In October of 2021, the body of 5-year-old Elijah Lewis was found buried in a Massachusetts park,

and when Crystal Sory heard what had happened to

that little boy, something inside her panicked, because she had been trying four months to get

people to listen to her about her own missing child, her daughter, Harmony Montgomery. Harmony

was supposed to be in the first grade. She was supposed to be wearing glasses. She was supposed

to be getting medical care for the condition that left her blind in one grade. She was supposed to be wearing glasses. She was supposed to be getting

medical care for the condition that left her blind in one eye. She was supposed to be protected.

Instead, by the time anyone officially started looking for her, Harmony had not been seen in two years.

Harmony did not disappear from a life where everything seemed fine. She disappeared after years of warning signs, reports, custody battles, missed appointments, police calls, allegations of abuse, unstable homes, substance abuse, homelessness, and adults pointing fingers at every other adult in the room. Her mother failed her, her father failed her, her stepmother failed her, the courts

failed her, child protective services failed her. The systems built specifically to catch a little

girl before she fell through the cracks, watched those cracks open wider and wider. This was a child

who had already spent so much of her tiny life being moved from place to place, plan to plan, home to home.

A child with medical needs, a child with a little brother who loved her, missed her, and kept looking for her at playgrounds because he believed, the way children do,

that if he looked hard enough, maybe she would just be there.

But Harmony wasn't there.

And for years, the people responsible for knowing where she was and making sure she was safe and cared for simply didn't. Hello, everybody. Welcome back to Crime Weekly. I'm Stephanie Harlow.

And I'm Derek Lavasar.

And today, as you could tell from the teaser, we are talking about Harmony Montgomery.

Now, how did this series come to pass? Because we did a Crime Weekly news about Harmony Montgomery's father, Adam Montgomery,

and his recent legal standing, which we'll get into.

And it pissed me off because I was familiar with the case.

And Derek was not familiar with the case.

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