Adam Montgomery Murder Conviction Overturned in Death of 5YO Harmony | Crime Alert 06.12.26
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🗓️ 12 June 2026
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New Hampshire Supreme Court rules trial 'unfair' for father convicted last year of beating his 5-year-old daughter to death, then disposing of her remains. Boston siblings manning a lemonade stand robbed and threatened with a gun by two suspects just a few years older than them! Former Louisiana mayor sentenced to just three months in jail after 'indecent behavior' with her son's 16-year-old friend at his birthday party. Sydney Silvagni reports.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
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| 0:05.4 | Crime Alert, hourly update. |
| 0:07.5 | Breaking Crime News now. |
| 0:09.3 | I'm Sidney. |
| 0:11.2 | The New Hampshire Supreme Court has overturned the murder conviction of Adam Montgomery. |
| 0:15.7 | Previously found guilty of brutally beating his 5-year-old daughter Harmony to death in 2019 |
| 0:20.7 | and then hiding her remains, |
| 0:22.6 | which have tragically never been found. Montgomery's conviction on the second-degree murder |
| 0:27.5 | charge now vacated due to illegal technicality, the Supreme Court said, resulted in an unfair |
| 0:32.9 | trial. The High Court ruled that prosecutors should not have tried Montgomery's second-degree murder |
| 0:38.4 | charge alongside an earlier separate second-degree assault charge from months prior. |
| 0:43.7 | The justices argued that hearing evidence of the first beating improperly led the jury to |
| 0:48.4 | assume he must have committed the fatal December assault, creating an impermissible inference. |
| 0:55.8 | The ruling read that the state produced much stronger evidence that Montgomery committed the first July 2019 beating, |
| 1:01.4 | with four witnesses who claimed they noticed harmony with a black eye. Several of those witnesses |
| 1:06.3 | also testified when confronted about that bruise, Montgomery admitted to striking the little |
| 1:11.4 | girl. |
| 1:12.4 | The evidence in the allegedly fatal December beating was weaker. |
| 1:16.0 | Only Kayla Montgomery, Adam's wife at the time, who was offered a deal in exchange for |
| 1:20.2 | her testimony, witnessed the assault. |
| 1:22.7 | She said that Montgomery beat Harmony in the head for soiling her bed in her sleep, saying |
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