1 00:00:01,440 --> 00:00:07,520 Speaker 1: Body does, but Joseph's gotten more. One of the biggest 2 00:00:07,560 --> 00:00:11,680 Speaker 1: problems that I have encountered as a death investigator. 3 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:15,840 Speaker 2: Is a phrase that. 4 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:22,360 Speaker 1: It's so common that people say this both families and 5 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:26,360 Speaker 1: friends of a deceased individual. They will always say, I 6 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:31,720 Speaker 1: cannot believe they are gone. The reason many people cannot 7 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:36,280 Speaker 1: believe that someone is gone, I think at a base level, 8 00:00:36,479 --> 00:00:40,320 Speaker 1: is because they didn't witness the death or they were 9 00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:43,640 Speaker 1: not physically there to put their hands on the remains 10 00:00:43,680 --> 00:00:46,360 Speaker 1: of their loved one. It's a very tactile event. I 11 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:51,239 Speaker 1: think it goes back in our DNA for centuries to 12 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:56,600 Speaker 1: verify something. I want to update you in a case 13 00:00:56,640 --> 00:01:07,480 Speaker 1: today in evolving the life and death of precious Precious 14 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:13,360 Speaker 1: Harmony Montgomery. We've done an episode on bodybags relative to Harmony, 15 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:18,680 Speaker 1: but there's some newer information that I kind of wanted 16 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:21,679 Speaker 1: to address and it does specifically deal with this idea 17 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:24,800 Speaker 1: of I can't believe she's gone in the reason. 18 00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:30,760 Speaker 2: Why is it we still don't have her body. 19 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:39,080 Speaker 1: I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is Bodybags, Dave. I'm 20 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:41,399 Speaker 1: glad you mentioned this case to us for an update. 21 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:46,280 Speaker 1: First off, I think for the entire time of me 22 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:50,240 Speaker 1: covering this case on Long Crime and on Court TV, 23 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:53,240 Speaker 1: and then of course with Nancy. I've been furious the 24 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:56,760 Speaker 1: entire day. Anytime Harmony's name would arise, all I could 25 00:01:56,760 --> 00:02:00,800 Speaker 1: see is that precious little face wearing glass is who 26 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:06,000 Speaker 1: it was blind in one eye, and that was totally 27 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:12,079 Speaker 1: depended upon the adults in her life too, not just nurture, 28 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:15,160 Speaker 1: but just to provide for basic. 29 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:16,000 Speaker 2: Care for her. 30 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:22,040 Speaker 1: And she was just failed miserably, not by the monster 31 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:26,120 Speaker 1: who has been held responsible now for her death, but 32 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:31,600 Speaker 1: the other adults in her life as well as government 33 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:35,440 Speaker 1: entities that should have done something, and they failed her. 34 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:39,480 Speaker 3: And it's the failure, Joe, that is the reason for 35 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:44,440 Speaker 3: today's update, because just a few days ago, Harmony Montgomery's mother, 36 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:48,160 Speaker 3: Crystal Sorry, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the 37 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:51,520 Speaker 3: State of New Hampshire, alleging systemic failures in the state's 38 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:58,360 Speaker 3: child protection system. Crystal Sorry was not able to file 39 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:04,400 Speaker 3: the lawsuit hill Harmony was actually declared legally dead, which 40 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:09,240 Speaker 3: happened last March. Since then, Adam Montgomery, Harmony's father, has 41 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:14,120 Speaker 3: been convicted for killing five year old Harmony in twenty nineteen. 42 00:03:15,160 --> 00:03:18,280 Speaker 3: The lawsuit seeks monetary damages and answers from the State 43 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:22,560 Speaker 3: of New Hampshire surrounding Harmony's disappearance and death. Crystal Sory's 44 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:25,880 Speaker 3: lawyer is well known in New Hampshire. His name is 45 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:29,760 Speaker 3: Russ Riley. In May of this year, he won a 46 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:32,920 Speaker 3: thirty eight million dollar judgment against the state for David Meehan, 47 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:36,280 Speaker 3: one of hundreds who say they were physically and sexually 48 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:40,520 Speaker 3: abused in the state's youth detention center. Now during Adam 49 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:45,640 Speaker 3: Montgomery's murder trial, information on the DCYF reports came out, 50 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:48,880 Speaker 3: and Crystal Sory's lawsuit says that at least half a 51 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:53,680 Speaker 3: dozen family members, friends, neighbors alerted the agency about Harmony's 52 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:57,440 Speaker 3: safety and living conditions between July twenty ninth and October 53 00:03:57,440 --> 00:04:02,200 Speaker 3: fifth of twenty nineteen. Adamcgumm own uncle Kevin Montgomery, called 54 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:06,720 Speaker 3: DCYF several times on July twenty ninth, twenty nineteen, after 55 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:11,080 Speaker 3: seeing Harmony with a really bad black eye and finding 56 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:14,960 Speaker 3: out that Adam Montgomery had beaten the little girl. After 57 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:18,040 Speaker 3: talking to DCYF, they were kind of arguing with him 58 00:04:18,080 --> 00:04:20,520 Speaker 3: over his dates, you know, the dates that he remembered, 59 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:23,680 Speaker 3: and he finally got so frustrated, I said, this is 60 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:28,599 Speaker 3: why children die. Adam Montgomery's own grandmother, Helen Montgomery. She 61 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:32,880 Speaker 3: reported d CYF a few days after Kevin did in 62 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:35,880 Speaker 3: August of twenty nineteen, saying that she believed Harmony was 63 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:39,040 Speaker 3: going to end up like Bella Bond. Now Bella Bond 64 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:41,120 Speaker 3: was a two year old who was found dead on 65 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:43,720 Speaker 3: Deer Island in Boston Harbor in twenty fifteen. It was 66 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:46,880 Speaker 3: a huge story at the time. The boyfriend of Bella's 67 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:49,279 Speaker 3: mother was convicted of second degree murder in that case 68 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:54,240 Speaker 3: in twenty seventeen, So mentioning that in the context of, 69 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:57,839 Speaker 3: you know, with what's going on with Harmony meant something. 70 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:01,840 Speaker 3: A case worker bonded in a report that he had 71 00:05:01,839 --> 00:05:04,760 Speaker 3: spoken with Adam Montgomery's drug counselor and had seen an 72 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:07,920 Speaker 3: injury to Harmony's eye, which the family said came from 73 00:05:07,960 --> 00:05:12,240 Speaker 3: her brother hitting her with a toy lightsaber. Adam Montgomery 74 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:15,800 Speaker 3: got custody in February of twenty nineteen. Harmony was dead 75 00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:18,120 Speaker 3: by December, according to the lawsuit, and the lawsuit of 76 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:19,799 Speaker 3: course blames the state. 77 00:05:19,839 --> 00:05:24,960 Speaker 1: But yet we don't have Harmony's body. Dave, you know 78 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:28,560 Speaker 1: all these years later. What year did her case star 79 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:31,840 Speaker 1: is too gosh, twenty nineteen. 80 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:34,400 Speaker 3: That's when she went missing. Yeah, but she wasn't reported 81 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:35,440 Speaker 3: missing for two years. 82 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:38,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, And so the genesis of the same 83 00:05:38,279 --> 00:05:40,400 Speaker 1: goes back to nineteen Yeah, right. 84 00:05:40,279 --> 00:05:44,279 Speaker 3: And the part that is so frustrating, upsetting, and will 85 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:47,719 Speaker 3: you know, you'll have that moment where in one second 86 00:05:47,760 --> 00:05:51,160 Speaker 3: you have tears and another second you have blind rage 87 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:55,560 Speaker 3: because of what happened to this child who more than most, 88 00:05:56,360 --> 00:05:58,719 Speaker 3: depended on the adults in her life, more than most. 89 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:01,560 Speaker 3: She needed that assistant and more of the most. We 90 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:04,280 Speaker 3: see the pictures of her with her glasses, and we 91 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:06,919 Speaker 3: know the uphill battle she has, and we know that 92 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:09,240 Speaker 3: you look at her on some of the pictures and 93 00:06:09,279 --> 00:06:12,240 Speaker 3: she's smiling so big, and you're thinking that the world 94 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:15,760 Speaker 3: that she was living in there was nothing to smile about. Yes, 95 00:06:15,839 --> 00:06:22,120 Speaker 3: she was. And then I remember the first Where's harmony? 96 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:25,120 Speaker 3: You know, I remember those cases we were looking for her. 97 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:26,320 Speaker 3: When the story broke. 98 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:28,240 Speaker 1: There was a hashtag out for a long time. It 99 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:30,040 Speaker 1: was called Where's Where's Harmony? 100 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:30,800 Speaker 2: Yeah? 101 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:35,040 Speaker 3: Yeah, And it started when her mother actually and okay, 102 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:39,880 Speaker 3: without really digging the deep hoole In this Harmony's mom 103 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:42,919 Speaker 3: and her biological mother and father both have drug issues, 104 00:06:43,279 --> 00:06:48,000 Speaker 3: and in many of those cases, one person or the 105 00:06:48,040 --> 00:06:51,480 Speaker 3: other will get sober or have moments of sobriety and 106 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:55,440 Speaker 3: have custody, which is what happened with Harmony. She became 107 00:06:56,960 --> 00:07:00,679 Speaker 3: a victim of her own parents. Her her own mother 108 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:04,320 Speaker 3: was trying to get sober and trying to get her 109 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:06,480 Speaker 3: life back, but her mother did not have custody, did 110 00:07:06,520 --> 00:07:10,360 Speaker 3: not have physical custody of Harmony. Her father, Adam Montgomery, 111 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:15,560 Speaker 3: had physical custody of Harmony. Montgomery and her mother was 112 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:19,400 Speaker 3: in Florida, and Harmony's father was in I was going 113 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:22,239 Speaker 3: to say the New England area, but for the most 114 00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:26,360 Speaker 3: part around Boston to the north. 115 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:28,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, they spent time in New Hampshire and then they 116 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:31,720 Speaker 1: would kind of shuttle between you know there he had 117 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:36,880 Speaker 1: he had spent a lot of time in Massachusetts, but 118 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:41,480 Speaker 1: they were in New Hampshire and oh, by the way, yeah, 119 00:07:41,520 --> 00:07:44,320 Speaker 1: he was taking grand care of her as they lived 120 00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:51,280 Speaker 1: in a Chrysler Sea Brain convertible, so you know, way 121 00:07:51,280 --> 00:07:55,280 Speaker 1: to go. Yeah, but I'm saying that in a snarky manner, 122 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:59,840 Speaker 1: but way to go directed at him and also directed 123 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:03,080 Speaker 1: at the people that should have been keeping track of 124 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:08,440 Speaker 1: this already train wrecked situation with this poor child. They 125 00:08:08,440 --> 00:08:11,920 Speaker 1: should have known better. No one kept no one kept 126 00:08:11,960 --> 00:08:15,960 Speaker 1: an eye on her at all. And that's what's so 127 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:21,040 Speaker 1: frustrating for me. You know, Nancy talks about family Children's 128 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:22,080 Speaker 1: Services all the time. 129 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:23,000 Speaker 2: I do too. 130 00:08:23,280 --> 00:08:26,200 Speaker 1: I've had If you think she's had some experiences, I've 131 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:29,880 Speaker 1: had probably double the number of experiences she has had 132 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:32,280 Speaker 1: as a practitioner, because I see the end result of it. 133 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:34,480 Speaker 1: I have for years and years. And you look and 134 00:08:34,520 --> 00:08:37,760 Speaker 1: you say, all it would have taken was a phone call, 135 00:08:37,920 --> 00:08:39,959 Speaker 1: or all it would have taken was a home visit, 136 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:43,720 Speaker 1: and all it would have taken is just an ounce 137 00:08:43,760 --> 00:08:47,400 Speaker 1: of accountability, you know, where you're holding somebody responsible and 138 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:53,920 Speaker 1: that that didn't happen. So whatever beating she took along 139 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:58,760 Speaker 1: the way and neglect, there are other people other than 140 00:08:58,800 --> 00:09:01,160 Speaker 1: Harmony's father that had the hand on the wheel in 141 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:01,600 Speaker 1: this day. 142 00:09:02,120 --> 00:09:05,120 Speaker 3: I think that's an important point that there were other 143 00:09:05,160 --> 00:09:09,360 Speaker 3: people involved the evil that is Adam Montgomery. And the 144 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:13,240 Speaker 3: reason for the update is that Adam Montgomery was convicted 145 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:16,880 Speaker 3: by a jury of his peers for killing his daughter Harmony. Yeah, 146 00:09:17,160 --> 00:09:20,480 Speaker 3: a judge ruled her dead because we don't have her body. 147 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:23,800 Speaker 3: Even now, Joe, we still do not know where the 148 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:25,760 Speaker 3: body of Harmony Montgomery is. 149 00:09:26,040 --> 00:09:28,720 Speaker 1: We have never had and that was a big I 150 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:34,400 Speaker 1: think that that's the you know, obviously Adam Montgomery has 151 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:37,599 Speaker 1: been in fact convicted and is cooling his heels and 152 00:09:37,800 --> 00:09:42,920 Speaker 1: penitentiary right now. But a bigger piece to this, as 153 00:09:42,920 --> 00:09:45,679 Speaker 1: a follow up, was that the judge has in fact 154 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:50,120 Speaker 1: declared her dead. And listen, people go missing, they have 155 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:53,520 Speaker 1: for years and years, and the court will in fact 156 00:09:53,679 --> 00:09:58,760 Speaker 1: have to declare them dead simply as a result of 157 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:02,480 Speaker 1: their absence. Uh, they're not reappearing. And that's you know, 158 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:04,960 Speaker 1: that's when we're talking about adults, Dave, most of the time. 159 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:08,880 Speaker 1: Now we're talking about a handicapped. 160 00:10:09,120 --> 00:10:10,200 Speaker 3: Little girl. 161 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:18,720 Speaker 1: Who had did not possess the ability to take care 162 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:23,280 Speaker 1: of herself at all in these harsh New England winners, 163 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:26,000 Speaker 1: you know that they experienced up there, and that's what's 164 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:30,120 Speaker 1: so heartbreaking about this. And we you know, we have 165 00:10:30,240 --> 00:10:36,640 Speaker 1: this other circumstantial information that comes from Adam Montgomery's girlfriend 166 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:41,800 Speaker 1: that was domiciled, you know, in the car, if you know, 167 00:10:41,840 --> 00:10:48,360 Speaker 1: if we can say that and along with yeah, yeah, exactly, 168 00:10:48,440 --> 00:10:50,440 Speaker 1: and then you know, and they would migrate around. But 169 00:10:50,520 --> 00:10:55,800 Speaker 1: what she bore witness to, uh, was you know, she 170 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:56,840 Speaker 1: she was aware. 171 00:10:56,559 --> 00:11:00,480 Speaker 2: That that harmony had died. There's no doubt. 172 00:11:00,559 --> 00:11:04,800 Speaker 1: I mean she you know, he, let's just say it plainly, 173 00:11:04,920 --> 00:11:09,560 Speaker 1: he had knocked hell out of her for a long, 174 00:11:09,679 --> 00:11:13,080 Speaker 1: protracted period of time, and these events had been born 175 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:17,680 Speaker 1: witness to, and it was that fatal blow. I think 176 00:11:17,679 --> 00:11:19,520 Speaker 1: it was a fatal blow that occurred in the back 177 00:11:19,559 --> 00:11:23,040 Speaker 1: of that car because she you know, let's face it, 178 00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:26,440 Speaker 1: I mean she's she's having to live in the back 179 00:11:26,559 --> 00:11:31,560 Speaker 1: seat of a two door car, a convertible in the winter, 180 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:35,880 Speaker 1: and she sold herself and she had a problem with this, 181 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:38,680 Speaker 1: and a lot of little kids do. It's the nature 182 00:11:38,679 --> 00:11:41,280 Speaker 1: of being a little kid. But how much more so 183 00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:46,040 Speaker 1: for her. You can imagine for folks in the audience 184 00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:51,400 Speaker 1: that have been part of an abusive situation. As a child, 185 00:11:51,559 --> 00:11:55,400 Speaker 1: like I was, you're always nervous. You don't know what's 186 00:11:55,440 --> 00:11:58,600 Speaker 1: going to happen next you. You think that the hand 187 00:11:58,679 --> 00:12:00,280 Speaker 1: is going to be drawn back on you and you're 188 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:02,720 Speaker 1: going to be knocked around again. And so for a 189 00:12:02,760 --> 00:12:06,920 Speaker 1: little child like this, they're met with anger at every turn. 190 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:07,439 Speaker 2: And so. 191 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:13,800 Speaker 1: That's the situation. She she had to end dwell. But 192 00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:15,600 Speaker 1: you know, I think about it is that people talked 193 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:20,240 Speaker 1: about Harmony is this little angel that she was always 194 00:12:20,280 --> 00:12:25,320 Speaker 1: happy and sweet and you know that. You know, I 195 00:12:25,440 --> 00:12:27,959 Speaker 1: use the analogy of throwing a throwing a brick through 196 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:29,000 Speaker 1: a stained glass window. 197 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:32,880 Speaker 2: Why would you do that? You know? And and in. 198 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:35,440 Speaker 1: Her case, uh, that's what happened. 199 00:12:35,480 --> 00:12:42,760 Speaker 2: She died in the backs that car. 200 00:12:51,120 --> 00:12:58,280 Speaker 1: When Adam Montgomery decided to fly into what seems to 201 00:12:58,320 --> 00:13:03,839 Speaker 1: be a consistent rage with this child, he didn't try 202 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:08,520 Speaker 1: to mask it. He struck her in the face and 203 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:15,840 Speaker 1: about the head, over and over and over again, and 204 00:13:15,920 --> 00:13:19,480 Speaker 1: actually in front of this witness that it turns out 205 00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:23,719 Speaker 1: he was married to I think for a time, and 206 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:27,120 Speaker 1: she bore witness to this and no shame. 207 00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:30,400 Speaker 3: So you've got Adam Montgomery driving the car, Calea Montgomery 208 00:13:30,440 --> 00:13:33,840 Speaker 3: in the passenger seat. In the back Harmony Montgomery. Harmony 209 00:13:33,920 --> 00:13:37,320 Speaker 3: had an accident. As we mentioned, she is a special 210 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:40,920 Speaker 3: girl and has some special needs. She allegedly had an 211 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:44,800 Speaker 3: accident in the car and according to Kayla Montgomery, she 212 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:46,839 Speaker 3: and Adam had just scored some heroin and they were 213 00:13:46,880 --> 00:13:50,000 Speaker 3: on their way to Burger King. I don't know if 214 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:51,880 Speaker 3: they had used the heroin at this point or not, 215 00:13:52,559 --> 00:13:56,360 Speaker 3: but they had just I'm assuming they did, because otherwise 216 00:13:56,360 --> 00:13:59,520 Speaker 3: it wouldn't be in the story. But when Adam is 217 00:13:59,679 --> 00:14:06,080 Speaker 3: drying the car and he attacks Harmony, she's in the 218 00:14:06,080 --> 00:14:07,760 Speaker 3: back seat. He's in the front seat driving and he 219 00:14:07,800 --> 00:14:12,600 Speaker 3: attacks her for having an accident, and he beats her 220 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:16,320 Speaker 3: about the face. Not once, it's like you're driving down 221 00:14:16,320 --> 00:14:19,600 Speaker 3: the road. Ha. He hits her, not once, not twice, 222 00:14:19,880 --> 00:14:23,400 Speaker 3: but three different times. He beats his five year old 223 00:14:23,440 --> 00:14:26,560 Speaker 3: special needs daughter, who can't see out of one eye, 224 00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:30,920 Speaker 3: and he beats her so bad that the last time 225 00:14:31,160 --> 00:14:35,800 Speaker 3: he hits her, he tells Kayla the step bomb. I 226 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:40,440 Speaker 3: think I really hurt her this time. I think I 227 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:44,240 Speaker 3: did something. That's when he crushed her face with his 228 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:47,960 Speaker 3: bare hands, his fist. He hit a five year old 229 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:49,840 Speaker 3: special needs girl in the back seat of the car 230 00:14:50,040 --> 00:14:53,120 Speaker 3: while he's driving so hard that he knew he had 231 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:53,680 Speaker 3: killed her. 232 00:14:55,040 --> 00:14:58,520 Speaker 1: And they continued on the Burger camp. Yep, that's you 233 00:14:58,520 --> 00:15:00,520 Speaker 1: know where they were headed. And you know what's key 234 00:15:00,560 --> 00:15:03,200 Speaker 1: in that statement, Dave to me, if I'm trying to 235 00:15:03,240 --> 00:15:07,880 Speaker 1: figure this out forensically, and trying to understand the trauma. 236 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:14,400 Speaker 1: And it's that quote. It's not so much I think 237 00:15:14,920 --> 00:15:18,160 Speaker 1: I really hurt her, it's I think I really hurt 238 00:15:18,200 --> 00:15:24,720 Speaker 1: her this time, which implies that this is an ongoing issue. 239 00:15:24,720 --> 00:15:28,320 Speaker 1: And as we find out, he has been known to 240 00:15:28,440 --> 00:15:32,600 Speaker 1: strike this child specifically for this reason, for soiling herself. 241 00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:35,760 Speaker 1: And let's just break it down and look, little kids, 242 00:15:36,680 --> 00:15:41,200 Speaker 1: you don't have to have special needs issues. It's compounded, 243 00:15:42,280 --> 00:15:46,040 Speaker 1: you know, potty training and all that. And just so 244 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:51,120 Speaker 1: that we can paint the picture, this guy can do 245 00:15:51,480 --> 00:15:57,080 Speaker 1: no better for his kid than to provide a domicile 246 00:15:57,680 --> 00:16:02,560 Speaker 1: in a Chrysler product. That's the domicile, okay, And the 247 00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:06,000 Speaker 1: child probably from moment to moment doesn't know where they're 248 00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:09,200 Speaker 1: going to go. When's the next time I'm going to 249 00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:13,640 Speaker 1: be able to go potty? And she's faced with that 250 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:17,680 Speaker 1: decision and can you imagine And I've tried to think 251 00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:23,880 Speaker 1: about this legitimately from this perspective, because it's this kind 252 00:16:23,920 --> 00:16:27,400 Speaker 1: of learned, a responsive behavior that she's going to have. 253 00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:29,920 Speaker 1: When you see people that have been abused as a result, 254 00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:33,760 Speaker 1: particularly when they're being struck, if there is a long line, 255 00:16:33,920 --> 00:16:39,440 Speaker 1: all the abuser has to do. It doesn't even take emotion. 256 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:44,480 Speaker 1: You can turn and glare at them, and particularly with 257 00:16:44,560 --> 00:16:48,160 Speaker 1: a child, a five year old child, and it gets 258 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:52,400 Speaker 1: their attention very very quickly, and she can This is 259 00:16:52,440 --> 00:16:54,760 Speaker 1: the thing, and this is what breaks my heart about it. 260 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:59,480 Speaker 1: This child who is forced to live in this Chrysler 261 00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:06,600 Speaker 1: product is living in a small space. And just so 262 00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:09,560 Speaker 1: you know, the seabreing is a two door car. It's 263 00:17:09,600 --> 00:17:13,400 Speaker 1: not a four door. It's a cramp space. She's occupying 264 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:18,359 Speaker 1: the back seat. There is an awareness of fear. It 265 00:17:18,480 --> 00:17:21,640 Speaker 1: just kind of permeates this environment. And all he has 266 00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:24,160 Speaker 1: to do is turn around. And so what does she do? 267 00:17:24,280 --> 00:17:26,840 Speaker 1: I upset, you know, a T ten on myself or 268 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:30,000 Speaker 1: whatever it was. However they became aware. Maybe it was 269 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:34,920 Speaker 1: a smell. I have no idea. But when we think 270 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:40,479 Speaker 1: about this, I hurt her this time when you're an 271 00:17:40,560 --> 00:17:48,080 Speaker 1: autopsy and you're trying to understand trauma to anyone, but 272 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:51,760 Speaker 1: let's just think about harmony. There'll never be an opportunity 273 00:17:51,800 --> 00:17:53,359 Speaker 1: to do an autopsy. 274 00:17:53,560 --> 00:17:54,399 Speaker 2: A doubt pair. 275 00:17:54,480 --> 00:17:58,320 Speaker 1: Seriously, but you look at this progression of trauma where 276 00:17:58,800 --> 00:18:04,240 Speaker 1: a child is initially struck, that heals, and then you 277 00:18:04,280 --> 00:18:07,200 Speaker 1: strike them again and you have these kind of overlapping, 278 00:18:07,760 --> 00:18:10,159 Speaker 1: maybe focal areas of hemorrha throughout the body. That's one 279 00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:14,240 Speaker 1: of the reasons when I instruct police officers, and particularly 280 00:18:14,280 --> 00:18:19,800 Speaker 1: those that that work crimes against children, we have a 281 00:18:19,960 --> 00:18:22,880 Speaker 1: chart that we use where I teach them about contusions 282 00:18:22,880 --> 00:18:25,240 Speaker 1: and bruises and that sort of thing, because you can 283 00:18:25,600 --> 00:18:27,840 Speaker 1: you can learn a lot. It's almost like the rings 284 00:18:27,840 --> 00:18:31,280 Speaker 1: of a tree in a horrific way. But dependent upon 285 00:18:31,320 --> 00:18:33,480 Speaker 1: what the status of a contusion is, you can get 286 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:36,879 Speaker 1: an idea that there has been a progression, not so 287 00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:41,080 Speaker 1: much a progression as like a continued series of abuses. 288 00:18:41,359 --> 00:18:43,200 Speaker 3: Then they could find out. See. One of the things 289 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:46,240 Speaker 3: the police found during their investigation was that in July 290 00:18:46,280 --> 00:18:50,239 Speaker 3: of twenty nineteen, during that summer that Adam Montgomery had 291 00:18:50,280 --> 00:18:53,600 Speaker 3: admitted to family members that he hit Harmony so hard 292 00:18:53,600 --> 00:18:56,200 Speaker 3: in the face that he blackened her eye, and rather 293 00:18:56,240 --> 00:18:58,159 Speaker 3: than tell them that she fell down or hit it, 294 00:18:58,280 --> 00:19:00,600 Speaker 3: he actually told them I hit her. And when police 295 00:19:00,600 --> 00:19:03,480 Speaker 3: were investigating and talking to family to corroborate some of 296 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:05,560 Speaker 3: the things they were being told, family said, yeah, he 297 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:08,200 Speaker 3: hit her so hard it black and dry. You'd be 298 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:11,159 Speaker 3: able to figure that out if you had the opportunity 299 00:19:11,240 --> 00:19:14,240 Speaker 3: to look at her later to find out if this 300 00:19:14,440 --> 00:19:15,880 Speaker 3: was a regular pattern of abuse. 301 00:19:16,280 --> 00:19:17,399 Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know that. 302 00:19:17,640 --> 00:19:19,879 Speaker 1: I'm glad you brought up the blackened eye because it 303 00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:25,159 Speaker 1: troubles me when you have and if anybody's ever broken 304 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:28,080 Speaker 1: their nose for instance, or seen someone that has had 305 00:19:28,119 --> 00:19:32,879 Speaker 1: some kind of plastic surgery, say a rhinoplasty or something 306 00:19:32,920 --> 00:19:38,119 Speaker 1: like that, they'll have bilateral, bilateral blackened eyes. And one 307 00:19:38,119 --> 00:19:40,600 Speaker 1: of the reasons is is that there was a fracturing 308 00:19:40,760 --> 00:19:44,639 Speaker 1: that's going on and the floor of the skull is 309 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:48,239 Speaker 1: very thin. It's when you get behind the eyes that 310 00:19:48,320 --> 00:19:52,320 Speaker 1: area is and I've had forensic pathologists describe it as 311 00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:56,320 Speaker 1: as eggshell like. And so if you and I've seen 312 00:19:56,320 --> 00:19:58,439 Speaker 1: this done, you can actually take a skull in a 313 00:19:58,440 --> 00:20:05,000 Speaker 1: flashlight and if you can position it just right and 314 00:20:05,119 --> 00:20:07,280 Speaker 1: there's some dissection that has gone but just trust me 315 00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:10,280 Speaker 1: with this. You can shine a flashlight up through the 316 00:20:10,359 --> 00:20:14,160 Speaker 1: floor of the skull and it is translucent almost. That's 317 00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:16,400 Speaker 1: how thin that bone is, and so how much more 318 00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:19,119 Speaker 1: so for a five year old if you're dealing with 319 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:40,600 Speaker 1: repeated strikes. We're in twenty twenty four now, and I 320 00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:47,480 Speaker 1: really thought that by this time we were going to 321 00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:50,800 Speaker 1: find Harmony. I thought that there would be a breaking 322 00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:56,080 Speaker 1: news story that you know, and it's typical, you know, 323 00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:58,040 Speaker 1: they go to a shot on TV, you see a 324 00:20:58,080 --> 00:21:02,320 Speaker 1: bunch of trucks lined up, and you say, we don't 325 00:21:02,359 --> 00:21:05,040 Speaker 1: we can't confirm yet, but we know that the police 326 00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:08,080 Speaker 1: are working in this area. Unnamed sources now tell us 327 00:21:08,119 --> 00:21:11,920 Speaker 1: that they're you know, they're on a recovery wells As 328 00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:14,800 Speaker 1: horrible as that is, I thought that maybe that would 329 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:18,680 Speaker 1: happen and we would have more answers, But my friend, 330 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:23,000 Speaker 1: I don't have really any more answers today than I did. 331 00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:27,080 Speaker 3: You're right, we don't know. We don't know where her 332 00:21:27,080 --> 00:21:31,119 Speaker 3: body is, but we know more about the story of 333 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:35,760 Speaker 3: what they did with Harmony's body after she after he 334 00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:37,480 Speaker 3: beat her to death in the back seat of that 335 00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:39,160 Speaker 3: car and they had car trouble. 336 00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:41,760 Speaker 1: And and then you know, being placed in a duffel 337 00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:42,760 Speaker 1: bag to we transported her. 338 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:47,800 Speaker 3: They preferred to it they being the everybody involved in 339 00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:50,800 Speaker 3: the case the Burger Kang beating, because they were on 340 00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:53,920 Speaker 3: their way to Burger King and that's when she had 341 00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:58,000 Speaker 3: the accident in the back seat and Adam Montgomery beat her. 342 00:21:58,080 --> 00:22:01,560 Speaker 3: He beat her regularly, which yeah, goes beyond I point 343 00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:04,040 Speaker 3: that out and just in case somebody ends up in 344 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:06,760 Speaker 3: prison with him, to remind them what he did to 345 00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:09,600 Speaker 3: a five year old little by the way, a five 346 00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:14,600 Speaker 3: year old girl who had special needs, blind in one eye, 347 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:19,280 Speaker 3: and he beat her regularly, and the last time he 348 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:25,639 Speaker 3: beat her, he actually said to his girlfriend, Kayla, I 349 00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:29,520 Speaker 3: think I really hurt her this time. I think I 350 00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:31,800 Speaker 3: really hurt her this time. 351 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:32,560 Speaker 1: This time. 352 00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:37,240 Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I did something. And they said harmony, 353 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:40,760 Speaker 3: and harmony made moaning sounds for the next five minutes 354 00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:43,560 Speaker 3: in the backseat of that cardro and then it stopped. 355 00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:50,239 Speaker 1: And yeah, I'd love to say something about that. And 356 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:54,639 Speaker 1: this is just me, you know, kind of projecting. I 357 00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:59,000 Speaker 1: think to a great degree the reason she was moaning 358 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:02,560 Speaker 1: obviously it was in pain, but she's slowly losing consciousness. 359 00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:07,119 Speaker 1: Because here's what I think if he had, if Adam 360 00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:10,800 Speaker 1: Montgomery had been striking his child as violently as has 361 00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:15,159 Speaker 1: been reported, it would not surprise me, Dave, that she 362 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:22,840 Speaker 1: had already had some kind of indwelling cerebral event that 363 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:26,440 Speaker 1: had occurred, maybe kind of a slow bleed, and that 364 00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:29,879 Speaker 1: moaning that we're talking about I've often wondered did she 365 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:31,919 Speaker 1: throw up as a result of it, because sometimes with 366 00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:34,720 Speaker 1: head injuries like this, with these kind of closed head injuries, 367 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:37,960 Speaker 1: where pressure is building up, you'll see you'll see a 368 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:43,080 Speaker 1: person violently react. They'll there'll be an onset of nausea, vomiting, 369 00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:46,640 Speaker 1: this sort of thing, and then they'll lapse into a coma, 370 00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:53,359 Speaker 1: and that moaning, you know, kind of accompanies this. They're 371 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:57,440 Speaker 1: slowly becoming nonverbal, Dave. So I hope I've painted kind 372 00:23:57,440 --> 00:24:01,639 Speaker 1: of the picture that she's drifting way in the backseat 373 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:05,160 Speaker 1: of that filthy car out in the middle of the street, 374 00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:12,240 Speaker 1: and that's where she met her in people have always 375 00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:15,879 Speaker 1: wondered and will continue to wonder where she is. I 376 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:20,000 Speaker 1: have held that I think he could tell us at 377 00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:24,280 Speaker 1: least where he deposited her. And I have thought, and 378 00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:26,639 Speaker 1: this is the cynic in me. I think I've thought 379 00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:33,560 Speaker 1: that perhaps perhaps he was using this as leverage to 380 00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:37,080 Speaker 1: get something better, you know, to say, yeah, I'll you 381 00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:42,200 Speaker 1: move me from this section of the jail to this section. 382 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:44,280 Speaker 1: If you do that, I'll tell you because he's not 383 00:24:44,359 --> 00:24:47,720 Speaker 1: going to get out well, at least, I hope no 384 00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:54,120 Speaker 1: right thinking group of people would allow him to skirt 385 00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:57,399 Speaker 1: any part of his sentence at all. But I've often 386 00:24:57,440 --> 00:24:59,879 Speaker 1: thought that he would try to leverage that information, almost 387 00:24:59,880 --> 00:25:03,840 Speaker 1: like serial killer, does you know where They're always saying, yeah, well, 388 00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:05,880 Speaker 1: I was involved in this one, even though they might 389 00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:09,080 Speaker 1: not have been. He was involved in this. He knows 390 00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:12,760 Speaker 1: where her body is and what's the name of that 391 00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:17,760 Speaker 1: place outside of Revere, Massachusetts. It's like the kind of 392 00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:23,199 Speaker 1: swampy area. It's like a reserve that's down there. A 393 00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:28,399 Speaker 1: saltwater marsh is what it comes down to. And you know, 394 00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:34,600 Speaker 1: our thought was and has been that he was allegedly 395 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:40,359 Speaker 1: familiar with that area, and he took what remained of 396 00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:43,960 Speaker 1: her after all of those years, and after him literally 397 00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:51,480 Speaker 1: carrying her little body around in various conveyances, he had 398 00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:55,480 Speaker 1: her in a gym bag, duffelback type of thing. 399 00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:57,760 Speaker 3: I was looking at that because, you know, when we 400 00:25:57,760 --> 00:26:00,600 Speaker 3: were talking about that marshy area, I'm looking for the 401 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:03,280 Speaker 3: name of it right now, and it escapes me. But 402 00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:07,440 Speaker 3: his girlfriend provided the information. You know, when you look 403 00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:11,360 Speaker 3: at Adam Montgomery being in charge of his daughter, Harmony, 404 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:14,880 Speaker 3: and he had a girlfriend, Kayla, who was living with him, 405 00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:17,160 Speaker 3: and she was working at this place or that place 406 00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:19,560 Speaker 3: to support them and their drug habit from time to time, 407 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:21,919 Speaker 3: and they did live in a number of different places, 408 00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:27,960 Speaker 3: not just homeless shelters and their car. She would her daughter, 409 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:30,320 Speaker 3: Harmony would talk to her mother from time to time. 410 00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:33,000 Speaker 3: They would skype her what have you. And that ended. 411 00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:36,800 Speaker 3: That just kind of stopped, and it took time before 412 00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:40,439 Speaker 3: she ever actually said anything because she was not in 413 00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:43,680 Speaker 3: a position to actually say much because she wasn't living 414 00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:48,000 Speaker 3: within the law. Apparently. Anyway, it was two years before 415 00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:50,520 Speaker 3: anybody said, I don't know where Harmony Montgomery is. And 416 00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:52,840 Speaker 3: that's why if you remember Joe, when we first covered this, 417 00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:58,440 Speaker 3: we thought, okay, I thought, the police are out there 418 00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:01,000 Speaker 3: at this house looking for this little girl who you know, 419 00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:04,080 Speaker 3: who's gone missing. She's special needs. Lets help find her. 420 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:06,440 Speaker 3: Let's get the word out right now. And then as 421 00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:10,280 Speaker 3: the story broker, like, wait a minute, she didn't just leave. 422 00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:13,920 Speaker 3: When was the last time somebody saw her? Yep, And 423 00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:17,320 Speaker 3: it really became as we were covering the story, it's 424 00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:22,000 Speaker 3: like unbelievable, a five year old goes missing for two 425 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:27,040 Speaker 3: years with special needs. Yes, and anyway, that's where it began. 426 00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:31,760 Speaker 3: In anyway, Eventually, Kayla, the girlfriend they've kind of got her. 427 00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:36,240 Speaker 3: They they are they being investigators. They know the information 428 00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:39,120 Speaker 3: is there, They know the information, the truth can be had. 429 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:41,439 Speaker 3: They just have to lean the right way on the 430 00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:44,280 Speaker 3: right person. And they were able to separate Kayla the 431 00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:47,480 Speaker 3: girlfriend from Adam long enough to get the story out 432 00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:51,280 Speaker 3: to know what happened on the trip to Burger king 433 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:55,480 Speaker 3: about her groaning, moaning, and her breath ending in the 434 00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:58,719 Speaker 3: backseat of that filthy, nasty Chrysler seabring on, you know, 435 00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:03,680 Speaker 3: And then she talks about that they moved a couple 436 00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:07,600 Speaker 3: of different times from this place to that place. They 437 00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:10,560 Speaker 3: put her body on the side of the road the 438 00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:16,840 Speaker 3: car broke down, And imagine you've got your dead five 439 00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:20,600 Speaker 3: year old daughter in the backseat of the car and 440 00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:24,000 Speaker 3: your car breaks down, and you grab a duffel bag 441 00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:27,000 Speaker 3: and under armoured bag and cram her body into that 442 00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:28,280 Speaker 3: and then go. 443 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:31,720 Speaker 1: Under those that intense spotlight because you know, if you 444 00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:33,840 Speaker 1: break down the middle of the road, authorities are going 445 00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:34,920 Speaker 1: to show up sooner or later. 446 00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:37,120 Speaker 2: And so. 447 00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:43,560 Speaker 1: This is how cold he is. Reptilian. I would describe 448 00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:46,880 Speaker 1: it as he's able to manage this sleight of hand. 449 00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:51,840 Speaker 1: And that was one of the biggest the the biggest 450 00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:54,320 Speaker 1: things I think that the defense had raised in this 451 00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:56,360 Speaker 1: case was how was he able to do this? 452 00:28:57,400 --> 00:28:58,400 Speaker 3: Was because. 453 00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:03,720 Speaker 1: I think that he's used to violence, and he's used 454 00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:07,480 Speaker 1: to nefarious activity, and so it doesn't it doesn't phase 455 00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:11,080 Speaker 1: him necessarily like any like it would anybody. And you 456 00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:13,600 Speaker 1: go back to that statement, what was it he said, 457 00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:17,640 Speaker 1: I think I heard her this time. This time, I 458 00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:21,640 Speaker 1: think A really hurt her this time, implying of course 459 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:26,520 Speaker 1: that she's been hurt multiple times, but this time, this time, 460 00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:29,240 Speaker 1: I think I really hurt her. And so it's not 461 00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:31,600 Speaker 1: a far leap to think that he could transport that, 462 00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:34,120 Speaker 1: you know, or transfer her body from the interior the 463 00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:36,920 Speaker 1: card into the bag and then just you know, well 464 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:39,920 Speaker 1: you know, I'm here with my family, cars broken down. 465 00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:42,959 Speaker 1: We got to beat feet down the road tru to 466 00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:45,240 Speaker 1: find a solution to all of this, and as it 467 00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:48,960 Speaker 1: turns out, they begin transporting her body around to these 468 00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:53,160 Speaker 1: various locations. He's even taken her to work in a 469 00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:57,200 Speaker 1: restaurant adjacent to a walking cooler, or placed in a 470 00:29:57,280 --> 00:30:02,080 Speaker 1: walking cooler wha he's working there. It's it's listen if you, 471 00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:04,680 Speaker 1: if you and I try to pitch this in Hollywood. 472 00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:08,120 Speaker 1: They wouldn't bite. They'd say, this is ridiculous, this happened. 473 00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:10,800 Speaker 3: Nobody is that evil, Joe. You got to rewrite this. 474 00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:13,480 Speaker 3: There's no way nobody didn't believe this. Yeah, I know, 475 00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:16,120 Speaker 3: and so you're old at least don't make her handy. 476 00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:17,640 Speaker 3: Come on, man, I know. 477 00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:19,720 Speaker 1: It's just too it's too far over the top. But 478 00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:24,160 Speaker 1: you know, stranger than fiction, right, And so you look 479 00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:28,240 Speaker 1: at this and the you know, it's an important piece 480 00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:35,280 Speaker 1: here obviously that he's been convicted. And my fear is 481 00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:38,360 Speaker 1: is that with harmony, like so many other children, we're 482 00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:40,840 Speaker 1: going to forget her. And I don't want to. I mean, 483 00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:43,320 Speaker 1: and there's a lot of other people that don't want to. 484 00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:45,200 Speaker 1: We spend a lot of time covering this case, and 485 00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:48,160 Speaker 1: it's not the our investment of time. I'm going to 486 00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:51,920 Speaker 1: be here anyway, but this case, like it did with 487 00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:54,880 Speaker 1: so many other people out there, really struck a nerve. 488 00:30:56,280 --> 00:31:00,320 Speaker 1: And it's important that the courts have acknowledged that she 489 00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:06,880 Speaker 1: now has officially been declared dead deceased. That's going to 490 00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:09,760 Speaker 1: enable I think now, as a result of this action 491 00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:13,560 Speaker 1: by the court, enable her mother to take certain other 492 00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:19,480 Speaker 1: steps in her life. Moving on, I don't know that 493 00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:23,520 Speaker 1: this person will ever roll over on her whereabouts because 494 00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:28,320 Speaker 1: I reflect back to that bodycam footage that they had 495 00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:31,840 Speaker 1: of him in the road with the detectives, and the 496 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:34,240 Speaker 1: detectives saying, look, we're not trying to jam you up. 497 00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:38,320 Speaker 1: This is just there's a missing little girl. We want 498 00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:42,960 Speaker 1: to know. He's completely resistant to it. It's about self preservation. 499 00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:50,160 Speaker 1: And I'm thinking, well, he's been found guilty, now he's incarcerated, 500 00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:53,920 Speaker 1: he doesn't have detectives there pressuring him. What would be 501 00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:57,360 Speaker 1: the motivation for him to ever say where he deposited. 502 00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:00,440 Speaker 1: I just hope that at some point in time, maybe 503 00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:05,320 Speaker 1: in the correction system, when he's in this environment, he's 504 00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:07,040 Speaker 1: going to let us guard down, He's going to say 505 00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:11,360 Speaker 1: something to somebody. But here's the real rub with this. 506 00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:17,840 Speaker 1: If he took her remains to the saltwater marsh area, Dave, 507 00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:19,680 Speaker 1: as you know, because I know you've lived by the 508 00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:22,960 Speaker 1: Atlantic for a period of time and I've lived around 509 00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:27,000 Speaker 1: the Gulf of Mexico. Saltwater marshes are depended upon the tides, 510 00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:30,200 Speaker 1: so as they rise and they fall, they also draw out. 511 00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:34,360 Speaker 1: I don't know. And the girlfriend alluded to the fact 512 00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:38,080 Speaker 1: that she was removed from the Duffel bag and had 513 00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:41,880 Speaker 1: the bag that she was placed in, interestingly enough, with 514 00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:45,800 Speaker 1: a maternity bag from a local hospital, which again is 515 00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:50,280 Speaker 1: a real that you can't the irony so thick you 516 00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:54,800 Speaker 1: could cut it. This precious little life, her body that 517 00:32:54,960 --> 00:33:00,640 Speaker 1: had already would have decayed significantly. He had rendered her down. 518 00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:04,040 Speaker 1: The girlfriend had put forth this idea that he had 519 00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:07,840 Speaker 1: dismembered her and took her the totality of her what 520 00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:10,000 Speaker 1: was left of her components, placed him in a bag. 521 00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:14,440 Speaker 1: If he did deposit her in that saltwater marsh, she 522 00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:17,240 Speaker 1: could have been drawn out to sea, and not to 523 00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:21,240 Speaker 1: mention any kind of aquatic life that's in there. I 524 00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:23,640 Speaker 1: don't know that we'll ever have her physical remains, but 525 00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:31,160 Speaker 1: I do know this. Adam Montgomery is incarcerated. He has 526 00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:38,520 Speaker 1: been found guilty of Harmony's murder. I just hope that 527 00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:44,040 Speaker 1: her life will mean something, particularly to those that are 528 00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:48,760 Speaker 1: charged with the awesome responsibility of watching over those that 529 00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:52,120 Speaker 1: can't take care of themselves, little kids out there just 530 00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:57,960 Speaker 1: like Harmony. Let this please be a warning, be a benchmark, 531 00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:02,040 Speaker 1: be a monument that stands in her memory, to watch 532 00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:08,799 Speaker 1: her for those who are helpless, and that are very 533 00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:12,560 Speaker 1: vulnerable to the world around them because the world is 534 00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:16,799 Speaker 1: in fact filled with monsters. I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and 535 00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:19,480 Speaker 1: this is body Bags