Search for 5-year-old girl missing since 2019 escalates as cops scour wetlands
Police in Massachusetts began searching a swampy area off an interstate in connection with the disappearance and presumed murder of five-year-old Harmony Montgomery.
The search is being conducted by members of the Manchester, New Hampshire Police Department as well as the Massachusetts State Police, the New Hampshire Department of Justice stated on Friday.
Search teams were spotted combing through the wetlands off Route 107 near Revere, Massachusetts.
The search was ‘prompted by information developed by investigators,’ a Massachusetts State Police spokesperson said.
They deployed 18 troopers, as well as search dogs and drones to the site just north of the Boston metro area.
They declined to give any further information about the search, or comment further on what information lead them to the area.
Montgomery disappeared in 2019, but wasn’t reported missing until 2021. Harmony’s birth mother, Crystal Sorley, raised concerns after she told authorities the last time she was her daughter was Easter 2019.
Her body has never been found, but investigators uncovered enough evidence to charge her father, Adam Montgomery, with her murder.
He was arrested in October, 2022 and charged with second-degree murder, falsifying physical evidence, abuse of corpse, and tampering with witnesses. He remains in police custody.
Investigators believe Adam killed his daughter ‘by repeatedly striking Harmony in the head with a closed fist,’ New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella said.
They have since determined that her murder took place between November 28 – December 10, 2019. Between then and March, 2020, investigators believe Adam falsified evidence and hid her body.
Investigators also asked for the public’s help in finding the missing girl. ‘If you have any information regarding her murder or the location of her remains, please call or text the 24-hour tip line dedicated to Harmony Montgomery’s rescue at 603-203-6060.’
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