Laura Jane Rosenthal-The Burnt Ziti Case-Laura Jane was a new mother, domestic abuse would prevent her from raising her baby

Boston Confidential Beantown's True Crime Podcast

Barry J. Maguire

Drama, Whitey, Boston, Boston True Crime, True Crime, South Boston, Charlestown, Fiction, Roxbury, Dorchester

4.7 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Send us a text This is one of Metro-Boston's most infamous murders. Richard Rosenthal was a successful financial analyst at John Hancock Insurance in Boston. He met Laura Jane at work and they later married. The couple appeared to be living the American dream. But inside the home was another story, friends at work would later report, seeing Laura Jane with black eyes on at least two separate occasions. In retrospect she was the classic victim of on-going domestic abuse. In 1994 the duo had a ...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Boston Confidential, Beantown's True Crime podcast.
0:11.6	Boston is a great city, but there's more to it than the Freedom Trail in Fenway Park.
0:16.8	There's a startling underbelly to the city, and Boston Confidential will take you on a guided tour of the hub of the universe, Boston, Massachusetts.
0:26.3	Hey, everybody, welcome back to Boston Confidential. My name's Barry McGuire, and I'm your host. I'm a 20-year private investigator on the streets of Boston, and I help run a company called Impact Due Diligence Investigations.
0:39.8	If you need anything in terms of investigative services, feel free to contact me at Impact.
0:45.7	If I can't help you personally, I'll certainly direct you to the right person or agency.
0:50.7	All right, guys, let's get to it.
0:52.9	Just some housekeeping stuff.
0:54.5	We received an awesome response for our episode on Hominy Montgomery in Manchester, New Hampshire.
1:02.8	Homony is still missing.
1:05.1	She went missing in 2019 at age five.
1:09.5	She was in the custody of her dad, Adam, Adam Montgomery, and he never reported
1:15.6	her missing. He was, and maybe still is, a raging heroin abuser, as was Maugh. But they separated,
1:25.7	and the Department of Children and Families in Massachusetts took custody for a short while from mom.
1:33.9	Mom was deep in the throes of addiction.
1:37.7	And they ended up giving custody to Adam, who, I don't know, I don't know how that happened.
1:43.9	He had had a criminal record. It's just a mess.
1:47.6	So Massachusetts gives him custody. He goes to New Hampshire, and his life just spirals out of control due to
1:55.6	the drug abuse. And it's believed that at the end of 2019, November, December, 2019, that's the only time anybody
2:07.0	can pinpoint Harmony Montgomery being alive. And they go to find Adam, they find him living in a car
2:14.2	by his old house with a new girlfriend. That girlfriend goes on to overdose guys.
2:20.6	This woman who was living in the car with Adam fatally overdoses, and it's just crazy.
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