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Who is Harmony Montgomery’s father, Adam Montgomery?
Harmony's father, Adam, has had multiple run-ins with the law before his relation to his daughter's disappearance
POLICE were left with questions when a five-year-old girl was reported missing two years after she vanished.
The investigation into Harmony Montgomery's disappearance led local authorities to the girl's father, Adam.
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Who is Harmony Montgomery's father, Adam Montgomery?
On January 4, 2022, Adam Montgomery was arrested and charged with various crimes.
Montgomery had been charged with felony second-degree assault, interfering with custody, and child endangerment stemming from his alleged 2019 conduct against Harmony.
He is also the prime suspect in the 2008 murder of Darlin Guzman in Lynn, Massachusetts, according to .
On February 10, 2008, cops found Guzman had been fatally shot in a convenience store parking lot in Lynn's Austin Square.
She was shot in the chest and pronounced dead upon arrival at a nearby hospital.
Montgomery, who was 18 at the time, along with two family members has been the sole focus of the murder probe.
The outlet said Montgomery and his two family members agreed to meet with Guzman at the convenience store when she was fatally shot.
Her car was recovered days later in Billerica, which is in the direction of Bedford, New Hampshire, where Montgomery was living with his family at the time.
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On June 8, 2023, Montgomery stood trial for an unrelated case and was found guilty of eight weapon charges brought against him.
Montgomery also faced charges relating to his missing daughter Harmony Montgomery's murder, who was five years old the last time she was seen.
Adam Montgomery found guilty of 5-year-old daughter Harmony’s murder as coward dad is a no-show during two-week trial
Harmony disappeared in October 2019 but was not reported missing until December 2021.
On, January 4, 2022, Montgomery was arrested in connection to his daughter's disappearance.
Investigators believe that Adam repeatedly struck Harmony in the head, which led to her death.
Three years after her disappearance, authorities continued searching for the little girl and her body which has yet to be recovered.
On February 22, 2024, Montgomery was found guilty of the murder of his five-year-old daughter following a two-week trial.
He was found guilty of second-degree assault, second-degree murder, falsifying evidence, abuse of a corpse, and witness tampering.
During an emotional confession, Montgomery's estranged wife, Kayla, testified saying the suspect beat Harmony to death after she had repeated bathroom accidents in the car they were living in.
Kayla told the jury that after Montgomery killed his daughter, she saw him take Harmony's lifeless body and "fold her in half, and squished" her inside a Catholic Medical Center hospital bag.
She revealed the body was moved a few times including the ceiling vent of a homeless shelter, a freezer, and the cooler in an apartment building.
During the two-week trial, Montgomery was deemed a no-show in court.
On May 9, 2024, he was sentenced to 45 years to life in prison for the murder of his daughter after declining a 35-to-life plea deal from the prosecution in exchange for his confession on the location of Harmony's remains.
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Who was Harmony Montgomery and when did she go missing?
Harmony is a resident of Manchester, New Hampshire, and was five years old when she went missing in 2019.
She was enrolled at a Massachusetts school at the time of her disappearance, but Police Chief Allen Aldenberg told the media that Manchester authorities were not alerted to Harmony's disappearance until December 2021, two years after she had gone missing.
Aldenberg said: "For us to have a two-year delay, that is extremely concerning."
He added: "That's not something that happens to us on a regular basis. It doesn't happen every day."
Harmony's parents, Crystal Sorey and Adam, are not together. Sorey lost custody of her daughter to Montgomery in July 2018.
Montgomery later married Kayla Montgomery, although Kayla alleges she hasn't been in contact with him since November 2021.
She told authorities he had moved into a sober house and then moved to Maine with his girlfriend, Kelsey Small.
Small told authorities that she and Montgomery had dated for over a year and while she was aware that he had children with Kayla, she hadn't known about Harmony.
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What did the police say about Harmony's missing person report?
The investigation into Harmony's disappearance intensified in June 2022 after police were reportedly seen rolling a refrigerator into a home that was linked to Montgomery.
Manchester police told The Sun that the home is currently "the focus of the investigation."
Footage from shows FBI agents unloading a fridge and rolling it towards the home - a move that is usually used to "maintain biological evidence," a former agent exclusively told The Sun.
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"If they found a body or body parts in a freeze, law enforcement would want to maintain the level of decomposition," the agent said.
"I have a really creepy feeling about this. it's not good."
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