Volunteers have gathered to search for the remains of murdered five-year-old Harmony Montgomery on Massachusetts’ North Shore.
Her murderous father, Adam Montgomery, 34, was sentenced to 45 years to life in prison for the 2019 murder of the little girl in New Hampshire.
He beat Harmony to death for defiling herself and refused to reveal where he left her body.
Harmony’s mother, Crystal Sorey, organized the search Saturday at the Rumney Marsh Preserve where investigators believe Montgomery visited in March 2020.
“That’s the acceptance that I’ve had to deal with in my grieving, just accepting the fact that he’s never going to do the right thing for her,” Sorey told WCVB.
Harmony Montgomery (pictured), 5, was murdered by her father who refuses to reveal the whereabouts of her remains
Volunteers gathered to search for his body on Massachusetts’ North Shore on Saturday
“I have had many dreams and this region has been part of my dreams.”
Although Harmony’s remains had not been found as of Saturday, authorities said they were focusing on the route of a U-Haul Montgomery rented in March 2020.
They were able to track the vehicle’s movements between Manchester and the Tobin Bridge in Boston using toll data.
“Adam Montgomery drove 133 miles in the U-Haul truck. After driving 3.2 miles round trip in the rental vehicle, he had traveled approximately 106 miles on his route, including the Tobin Bridge tolls,” said Ben Agati, New Hampshire’s senior assistant attorney general.
“He traveled north, south, and then north again through these toll booths before returning to Manchester. So he had about 26 miles of road left from the Manchester Econo Lodge to the Tobin Bridge.
“Harmony’s remains are probably somewhere along this road.”
Her murderer father, Adam Montgomery (pictured), 34, was sentenced to 45 years to life in prison for the 2019 killing.
Harmony’s mother, Crystal Sorey, organized the search Saturday at the Rumney Marsh Preserve where investigators believe Montgomery went in March 2020.
Montgomery was convicted in February of Harmony’s murder, as well as witness tampering, tampering with physical evidence and abuse of a corpse.
Prosecutors gave the killer one last chance to reveal the location of Harmony’s remains in exchange for a state recommendation for a lesser sentence, but were met with silence from Montgomery’s attorneys.
He was sentenced to 45 years to life in prison for the brutal murder of the five-year-old, and is serving a minimum sentence of 32 1/2 years in prison on unrelated charges in the gun case.
Police believe Harmony was killed nearly two years before she was reported missing in 2021.
A judge declared Harmony legally dead in March, at her mother’s request.
Montgomery had custody of Harmony. Her mother, who was no longer in a relationship with him, said the last time she saw Harmony was on a video call in April 2019.
Police believe Harmony was killed nearly two years before her disappearance in 2021
A judge declared Harmony legally dead in March at her mother’s request.
She eventually went to police, who announced they were looking for the missing child on New Year’s Eve 2021. Montgomery and his wife told police he had taken his daughter to live with Sorey in Massachusetts.
Harmony’s stepmother, Kayla Montgomery, was paroled in May after serving an 18-month sentence for perjury.
She testified that her husband killed Harmony on December 7, 2019, while the family was living in their car.
Kayla Montgomery said he was driving to a fast food restaurant when he turned around and punched Harmony multiple times in the face and head because he was angry that she was having bathroom accidents in the car.
She said he then hid the body in the trunk of a car, in a ceiling vent at a homeless shelter and in the freezer at his workplace before disposing of it in March 2020.
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