-old girl, she deserves somebody to be held accountable that failed along the way. Because we wouldn’t be standing here today if other people had done their job.”

In May, The Massachusetts Office of Child Advocates released a scathing report that found the Massachusetts system prioritized parental rights over the safety and well-being of Harmony.

<snip>

“One of the things that we could not state before but we can more clearly state now after the verdict is that during the trial, people heard the last place Adam Montgomery had driven that U-Hhaul to. I have some specifics on that and I hope people are paying attention,” Agati said. “He drove 133 miles on that U-Haul. Subtracting the 3.2 miles back and forth from the rental, that left him with roughly a 106-mile road trip all the way down at least through the Tobin Bridge tolls, we know. Northbound, southbound, and northbound again through those tolls, and then back to Manchester. That only left him with 26 miles of driving that he could have done between where he was at the Econo Lodge in Manchester and going through the Tobin those three times.”

Aldenberg pleaded for Adam to reveal the location of Harmony’s body.

“Maybe within him is a small shred of decency, that causes him to, maybe let us know where Harmony is because he knows. So maybe somewhere in that soul or whatever’s going on there. Let’s do the right thing,” said Aldenberg.

He has NO shred of decency.

 

[Mel70]

From the evidence given in the trial, I don’t think her body can be found.

I've only heard that a couple of times. I don't remember the name. It was a serial killer from the 70's IIRC. He was linked to some victims. But their 2 of their bodies were "Not recoverable". All the moving around he did with Harmony’s remains. I'm sadly not surprised. But enraged!

 

[Mel70]

No. The system is OBVIOUSLY BROKEN!!! It worked this time.

 

[GrandmaBear]

He has NO shred of decency.

I agree wholeheartedly. Just watching this man through the years without even the testimony of others, he is as cold and evil as they come. There isn't a shred, an ounce, a pittance of decency in this one. NONE.

 

[GrandmaBear]

I've only heard that a couple of times. I don't remember the name. It was a serial killer from the 70's IIRC. He was linked to some victims. But their 2 of their bodies were "Not recoverable". All the moving around he did with Harmony’s remains. I'm sadly not surprised. But enraged!

I think there is some small amount left that he disposed of which they do know with the rental vehicle but so little that it is needle in a haystack even in a 20 mile distance. He was so bent thoughout on hiding her when he finally did dispose of her I am sure he didn't just get careless meaning leave a bag in the woods or even just drop her in the water off a dock. His whole concern from the time he murdered her was concealing it totally and reducing her. Sickeningly. When he finally did dispose what I am saying is he didn't just throw her out the car window or some such.

She isn't there though, we know that. Wherever it is. She is somewhere better.

I pray she is found but she IS somewhere better than Adam fricking Montgomery's he77 on earth for Harmony. FAR better. Night and day better.