The murder of Harmony Montgomery | Ep 196
Crime and Coffee Couple - True Crime Podcast
Allison and Mike
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
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A little girl with a name as gentle as Harmony should have had a life filled with bedtime stories, scraped knees, and warm arms to run into. Instead, Harmony Montgomery was handed off like paperwork between systems, disappearing into broken homes and blind spots.
She was five years old. She had an eye condition that needed care, a laugh that stuck with people, and adults in her life who either couldn’t or wouldn’t protect her. For over two years, no one officially noticed she was gone. Not neighbors. Not schools. Not the agencies assigned to check in.This episode is not just about one child. It’s about the terrifying consequences of silence, apathy, and the cracks in a system that was supposed to be her safety net.
You’ll walk away from this story thinking not only about Harmony, but about every child who doesn’t have a voice loud enough to be heard. And maybe you’ll question what we’re really doing when we say we’re protecting children.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, welcome back to another episode with the crime and coffee couple. |
| 0:07.2 | My name's Allison. |
| 0:08.2 | And my name's Mike. |
| 0:09.0 | Hi, Mike. |
| 0:09.5 | Hey, how are you, Beau? |
| 0:10.5 | I'm pretty good. |
| 0:11.4 | How are you? |
| 0:12.0 | Oh, great, great. |
| 0:12.9 | Can't be better. |
| 0:13.7 | I think every time I talk to my boss, he's always like, living the dream. |
| 0:16.8 | That's like the mid-40s guy answered every time somebody answers so i don't know if you talk to a lot of |
| 0:21.1 | mid 40s guys outside of me no i don't and i never say those words so i don't know maybe it's a guy |
| 0:26.4 | thing you never say live in the dream never yeah um who's uh davy ramsely we used to like uh listen to some of his |
| 0:31.5 | stuff he's always like better than i deserve every single time i'm like all right dave come up with something new man um so yeah so how's uh well |
| 0:38.2 | let's see that if we have a lot of new listeners uh if you're new to the show basically alison |
| 0:43.1 | tells me a new true crime story every sunday i've never heard it in my life most likely um and uh |
| 0:48.0 | i i really hate true crime i kind of hate it because it's so sad but then i kind of it's |
| 0:52.6 | interesting the story that we go through it's uh, but unfortunately, you know, always a sad ending. |
| 0:56.1 | But, uh, yeah, welcome to the show. |
| 0:57.9 | And make sure you grab your cups of coffee or any kind of caffeinated beverage or whatever |
| 1:01.9 | beverage you choose. |
| 1:02.7 | We don't care. |
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