
This is a heart wrenching case and one of pure evil. Harmony Montgomery, an innocent 5-year-old went missing in 2019 but it took years before she was reported missing.
Her father, 33-year-old, Adam Montgomery was indicted on murder charges over her disappearance but her body has never been found. The details that emerged of her life with her biological father, Adam, was harrowing, brutal and the little girl endured years of abuse.
It is believed that Harmony was killed on or around December 2019. After having been evicted from their home on November 27, the family, Adam, his wife Kayla, and their two sons and Harmony lived in their car, a silver 2010 Chrysler Sebring. Both Adam and Kayla, his wife, have criminal records. However, the brutality that ensued against the 5-year-old is mind-boggling and hard to comprehend. The child was struck many times in the face by Adam and endured unspeakable abuse as time went on. Child welfare services stepped in but they turned a blind eye to signs of abuse on the child. Even though the family was, “identified as high risk of repeat child welfare system involvement,” they wrote, “the children appeared happy and healthy,” in their report. Their last visit was on October 1, 2019.

The jury trial began on February 6, 2024 in Hillsborough County, Manchester and Adam Montgomery is now claiming that, “Kayla Montgomery was the last person to see Harmony alive and knows how Harmony died.” For her part, Kayla, the stepmother, is claiming that Harmony died after repeated blows to her head by her father, Adam, because she had committed the cardinal sin of being incontinent in the car. After the attack which was brutal to say the least, the defendant pulled into a Burger King and ordered food and ate it nonchalantly without showing any concern for the little girl in the back seat of his car. To make matters worse or even more horrific, he toted the dead body in a duffle bag, tied up in trash bags all over Manchester for months to come.
Lock him up or rather lock them both up and throw away the keys, you say? It might just come to that but for now the trial is ongoing and more and more horrid details are coming to light. For instance, Adam said, “he placed Harmony’s body in a cooler and stowed her over a vent in a shelter he shared with his wife and two sons. Then, he placed Harmony’s body in a closet when neighbors complained of the smell, and then snuck her remains into his workplace freezer.” In March 2020, he put her remains in a U-Haul and disposed of the remains at an undisclosed location.
Evil at its best? Adam Montgomery has admitted that he was guilty of abuse of a corpse and falsifying evidence but he has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder, second-degree assault and witness tampering charges. He is pushing that part to his estranged wife, Kayla Montgomery. Whatever the case maybe, evil walks amongst us and that is the absolute truth.
RIP Harmony Montgomery
An angel rests in peace, free at last of the horrors that life chose to rest on her tiny shoulders.