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Speaker 2: Guilty. Adam Montgomery is guilty in the murder of five

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Speaker 2: year old Harmony Montgomery. When we first started this odyssey,

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Speaker 2: we were all looking for Harmony because she hadn't been

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Speaker 2: seen for about two years, and somehow the social services

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Speaker 2: network let her quote slip between the cracks translation, they

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Speaker 2: screwed up and now she's dead. Why because she ended

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Speaker 2: up with her abusive father, Adam Montgomery. May he rot

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Speaker 2: in hell. I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thank

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Speaker 2: you for being with us here at Crime Stories and

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Speaker 2: on Serious XM one eleven. This little girl, Harmony, just

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Speaker 2: for Pete's sake. She's five years old, five years old,

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Speaker 2: she's blind in one eye. She wears corrective glasses. She's cute, cute, cute,

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Speaker 2: always has a smile on her face. But apparently she

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Speaker 2: Teete soiled herself in dad's car, and he and his wife,

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Speaker 2: specifically him, she sat there while it happened. She's just

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Speaker 2: as guilty in my mind. He beat her brutally for

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Speaker 2: the quote bathroom accident and then left her to die

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Speaker 3: And dying.

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Speaker 2: Why did he have her repeatedly punching a helpless, half blind,

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Speaker 2: little five year old girl, beating her brutally in the

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Speaker 2: the front seat with his new wife and they have

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Speaker 2: fast food while you die, helpless, moaning in pain. That's

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Speaker 2: what happened. How did the whole thing unfold? Why was

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Speaker 4: When last scene, Harmony was about four feet tall. She

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Speaker 4: has blonde hair, blue eyes, and is blind in her

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Speaker 5: Don't care if you saw this young girl a year ago.

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Speaker 5: When you think it's irrelevant, call us and say I

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Speaker 5: saw her a year ago, I saw her eighteen months ago,

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Speaker 5: I saw her a week ago. Let's lessen that two

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Speaker 5: year window and keep bringing it, keep shrinking that two

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Speaker 5: year window to the present day today, and let's chase

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Speaker 2: And we're hearing our friends at WMU are now's I

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Speaker 3: Is Ray Brewer.

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Speaker 6: Neighbors can't believe it's taken this long to start an investigation.

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Speaker 7: I mean two years later, who waits two years ago

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Speaker 6: Neighbors say they'd complained about living conditions at the home

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Speaker 6: Neighbors say at this point they just hope the little

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Speaker 3: It's kind of sad, because no kid deserves that.

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Speaker 2: Nobody does truer words or never spoken straight out to

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Speaker 2: Jessica Garth, the chief of the Special Victims and Family

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Speaker 2: Violence Unit in Prince George's County, defacts should be arrested

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Speaker 3: They do anything but protect.

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Speaker 2: They knew that Harmony was being beaten and mistreated. They

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Speaker 5: Last time she was enrolled in any type of school.

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Speaker 2: Because defects put the child back in the home, Knowing

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Speaker 2: hear this to Michael Rui's joining me, investigative reporter with

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Speaker 3: How come nobody noticed she wasn't in school?

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Speaker 3: I know immediately.

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Speaker 2: How come nobody knew Harmony wasn't in school?

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Speaker 3: Oh I'm sorry, Michael Luiz. Do you have children.

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Speaker 2: Oh yes, Michael Luiz, there was school. People were going

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Speaker 2: And then you've got the father, Adam Montgomery, now murder defendant.

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Speaker 2: We had already adjudicated him as a POS. That's a

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Speaker 3: Take a listen to this.

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Speaker 10: Adam Montgomery is charged with second degree assault, interference with custody,

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Speaker 10: investigators say Adam struck Harmony in the face, causing a

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Speaker 10: Police say they found Adam sleeping in his car with

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Speaker 2: and you can find him on Twitter, Facebook and instag

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Speaker 2: at Blair Miller TV. I am so sorry that Jamison.

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Speaker 2: my sister Harmony was murdered.

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Speaker 2: And I'm just wondering, how, now that we know Harmony

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Speaker 12: We just there's there's plenty of time in life for that.

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Speaker 12: But we we just held on.

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Speaker 9: Life trying to understand that too, as we are as

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Speaker 1: M Prime Stories with Nancy Grace Welcome Back.

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Speaker 2: I'm Nancy Grace. Adam Montgomery Guilty and the brutal bludgeoning

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Speaker 2: death of his own five year old little girl. As

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Speaker 2: He didn't have control.

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Speaker 13: That's all he cared about was controlled everything in his life.

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Speaker 2: She wasn't anything, then, why was this little girl in

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Speaker 2: But you know what, not everybody is as blessed as

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Speaker 14: These are the criminal complaints filed late this afternoon against

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Speaker 2: There you hear, Michael Luiz that the new missus Montgomery,

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Speaker 8: Yeah, so that's one of the things she's accused of,

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Speaker 2: Okay, we've got the stepmother who is fraudulently getting food

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Speaker 3: Doesn't live there, and you've got the dad.

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Speaker 8: Her murder, you know, images from the house are pretty disturbing.

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Speaker 8: Family members have talked about how filthy the home was.

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Speaker 2: thank you for being with us. You know, when I

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Speaker 2: come to you, Joe Scott, I'm looking for forensic evidence.

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Speaker 3: This child, this little girl has been dead a long time.

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Speaker 2: She was dead when we started looking for her, and

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Speaker 3: I'm not being seen. But do you.

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Speaker 2: Recall eyewitness testimony about how the father, Adam Montgomery, would

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Speaker 15: Yes, yes I do, Nancy, I certainly do.

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Speaker 2: You know just about makes me sick. Joe Scott, I mean,

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Speaker 15: Yeah, it is. And here's something that came out to

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Speaker 15: back to actually what Michael said, you know, this place

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Speaker 15: was absolutely a pigpen. It was filthy. But you know,

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Speaker 15: idea of blood and she suffered, make no mistake about it,

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Speaker 15: because she was struck not with an open hand. We

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Speaker 15: think about a slap, and you know when you slap

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Speaker 15: somebody that energy disperses. Now, she was struck in the

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Speaker 15: the previous mentioned black eye. She was struck multiple times,

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Speaker 15: but in the head, over and over and over again,

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Speaker 15: with a closed fist. That's directed energy, Nancy. That means

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Speaker 15: that that punch transferred the energy from that fist to

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Speaker 15: asymmetrical position punching down on her, she would have bled,

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Speaker 15: probably copiously. That means a lot, a lot of blood.

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Speaker 15: And they probably made a half hearted attempt to clean

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Speaker 2: The hearing brings out evidence, as JOSCICTT. Morgan has just stated,

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Speaker 3: Okay, I told you about the step mom, which.

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Speaker 2: Truly encompasses the phrase the description evil step mother. But

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Speaker 2: what about mommy bio mom. Let's take a listen to

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Speaker 15: What did she seem like when you saw her on FaceTime?

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Speaker 13: Terrified. She I would say, hey, you know what's going on?

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Speaker 13: You know, what'd you eat for lunch? What'd you do today?

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Speaker 13: know how your brothers and sisters? You got any friends?

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Speaker 13: You know, little questions like I'm a mom, like I

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Speaker 2: And every time I ask these.

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Speaker 13: Why are you answering for her? Like you're acting weird

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Speaker 3: Visits, Like what's going on?

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Speaker 13: He's like, He's like, I have soul, custody, sole decision making.

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Speaker 2: Here you have the bio mom, Crystal. Sorry, Yes, I

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Speaker 2: know she had a drug problem, but she was given

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Speaker 2: of the judge that hands the baby over to the dad,

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Speaker 2: the dad that is beating her, Judge Mark Newman, who

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Speaker 3: I mean, you know, Karen Stark joining me. We're now

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Speaker 2: Psychologist joining us from Manhattan. She's at Karenstark dot com.

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Speaker 2: It's Karen with a sea, Karen. Isn't there another choice

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Speaker 2: than giving her to the drug addicted mother Crystal Sory

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Speaker 2: Isn't there a different alternative, possibly something like Blair Miller

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Speaker 16: It's really hard to understand why they didn't come up

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Speaker 16: it's typical in situations like this, a philicide where there's

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Speaker 16: And I have no idea what was going on in

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Speaker 2: Another well, I mean right there, wanting her, wanting to

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Speaker 3: And you don't see that a lot in this world.

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Speaker 2: A couple willing to take in children that are from

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Speaker 2: my stars, just so cute. A little pink too, two

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Speaker 2: violent felon previously jailed for shooting a drug dealer in

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Speaker 2: Then this so called stepmom, who is reported to have

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Speaker 2: Jessica Garth, who was the chief of the Special Victims

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Speaker 2: so you better have your ducks in a row, you

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Speaker 7: It sounds like what they was. They charged him initially

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Speaker 7: suspect that's what they did by charging him with that,

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Speaker 2: I'm just wondering to Michael Ruis, are there any charges

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Speaker 8: Yes, there are. Explain that that's some of the charges

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Speaker 8: We're talking about Kayla So who is now his estranged wife.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I bet she is, because remember she's charged with

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Speaker 2: faking the government benefits in order to get money, pretending

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Speaker 2: that Harmony is still alive.

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Speaker 3: That's Killer Montgomery, right, That is the same one. I

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Speaker 3: can tell you right now. They're going to plead her

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Speaker 3: down to.

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Speaker 2: Maybe misdemeanor or even less, give her time served in

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Speaker 2: exchange for her testimony against Adam Montgomery.

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Speaker 3: That's the way it goes. Would you agree or disagree, Jessica.

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Speaker 7: Garth, I would agree with one hundred percent. And I

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Speaker 7: suspect that that is how they've been able to determine

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Speaker 7: how Harmony died in this case.

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Speaker 3: But you know, let us think about this for a moment.

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Speaker 2: If she's only willing to talk about what really happened

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Speaker 2: to Harmony, how she was bludgeoned by her own dad.

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Speaker 2: This little five year old girl that's blind in one eye,

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Speaker 2: wears corrective glasses and a big, beautiful smile at all times.

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Speaker 2: Never seen a picture of her without just this audacious smile.

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Speaker 2: He beat a five year old little girl, half blind,

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Speaker 2: little girl dead, And I bet you anything, the Devil's

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Speaker 2: minion kill a Montgomery saw the whole thing. Yet it's

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Speaker 2: going to take a deal with the devil to get

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Speaker 2: her to say what how I mean, Blair Miller, this

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Speaker 2: is Harmony's brother, Jamieson's adoptive dad. To think she's known

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Speaker 2: all this time what happened to Harmony?

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Speaker 12: You know, it's just so much of this is left

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Speaker 12: us speechless. And to know that an adult did not

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Speaker 12: play a role in helping a child is just it's

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Speaker 12: just unbelievable, and it's just unfathomable. And I think for

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Speaker 12: us it's just, you know, really hard for us to

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Speaker 12: put into words for a way for us to make

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Speaker 12: sense to us as adults, but let alone, how we

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Speaker 12: ever explain this to a child? And I don't know

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Speaker 12: that that will ever make sense, And I don't think

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Speaker 12: a trial will help explain that. It just doesn't make

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Speaker 12: sense to us.

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Speaker 3: You know, Blair.

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Speaker 2: When my daughter Lucy gets upset about something and she cries,

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Speaker 2: I feel like my whole world is just getting torn

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Speaker 2: in half. It just hurts me so much. And she

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Speaker 2: is fourteen now. To hear her cry or be upset

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Speaker 2: or sad or can I tell you, Blair my son

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Speaker 2: John David is trying out for basketball this week, and

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Speaker 2: he has practiced and practiced and practiced all summer for

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Speaker 2: this moment. I think I'm going to be more hurt

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Speaker 2: than him if he doesn't make it, God forbid, because

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Speaker 2: he's trying so hard. And I think about just their feelings,

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Speaker 2: how I hate for their feelings to be hurt. And

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Speaker 2: then I think about this woman standing by and watching

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Speaker 2: as Harmony is beaten dead. I mean, did she ever

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Speaker 2: say stop it or jump in and try to save

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Speaker 2: the little girl?

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Speaker 3: I mean ever? And then she sat on the.

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Speaker 2: Evidence what she knows all this time, so what she

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Speaker 2: could work a deal on stealing from the government.

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Speaker 3: I mean it just and the mother.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I know you're not going to say anything

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Speaker 2: about the bio mom, because Jamison shares the bio mom.

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Speaker 3: But I'll tell you what I think.

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Speaker 2: I can just see the three of them around a fire,

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Speaker 2: like three witches, just conjuring up pure evil. Nobody did

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Speaker 2: a thing to help this little girl, That's what I'm saying, Blair.

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Speaker 12: Well, I think that's our frustration now, is that no

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Speaker 12: Harmony Montgomery was never a priority for anyone. And you

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Speaker 12: know it's been a year since we've been talking almost

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Speaker 12: a year since we've been talking about this publicly, and

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Speaker 12: no one has changed anything, and there could be another

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Speaker 12: Harmony Montgomery tomorrow and nothing has changed to stop this

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Speaker 12: from happening again. And I think that's one of our

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Speaker 12: biggest frustrations right now. She's still and people.

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Speaker 9: Say, oh, we failed her, Oh we care about.

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Speaker 12: Her, but yeah, no one's making her priority still, and

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Speaker 12: that really bothers us.

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Speaker 2: You know. That's why when I'm discussing the case with Jackie,

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Speaker 2: my executive producer, who's right here with me, and I say, okay,

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Speaker 2: let's talk about the very latest, and the first thing

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Speaker 2: she always says, God in Heaven help her, does a

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Speaker 2: candlelight vigil. You know, you can lie, And I appreciate

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Speaker 2: the sentiment. You can light all the candles you want to,

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Speaker 2: but until you make real change, it doesn't matter.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't matter. And I mean Blair. Of course.

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Speaker 2: Adam Montgomery is who the state says dart, this little

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Speaker 2: half blind, five year old girl, completely defenseless but defects apartment.

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Speaker 2: Family Children's Services was in that home. They knew what

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Speaker 2: was going on. The uncle called and made a nine

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Speaker 2: one one report about how Harmony was being beaten and

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Speaker 2: abused and mistreated, and they let her stay in the

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Speaker 2: home unless there is radical change.

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Speaker 3: You're right, Blair, this is going to happen again.

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Speaker 2: Probably is happening right now while we're talking, Blair, And

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Speaker 2: I think.

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Speaker 12: That's what concerns us, is that that radical change hasn't happened.

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Speaker 12: You know, when we adopted each one of our boys,

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Speaker 12: we went through extensive background checks. We had social workers

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Speaker 12: come into our house every month to make sure we

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Speaker 12: were doing the right things, making sure we are going

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Speaker 12: to pediatrician appointments, making sure we had kids in school,

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Speaker 12: making sure we were doing the right things. Harmony Montgomery needed,

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Speaker 12: you know, such care, such great special care with their

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Speaker 12: special needs, and who was making sure she was going

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Speaker 12: to get that? There have been there should have been

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Speaker 12: many checks in place to make sure that she was

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Speaker 12: in a good situation, let alone for red flags.

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Speaker 7: To go off.

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Speaker 12: And none of that happened, and it would still happen today.

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Speaker 12: And that's that bothers us.

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Speaker 2: Prime stories with Nancy Grace. What do we know about

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Speaker 2: the life and death of this little girl and will

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Speaker 2: her death be in vain? Will the child protective services

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Speaker 2: system change at all? As police searched Marshy areas near Revere, Massachusetts,

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Speaker 2: and other location, still no sign of Harmony's body. As

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Speaker 2: the prosecutor said, on the day of little Harmony's death,

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Speaker 2: he had his car, his rage, and his fists. He

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Speaker 2: took her life in a rage over a bathroom accident.

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Speaker 2: He reportedly told his wife, I think I really heard

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Speaker 2: her this time and said I felt something. Yeah, he

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Speaker 2: felt his little girl's life ebb away after he beat

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Speaker 2: her dead, wrought in hell Adam Montgomery.

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Speaker 17: As to charge I D one ninety three seven ninety four,

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Speaker 17: seventh C. Charging the defendant Adam Montgomery with the crime

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Speaker 17: of second to reassault, do you find the defendant guilty

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Speaker 17: or not guilty? Guilty you say that he's guilty, mister

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Speaker 17: fore person. That's correct, So say you, all, ladies and

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Speaker 17: john of the jury.

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Speaker 12: Yes.

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Speaker 17: As to charge ID to zero two seven one one

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Speaker 17: two C. Charging the defendant Adam Montgomery with a crime

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Speaker 17: of second degree murder? Do you find the defendant guilty

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Speaker 17: or not guilty?

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Speaker 2: Guilty?

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Speaker 17: Do you say that he's guilty, mister four person? That's correct,

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Speaker 17: So say you, all ladies and gentlemen of the jury.

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Speaker 13: Yes.

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Speaker 17: And as to charge I d two zero two seven

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Speaker 17: one three C Charging the defendant with a crime of

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Speaker 17: falsifying physical evidence. Do you find the defendant guilty or

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Speaker 17: not guilty? Guilty you say that he's guilty, mister four person.

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Speaker 17: That's correct, So say you, all, ladies and gentlemen of

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Speaker 17: the jury.

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Speaker 2: Yes, And as far as the Massachusetts welfare system, you

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Speaker 2: can walk straight to hell, hand in hand with Adam Montgomery. Goodbye, friend,