Harmony Montgomery Still Missing: Mom Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against New Hampshire
Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan
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🗓️ 24 September 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Harmony Montgomery was 5 years old when she was last seen in December of 2019, but she is not reported missing for two years. When police track down Adam Montgomery and ask about Harmony, he tells them Harmony is with her mother in Florida. Police inform him that Crystal Sorey, Harmony's mother is the one who asked for them to check on Harmony, Adam Montgomery doesn't cooperate, but the media catches on to the story and pressure is brought to find the special needs girl with the beautiful smile. To this day, Harmony Montgomery is still missing. A judge declared Harmony dead in March 2024, clearing the way for Harmony's mother, Crystal Sorey to file a wrongful death lawsuit against the state of New Hampshire alleging systemic failures in the state's child protection system. The lawsuit seeks monetary damages and answers from the state of New Hampshire surrounding Harmony's disappearance and death.
Adam Montgomery was sentenced to 56 years to life in prison for the murder of Harmony Montgomery as well as second-degree assault, witness tampering, falsifying physical evidence, and abuse of a corpse.
Transcript Highlights
00:00.00 Introduction - update Harmony Montgomery case
02:39.79 Crystal Sorey, Harmony's mother, files lawsuit against New Hampshire
05:00.76 Family called about abuse, nothing was done
09:03.23 Judge declared Harmony dead, body still not found
14:04.73 Adam Montgomery beats Harmony in back seat of car
18:57.46 Family told social services, Adam blackened her eye
24:28.68 Description of Harmony dying in backseat of car
27:46.64 Kayla Montgomery told police about beating in car
32:42.38 Conclusion - Hope someone listens
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| 0:00.0 | Body Facts with Joseph Scott Moore. |
| 0:04.0 | One of the biggest problems that I have encountered as a death investigator |
| 0:12.0 | is afraid. death investigator is a phrase that it's so common that people say this. |
| 0:21.0 | Both families and friends of a deceased individual, they will always say, I cannot |
| 0:26.7 | believe they are gone. The reason many people cannot believe that someone is gone I think at a base level |
| 0:36.2 | is because they didn't witness the death or they were not physically there to put |
| 0:41.8 | their hands on the remains of their loved one. |
| 0:44.5 | It's a very tactile event. |
| 0:46.3 | I think it goes back in our DNA for centuries to verify something. I want to update you on a case today involving the life and death of precious |
| 1:07.0 | precious Harmony Montgomery. |
| 1:09.4 | We've done an episode on body bags |
| 1:12.2 | relative to harmony, but there's some newer information that I kind of wanted to address, |
| 1:19.0 | and it does specifically deal with this idea of I can't believe she's gone and the reason why? |
| 1:26.9 | Is it we still don't have her body? |
| 1:31.3 | I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is body bags. |
| 1:35.0 | Dave, I'm glad you mentioned this case to us for an update. |
| 1:42.0 | First off, I think for the entire time of me covering this case on |
| 1:48.4 | law and crime and on court TV and of course with Nancy, I've been furious the entire day. |
| 1:53.7 | Anytime Harney's name would arise all I could see is that that precious little face |
| 1:59.0 | wearing glasses who has it was blind in one eye and it was totally depended upon the adults in |
| 2:07.6 | their in her life to not just nurture but just to provide for basic care for her and she was just |
| 2:17.8 | failed miserably not by the monster who has been held responsible now for her death, but the other |
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