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Major update in Harmony Montgomery case after ‘FBI seen with FRIDGE at former home’ of missing 8-year-old’s dad Adam
THE search for little Harmony Montgomery has intensified after FBI agents were reportedly seen rolling a refrigerator into a home previously linked to the missing child's dad.
Law enforcement officials swarmed a home in Manchester, , on Tuesday, June 14, 2022, where Harmony's father and stepmother, Adam and Kayla, once lived.
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Manchester police told The Sun the home on Union Street is "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 FBI agent Jennifer Coffindaffer exclusively told The Sun.
"If they found a body or body parts in a freeze, law enforcement would want to maintain the level of decomposition," the former FBI agent said.
"I have a really creepy feeling about this. It's not good."
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Harmony's mom, Crystal Sorey, told she believes it's no longer a rescue mission saying investigators are "looking for a body."
"This is rough. I know in my heart this is no longer a rescue mission. They're looking for a body," Crystal told the outlet.
According to , authorities began securing the area Monday night.
Investigators arrived early Tuesday morning, focusing on a second-floor apartment.
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Law enforcement officials have since set up a green privacy tent as investigators could be seen unpacking large scopes.
In the back of the building, the Manchester Fire Department set up an incident tent.
Large, white piping was going into the building, the outlet reported.
Authorities have not disclosed what they're looking for or what lead them to the home.
ADAM'S ALLEGED ABUSE
Eight-year-old Harmony was last seen alive in October 2019; however, police were not aware of her disappearance until two years later.
According to records by the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families, Harmony was bounced between her mother’s care and DCF for much of her young life.
The young girl was placed in the custody of her father, Adam, in 2019 when she was roughly five years old.
Investigators have since narrowed the time frame of Harmony's disappearance to November 28 to December 10, 2019.
Adam, 31, is being held on charges of felony second-degree assault stemming from an alleged attack against Harmony in 2019.
However, he has not been charged with the child's disappearance.
The 31-year-old is also facing a misdemeanor charge of interference with custody and two misdemeanor counts of endangering the welfare of a child.
Adam's brother, Michael, told police the 31-year-old was physically abusive to Harmony and gave her a black eye.
A detective then spoke to Adam's Uncle Kevin and asked him about Harmony’s eye injury.
According to court documents, Kevin said that Adam told him in July 2019 that he [Adam] “bashed her [Harmony] around the house.”
Adam was allegedly angry at Harmony - who was five years old at the time - because she was supposed to be watching her infant brother but he started crying, which enraged the father.
The uncle also said Adam spanked his daughter, forced her to stand in the corner for hours, and ordered her to scrub a toilet with her toothbrush.
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HARMONY'S STEPMOM JAILED
Meanwhile, prosecutors have dropped the welfare fraud charges against Harmony's stepmother, Kayla, and replaced them with three other charges, including theft, per court records.
Kayla has not been identified as a suspect in the disappearance of Harmony, and all charges against her concern alleged theft of food stamps and government benefits.
The count was dropped because of new information about the benefits provided by the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services, according to the attorney general’s office.
The new charge still maintains that the stepmom of the seven-year-old still accepted food stamp benefits for Harmony while she was missing.
However, the new charge is filed under a different statute.
Prosecutors originally anticipated eight misdemeanor charges, but only two "prohibited acts" misdemeanors were filed under a public welfare statute.
The attorney general's office alleges that Kayla Montgomery made intentionally false statements by failing to disclose that Harmony was no longer under her care or living with her.
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She was initially arrested and charged on January 5, 2022, with a felony count of welfare fraud after she allegedly stole over $1,500 in food stamps from December 2019 to June 2021.
Kayla reportedly told police she last saw the Harmony the day after Thanksgiving in 2019.
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