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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Greece. How does a five year

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Speaker 1: old little girl disappear vanish? That was the question for

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Speaker 1: five year old Harmony Montgomery. Look as hard as they could, police, relatives, neighbors, friends, experts, canines, drones, helicopters, divers,

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Speaker 1: no one could find Harmony Montgomery. She truly just vanished.

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Speaker 1: And now we know why. We no longer ask why

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Speaker 1: did it take two years to report Harmony missing? Because

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Speaker 1: now we know why? Because Harmony, a five year old

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Speaker 1: little girl, blind in one eye, that always wore the

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Speaker 1: biggest and the brightest smile, was murdered and according to police,

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Speaker 1: we know who did it. I'm Nancy Grace. This is

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Speaker 1: Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us here at

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Speaker 1: Fox Nation and Series M one eleven. In the last hours,

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Speaker 1: an arrest for murder one goes down none other than Daddy.

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Speaker 1: First of all, take a listen to this. When last scene,

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Speaker 1: Harmony was about four feet tall. She has blonde hair,

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Speaker 1: blue eyes, and is blind in her right eye, so

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Speaker 1: she may be wearing glasses. Police says she may have

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Speaker 1: been going to school in Massachusetts. One last scene. Care

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Speaker 1: if you saw this young girl a year ago and

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Speaker 1: you think it's irrelevant call us and say I saw

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Speaker 1: her a year ago, I saw her eighteen months ago,

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Speaker 1: I saw her a week ago. Let's lessen that two

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Speaker 1: year window and keep bringing it, keep shrinking that two

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Speaker 1: year window to the present, day to day, and let's

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Speaker 1: chase down every possible avenue with the hopes of fighting harmony.

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Speaker 1: If you were hearing our friends at WMU are now,

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Speaker 1: it's like, can listen to our cut thirteen Jackie, this

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Speaker 1: is Ray Brewer. Neighbors can't believe it's taken this long

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Speaker 1: waits two years ago looking for a little kind like that.

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Speaker 1: Neighbors say they'd complained about living conditions at the home

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Speaker 1: be done. As for whether a state investigation had been

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Speaker 1: Neighbors say at this point they just hope the little

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Speaker 1: truer words were never spoken straight out to Jessica Garth,

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Speaker 1: along with daddy. Department of Family and Children Services, it's

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Speaker 1: called CPS in some places child protection. They do anything

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Speaker 1: but protect. They knew that Harmony was being beaten and mistreated.

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Speaker 1: They had witnesses stated, neighbor said it, an uncle said it.

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Speaker 1: it's hard to understand how they couldn't be held responsible

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Speaker 1: she was being abused by her father. We knew it.

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Speaker 1: cut number four. This is the Manchester Police Chief, Alan

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Speaker 1: Aldenburgh listened last time she was enrolled in any type

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Speaker 1: to that, and that's a fair question. Right, did we

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Speaker 1: Twitter at Mike Reports, Mike Our Reports, Michael Ruise, thank

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Speaker 1: investigators say Adam struck Harmony in the face, causing a

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Speaker 1: at Blair Miller TV. Blair, I am so sorry that Jamieson.

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Speaker 1: be coming out at some point today. Now are we

427
00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:54,560
Speaker 1: talking about his then wife, Kyla Montgomery? We're talking about

428
00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:57,280
Speaker 1: Kayla so who is now his estranged wife. Oh? I

429
00:27:57,320 --> 00:28:02,480
Speaker 1: bet she is, because remember she's charged with faking the

430
00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:06,920
Speaker 1: government benefits in order to get money, pretending that harmony

431
00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:10,040
Speaker 1: is still alive. That's Killa Montgomery, right, That is the

432
00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:12,359
Speaker 1: same one. I can tell you right now. They're going

433
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:19,240
Speaker 1: to plead her down to maybe misdemeanor or even less,

434
00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:23,960
Speaker 1: give her time served in exchange for her testimony against

435
00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:28,520
Speaker 1: Adam Montgomery. That's the way it goes. Would you agree

436
00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:31,320
Speaker 1: or disagree, Jessica Garth, I would agree one percent. And

437
00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:33,720
Speaker 1: I suspect that that is how they've been able to

438
00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:37,000
Speaker 1: determine how Harmony died in this case. But you know,

439
00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:41,120
Speaker 1: let's think about this for a moment. If she's only

440
00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:45,720
Speaker 1: willing to talk about what really happened to Harmony, how

441
00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:50,040
Speaker 1: she was bludgeoned by her own dad. This little five

442
00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:53,920
Speaker 1: year old girl, it's blind in one eye, wears corrective

443
00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:58,880
Speaker 1: glasses and a big, beautiful smile at all times. Never

444
00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:02,000
Speaker 1: seen a picture of her with just this audacious smile.

445
00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:06,800
Speaker 1: He beat a five year old little girl, half blind,

446
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:14,800
Speaker 1: little girl dead, and I bet you anything, the devil's

447
00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:21,280
Speaker 1: minion killing Montgomery saw the whole thing. Yet it's going

448
00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:25,160
Speaker 1: to take a deal with the devil to get her

449
00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:29,400
Speaker 1: to say what happened. I mean, Blair Miller, this is

450
00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:37,200
Speaker 1: Harmony's brother, Jamison's adoptive dad. To think she's known all

451
00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:40,960
Speaker 1: this time what happened to Harmony, You know, it's just

452
00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:44,760
Speaker 1: there's so much of this has left us speechless, and

453
00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:50,560
Speaker 1: to know that an adult did not play a role

454
00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 1: in helping a child is just it's just unbelievable, and

455
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:58,560
Speaker 1: it's just unfathomable. And I think for us, it's just,

456
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:01,320
Speaker 1: you know, really hard for us to put into words,

457
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:03,760
Speaker 1: for a way for us to make sense to us

458
00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:07,040
Speaker 1: as adults, but let alone, how we ever explained this

459
00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:10,760
Speaker 1: to a child? And I don't know that that will

460
00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:13,560
Speaker 1: ever make sense, And I don't think a trial will

461
00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:18,160
Speaker 1: help explain that. It just doesn't make sense to us,

462
00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:22,960
Speaker 1: you know, Blair, When my daughter Lucy gets upset about

463
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:26,520
Speaker 1: something and she cries, I feel like my whole world

464
00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:29,280
Speaker 1: is just getting torn in half. It just hurts me

465
00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:35,320
Speaker 1: so much. And she is fourteen now to hear her

466
00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:40,800
Speaker 1: cry or be upset or sad or can I tell you, Blair,

467
00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:46,920
Speaker 1: my son John David is trying out for basketball this week,

468
00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:51,959
Speaker 1: and he has practiced and practiced and practiced all summer

469
00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:55,840
Speaker 1: for this moment. I think I'm going to be more

470
00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:59,080
Speaker 1: hurt than him if he doesn't make it, God forbid,

471
00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:04,960
Speaker 1: because he's trying so hard. And I think about just

472
00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:09,160
Speaker 1: their feelings, how I hate for their feelings to be hurt.

473
00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:17,240
Speaker 1: And then I think about this woman standing by and

474
00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:23,080
Speaker 1: watching it as Harmony is beaten dead. I mean, did

475
00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:26,840
Speaker 1: she ever say stop it or jump in and try

476
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:30,800
Speaker 1: to save the little girl? I mean ever? And then

477
00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:34,720
Speaker 1: she sat on the evidence what she knows all this time,

478
00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:38,240
Speaker 1: so what she can work a deal on stealing from

479
00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:42,440
Speaker 1: the government. I mean it just and the mother. I mean,

480
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:45,680
Speaker 1: I know you're not gonna say anything about the biomm

481
00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:49,200
Speaker 1: because Jamison shares the bio mom. But I'll tell you

482
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:52,520
Speaker 1: what I think. I can just see the three of

483
00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:57,719
Speaker 1: them around a fire, like three witches, just conjuring up

484
00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:02,520
Speaker 1: pure evil. Nobody didn't a thing to help this little girl.

485
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:06,920
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. Blair Well, I think that's our

486
00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:11,520
Speaker 1: frustration now, is that no, Harmony Montgomery was never a

487
00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:15,920
Speaker 1: priority for anyone. And you know, it's been a year

488
00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:18,200
Speaker 1: since we've been talking, almost a year since we've been

489
00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:22,760
Speaker 1: talking about this publicly, and no one has changed anything.

490
00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:29,520
Speaker 1: And there could be another Harmony Montgomery tomorrow and nothing

491
00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:33,320
Speaker 1: has changed to stop this from happening again. And I

492
00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:36,880
Speaker 1: think that's one of our biggest frustrations right now. She's

493
00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:43,600
Speaker 1: still and people say, oh, we we failed her, Oh

494
00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:47,760
Speaker 1: we care about her, but yeah, no one's making her

495
00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:51,800
Speaker 1: priority still, and that really bothers us. You know. That's

496
00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:57,960
Speaker 1: why when I'm discussing a case with Jackie, my executive producer,

497
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:00,440
Speaker 1: he's right here with me and I say, okay, let's

498
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:03,440
Speaker 1: talk about the very latest and the first thing she

499
00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:07,680
Speaker 1: always says, God in Heaven help her. There's a candlelight vigil.

500
00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:10,520
Speaker 1: You know, you can lie, and I appreciate the sentiment.

501
00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:12,920
Speaker 1: You can light all the candles you want to, but

502
00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:18,960
Speaker 1: until you make real change, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter.

503
00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:25,200
Speaker 1: And I mean Blair. Of course, Adam Montgomery is who

504
00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:30,000
Speaker 1: the state says murdered this little half blind, five year

505
00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:35,360
Speaker 1: old girl, completely defenseless. But de Facts Department Family Children's

506
00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:37,960
Speaker 1: Services was in that home. They knew what was going on.

507
00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:41,880
Speaker 1: The uncle called and made a nine one one report

508
00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:46,120
Speaker 1: about how Harmony was being beaten and abused and mistreated,

509
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:52,080
Speaker 1: and they let her stay in the home unless there

510
00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:55,720
Speaker 1: is radical change. You're right, Blair, this is going to

511
00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:59,400
Speaker 1: happen again. Probably is happening right now while we're talking. Blair.

512
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:03,400
Speaker 1: I think that's what concerns us is that that radical

513
00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:06,800
Speaker 1: change hasn't happened. You know, when we adopted each one

514
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:10,000
Speaker 1: of our boys, we went through extensive background checks. We

515
00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:13,560
Speaker 1: had social workers coming to our house every month to

516
00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:16,600
Speaker 1: make sure we were doing the right things, making sure

517
00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:19,120
Speaker 1: we are going to pediatrician appointments, making sure we had

518
00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:22,040
Speaker 1: kids in school, making sure we were doing the right things.

519
00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:28,880
Speaker 1: Harmony Montgomery needed you know, such care, such great special

520
00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:32,479
Speaker 1: care with their special needs, and who was making sure

521
00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:34,680
Speaker 1: she was going to get that? There have been there

522
00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:38,200
Speaker 1: should have been many checks in place to make sure

523
00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:41,080
Speaker 1: that she was in a good situation, let alone for

524
00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:44,200
Speaker 1: red flags to go off. And none of that happened,

525
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:48,319
Speaker 1: and it would still happen today. And that's that bothers us,

526
00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:51,520
Speaker 1: you know, for all of these chief of police the

527
00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:54,200
Speaker 1: Attorney in General to get up and talk about, oh,

528
00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:59,200
Speaker 1: we've arrested somebody from our too, a whole lot more

529
00:34:59,239 --> 00:35:03,360
Speaker 1: than that, and yes, I appreciate that, but the child

530
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:09,879
Speaker 1: care system is completely broken, and Harmony represents that. There

531
00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:12,640
Speaker 1: are other charges take less an our cut forty two

532
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:17,520
Speaker 1: Jackie More from the Attorney General. Falsifying physical evidence for

533
00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:22,360
Speaker 1: purposely altering, destroying, concealing, or removing the body of Harmony

534
00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:25,800
Speaker 1: Montgomery with a purpose to impair its verity or availability,

535
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:30,120
Speaker 1: and an official proceeding or investigation in Manchester between approximately

536
00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:34,680
Speaker 1: December seventh, twenty nineteen and March fourth, twenty twenty Abuse

537
00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:40,719
Speaker 1: of corpse for purposely and unlawfully removing, concealing, or destroying

538
00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:43,799
Speaker 1: the corps of Harmony Montgomery or any part thereof in

539
00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:48,440
Speaker 1: Manchester between approximately December seventh, two nineteen in March fourth,

540
00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:52,560
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, and tampering with witnesses or informants for purposely

541
00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:57,239
Speaker 1: attempting to induce or otherwise cause Kala Montgomery to testify

542
00:35:57,440 --> 00:36:01,359
Speaker 1: or inform falsely. Okay two. Michael Ruas joining US investigative

543
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:05,080
Speaker 1: reporter with Fox and he's digital explaining the additional charges

544
00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:08,839
Speaker 1: in addition to murder. What is Adam Montgomery facing. Well,

545
00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:12,880
Speaker 1: he's alleged, he's accused of covering up the crime, hiding

546
00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:16,560
Speaker 1: the body, disposing of the body without notifying anyone. She's

547
00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:18,960
Speaker 1: been dead and two years went by before it even

548
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:20,680
Speaker 1: came to light, so he has a big head start.

549
00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:25,200
Speaker 1: These are serious felonies in New Hampshire and he's facing

550
00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:28,120
Speaker 1: of a long time in prison. Jessicott Morgan, what do

551
00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:31,400
Speaker 1: you make of this tampering with a body, destroying a body,

552
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:35,360
Speaker 1: hiding a body. I mean, do you think it's connected

553
00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:41,160
Speaker 1: to that moment when the FBI halls the family refrigerator out? Yes? Yes, yes,

554
00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:43,680
Speaker 1: and again I say yes that this is going to

555
00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:47,680
Speaker 1: be key and it's not just that refrigerator. Nancy, what

556
00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:51,520
Speaker 1: also happened? And I remember sitting there watching this on

557
00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:56,080
Speaker 1: the news. Those teams went down in the sewers nancy

558
00:36:56,400 --> 00:37:00,279
Speaker 1: adjacent to that home, in that specific area. Were they

559
00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:04,120
Speaker 1: searching for will anything that might be flushable? And I'm thinking,

560
00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:10,880
Speaker 1: I'm thinking that when they're beginning to talk about destruction

561
00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:13,480
Speaker 1: of human remains, I think that this could be something

562
00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:17,279
Speaker 1: so ghastly that we can't even begin to fathom it,

563
00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:20,759
Speaker 1: because he was making an attempt to remove all the

564
00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:23,600
Speaker 1: physical evidence. They talk about that in one charge, and

565
00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:29,560
Speaker 1: then this destruction of human remains, disposable disposal of human remains,

566
00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:33,840
Speaker 1: and that refrigerator, And you know, I was contemplating this

567
00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:39,800
Speaker 1: some time ago. Was there an attempt to eradicate her body,

568
00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:43,560
Speaker 1: take it apart, perhaps stored in a refrigerator, and either

569
00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:46,600
Speaker 1: flush it or dispose of it at a later time.

570
00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:52,440
Speaker 1: Just say it? You think he Adam Montgomery dismembered his

571
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:57,360
Speaker 1: five year old daughter, put parts of her in the fridge,

572
00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:03,160
Speaker 1: tried to flush some of her bodily remains down the commode.

573
00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:05,879
Speaker 1: Is that what you're trying to say? Yeah, I mean,

574
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:08,000
Speaker 1: just say it. Yeah, Yeah, that's That's what I'm trying

575
00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:11,400
Speaker 1: to say. It's certainly not off the table. With this monster, Okay,

576
00:38:11,520 --> 00:38:15,440
Speaker 1: Jessica Garth joining US Special Victim Family Violence Unit Chief.

577
00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:21,800
Speaker 1: I just keep thinking witches around the cauldron. I can't

578
00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:25,960
Speaker 1: imagine anything more evil than what I'm hearing happened to

579
00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:28,560
Speaker 1: this little girl. I mean, for Pete's sake, I can't

580
00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:31,640
Speaker 1: say it enough. She's five years old and she's half blind.

581
00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:35,839
Speaker 1: Have you seen her. She's beautiful, and she's wearing her

582
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:39,120
Speaker 1: little corrective glasses, and she's got this big smile, and

583
00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:43,480
Speaker 1: I just want to hold her and take her and

584
00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:46,840
Speaker 1: make her happy and make her laugh. But do you

585
00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:48,880
Speaker 1: ever feel like you just can't put one foot in

586
00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:51,360
Speaker 1: front of the other because the people like Adam Montgomery.

587
00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:53,759
Speaker 1: It's it's very hard, Nancy. I mean, she is a

588
00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:56,239
Speaker 1: beautiful little girl, and to know that she smiled like that,

589
00:38:56,320 --> 00:38:58,959
Speaker 1: you know, despite the rough life you know she lived

590
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:02,000
Speaker 1: in her five years on this earth. It's it's very,

591
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:04,240
Speaker 1: very hard. And I you know, none of the adults

592
00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:07,000
Speaker 1: in this case did her any kind of justice. You know,

593
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:09,240
Speaker 1: we're doing justice on the back end, but there's absolutely

594
00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:12,600
Speaker 1: no reason that she shouldn't be alive and thriving and having,

595
00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:16,560
Speaker 1: you know, the time of her life, living the time

596
00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:19,200
Speaker 1: of her life. Guys, I can listen to our cut

597
00:39:19,239 --> 00:39:22,160
Speaker 1: forty nine WM. You are now think about it. If

598
00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:26,760
Speaker 1: your baby was missing and police were asking you questions

599
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:29,080
Speaker 1: trying to find her, what would you say? Think about

600
00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:32,560
Speaker 1: it and now listen to Adam Montgomery? So where's your

601
00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:39,640
Speaker 1: daughter so you can check on him child. I have

602
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:42,960
Speaker 1: nothing to say. The interaction lasts about forty five minutes

603
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:46,960
Speaker 1: before Montgomery is sent on his way. Police track Montgomery

604
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:50,240
Speaker 1: down again later that day, serving him with a court

605
00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:53,399
Speaker 1: order to produce harmony. Some detectives wanted to be rede

606
00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:56,600
Speaker 1: be entertained of this one. Five days later, Montgomery is

607
00:39:56,680 --> 00:40:01,600
Speaker 1: arrested on charges including second degree assault for alleged abusing harmony. Dude,

608
00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:04,560
Speaker 1: Karen Stark, I have nothing to say to you. That

609
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:07,839
Speaker 1: is not what you would expect from a dad when

610
00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:11,000
Speaker 1: you're trying to find his baby girl, Nancy. It's something

611
00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:14,239
Speaker 1: you would expect from a psychopath though. It's something you

612
00:40:14,239 --> 00:40:17,520
Speaker 1: would expect from a person who sees a child as

613
00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:22,000
Speaker 1: an object, who can't tolerate any stress, who's living on

614
00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:26,439
Speaker 1: drugs and has a history of abusing children. That's what

615
00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:29,080
Speaker 1: you would expect. That he has nothing to say. He

616
00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:33,160
Speaker 1: doesn't think twice about cutting up that body. I promise

617
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:37,000
Speaker 1: you this man has no conscience. Michael Ruise, what happens next?

618
00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:40,360
Speaker 1: So he waits a the raiment and next is discovery.

619
00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:43,400
Speaker 1: And you know we'll see when the trial schedule. We

620
00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:47,680
Speaker 1: wait as justice un falls. Nancy Grace Kind story, signing off,

621
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:48,560
Speaker 1: goodbye friend,