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SPECIAL WEEKEND CRIME STORIES UPDATE: Little Harmony Montgomery, DEAD, first reported missing AFTER 2 YEARS · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace in the last hours a
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  Speaker 1: stunning development in the search for seven year old Harmony Montgomery.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Nancy Grace, this is Crime Stories. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: for being with us here at Foxnation. Sirius XM one
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  Speaker 1: to eleven. First of all, take to listen to our
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  Speaker 1: cut b The Manchester, New Hampshire Police Chief was choking
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  Speaker 1: back tears, while the New Hampshire Attorney General said it
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  Speaker 1: was devastating to have to break this news. It's been
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  Speaker 1: more than two years since Harmony Montgomery was last seen
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  Speaker 1: and while many questions remain, this investigation has taken a
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  Speaker 1: new term. This is now officially a homicide investigation. The
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  Speaker 1: heartbreaking determination from investigators erasing any hope of Harmony Montgomery
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  Speaker 1: being alive. She was five years old when she was
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  Speaker 1: last seen between November twenty eighth and December tenth of
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  Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, a timeframe when they now say she was murdered,
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  Speaker 1: and that is the tip of the iceberg. You were
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  Speaker 1: hearing our friends at CBS Boston just sin did you
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  Speaker 1: notice what she said and what she didn't say? Rolling again,
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  Speaker 1: Jackie Police. The Manchester, New Hampshire Police Chief was choking
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  Speaker 1: back tears, while the new Hampshire Attorney General said it
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  Speaker 1: was devastating to have to break this news. It's been
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  Speaker 1: more than two years since Harmony Montgomery was last seen
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  Speaker 1: and while many questions remain, this investigation has taken a
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  Speaker 1: new term. This is now officially a homicide investigation. The
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  Speaker 1: heartbreaking determination from investigators erasing any hope of Harmony Montgomery
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  Speaker 1: being alive. She was five years old when she was
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  Speaker 1: last seen between November twenty eighth and December tenth of
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  Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, a timeframe when they now say she was murdered.
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  Speaker 1: But nobody has found Harmony and nobody has been arrested
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  Speaker 1: in Harmony's disappearance. Adam Montgomery as Harmony's father. Her mother
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  Speaker 1: who goes by a couple of different names, but we
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  Speaker 1: know her as Crystal Sory, has not had custody of
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  Speaker 1: Harmony since twenty nineteen. Department of Family Children's Services give
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  Speaker 1: full custody and give her two the father that we
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  Speaker 1: think gave her the black eye. Take a listen to
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  Speaker 1: our friends at CBS Boston. A man has been arrested
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  Speaker 1: in connection to the search for a young girl who
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  Speaker 1: has been missing for two years. The Attorney General says
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  Speaker 1: that Adam Montgomery was wanted for allegedly assaulting Harmony Montgomery
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  Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen. He is facing several charges, but has
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  Speaker 1: not been charged in her disappearance. Police say the now
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  Speaker 1: seven year old was last seen in twenty nineteen, although
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  Speaker 1: she was only reported missing last week. I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad an arrest has been made, essentially for the
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  Speaker 1: black eye this little girl had in twenty nineteen. Police
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  Speaker 1: were called and they went, can't do anything about that.
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  Speaker 1: We'll wash my hands to the whole thing. Department of
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  Speaker 1: Family Children's Services even worse. So he's arrested. They've got
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  Speaker 1: him in their clutches like the spider in the web,
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  Speaker 1: and now they're going to try to squeeze him. Talk
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  Speaker 1: to him if he will volunteer anything, play good cop,
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  Speaker 1: bad cop, Bring him a cup of coffee, no, take
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  Speaker 1: it away, give it back, Threaten him within the confines
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  Speaker 1: of the constitution, of course, put him on a guilt trip.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever they can do to find this little girl, of course,
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  Speaker 1: within the bounds of the constitution. With me, Nicole Hotch
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  Speaker 1: Globe joining us out of Texas. She's been on the
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  Speaker 1: case from the very beginning. Former prosecutor now defense attorney
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  Speaker 1: at Houston Criminal Defense dot Com. Which you agree or disagree,
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  Speaker 1: Nicole hots Globe. I totally agree, and I think unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: because of his experience with law enforcement, he is not
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  Speaker 1: likely to break and provide information. I hope I'm wrong,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't expect that they'll be getting any helpful
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  Speaker 1: information out of this individual. Nicole Debord hodge Clube, could
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  Speaker 1: you repeat what you just said? But you said, based
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  Speaker 1: on his experience, you make him sound like he's a
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  Speaker 1: private investigator or a psychologist. I believe what you mean
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  Speaker 1: by that, Nicole Debord hodge Clube, is that he's got
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  Speaker 1: a rap sheet as long as I seventy five? Are
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  Speaker 1: you talking about that experience? You got it. That's his resume.
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  Speaker 1: He's had many encounters with law enforcement, and I'm thinking,
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  Speaker 1: because he's had so many encounters with law enforcement, that
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  Speaker 1: he is very, very unlikely to respond to what, no
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  Speaker 1: doubt is something he's seen before. In terms of interview technique,
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  Speaker 1: Nicole Parton Crime Online dot Com investigative reporter Nicole Parton,
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  Speaker 1: do you have anything on his rap sheet that we
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  Speaker 1: know of? I do, and his rap sheet goes all
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  Speaker 1: the way back. Let me get comfortable. Go ahead, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I knew numerous long wrapped sheet that includes burglary, a
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  Speaker 1: salt an, armed robbery with the intent to murder, and
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  Speaker 1: another interesting thing. Correct me if i'm ron Nicole. This
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  Speaker 1: is based on an account I got from Boston twenty five. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: in New Hampshire he has the burglary, which is a felony,
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  Speaker 1: first year reassault, which is a felony, stalking which can
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  Speaker 1: be a felony in Massachusetts dating back to twenty fourteen.
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  Speaker 1: Which that affects what that relates to what Nicole Hodge
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  Speaker 1: Globe just said. In Haverhill, you've got armed robbery, assault
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  Speaker 1: with intent to murder which I believe to have been
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  Speaker 1: a drug shooting, and they just hand the child over
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  Speaker 1: to this father, give the baby to him. If this
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  Speaker 1: is in fact the same Adam Montgomery with the same dab.
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  Speaker 1: What about that doctor Jerry crossing a jury? You've never
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  Speaker 1: worked with defects, have you? Yes? I have? Oh, dear
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  Speaker 1: Lord in heaven, you worked with why to help children? Okay?
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  Speaker 1: All right? That was my focus with him. I look
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  Speaker 1: at his past behavior in order to look at future behavior.
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  Speaker 1: He knows the criminal justice system so it comes down
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  Speaker 1: to how well they interview and negotiate with him. He's
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  Speaker 1: in a position to negotiate information, so as an you know,
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  Speaker 1: interviewer of him, that's where I would focus in on
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  Speaker 1: because he's definitely got information from twenty nineteen four that
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  Speaker 1: they need to use to fill in their timeline. And
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  Speaker 1: Nicole parton joining us from crime online dot Com. You've
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  Speaker 1: got the father with a rap shape and you've got
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  Speaker 1: the mother who has lost custody. I think we can
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  Speaker 1: take her out of this equation because it could you
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  Speaker 1: check this, Jackie, unless you know Nicole, I don't think
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  Speaker 1: the mom had custody in twenty nineteen when Harmony was
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  Speaker 1: last seen alive with that black high. That was around
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  Speaker 1: October one, twenty nineteen. Okay. So, and once her rights
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  Speaker 1: are terminated, he can't do any more than she's done.
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  Speaker 1: She can call DC up and ask, but they're not
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  Speaker 1: going to tell her anything. She has legally no right.
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  Speaker 1: So in somewhat of a defense to this mom, if
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  Speaker 1: she was looking for the daughter, they wouldn't give her
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  Speaker 1: any information because her right have been terminated. Take a listen,
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  Speaker 1: guys to the New Hampshire Police Chief Alan Aldenberg listen.
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  Speaker 1: I'm beyond satin that we're staring in today to announce
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  Speaker 1: that the disappearance Harmony Montgomery is now officially a Harmonide investigation.
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  Speaker 1: As I stated, from the beginning of this investigation and
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  Speaker 1: throughout every effort has been made to bring Harmony home
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  Speaker 1: to her family. Our commitment to bringing Harmony home has
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  Speaker 1: not wavered, nor will it bring Harmony. Bringing Harmony home
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  Speaker 1: continue to be the number one priority of the Manchester
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  Speaker 1: Police Department. I know that over the past eight months
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  Speaker 1: that there have been many discussions, speculation and questions relative
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  Speaker 1: to where the system failed. Harmony and I myself continue
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  Speaker 1: to share the same concerns and still have many remaining questions. However,
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  Speaker 1: the homicide of this little girl rest with the person
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  Speaker 1: or persons who committed this horrific act. The Manchester Police
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  Speaker 1: Department will do everything within the limits of the law
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  Speaker 1: to ensure that the responsible person or persons for the
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  Speaker 1: murder of Harmony are brought to justice. As always, I
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  Speaker 1: encourage members of the public to continue to use a
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  Speaker 1: dedicated tip line should they have any information at all
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  Speaker 1: that would assist us in locating Harmony, or any information
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  Speaker 1: that they feel is relevant to this investigation. The dedicated
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  Speaker 1: tip line has I'm sorry. The dedicated tip line number
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  Speaker 1: is six zoo three two zero three six zero six zero. Again,
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  Speaker 1: that number is six zo three to zero three six
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  Speaker 1: zero six zero. As I said from the beginning, I
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  Speaker 1: maintain the stance that there are people out there in
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  Speaker 1: the community that have information about this investigation who have
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  Speaker 1: yet to come forward. If you are that person, pay
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  Speaker 1: attention to be carefully. If you were that person, I
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  Speaker 1: employ you to do so now and come forward. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not asking you for doing for me, for the people
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  Speaker 1: in this room and the people that have been working
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  Speaker 1: this investigation. Do it for this little girl. Crime Stories
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  Speaker 1: with Nancy Grace a stunning development in the search for
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  Speaker 1: seven year old Harmony Montgomery. Have you looked, guys, have
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  Speaker 1: you looked at her picture? Because she's always got this
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  Speaker 1: huge smile, and she's got an her little special classes
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  Speaker 1: and you can tell one eye is having a problem
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  Speaker 1: we now, and as she's blind in that eye, she's
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  Speaker 1: always got this big smile. Behind that smile. This child
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  Speaker 1: was being abused and beaten and bouncing from foster home
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  Speaker 1: to foster home. She had only been alive sixty months
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  Speaker 1: and now dead take a listen to our friends at WCVB.
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  Speaker 1: Harmony Montgomery was just five years old when investigators say
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  Speaker 1: she was killed sometime in December of twenty nineteen. Her
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  Speaker 1: body has never been found. We just want to find
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  Speaker 1: her remains so we can lay her to rus and
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  Speaker 1: spring her home. Investigators say new evidence led them to
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  Speaker 1: make the call, including just recently confirmed biological evidence that
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  Speaker 1: have led us to this difficult and tragic conclusion. Earlier
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  Speaker 1: this summer, state and federal law enforcement agencies swarmed a
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  Speaker 1: Manchester apartment building where Harmony's father and his estranged wife
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  Speaker 1: had previously lived. Investigators carrying out evidence Harmony's father, at A. Montgomery,
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  Speaker 1: had custody of her at the time of her disappearance.
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  Speaker 1: He had been charged with giving the girl a black
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  Speaker 1: guy in twenty nineteen. While he hasn't been charged in
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  Speaker 1: connection to Harmony's disappearance or murder, he is being held
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  Speaker 1: on unrelated gunseft charges. Can you imagine just five years?
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  Speaker 1: How did this whole thing begin? Why did two years
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  Speaker 1: pass before anybody raises a flag formally that she is missing?
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  Speaker 1: Now you know, if one of my children don't show
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  Speaker 1: up to school, all HBL breaks loose. That's why I
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  Speaker 1: got to get in there ahead of time and say, oh,
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  Speaker 1: Lucy has a sore throat. John David has an earache
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  Speaker 1: ahead of time before all the bells and the alarms
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  Speaker 1: go off because they're missing, and the school doesn't know why.
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  Speaker 1: What happened with the school system, what happened with Department
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  Speaker 1: of Family Children's Services who had been called to the
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  Speaker 1: home many times before, about thirteen times for various things.
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  Speaker 1: Even the neighbors had called. So why is it one
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  Speaker 1: of the last times this little then five year old
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  Speaker 1: girl is seeing with a black eye and the authorities
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  Speaker 1: from the cops and Department Family Children's Services leave her
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  Speaker 1: in the home with a black eye, scared and crying.
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  Speaker 1: Why why did that happen? We let a little girl
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  Speaker 1: just disappear? Where is harmony with me? An all star
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  Speaker 1: panel to make sense of what we know right now?
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  Speaker 1: First of all, Lisa Daddio, former police Lieutenant Nehavian, PD,
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  Speaker 1: Senior Lecturer and Director for Center for Advanced Policing University, Newhavens,
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Jorry Cross and psychologists faculty Saint Leo University, consulted
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  Speaker 1: with the Blue Wall Institute and author of Operation as
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  Speaker 1: OSA boy, do we need a shrink? High profile lawyer
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  Speaker 1: joining me out of Houston. Former felony prosecutor Nicole Debord
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  Speaker 1: Hodge Globe and you can find her at Houston Criminal
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  Speaker 1: Defense dot Com. Special guests joining us and I now
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  Speaker 1: feel that we are friends over the airwaves. Blair Miller
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  Speaker 1: now Blair Miller who you may see on air. He's
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  Speaker 1: a reporter and anchor with Cox Media Group in Washington
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  Speaker 1: with their news bureau. Blair Miller is really, as far
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  Speaker 1: as I can tell, the only one who actually tried
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  Speaker 1: to do something about Harmony's horrible situation. He tried to
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  Speaker 1: adopt her, and you know why because he and his
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  Speaker 1: partner adopted her little brother, Jamison. Then they find out
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  Speaker 1: Jamison has a sister, so Jamison wants his sister of horse.
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  Speaker 1: So they try to get Harmony too, open up their
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  Speaker 1: home and formally adopt her, and they are told by
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  Speaker 1: Department Family Children's Services, no, we're going to reunite her
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  Speaker 1: with her abusive father, the one with the rap sheet
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  Speaker 1: including shooting somebody in the face. Blair Miller is with
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  Speaker 1: us who desperately try to get Harmony and give her
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  Speaker 1: a happy life and a loving home. Blair Miller. As
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  Speaker 1: the days pass by, what do you think? So we're
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  Speaker 1: very concerned all then, and as let's just keeps going on,
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  Speaker 1: know our concerns grow. It feels like it's been a lifetime.
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  Speaker 1: We've first learned about this at the end of December.
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  Speaker 1: Jackson Miller, newswriter for Oxygen dot Com, miltv Home, true
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  Speaker 1: crime author of Hell in the Heartland murder math in
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  Speaker 1: the case of two missing girls. Let's talk about what
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  Speaker 1: we know about harmony. We have this two year span
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  Speaker 1: of time. That's two years of evidence that's lost. That
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  Speaker 1: opportunities to speak with people who may have known something
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  Speaker 1: just out the window. We're still trying to play catch up.
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  Speaker 1: There's been a lot of developments in the recent weeks,
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  Speaker 1: including the arrests of Anthony Montgomery or I'm sorry, I'm
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  Speaker 1: Adam Montgomery. Who is the bio dad for those of
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  Speaker 1: you just joining us, Harmony Montgomery's bio dad is Adam Montgomery,
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  Speaker 1: the one I told you about with a big rap sheet,
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  Speaker 1: including shooting somebody in the face during a drug deal.
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  Speaker 1: How many children does he have, Blair Miller, Three that
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  Speaker 1: we know of, or four. We think it's three, but
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  Speaker 1: you know, you know, it's kind of hard to know.
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  Speaker 1: One is Jamison that you have, one is Harmony that's
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  Speaker 1: been missing for two years. And Jamison has a brother. Correct,
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  Speaker 1: Jamison has a brother as well, a biological brother, and
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  Speaker 1: obviously Harmony as biological sisters. So those are the three
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  Speaker 1: that we know of, guys. Speaking of the father, Adam Montgomery,
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  Speaker 1: he's the one. Didn't he claim Jack's miller that he
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  Speaker 1: bashed a little girl around the house. Yeah, that's what's
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  Speaker 1: being reported that he had said that he'd done that.
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  Speaker 1: There are reports that he had forced Harmony need to
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  Speaker 1: stand in the corner for hours and that she had
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  Speaker 1: to clean the house with a toothbrush, including the toilet,
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  Speaker 1: which is just so incredibly excessive and just horrible to
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  Speaker 1: even think about. You know, I'm listening to this and
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  Speaker 1: I need to shrink. Got to Jerry Crawls and psychologist's
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  Speaker 1: faculty Saint Leos University forcing a child to clean the
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  Speaker 1: bathroom including the committ with their toothbrush, making her stand
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  Speaker 1: in the corner for hours on until she couldn't even
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  Speaker 1: stand up anymore, giving her a black eye. Why that
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  Speaker 1: comes from his just abusive nature, the aggressiveness of him
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  Speaker 1: first off, he should have never had this child in
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  Speaker 1: the custody of you know himself. That gets back to
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  Speaker 1: the DCYF and their protocol um. You know, he repeatedly
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  Speaker 1: from his behavior showed this aggressive nature and violence and
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  Speaker 1: only you can't really tell what has happened to her,
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  Speaker 1: but it's not going to turn out well, definitely. What
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying is, why does a grown adult fill the
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  Speaker 1: knee to torture a little child, a five year old
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  Speaker 1: little girl. She weighed, as I recall, maybe fifty pounds.
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  Speaker 1: She's only four feet tall, and she's blind in one eye.
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  Speaker 1: Why would you give a little girl like that a
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  Speaker 1: black eye, make her stand in the corner for hours
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  Speaker 1: until she can't stand up anymore, make her clean the
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  Speaker 1: whole house with a toothbrush, her toothbrush. Explain that to me.
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  Speaker 1: Usually the research you know shows that the daughter or
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  Speaker 1: the child is related to the other parent. So he's
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  Speaker 1: basically focusing his hatred his anger on her mother through
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  Speaker 1: her by making and forcing that control over her. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: let me tell you a technical legal term, doctor Jeorry
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  Speaker 1: Cross and that you may not have learned in psychology
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  Speaker 1: when you're getting your doctorate. It's called an a hole,
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  Speaker 1: all right, And now I'm not giving you the full
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  Speaker 1: Latin word, but to you, Nicole to Board Hodge Globe,
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  Speaker 1: you've been a felony prosecutor, now veteran defense attorney, high
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  Speaker 1: profile lawyer, Jody Matta Houston. You've heard of those right,
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  Speaker 1: a holes where they don't really need or easily because yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm all for you shrinking it, doctor Jerry Cross and
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  Speaker 1: about he's taking out his feelings against his wife blah
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  Speaker 1: blah blah on the door, bf foul on that. Why
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  Speaker 1: did he shoot somebody in the face? Why does he
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  Speaker 1: have assault, stalking, theft charges? Was he all? That? Was
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  Speaker 1: all that acted out because of his anger at his
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  Speaker 1: ex wife? No, he is what we call in the law,
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  Speaker 1: Nicole Hodge Globe and a hole. He needs to be
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  Speaker 1: in jail well, and he definitely doesn't need to have
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  Speaker 1: custody of a small child. And it's shocking to me,
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  Speaker 1: knowing what we know now with what appears to be
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  Speaker 1: minimal research after she went missing or wasp ord amissing
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  Speaker 1: that his record is a mile long. I don't understand
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  Speaker 1: how the people in charge of making sure that this
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  Speaker 1: child was in safe hands allowed that child despite many
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  Speaker 1: reports potentially continuing abuse allowed her to stay in that home.
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  Speaker 1: Jackson Miller joining me from Oxygen dot Com. How is
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  Speaker 1: it the dad got custody? Well, I think that's a
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  Speaker 1: million dollar question, and I think everyone is hoping that
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  Speaker 1: there's going to be an internal review with a DCYF,
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  Speaker 1: because how does a child go back with the biological
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  Speaker 1: father when he has a rap sheet like this? I
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  Speaker 1: mean his rap sheet includes stabbing other people, pulling knives
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  Speaker 1: on people, stalking people, armed robberies, shooting people on the head.
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  Speaker 1: It's pretty lengthy. Blair Miller, the adoptive dad of Harmony's
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  Speaker 1: little brother, Jamison. Do you remember that court date where
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  Speaker 1: you had the adoption hearing regarding Jamison. We had a
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  Speaker 1: couple of different hearings as far as the focus on
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  Speaker 1: Harmony's timeline as far as her court dates. We didn't
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  Speaker 1: know her court dates, so there could be some court
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  Speaker 1: dates to get back. We were told that Harmony had
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  Speaker 1: been reunited with her father officially by the state in February.
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  Speaker 1: At twenty nineteen. We adopted Jamison. We were matched with
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  Speaker 1: him in June, and then we officially adopted him on
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  Speaker 1: National Adoption Day in November. About a week before Thanksgiving,
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  Speaker 1: and if he's been falling part of the timeline, that's
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  Speaker 1: where some of the last people's seen Harmony with about
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  Speaker 1: a week later, right, so you get Jamieson and then
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  Speaker 1: about a week later Harmony is scene. Is that when
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  Speaker 1: she had the black eye? I think that was maybe
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: around in October. As far as when she was last seen,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: we've heard some reports maybe around Thanksgiving at twenty nineteen.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: So when we adopted Jamison a National Adoption Day, because
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: I worked in TV news, it was something that was
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: covered in Boston extensively on TV. And we just find
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: it very interesting that Jameson was adopted in a very
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: public way right before Thanksgiving and then his sister last
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: thing when only sees or is maybe a week later.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: That tells me a lot was going on, not like
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: to Jamison of Harmony as well. Now tell me something.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: With Jamieson's adoption being so high profile, do you think
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: that had anything to do with Harmony's disappearance. I don't know,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: but I know it's something we shared with police when
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: we started hearing some new reports of when Harmony was
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: last seen, being around Thanksgiving in twenty nineteen, my husband
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: and I both went back over our timeline and thought
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: it so Jamison was adopted five days before that, that
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: doesn't that just seems really unusual, and so we shared
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: that was police. We talked with him about that, and
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: we don't know where that's punting there, but it certainly
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: raised a lot of questions for us. Jelisa Daddy, I
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: former police lieutenant, joining us director of Center for Advance
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: Advanced Policing. Lisa, thank you so much for being with us.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: You know, I always say there is no coincidence in
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: criminal law. I don't know what the connection could be
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: between Jamieson getting adopted in a high profile adoption which
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: is covered on TV for National Adoption Day extensively, and
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: then within a couple of days harmony is never seen again.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: To Jackson Miller joining us from Oxygen dot com, author
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  Speaker 1: of Hell in the Heartland, Murdering meth and the Case
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: of two Missing Girls. Jack Miller again, thank you for
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: being with us. I'm listening to everything Blair Miller and
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Nicole Hodge, Globe, doctor Jerry Crawsen, Lisa Daddy are saying
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: the reality is that time is ticking by cops are
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: two years later they went to the home when the
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: little girl had the black eye. They were there, they
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: left her there. Can you tell me, Jack Miller, was
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: there ever a home study done like you're supposed to
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: do before you hand over custody with the father, Adam Montgomery,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: before they just handed up this little girl on a
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: silver platter. I spoke to the Manchester Police Department. I
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: was in contact with the spokes person, Heather Hamill, who
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: confirmed that the police did do a home visit back
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen at her Manchester home and they confirmed
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: that she was there. We know that after that the
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: house seemingly went into foreclosure. That's on the Guildford Street
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: where they had done the search, So I think it's
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: that timeline from there after they moved. What happened? Who had?
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: You know? I feel like I feel like Harmony's case
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: is a bar of soap, and you have all these people,
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: all these agencies, all these relatives trying to get a
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: grip it. Nobody has a firm grip on where this
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: girl is for the next two years. But a home study,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: a home study, I mean, Blair Miller, you adopted Jamison,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Harmony's a little brother. I'm sure they did a home
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: study before you got Jamison right absolutely when lived up
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: in all three of our boys after we were placed
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: with them and after we had our adoption. In our case,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: we adopted there in Boston with Jamison and Ales ended
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: up moving to the BC area and the scusilicates here
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: in Virginia coming to our house for six months. And
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: there we were doing the right thing at the same
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: the film was in school, he was going to doctors,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: he was in a good setting, he had a better emmony.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: It was be able to see healthy and be healthy.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: And so we went through that. And those are many
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: of the questions we're asking right now, is what happened
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: in this case. Why didn't Harmony go through the same thing?
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: No home study for Harmony, because you'd think that figure
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: out her dad shot somebody in the face and was
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: on dope, I mean. And then you got Blair Miller,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: who holds down not just a job, at an incredible job, stable,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: happy home. He's got three boys now that they have adopted.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: He can tell you all about home studies. They look
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: at everything, but nothing was done for Harmony. Thing is
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: that there were thirteen quals made to Harmonies home within
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: a five month period in twenty nineteen and twenty nine coals.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: Between twenty eighteen and twenty twenty there was a report
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: that the home had no electricity and no food. But
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: then according authorities, when DCYF checked in on the girls,
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: they said there was electricity and there was food. So
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: that adds to the confusion, and of course enter the
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: next player in this scenario, the so called evil step mother.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Take a listen to our friend of WMU R Amy
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: Kevino and our cut thirty nine. These are the criminal
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: complaints filed late this afternoon against thirty two year old
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Kayla Montgomery, alleging between November thirtieth, twenty nineteen and June second,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, Kayla fraudulently represented to DHHS that Harmony
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Montgomery was a member of her household. The purpose, prosecutors say,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: was to receive undeserved foodstamp benefits and excess of fifteen
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: hundred dollars the police f A. David provides a timeline
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: of Harmony's life in New Hampshire. On February twenty five,
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, Kayla allegedly filed a report with DHHS, adding
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Harmony as a new household member. The Affidavid states Adam Montgomery,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Harmony's father was granted full custody of her February twenty second,
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, and that DJHS records show eight hundred EBT
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: card transactions during that time period and state that on
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: three occasions in twenty twenty, Kayla applied for SNAP benefits,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: listing Harmony as a family member. In February twenty twenty one,
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Kayla stopped listing Harmony as a beneficiary for food assistance,
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: and in June twenty twenty one told a DHHS caseworker
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: that Harmony had moved back with her mother and could
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: be removed from the case. Prime stories with Meancy Grace,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: so long story shortened. Couldeboord hots Globe. You're the high
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: profile lawyer joining us out of Texas for literally years,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: this evil stepmother gets government benefits and Harmony's name, knowing
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: Harmony doesn't live there. That doesn't look good. Well, not
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: only does it not look good, is a crime. So
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: she's receiving funds from the government, effectively feeling from the
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: government by lying about this child living in her home.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: And I think that now she is in a good
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: position to really think about whether or not she wants
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: to tell the government what she knows, to law enforcement
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: what she knows, to help everyone find Harmony. I would
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: keep her behind bars on this fraud until she told
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: me something. Guys, take a listen to our cut thirty three. Now,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: this is behavioral evidence that a defense team could attack
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: at trial. They claimate means nothing. I think it means
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: a lot. Take a listen to Mara Barrett NBC News.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: Adam Montgomery's charged with second degree assault, interference with custody,
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: and endangering the welfare of a child. One of those
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: instant investigators say Adam struck Harmony in the face, causing
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: a black eye in twenty nineteen. Kevin Montgomery, Adam's uncle,
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: was visiting the home around that time. I walked in
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: the house at Harmony had a black guy like you
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: see in a box match between two men. He bashed
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: her around the apartment. Kind of her were his exact words.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: According to court documents. Kevin says he and other family
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: members made multiple reports to New Hampshire's Division for Children,
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: Youth and Families, and I don't know how they missed
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: the black guy that I saw. Police say they found
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Adam sleeping in his car with his new girlfriend on
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: New Year's Eve. He told police he'd given harmony back
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: to her biological mother around Thanksgiving back in twenty nineteen.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Her mother, Crystal Sorry, disputes this. According to the court documents,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: police say he made some contradictory statements and quote did
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: not exhibit much emotion or reaction to the fact that
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: harmony hadn't been seen in two years. You know, I'll
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: just never forget Lisa Daddio and my son John Day,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: he was about two and a half three at the time,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: went and hid inside as a superstore babies or us.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: I was looking for this organic sunscreen lotion and was
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: digging through piles of sunscreen. I turned around, there was
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: Lucy and no John David. I started screaming. I took
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: Lucy under my arm like a football and started running,
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: screaming for them to lock the doors. He was hiding
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: about two miles away thing, and he had no idea
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: the panic he had called but caused. But I find
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: it really interesting that when they told Adam Montgomery harmony
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: hasn't been seen in two years, he showed no emotion whatsoever. Yeah,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: you know, it's and I've been in that position too
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: with my youngest son, Nancy. I mean, it's the worst
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: feeling in the whole world. So there's just so many
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: things about this case, both from biological mom and biological daddy. O.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: You're a former police lieutenant, right, yes, ma'am call it
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: it's BS. It stings to I, am. And he showed
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: no emotion. I mean when my cat went missing, I
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: screamed till I couldn't scream, also my voice, I couldn't
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: be on the air the next day. I screamed and
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: screaming until midnight until we found the cat. And he
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: shows no emotion. That's BS, Nancy. I agree with you
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: one hundred percent. But look at this guy's path and
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: his history, and I'm not making excuses for him, trust me,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: I would never do that. But I he's void of everything,
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: and so in light of everything, it doesn't shock me.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: But I always think when someone doesn't react the way
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: that we think they should react, what is the reason
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: why exactly Harmony is dead? Investigators say their conclusion is
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: based on recently confirmed biological evidence, which they didn't reveal.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: There have been numerous searches of properties associated with Harmony's family,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: including back in June at a Manchester, New Hampshire apartment
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: where her father Adam and stepmother Caleb Mountgomery once lived.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Our refrigerator was seen being brought in and then taken
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: out of the building. Still nobody has been recovered. Our
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: investigators will continue to seek justice and look into the
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: circumstances of Harmony's murder and search for her remains, and
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: no one has yet been charged. Adam Montgomery, who had
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: custody of Harmony at the time of her disappearance, is
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: now jailed on a charge of assaulting the little girl
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: and unrelated firearms charges. You were hearing our friends at
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: CBS Boston just sin there is a twenty four seven
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: three sixty five tipline devoted to Harmony's We're about six
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  Speaker 1: zero three two zero three sixty sixty repeat six zero
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  Speaker 1: three two zero three sixty sixty. Please help us bring
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: home Jamison's sister. Take a listen now to our friend
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: Jason Law at Boston twenty five. What do you think
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: happened to Harmony? The answers lying him Tuesday, Boston twenty
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: I've spoke with Harmony's maternal grandfather, Tim Flanagan. He says
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: his daughter was a strange from Adam Montgomery court documents
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: showed the mother last spoke to her daughter sometime in
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: the spring of twenty nineteen. A lot of people may wonder,
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: you know, why wasn't the mom were involved? Why why
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: didn't she see harmony in the last two years because
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: the father would not let her. Every time that he
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: didn't let her, she would call the spot of the
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: social services, and social services would say one thing, yes,
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: we'll get on it, and they never did. Why is
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: it in the coldeboard hats globe that Department of Family
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: Shoulder's Services cannot be held accountable. I've been asking that
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: for many, many years. When they leave children in horrible
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: situations and then the child is murdered. Here's a great example,
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: the Josh Powell case where Susan Powell goes missing and
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: the children draw pictures of Mommy in a car trunk
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: and being buried by daddy, and then he still has
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: visitation and he murders them and blows up the house.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: It goes on and on and on about how children
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: are mistreated and defacts does nothing. Why aren't they prosecuted?
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: Nicole Well, I think that they could be. And there
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: is immunity when you're a government agency. From certain types
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: of liability. But when you exceed this type of negligence,
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: I think there's a real question about whether or not
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: there is now the possibility of seeking redress for civil
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: rights violations, for due process rights violations, dead and they
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: left or in an abusive home. Civil money, what money?
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: What money does Adam Montgomery have? I mean money from defacts?
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: I think they need to go to jail. Nicole, Well,
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: the problem is is that that finding one particular individual
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: liable could be extremely difficult in the criminal context, and
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: it may take a civil lawsuit to get the agency
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: to pay attention. You know, look, I look at Crystal
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: here as another victim. I mean, she did everything she
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: could to alert this system that she thought that there
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: was a problem. She'd lost custody. They continued to treat
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: her like trash and ignore everything that she said, despite
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: the fact that she gave them multiple warning. Well, you're
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: right about that she did. According to her, she sent
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: multiple emails to Department of Family Children's Services, which they ignored.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: They discounted her because she had had problems in the past.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: But they do that too. A lot of people totally
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: blow them off. I'll pay any attention to what they're saying,
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: and the child ends up dead. She's not alone. Neighbors called,
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: the uncle called, the uncle called police to the home,
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: and still nothing was done. And defects sits on their
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: thumb and lets it happen. And now she's gone again.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: The tip line six to three two zero three sixty
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  Speaker 1: sixty harmony, Where are you? Nancy Grace Crime Story signing
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: off goodbye for him.