Courts & Corrections
Jury Deliberating Charges in Adam Montgomery Murder Trial
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Is Adam Montgomery a loving father who covered up his daughter’s death to keep his family together, or is he a cold-blooded killer and vicious family tyrant?
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Is Adam Montgomery a loving father who covered up his daughter’s death to keep his family together, or is he a cold-blooded killer and vicious family tyrant?
Prosecutors wrapped up their case Tuesday, presenting a few final witnesses including: Maines; Douglas Small, the grandfather of Adam Montgomery’s girlfriend Kelsey Small; Massachusetts State Police Detective Bryan Hernandez who searched for Harmony’s body in Revere, Massachusetts marshes, and Manchester Police Detective Matthew Larochelle who followed leads when police still hoped Harmony was alive.
Nicole Giles did not want to testify in Adam Montgomery’s murder trial, fearing for the safety of her children if she appeared on camera in Hillsborough Superior Court — North in Manchester.
Lawyers for Adam Montgomery, the Manchester man accused of murdering his five-year-old daughter and hiding her body for months, tried to stop Manchester Police Detective Max Rahill’s testimony about a Home Depot receipt for items allegedly used to dispose of Harmony.
Jurors heard testimony Wednesday from police detectives and state criminologists who searched in 2022, not for Harmony, but for evidence of her death. Adam Montgomery’s murder trial has been going for a week in the Hillsborough Superior Court — North in Manchester, and prosecutors focused on the physical evidence available in a case that does not have a body.
The Montgomerys, both drug addicts at the time, became homeless in late November, 2019 when they were evicted from their Manchester apartment. The couple then lived in their Chrysler Sebring with Harmony and her two young step-brothers, according to prosecutors.
“I still care about him, because he’s the father of my children, he was my best friend, it’s been hard for me to let go,” Kayla Montgomery said.
The state’s only eye witness to Harmony Montgomery’s violent death testified Friday that she is telling the truth, this time.
The only two people who know what happened to five-year-old Harmony Montgomery in December of 2019 are blaming each other for the little girl’s bleak fate, murdered and left dead and decomposing in a duffle bag for months.