The body of Harmony Montgomery, a 5-year-old girl whose father fatally beat her in 2019, has still not been found. While Adam Montgomery refuses to reveal her final resting place, her mother says she refuses to to give up.
“That’s the acceptance I’ve had to come to terms with in my grief, just accepting the fact that he’s never going to do the right thing for her,” Crystal Sorey told reporters on Saturday while a team of volunteers searched Rumney Marsh Reservation in Saugus and Revere.
Sorey organized the search, which she told WCVB will occur monthly in the salt marshes and the surrounding areas.
“I’ve had a lot of dreams, and this area’s been in my dreams,” Sorey told the news station.
Harmony was reported missing in late 2021, two years after she was beaten to death by her father. He was convicted of second degree murder in her death in February of this year.
Prosecutors believe Montgomery and his wife Kayla Montgomery moved Harmony’s body between multiple locations, including a cooler, a ceiling vent at a shelter, and their apartment’s refrigerator.
Then, on March 3, 2020, Montgomery took a U-Haul on an overnight trip and disposed of Harmony’s body, prosecutors said. New Hampshire Senior Assistant Attorney General Ben Agati said after the verdict that he drove 133 miles from Manchester through the Tobin Bridge toll three times. He said Montgomery did not go through any New Hampshire tolls.
“She is somewhere along that route,” Agati said after Montgomery was found guilty, “specifically in the Rumney Marsh reservation in Revere, around the Sales Creek area, the Chelsea Creek area, behind North Shore Road.”
Montgomery, who is originally from Revere and is familiar with the area, was effectively sentenced to life in prison in May. Prosecutors offered to lessen his sentence if he revealed the location of his daughter’s body, but he refused. At the time, his attorney called the offer a “stunt” and said his lack of response is not a lack of remorse.
