September 24, 2024 • 34 mins
Harmony Montgomery was 5 years old when she was last seen in December of 2019, but she is not reported missing for two years. When police track down Adam Montgomery and ask about Harmony, he tells them Harmony is with her mother in Florida. Police inform him that Crystal Sorey, Harmony's mother is the one who asked for them to check on Harmony, Adam Montgomery doesn't cooperate, but the media catches on to the story and pressure is brought to find the special needs girl with the beautiful smile. To this day, Harmony Montgomery is still missing. A judge declared Harmony dead in March 2024, clearing the way for Harmony's mother, Crystal Sorey to file a wrongful death lawsuit against the state of New Hampshire alleging systemic failures in the state's child protection system. The lawsuit seeks monetary damages and answers from the state of New Hampshire surrounding Harmony's disappearance and death.
Adam Montgomery was sentenced to 56 years to life in prison for the murder of Harmony Montgomery as well as second-degree assault, witness tampering, falsifying physical evidence, and abuse of a corpse.
Transcript Highlights
00:00.00 Introduction - update Harmony Montgomery case
02:39.79 Crystal Sorey, Harmony's mother, files lawsuit against New Hampshire
05:00.76 Family called about abuse, nothing was done
09:03.23 Judge declared Harmony dead, body still not found
14:04.73 Adam Montgomery beats Harmony in back seat of car
18:57.46 Family told social services, Adam blackened her eye
24:28.68 Description of Harmony dying in backseat of car
27:46.64 Kayla Montgomery told police about beating in car
32:42.38 Conclusion - Hope someone listens
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Body does, but Joseph's gotten more. One of the biggest
problems that I have encountered as a death investigator.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Is a phrase that.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
It's so common that people say this both families and
friends of a deceased individual. They will always say, I
cannot believe they are gone. The reason many people cannot
believe that someone is gone, I think at a base level,
is because they didn't witness the death or they were
(00:40):
not physically there to put their hands on the remains
of their loved one. It's a very tactile event. I
think it goes back in our DNA for centuries to
verify something. I want to update you in a case
today in evolving the life and death of precious Precious
(01:07):
Harmony Montgomery. We've done an episode on bodybags relative to Harmony,
but there's some newer information that I kind of wanted
to address and it does specifically deal with this idea
of I can't believe she's gone in the reason.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Why is it we still don't have her body.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is Bodybags, Dave. I'm
glad you mentioned this case to us for an update.
First off, I think for the entire time of me
covering this case on Long Crime and on Court TV,
and then of course with Nancy. I've been furious the
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entire day. Anytime Harmony's name would arise, all I could
see is that precious little face wearing glass is who
it was blind in one eye, and that was totally
depended upon the adults in her life too, not just nurture,
but just to provide for basic.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Care for her.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
And she was just failed miserably, not by the monster
who has been held responsible now for her death, but
the other adults in her life as well as government
entities that should have done something, and they failed her.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
And it's the failure, Joe, that is the reason for
today's update, because just a few days ago, Harmony Montgomery's mother,
Crystal Sorry, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the
State of New Hampshire, alleging systemic failures in the state's
child protection system. Crystal Sorry was not able to file
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the lawsuit hill Harmony was actually declared legally dead, which
happened last March. Since then, Adam Montgomery, Harmony's father, has
been convicted for killing five year old Harmony in twenty nineteen.
The lawsuit seeks monetary damages and answers from the State
of New Hampshire surrounding Harmony's disappearance and death. Crystal Sory's
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lawyer is well known in New Hampshire. His name is
Russ Riley. In May of this year, he won a
thirty eight million dollar judgment against the state for David Meehan,
one of hundreds who say they were physically and sexually
abused in the state's youth detention center. Now during Adam
Montgomery's murder trial, information on the DCYF reports came out,
(03:45):
and Crystal Sory's lawsuit says that at least half a
dozen family members, friends, neighbors alerted the agency about Harmony's
safety and living conditions between July twenty ninth and October
fifth of twenty nineteen. Adamcgumm own uncle Kevin Montgomery, called
DCYF several times on July twenty ninth, twenty nineteen, after
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seeing Harmony with a really bad black eye and finding
out that Adam Montgomery had beaten the little girl. After
talking to DCYF, they were kind of arguing with him
over his dates, you know, the dates that he remembered,
and he finally got so frustrated, I said, this is
why children die. Adam Montgomery's own grandmother, Helen Montgomery. She
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reported d CYF a few days after Kevin did in
August of twenty nineteen, saying that she believed Harmony was
going to end up like Bella Bond. Now Bella Bond
was a two year old who was found dead on
Deer Island in Boston Harbor in twenty fifteen. It was
a huge story at the time. The boyfriend of Bella's
mother was convicted of second degree murder in that case
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in twenty seventeen, So mentioning that in the context of,
you know, with what's going on with Harmony meant something.
A case worker bonded in a report that he had
spoken with Adam Montgomery's drug counselor and had seen an
injury to Harmony's eye, which the family said came from
her brother hitting her with a toy lightsaber. Adam Montgomery
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got custody in February of twenty nineteen. Harmony was dead
by December, according to the lawsuit, and the lawsuit of
course blames the state.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
But yet we don't have Harmony's body. Dave, you know
all these years later. What year did her case star
is too gosh, twenty nineteen.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
That's when she went missing. Yeah, but she wasn't reported
missing for two years.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Yeah, that's right, And so the genesis of the same
goes back to nineteen Yeah, right.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
And the part that is so frustrating, upsetting, and will
you know, you'll have that moment where in one second
you have tears and another second you have blind rage
because of what happened to this child who more than most,
depended on the adults in her life, more than most.
She needed that assistant and more of the most. We
(06:01):
see the pictures of her with her glasses, and we
know the uphill battle she has, and we know that
you look at her on some of the pictures and
she's smiling so big, and you're thinking that the world
that she was living in there was nothing to smile about. Yes,
she was. And then I remember the first Where's harmony?
(06:22):
You know, I remember those cases we were looking for her.
When the story broke.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
There was a hashtag out for a long time. It
was called Where's Where's Harmony?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Yeah, And it started when her mother actually and okay,
without really digging the deep hoole In this Harmony's mom
and her biological mother and father both have drug issues,
and in many of those cases, one person or the
other will get sober or have moments of sobriety and
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have custody, which is what happened with Harmony. She became
a victim of her own parents. Her her own mother
was trying to get sober and trying to get her
life back, but her mother did not have custody, did
not have physical custody of Harmony. Her father, Adam Montgomery,
had physical custody of Harmony. Montgomery and her mother was
(07:15):
in Florida, and Harmony's father was in I was going
to say the New England area, but for the most
part around Boston to the north.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Yeah, they spent time in New Hampshire and then they
would kind of shuttle between you know there he had
he had spent a lot of time in Massachusetts, but
they were in New Hampshire and oh, by the way, yeah,
he was taking grand care of her as they lived
in a Chrysler Sea Brain convertible, so you know, way
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to go. Yeah, but I'm saying that in a snarky manner,
but way to go directed at him and also directed
at the people that should have been keeping track of
this already train wrecked situation with this poor child. They
should have known better. No one kept no one kept
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an eye on her at all. And that's what's so
frustrating for me. You know, Nancy talks about family Children's
Services all the time.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
I do too.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
I've had If you think she's had some experiences, I've
had probably double the number of experiences she has had
as a practitioner, because I see the end result of it.
I have for years and years. And you look and
you say, all it would have taken was a phone call,
or all it would have taken was a home visit,
and all it would have taken is just an ounce
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of accountability, you know, where you're holding somebody responsible and
that that didn't happen. So whatever beating she took along
the way and neglect, there are other people other than
Harmony's father that had the hand on the wheel in
this day.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
I think that's an important point that there were other
people involved the evil that is Adam Montgomery. And the
reason for the update is that Adam Montgomery was convicted
by a jury of his peers for killing his daughter Harmony. Yeah,
a judge ruled her dead because we don't have her body.
Even now, Joe, we still do not know where the
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body of Harmony Montgomery is.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
We have never had and that was a big I
think that that's the you know, obviously Adam Montgomery has
been in fact convicted and is cooling his heels and
penitentiary right now. But a bigger piece to this, as
a follow up, was that the judge has in fact
declared her dead. And listen, people go missing, they have
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for years and years, and the court will in fact
have to declare them dead simply as a result of
their absence. Uh, they're not reappearing. And that's you know,
that's when we're talking about adults, Dave, most of the time.
Now we're talking about a handicapped.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Little girl.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Who had did not possess the ability to take care
of herself at all in these harsh New England winners,
you know that they experienced up there, and that's what's
so heartbreaking about this. And we you know, we have
this other circumstantial information that comes from Adam Montgomery's girlfriend
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that was domiciled, you know, in the car, if you know,
if we can say that and along with yeah, yeah, exactly,
and then you know, and they would migrate around. But
what she bore witness to, uh, was you know, she
she was aware.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
That that harmony had died. There's no doubt.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
I mean she you know, he, let's just say it plainly,
he had knocked hell out of her for a long,
protracted period of time, and these events had been born
witness to, and it was that fatal blow. I think
it was a fatal blow that occurred in the back
of that car because she you know, let's face it,
(11:23):
I mean she's she's having to live in the back
seat of a two door car, a convertible in the winter,
and she sold herself and she had a problem with this,
and a lot of little kids do. It's the nature
of being a little kid. But how much more so
for her. You can imagine for folks in the audience
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that have been part of an abusive situation. As a child,
like I was, you're always nervous. You don't know what's
going to happen next you. You think that the hand
is going to be drawn back on you and you're
going to be knocked around again. And so for a
little child like this, they're met with anger at every turn.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
And so.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
That's the situation. She she had to end dwell. But
you know, I think about it is that people talked
about Harmony is this little angel that she was always
happy and sweet and you know that. You know, I
use the analogy of throwing a throwing a brick through
a stained glass window.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Why would you do that? You know? And and in.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Her case, uh, that's what happened.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
She died in the backs that car.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
When Adam Montgomery decided to fly into what seems to
be a consistent rage with this child, he didn't try
to mask it. He struck her in the face and
about the head, over and over and over again, and
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actually in front of this witness that it turns out
he was married to I think for a time, and
she bore witness to this and no shame.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
So you've got Adam Montgomery driving the car, Calea Montgomery
in the passenger seat. In the back Harmony Montgomery. Harmony
had an accident. As we mentioned, she is a special
girl and has some special needs. She allegedly had an
accident in the car and according to Kayla Montgomery, she
and Adam had just scored some heroin and they were
on their way to Burger King. I don't know if
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they had used the heroin at this point or not,
but they had just I'm assuming they did, because otherwise
it wouldn't be in the story. But when Adam is
drying the car and he attacks Harmony, she's in the
back seat. He's in the front seat driving and he
attacks her for having an accident, and he beats her
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about the face. Not once, it's like you're driving down
the road. Ha. He hits her, not once, not twice,
but three different times. He beats his five year old
special needs daughter, who can't see out of one eye,
and he beats her so bad that the last time
he hits her, he tells Kayla the step bomb. I
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think I really hurt her this time. I think I
did something. That's when he crushed her face with his
bare hands, his fist. He hit a five year old
special needs girl in the back seat of the car
while he's driving so hard that he knew he had
killed her.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
And they continued on the Burger camp. Yep, that's you
know where they were headed. And you know what's key
in that statement, Dave to me, if I'm trying to
figure this out forensically, and trying to understand the trauma.
And it's that quote. It's not so much I think
I really hurt her, it's I think I really hurt
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her this time, which implies that this is an ongoing issue.
And as we find out, he has been known to
strike this child specifically for this reason, for soiling herself.
And let's just break it down and look, little kids,
you don't have to have special needs issues. It's compounded,
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you know, potty training and all that. And just so
that we can paint the picture, this guy can do
no better for his kid than to provide a domicile
in a Chrysler product. That's the domicile, okay, And the
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child probably from moment to moment doesn't know where they're
going to go. When's the next time I'm going to
be able to go potty? And she's faced with that
decision and can you imagine And I've tried to think
about this legitimately from this perspective, because it's this kind
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of learned, a responsive behavior that she's going to have.
When you see people that have been abused as a result,
particularly when they're being struck, if there is a long line,
all the abuser has to do. It doesn't even take emotion.
You can turn and glare at them, and particularly with
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a child, a five year old child, and it gets
their attention very very quickly, and she can This is
the thing, and this is what breaks my heart about it.
This child who is forced to live in this Chrysler
product is living in a small space. And just so
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you know, the seabreing is a two door car. It's
not a four door. It's a cramp space. She's occupying
the back seat. There is an awareness of fear. It
just kind of permeates this environment. And all he has
to do is turn around. And so what does she do?
I upset, you know, a T ten on myself or
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whatever it was. However they became aware. Maybe it was
a smell. I have no idea. But when we think
about this, I hurt her this time when you're an
autopsy and you're trying to understand trauma to anyone, but
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let's just think about harmony. There'll never be an opportunity
to do an autopsy.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
A doubt pair.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Seriously, but you look at this progression of trauma where
a child is initially struck, that heals, and then you
strike them again and you have these kind of overlapping,
maybe focal areas of hemorrha throughout the body. That's one
of the reasons when I instruct police officers, and particularly
those that that work crimes against children, we have a
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chart that we use where I teach them about contusions
and bruises and that sort of thing, because you can
you can learn a lot. It's almost like the rings
of a tree in a horrific way. But dependent upon
what the status of a contusion is, you can get
an idea that there has been a progression, not so
much a progression as like a continued series of abuses.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Then they could find out. See. One of the things
the police found during their investigation was that in July
of twenty nineteen, during that summer that Adam Montgomery had
admitted to family members that he hit Harmony so hard
in the face that he blackened her eye, and rather
than tell them that she fell down or hit it,
he actually told them I hit her. And when police
were investigating and talking to family to corroborate some of
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the things they were being told, family said, yeah, he
hit her so hard it black and dry. You'd be
able to figure that out if you had the opportunity
to look at her later to find out if this
was a regular pattern of abuse.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Yeah, and you know that.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
I'm glad you brought up the blackened eye because it
troubles me when you have and if anybody's ever broken
their nose for instance, or seen someone that has had
some kind of plastic surgery, say a rhinoplasty or something
like that, they'll have bilateral, bilateral blackened eyes. And one
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of the reasons is is that there was a fracturing
that's going on and the floor of the skull is
very thin. It's when you get behind the eyes that
area is and I've had forensic pathologists describe it as
as eggshell like. And so if you and I've seen
this done, you can actually take a skull in a
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flashlight and if you can position it just right and
there's some dissection that has gone but just trust me
with this. You can shine a flashlight up through the
floor of the skull and it is translucent almost. That's
how thin that bone is, and so how much more
so for a five year old if you're dealing with
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repeated strikes. We're in twenty twenty four now, and I
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really thought that by this time we were going to
find Harmony. I thought that there would be a breaking
news story that you know, and it's typical, you know,
they go to a shot on TV, you see a
bunch of trucks lined up, and you say, we don't
(21:02):
we can't confirm yet, but we know that the police
are working in this area. Unnamed sources now tell us
that they're you know, they're on a recovery wells As
horrible as that is, I thought that maybe that would
happen and we would have more answers, But my friend,
I don't have really any more answers today than I did.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
You're right, we don't know. We don't know where her
body is, but we know more about the story of
what they did with Harmony's body after she after he
beat her to death in the back seat of that
car and they had car trouble.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
And and then you know, being placed in a duffel
bag to we transported her.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
They preferred to it they being the everybody involved in
the case the Burger Kang beating, because they were on
their way to Burger King and that's when she had
the accident in the back seat and Adam Montgomery beat her.
He beat her regularly, which yeah, goes beyond I point
that out and just in case somebody ends up in
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prison with him, to remind them what he did to
a five year old little by the way, a five
year old girl who had special needs, blind in one eye,
and he beat her regularly, and the last time he
beat her, he actually said to his girlfriend, Kayla, I
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think I really hurt her this time. I think I
really hurt her this time.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
This time.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Yeah, I think I did something. And they said harmony,
and harmony made moaning sounds for the next five minutes
in the backseat of that cardro and then it stopped.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
And yeah, I'd love to say something about that. And
this is just me, you know, kind of projecting. I
think to a great degree the reason she was moaning
obviously it was in pain, but she's slowly losing consciousness.
Because here's what I think if he had, if Adam
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Montgomery had been striking his child as violently as has
been reported, it would not surprise me, Dave, that she
had already had some kind of indwelling cerebral event that
had occurred, maybe kind of a slow bleed, and that
moaning that we're talking about I've often wondered did she
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throw up as a result of it, because sometimes with
head injuries like this, with these kind of closed head injuries,
where pressure is building up, you'll see you'll see a
person violently react. They'll there'll be an onset of nausea, vomiting,
this sort of thing, and then they'll lapse into a coma,
and that moaning, you know, kind of accompanies this. They're
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slowly becoming nonverbal, Dave. So I hope I've painted kind
of the picture that she's drifting way in the backseat
of that filthy car out in the middle of the street,
and that's where she met her in people have always
wondered and will continue to wonder where she is. I
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have held that I think he could tell us at
least where he deposited her. And I have thought, and
this is the cynic in me. I think I've thought
that perhaps perhaps he was using this as leverage to
get something better, you know, to say, yeah, I'll you
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move me from this section of the jail to this section.
If you do that, I'll tell you because he's not
going to get out well, at least, I hope no
right thinking group of people would allow him to skirt
any part of his sentence at all. But I've often
thought that he would try to leverage that information, almost
(24:59):
like serial killer, does you know where They're always saying, yeah, well,
I was involved in this one, even though they might
not have been. He was involved in this. He knows
where her body is and what's the name of that
place outside of Revere, Massachusetts. It's like the kind of
swampy area. It's like a reserve that's down there. A
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saltwater marsh is what it comes down to. And you know,
our thought was and has been that he was allegedly
familiar with that area, and he took what remained of
her after all of those years, and after him literally
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carrying her little body around in various conveyances, he had
her in a gym bag, duffelback type of thing.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
I was looking at that because, you know, when we
were talking about that marshy area, I'm looking for the
name of it right now, and it escapes me. But
his girlfriend provided the information. You know, when you look
at Adam Montgomery being in charge of his daughter, Harmony,
and he had a girlfriend, Kayla, who was living with him,
and she was working at this place or that place
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to support them and their drug habit from time to time,
and they did live in a number of different places,
not just homeless shelters and their car. She would her daughter,
Harmony would talk to her mother from time to time.
They would skype her what have you. And that ended.
That just kind of stopped, and it took time before
she ever actually said anything because she was not in
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a position to actually say much because she wasn't living
within the law. Apparently. Anyway, it was two years before
anybody said, I don't know where Harmony Montgomery is. And
that's why if you remember Joe, when we first covered this,
we thought, okay, I thought, the police are out there
at this house looking for this little girl who you know,
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who's gone missing. She's special needs. Lets help find her.
Let's get the word out right now. And then as
the story broker, like, wait a minute, she didn't just leave.
When was the last time somebody saw her? Yep, And
it really became as we were covering the story, it's
like unbelievable, a five year old goes missing for two
(27:22):
years with special needs. Yes, and anyway, that's where it began.
In anyway, Eventually, Kayla, the girlfriend they've kind of got her.
They they are they being investigators. They know the information
is there, They know the information, the truth can be had.
They just have to lean the right way on the
right person. And they were able to separate Kayla the
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girlfriend from Adam long enough to get the story out
to know what happened on the trip to Burger king
about her groaning, moaning, and her breath ending in the
backseat of that filthy, nasty Chrysler seabring on, you know,
And then she talks about that they moved a couple
of different times from this place to that place. They
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put her body on the side of the road the
car broke down, And imagine you've got your dead five
year old daughter in the backseat of the car and
your car breaks down, and you grab a duffel bag
and under armoured bag and cram her body into that
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and then go.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Under those that intense spotlight because you know, if you
break down the middle of the road, authorities are going
to show up sooner or later.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
And so.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
This is how cold he is. Reptilian. I would describe
it as he's able to manage this sleight of hand.
And that was one of the biggest the the biggest
things I think that the defense had raised in this
case was how was he able to do this?
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Was because.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
I think that he's used to violence, and he's used
to nefarious activity, and so it doesn't it doesn't phase
him necessarily like any like it would anybody. And you
go back to that statement, what was it he said,
I think I heard her this time. This time, I
think A really hurt her this time, implying of course
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that she's been hurt multiple times, but this time, this time,
I think I really hurt her. And so it's not
a far leap to think that he could transport that,
you know, or transfer her body from the interior the
card into the bag and then just you know, well
you know, I'm here with my family, cars broken down.
We got to beat feet down the road tru to
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find a solution to all of this, and as it
turns out, they begin transporting her body around to these
various locations. He's even taken her to work in a
restaurant adjacent to a walking cooler, or placed in a
walking cooler wha he's working there. It's it's listen if you,
if you and I try to pitch this in Hollywood.
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They wouldn't bite. They'd say, this is ridiculous, this happened.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Nobody is that evil, Joe. You got to rewrite this.
There's no way nobody didn't believe this. Yeah, I know,
and so you're old at least don't make her handy.
Come on, man, I know.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
It's just too it's too far over the top. But
you know, stranger than fiction, right, And so you look
at this and the you know, it's an important piece
here obviously that he's been convicted. And my fear is
is that with harmony, like so many other children, we're
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going to forget her. And I don't want to. I mean,
and there's a lot of other people that don't want to.
We spend a lot of time covering this case, and
it's not the our investment of time. I'm going to
be here anyway, but this case, like it did with
so many other people out there, really struck a nerve.
And it's important that the courts have acknowledged that she
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now has officially been declared dead deceased. That's going to
enable I think now, as a result of this action
by the court, enable her mother to take certain other
steps in her life. Moving on, I don't know that
this person will ever roll over on her whereabouts because
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I reflect back to that bodycam footage that they had
of him in the road with the detectives, and the
detectives saying, look, we're not trying to jam you up.
This is just there's a missing little girl. We want
to know. He's completely resistant to it. It's about self preservation.
And I'm thinking, well, he's been found guilty, now he's incarcerated,
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he doesn't have detectives there pressuring him. What would be
the motivation for him to ever say where he deposited.
I just hope that at some point in time, maybe
in the correction system, when he's in this environment, he's
going to let us guard down, He's going to say
something to somebody. But here's the real rub with this.
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If he took her remains to the saltwater marsh area, Dave,
as you know, because I know you've lived by the
Atlantic for a period of time and I've lived around
the Gulf of Mexico. Saltwater marshes are depended upon the tides,
so as they rise and they fall, they also draw out.
I don't know. And the girlfriend alluded to the fact
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that she was removed from the Duffel bag and had
the bag that she was placed in, interestingly enough, with
a maternity bag from a local hospital, which again is
a real that you can't the irony so thick you
could cut it. This precious little life, her body that
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had already would have decayed significantly. He had rendered her down.
The girlfriend had put forth this idea that he had
dismembered her and took her the totality of her what
was left of her components, placed him in a bag.
If he did deposit her in that saltwater marsh, she
could have been drawn out to sea, and not to
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mention any kind of aquatic life that's in there. I
don't know that we'll ever have her physical remains, but
I do know this. Adam Montgomery is incarcerated. He has
been found guilty of Harmony's murder. I just hope that
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her life will mean something, particularly to those that are
charged with the awesome responsibility of watching over those that
can't take care of themselves, little kids out there just
like Harmony. Let this please be a warning, be a benchmark,
be a monument that stands in her memory, to watch
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her for those who are helpless, and that are very
vulnerable to the world around them because the world is
in fact filled with monsters. I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and
this is body Bags
Body does, but Joseph's gotten more. One of the biggest
problems that I have encountered as a death investigator.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Is a phrase that.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
It's so common that people say this both families and
friends of a deceased individual. They will always say, I
cannot believe they are gone. The reason many people cannot
believe that someone is gone, I think at a base level,
is because they didn't witness the death or they were
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not physically there to put their hands on the remains
of their loved one. It's a very tactile event. I
think it goes back in our DNA for centuries to
verify something. I want to update you in a case
today in evolving the life and death of precious Precious
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Harmony Montgomery. We've done an episode on bodybags relative to Harmony,
but there's some newer information that I kind of wanted
to address and it does specifically deal with this idea
of I can't believe she's gone in the reason.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Why is it we still don't have her body.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is Bodybags, Dave. I'm
glad you mentioned this case to us for an update.
First off, I think for the entire time of me
covering this case on Long Crime and on Court TV,
and then of course with Nancy. I've been furious the
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entire day. Anytime Harmony's name would arise, all I could
see is that precious little face wearing glass is who
it was blind in one eye, and that was totally
depended upon the adults in her life too, not just nurture,
but just to provide for basic.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Care for her.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
And she was just failed miserably, not by the monster
who has been held responsible now for her death, but
the other adults in her life as well as government
entities that should have done something, and they failed her.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
And it's the failure, Joe, that is the reason for
today's update, because just a few days ago, Harmony Montgomery's mother,
Crystal Sorry, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the
State of New Hampshire, alleging systemic failures in the state's
child protection system. Crystal Sorry was not able to file
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the lawsuit hill Harmony was actually declared legally dead, which
happened last March. Since then, Adam Montgomery, Harmony's father, has
been convicted for killing five year old Harmony in twenty nineteen.
The lawsuit seeks monetary damages and answers from the State
of New Hampshire surrounding Harmony's disappearance and death. Crystal Sory's
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lawyer is well known in New Hampshire. His name is
Russ Riley. In May of this year, he won a
thirty eight million dollar judgment against the state for David Meehan,
one of hundreds who say they were physically and sexually
abused in the state's youth detention center. Now during Adam
Montgomery's murder trial, information on the DCYF reports came out,
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and Crystal Sory's lawsuit says that at least half a
dozen family members, friends, neighbors alerted the agency about Harmony's
safety and living conditions between July twenty ninth and October
fifth of twenty nineteen. Adamcgumm own uncle Kevin Montgomery, called
DCYF several times on July twenty ninth, twenty nineteen, after
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seeing Harmony with a really bad black eye and finding
out that Adam Montgomery had beaten the little girl. After
talking to DCYF, they were kind of arguing with him
over his dates, you know, the dates that he remembered,
and he finally got so frustrated, I said, this is
why children die. Adam Montgomery's own grandmother, Helen Montgomery. She
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reported d CYF a few days after Kevin did in
August of twenty nineteen, saying that she believed Harmony was
going to end up like Bella Bond. Now Bella Bond
was a two year old who was found dead on
Deer Island in Boston Harbor in twenty fifteen. It was
a huge story at the time. The boyfriend of Bella's
mother was convicted of second degree murder in that case
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in twenty seventeen, So mentioning that in the context of,
you know, with what's going on with Harmony meant something.
A case worker bonded in a report that he had
spoken with Adam Montgomery's drug counselor and had seen an
injury to Harmony's eye, which the family said came from
her brother hitting her with a toy lightsaber. Adam Montgomery
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got custody in February of twenty nineteen. Harmony was dead
by December, according to the lawsuit, and the lawsuit of
course blames the state.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
But yet we don't have Harmony's body. Dave, you know
all these years later. What year did her case star
is too gosh, twenty nineteen.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
That's when she went missing. Yeah, but she wasn't reported
missing for two years.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Yeah, that's right, And so the genesis of the same
goes back to nineteen Yeah, right.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
And the part that is so frustrating, upsetting, and will
you know, you'll have that moment where in one second
you have tears and another second you have blind rage
because of what happened to this child who more than most,
depended on the adults in her life, more than most.
She needed that assistant and more of the most. We
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see the pictures of her with her glasses, and we
know the uphill battle she has, and we know that
you look at her on some of the pictures and
she's smiling so big, and you're thinking that the world
that she was living in there was nothing to smile about. Yes,
she was. And then I remember the first Where's harmony?
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You know, I remember those cases we were looking for her.
When the story broke.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
There was a hashtag out for a long time. It
was called Where's Where's Harmony?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Yeah, And it started when her mother actually and okay,
without really digging the deep hoole In this Harmony's mom
and her biological mother and father both have drug issues,
and in many of those cases, one person or the
other will get sober or have moments of sobriety and
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have custody, which is what happened with Harmony. She became
a victim of her own parents. Her her own mother
was trying to get sober and trying to get her
life back, but her mother did not have custody, did
not have physical custody of Harmony. Her father, Adam Montgomery,
had physical custody of Harmony. Montgomery and her mother was
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in Florida, and Harmony's father was in I was going
to say the New England area, but for the most
part around Boston to the north.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Yeah, they spent time in New Hampshire and then they
would kind of shuttle between you know there he had
he had spent a lot of time in Massachusetts, but
they were in New Hampshire and oh, by the way, yeah,
he was taking grand care of her as they lived
in a Chrysler Sea Brain convertible, so you know, way
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to go. Yeah, but I'm saying that in a snarky manner,
but way to go directed at him and also directed
at the people that should have been keeping track of
this already train wrecked situation with this poor child. They
should have known better. No one kept no one kept
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an eye on her at all. And that's what's so
frustrating for me. You know, Nancy talks about family Children's
Services all the time.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
I do too.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
I've had If you think she's had some experiences, I've
had probably double the number of experiences she has had
as a practitioner, because I see the end result of it.
I have for years and years. And you look and
you say, all it would have taken was a phone call,
or all it would have taken was a home visit,
and all it would have taken is just an ounce
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of accountability, you know, where you're holding somebody responsible and
that that didn't happen. So whatever beating she took along
the way and neglect, there are other people other than
Harmony's father that had the hand on the wheel in
this day.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
I think that's an important point that there were other
people involved the evil that is Adam Montgomery. And the
reason for the update is that Adam Montgomery was convicted
by a jury of his peers for killing his daughter Harmony. Yeah,
a judge ruled her dead because we don't have her body.
Even now, Joe, we still do not know where the
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body of Harmony Montgomery is.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
We have never had and that was a big I
think that that's the you know, obviously Adam Montgomery has
been in fact convicted and is cooling his heels and
penitentiary right now. But a bigger piece to this, as
a follow up, was that the judge has in fact
declared her dead. And listen, people go missing, they have
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for years and years, and the court will in fact
have to declare them dead simply as a result of
their absence. Uh, they're not reappearing. And that's you know,
that's when we're talking about adults, Dave, most of the time.
Now we're talking about a handicapped.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Little girl.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Who had did not possess the ability to take care
of herself at all in these harsh New England winners,
you know that they experienced up there, and that's what's
so heartbreaking about this. And we you know, we have
this other circumstantial information that comes from Adam Montgomery's girlfriend
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that was domiciled, you know, in the car, if you know,
if we can say that and along with yeah, yeah, exactly,
and then you know, and they would migrate around. But
what she bore witness to, uh, was you know, she
she was aware.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
That that harmony had died. There's no doubt.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
I mean she you know, he, let's just say it plainly,
he had knocked hell out of her for a long,
protracted period of time, and these events had been born
witness to, and it was that fatal blow. I think
it was a fatal blow that occurred in the back
of that car because she you know, let's face it,
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I mean she's she's having to live in the back
seat of a two door car, a convertible in the winter,
and she sold herself and she had a problem with this,
and a lot of little kids do. It's the nature
of being a little kid. But how much more so
for her. You can imagine for folks in the audience
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that have been part of an abusive situation. As a child,
like I was, you're always nervous. You don't know what's
going to happen next you. You think that the hand
is going to be drawn back on you and you're
going to be knocked around again. And so for a
little child like this, they're met with anger at every turn.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
And so.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
That's the situation. She she had to end dwell. But
you know, I think about it is that people talked
about Harmony is this little angel that she was always
happy and sweet and you know that. You know, I
use the analogy of throwing a throwing a brick through
a stained glass window.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Why would you do that? You know? And and in.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Her case, uh, that's what happened.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
She died in the backs that car.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
When Adam Montgomery decided to fly into what seems to
be a consistent rage with this child, he didn't try
to mask it. He struck her in the face and
about the head, over and over and over again, and
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actually in front of this witness that it turns out
he was married to I think for a time, and
she bore witness to this and no shame.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
So you've got Adam Montgomery driving the car, Calea Montgomery
in the passenger seat. In the back Harmony Montgomery. Harmony
had an accident. As we mentioned, she is a special
girl and has some special needs. She allegedly had an
accident in the car and according to Kayla Montgomery, she
and Adam had just scored some heroin and they were
on their way to Burger King. I don't know if
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they had used the heroin at this point or not,
but they had just I'm assuming they did, because otherwise
it wouldn't be in the story. But when Adam is
drying the car and he attacks Harmony, she's in the
back seat. He's in the front seat driving and he
attacks her for having an accident, and he beats her
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about the face. Not once, it's like you're driving down
the road. Ha. He hits her, not once, not twice,
but three different times. He beats his five year old
special needs daughter, who can't see out of one eye,
and he beats her so bad that the last time
he hits her, he tells Kayla the step bomb. I
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think I really hurt her this time. I think I
did something. That's when he crushed her face with his
bare hands, his fist. He hit a five year old
special needs girl in the back seat of the car
while he's driving so hard that he knew he had
killed her.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
And they continued on the Burger camp. Yep, that's you
know where they were headed. And you know what's key
in that statement, Dave to me, if I'm trying to
figure this out forensically, and trying to understand the trauma.
And it's that quote. It's not so much I think
I really hurt her, it's I think I really hurt
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her this time, which implies that this is an ongoing issue.
And as we find out, he has been known to
strike this child specifically for this reason, for soiling herself.
And let's just break it down and look, little kids,
you don't have to have special needs issues. It's compounded,
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you know, potty training and all that. And just so
that we can paint the picture, this guy can do
no better for his kid than to provide a domicile
in a Chrysler product. That's the domicile, okay, And the
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child probably from moment to moment doesn't know where they're
going to go. When's the next time I'm going to
be able to go potty? And she's faced with that
decision and can you imagine And I've tried to think
about this legitimately from this perspective, because it's this kind
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of learned, a responsive behavior that she's going to have.
When you see people that have been abused as a result,
particularly when they're being struck, if there is a long line,
all the abuser has to do. It doesn't even take emotion.
You can turn and glare at them, and particularly with
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a child, a five year old child, and it gets
their attention very very quickly, and she can This is
the thing, and this is what breaks my heart about it.
This child who is forced to live in this Chrysler
product is living in a small space. And just so
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you know, the seabreing is a two door car. It's
not a four door. It's a cramp space. She's occupying
the back seat. There is an awareness of fear. It
just kind of permeates this environment. And all he has
to do is turn around. And so what does she do?
I upset, you know, a T ten on myself or
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whatever it was. However they became aware. Maybe it was
a smell. I have no idea. But when we think
about this, I hurt her this time when you're an
autopsy and you're trying to understand trauma to anyone, but
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let's just think about harmony. There'll never be an opportunity
to do an autopsy.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
A doubt pair.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Seriously, but you look at this progression of trauma where
a child is initially struck, that heals, and then you
strike them again and you have these kind of overlapping,
maybe focal areas of hemorrha throughout the body. That's one
of the reasons when I instruct police officers, and particularly
those that that work crimes against children, we have a
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chart that we use where I teach them about contusions
and bruises and that sort of thing, because you can
you can learn a lot. It's almost like the rings
of a tree in a horrific way. But dependent upon
what the status of a contusion is, you can get
an idea that there has been a progression, not so
much a progression as like a continued series of abuses.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Then they could find out. See. One of the things
the police found during their investigation was that in July
of twenty nineteen, during that summer that Adam Montgomery had
admitted to family members that he hit Harmony so hard
in the face that he blackened her eye, and rather
than tell them that she fell down or hit it,
he actually told them I hit her. And when police
were investigating and talking to family to corroborate some of
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the things they were being told, family said, yeah, he
hit her so hard it black and dry. You'd be
able to figure that out if you had the opportunity
to look at her later to find out if this
was a regular pattern of abuse.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Yeah, and you know that.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
I'm glad you brought up the blackened eye because it
troubles me when you have and if anybody's ever broken
their nose for instance, or seen someone that has had
some kind of plastic surgery, say a rhinoplasty or something
like that, they'll have bilateral, bilateral blackened eyes. And one
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of the reasons is is that there was a fracturing
that's going on and the floor of the skull is
very thin. It's when you get behind the eyes that
area is and I've had forensic pathologists describe it as
as eggshell like. And so if you and I've seen
this done, you can actually take a skull in a
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flashlight and if you can position it just right and
there's some dissection that has gone but just trust me
with this. You can shine a flashlight up through the
floor of the skull and it is translucent almost. That's
how thin that bone is, and so how much more
so for a five year old if you're dealing with
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repeated strikes. We're in twenty twenty four now, and I
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really thought that by this time we were going to
find Harmony. I thought that there would be a breaking
news story that you know, and it's typical, you know,
they go to a shot on TV, you see a
bunch of trucks lined up, and you say, we don't
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we can't confirm yet, but we know that the police
are working in this area. Unnamed sources now tell us
that they're you know, they're on a recovery wells As
horrible as that is, I thought that maybe that would
happen and we would have more answers, But my friend,
I don't have really any more answers today than I did.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
You're right, we don't know. We don't know where her
body is, but we know more about the story of
what they did with Harmony's body after she after he
beat her to death in the back seat of that
car and they had car trouble.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
And and then you know, being placed in a duffel
bag to we transported her.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
They preferred to it they being the everybody involved in
the case the Burger Kang beating, because they were on
their way to Burger King and that's when she had
the accident in the back seat and Adam Montgomery beat her.
He beat her regularly, which yeah, goes beyond I point
that out and just in case somebody ends up in
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prison with him, to remind them what he did to
a five year old little by the way, a five
year old girl who had special needs, blind in one eye,
and he beat her regularly, and the last time he
beat her, he actually said to his girlfriend, Kayla, I
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think I really hurt her this time. I think I
really hurt her this time.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
This time.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Yeah, I think I did something. And they said harmony,
and harmony made moaning sounds for the next five minutes
in the backseat of that cardro and then it stopped.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
And yeah, I'd love to say something about that. And
this is just me, you know, kind of projecting. I
think to a great degree the reason she was moaning
obviously it was in pain, but she's slowly losing consciousness.
Because here's what I think if he had, if Adam
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Montgomery had been striking his child as violently as has
been reported, it would not surprise me, Dave, that she
had already had some kind of indwelling cerebral event that
had occurred, maybe kind of a slow bleed, and that
moaning that we're talking about I've often wondered did she
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throw up as a result of it, because sometimes with
head injuries like this, with these kind of closed head injuries,
where pressure is building up, you'll see you'll see a
person violently react. They'll there'll be an onset of nausea, vomiting,
this sort of thing, and then they'll lapse into a coma,
and that moaning, you know, kind of accompanies this. They're
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slowly becoming nonverbal, Dave. So I hope I've painted kind
of the picture that she's drifting way in the backseat
of that filthy car out in the middle of the street,
and that's where she met her in people have always
wondered and will continue to wonder where she is. I
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have held that I think he could tell us at
least where he deposited her. And I have thought, and
this is the cynic in me. I think I've thought
that perhaps perhaps he was using this as leverage to
get something better, you know, to say, yeah, I'll you
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move me from this section of the jail to this section.
If you do that, I'll tell you because he's not
going to get out well, at least, I hope no
right thinking group of people would allow him to skirt
any part of his sentence at all. But I've often
thought that he would try to leverage that information, almost
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like serial killer, does you know where They're always saying, yeah, well,
I was involved in this one, even though they might
not have been. He was involved in this. He knows
where her body is and what's the name of that
place outside of Revere, Massachusetts. It's like the kind of
swampy area. It's like a reserve that's down there. A
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saltwater marsh is what it comes down to. And you know,
our thought was and has been that he was allegedly
familiar with that area, and he took what remained of
her after all of those years, and after him literally
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carrying her little body around in various conveyances, he had
her in a gym bag, duffelback type of thing.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
I was looking at that because, you know, when we
were talking about that marshy area, I'm looking for the
name of it right now, and it escapes me. But
his girlfriend provided the information. You know, when you look
at Adam Montgomery being in charge of his daughter, Harmony,
and he had a girlfriend, Kayla, who was living with him,
and she was working at this place or that place
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to support them and their drug habit from time to time,
and they did live in a number of different places,
not just homeless shelters and their car. She would her daughter,
Harmony would talk to her mother from time to time.
They would skype her what have you. And that ended.
That just kind of stopped, and it took time before
she ever actually said anything because she was not in
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a position to actually say much because she wasn't living
within the law. Apparently. Anyway, it was two years before
anybody said, I don't know where Harmony Montgomery is. And
that's why if you remember Joe, when we first covered this,
we thought, okay, I thought, the police are out there
at this house looking for this little girl who you know,
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who's gone missing. She's special needs. Lets help find her.
Let's get the word out right now. And then as
the story broker, like, wait a minute, she didn't just leave.
When was the last time somebody saw her? Yep, And
it really became as we were covering the story, it's
like unbelievable, a five year old goes missing for two
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years with special needs. Yes, and anyway, that's where it began.
In anyway, Eventually, Kayla, the girlfriend they've kind of got her.
They they are they being investigators. They know the information
is there, They know the information, the truth can be had.
They just have to lean the right way on the
right person. And they were able to separate Kayla the
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girlfriend from Adam long enough to get the story out
to know what happened on the trip to Burger king
about her groaning, moaning, and her breath ending in the
backseat of that filthy, nasty Chrysler seabring on, you know,
And then she talks about that they moved a couple
of different times from this place to that place. They
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put her body on the side of the road the
car broke down, And imagine you've got your dead five
year old daughter in the backseat of the car and
your car breaks down, and you grab a duffel bag
and under armoured bag and cram her body into that
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and then go.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Under those that intense spotlight because you know, if you
break down the middle of the road, authorities are going
to show up sooner or later.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
And so.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
This is how cold he is. Reptilian. I would describe
it as he's able to manage this sleight of hand.
And that was one of the biggest the the biggest
things I think that the defense had raised in this
case was how was he able to do this?
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Was because.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
I think that he's used to violence, and he's used
to nefarious activity, and so it doesn't it doesn't phase
him necessarily like any like it would anybody. And you
go back to that statement, what was it he said,
I think I heard her this time. This time, I
think A really hurt her this time, implying of course
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that she's been hurt multiple times, but this time, this time,
I think I really hurt her. And so it's not
a far leap to think that he could transport that,
you know, or transfer her body from the interior the
card into the bag and then just you know, well
you know, I'm here with my family, cars broken down.
We got to beat feet down the road tru to
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find a solution to all of this, and as it
turns out, they begin transporting her body around to these
various locations. He's even taken her to work in a
restaurant adjacent to a walking cooler, or placed in a
walking cooler wha he's working there. It's it's listen if you,
if you and I try to pitch this in Hollywood.
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They wouldn't bite. They'd say, this is ridiculous, this happened.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Nobody is that evil, Joe. You got to rewrite this.
There's no way nobody didn't believe this. Yeah, I know,
and so you're old at least don't make her handy.
Come on, man, I know.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
It's just too it's too far over the top. But
you know, stranger than fiction, right, And so you look
at this and the you know, it's an important piece
here obviously that he's been convicted. And my fear is
is that with harmony, like so many other children, we're
(30:38):
going to forget her. And I don't want to. I mean,
and there's a lot of other people that don't want to.
We spend a lot of time covering this case, and
it's not the our investment of time. I'm going to
be here anyway, but this case, like it did with
so many other people out there, really struck a nerve.
And it's important that the courts have acknowledged that she
(31:00):
now has officially been declared dead deceased. That's going to
enable I think now, as a result of this action
by the court, enable her mother to take certain other
steps in her life. Moving on, I don't know that
this person will ever roll over on her whereabouts because
(31:23):
I reflect back to that bodycam footage that they had
of him in the road with the detectives, and the
detectives saying, look, we're not trying to jam you up.
This is just there's a missing little girl. We want
to know. He's completely resistant to it. It's about self preservation.
And I'm thinking, well, he's been found guilty, now he's incarcerated,
(31:50):
he doesn't have detectives there pressuring him. What would be
the motivation for him to ever say where he deposited.
I just hope that at some point in time, maybe
in the correction system, when he's in this environment, he's
going to let us guard down, He's going to say
something to somebody. But here's the real rub with this.
(32:12):
If he took her remains to the saltwater marsh area, Dave,
as you know, because I know you've lived by the
Atlantic for a period of time and I've lived around
the Gulf of Mexico. Saltwater marshes are depended upon the tides,
so as they rise and they fall, they also draw out.
I don't know. And the girlfriend alluded to the fact
(32:34):
that she was removed from the Duffel bag and had
the bag that she was placed in, interestingly enough, with
a maternity bag from a local hospital, which again is
a real that you can't the irony so thick you
could cut it. This precious little life, her body that
(32:54):
had already would have decayed significantly. He had rendered her down.
The girlfriend had put forth this idea that he had
dismembered her and took her the totality of her what
was left of her components, placed him in a bag.
If he did deposit her in that saltwater marsh, she
could have been drawn out to sea, and not to
(33:17):
mention any kind of aquatic life that's in there. I
don't know that we'll ever have her physical remains, but
I do know this. Adam Montgomery is incarcerated. He has
been found guilty of Harmony's murder. I just hope that
(33:38):
her life will mean something, particularly to those that are
charged with the awesome responsibility of watching over those that
can't take care of themselves, little kids out there just
like Harmony. Let this please be a warning, be a benchmark,
be a monument that stands in her memory, to watch
(34:02):
her for those who are helpless, and that are very
vulnerable to the world around them because the world is
in fact filled with monsters. I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and
this is body Bags
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