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Little Harmony Montgomery, 7, STILL MISSING, as Dad Admits to Bashing Daughter · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: Crime stories with Nancy Grace. How does a five year
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Speaker 1: old little girl simply vanish into thin air? Here's the kicker.
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Speaker 1: And nobody notices children are kidnapped or taken, whether it's
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Speaker 1: by a custodial or by non custodial parent or a
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Speaker 1: relative all the time. That's the majority of child kidnappings,
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Speaker 1: but usually it's noticed immediately. One case springs to mind,
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Speaker 1: and that is taught mom Casey Anthony, where her two
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Speaker 1: year old daughter Kelly goes missing for about thirty one
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Speaker 1: days before it is reported. And then it's Kelly's grandmother,
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Speaker 1: Cindy Anthony who reports the little girl missing. That made
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Speaker 1: the headlines. How could Kelly be missing thirty days and
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Speaker 1: has never reported? That's damning evidence, right? Well, what about
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Speaker 1: when two years pass and a mother, a father, a stepmother,
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Speaker 1: the school, the neighbors. Nobody reports that, Hey, I haven't
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Speaker 1: seen Harmony. That's who I'm talking about. If she's alive,
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Speaker 1: she would now be seven years old, Harmony Montgomery. Why
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Speaker 1: did two years pass before anybody raises a flag formally
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Speaker 1: that she is missing? Now you know, if one of
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Speaker 1: my children don't show up to school, all hbl breaks
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Speaker 1: loose that's why I got to get in there ahead
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Speaker 1: of time and say, oh, Lucy has a sore throat.
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Speaker 1: John David has an earache ahead of time before all
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Speaker 1: the bells and the alarms go off because they're missing,
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Speaker 1: and the school doesn't know why. What happened with the
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Speaker 1: school system, what happened with Department of Family Children's Services
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Speaker 1: who had been called to the home many times before,
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Speaker 1: about thirteen times for various things. Even the neighbors had called.
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Speaker 1: So why is it one of the last times this
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Speaker 1: little then five year old girl is sitting with a
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Speaker 1: black eye and the authorities from the cops and Department
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Speaker 1: of Family Children's Services leave her in the home with
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Speaker 1: a black eye, scared and crying. Why Why did that
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Speaker 1: happen in our country, the United States of America. We're
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Speaker 1: so worried about giving foreign aid and what's happening in
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Speaker 1: other countries. What about right here in our country, in
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Speaker 1: our backyard, under our very noses, we let a little
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Speaker 1: girl just disaphere. Well, I believe the school officials and
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Speaker 1: defects should all go to jail until this whole thing
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Speaker 1: is figured out. That's just me, I mean it, See, Grace,
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Speaker 1: this is crime stories thank you for being with us
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Speaker 1: here at Fox Nation and Series X one eleven, where
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Speaker 1: we still care about missing children and unsolved homicides. So
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Speaker 1: let's try to get to the bottom of where is Harmony.
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Speaker 1: First of all, take a listen to reporter Brian Inton
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Speaker 1: speaking on News Nation with the bio mom. Now, remember
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Speaker 1: this is the bio mom who said she sent emails, emails, email,
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Speaker 1: so and where is my daughter? I would have been
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Speaker 1: laying on the courthouse steps, prone screaming and begging for help.
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't count on an email or a Facebook message
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Speaker 1: to find my daughter. But hey, that's just me. But
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Speaker 1: listen to what she says cut twenty nine. Do you
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Speaker 1: think Harmony is alive? I still believe she's here. I
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Speaker 1: think he has her with either like his mother that
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Speaker 1: no one knows really anything about it because she never
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Speaker 1: raised him, you know. But I think he would call
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Speaker 1: his mom or hit her up on Facebook and say,
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Speaker 1: I'm in real bad trouble. I need you to take her.
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Speaker 1: You're the one that no one knows, you know what
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Speaker 1: I mean. I feel like she's still here. I would know, man,
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Speaker 1: Like I said before, a mother knows you know when
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Speaker 1: your baby's not here. Anymore? You know, you literally you
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Speaker 1: feel it the day it happens. Really, did she feel
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Speaker 1: it when your daughter, your a little five year old
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Speaker 1: girl had a big shiner, a black eye. I mean,
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Speaker 1: this little girl's already blind in the right eye, wears
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Speaker 1: glasses every picture, big smile, the dad bragging he quote
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Speaker 1: bashed her around the house and made her grub the house,
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Speaker 1: including that come out with her toothbrush. Where was mommy? Then?
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Speaker 1: Did mommy get a feeling that everything was okay? Let
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Speaker 1: me hear that one more time, Jack, What does this
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Speaker 1: mom say, Crystal? Sorry? Do you think Harmony is alive?
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Speaker 1: I still believe she's here. I think he has her
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Speaker 1: with either like his mother that no one knows really
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Speaker 1: anything about it because she never raised him, you know,
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Speaker 1: but I think he would call his mom or hit
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Speaker 1: her up on Facebook and say, I'm in real bad trouble.
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Speaker 1: I need you to take her. You're the one that
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Speaker 1: no one knows, you know what I mean? I feel
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Speaker 1: like she's still here. I would know, man, Like I
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Speaker 1: said before, my mother knows. You know when your baby's
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Speaker 1: not here anymore, you know, you literally you feel it
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Speaker 1: the day it happens. Right, Okay, that's total byes. That's
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Speaker 1: technical legal arm And you may wonder why I'm angry.
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Speaker 1: I'm angry because I keep thinking of my twins, John,
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Speaker 1: David and Lucy at age five, and how vulnerable and
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Speaker 1: defenseless they were at that age it really still are,
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Speaker 1: and how everybody could stand by and let this happen
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Speaker 1: to this beautiful little girl. Harmony with me and all
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Speaker 1: Star panel to make sense of what we know right now.
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Speaker 1: First of all, Lisa Daddio, former police Lieutenant, Newhaan, PD,
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Speaker 1: Singior Lecturer and director for Center for Advanced Policing University, Newhavens.
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Speaker 1: Doctor Joy Cross and Psychologists faculty Saint Leo University, consulted
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Speaker 1: with the Blue Wall Institute, and author of Operation SSA Boy,
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Speaker 1: Do we need a shrink? High profile lawyer joining me
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Speaker 1: out of Houston. Former felony prosecutor in Nicole Debord Hodge
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Speaker 1: Globe and you can find her at Houston Criminal Defense
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Speaker 1: dot Com. Special guests joining us and I now feel
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Speaker 1: that we are friends. Over the airwaves, Blair Miller, now
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Speaker 1: Blair Miller who you may see on air. He's a
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Speaker 1: reporter and anchor with Cox Media Group in Washington with
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Speaker 1: their news bureau Blair Miller is really, as far as
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Speaker 1: I can tell, the only one who actually tried to
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Speaker 1: do something about Harmony's horrible situation. He tried to adopt her,
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Speaker 1: and you know why because he and his partner adopted
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Speaker 1: her little brother, Jamison. Then they find out Jamison has
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Speaker 1: a sister, so Jamison wants his sister. Of course, so
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Speaker 1: they try to get Harmony too, open up their home
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Speaker 1: and formally adopt her, and they are told by Department
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Speaker 1: Family Children's Services, no, we're going to reunite her with
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Speaker 1: her abusive father, the one with the rap sheet, including
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Speaker 1: shooting somebody in the face. Blair Miller is with us
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Speaker 1: who desperately tried to get Harmony and give her a
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Speaker 1: happy life in a loving home. Blair Mill tik tick talk.
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Speaker 1: As the days pass by, what do you think, We're
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Speaker 1: very concerned? Well, San and as must just keeps going on,
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Speaker 1: you know, our concerns grow and it feels like it's
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Speaker 1: been a lifetime since the last time you and I
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Speaker 1: spoke about this. We've obviously were very concerned when we
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Speaker 1: first learned about this at the end of December. Now,
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Speaker 1: you know, we still have that optimism and hope and
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Speaker 1: really for our son On, our son, Jamison's behalf, that
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Speaker 1: we can bring his sister home. I just thank God
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Speaker 1: in heaven that you have Jamison. That's one life that
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Speaker 1: was spared. Now Jamieson has a real chance at a
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Speaker 1: future with a loving family. Time Stories with Nancy Grace.
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Speaker 1: Jack's Miller is the news writer for Oxygen dot Com,
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Speaker 1: my old TV home, true crime author of Hell in
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Speaker 1: the Heartland, Murder Math in the Case of Two Missing Girls.
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Speaker 1: My goodness, Jackson Miller. Two missing girls. Well, you got
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Speaker 1: a missing girl right here, and you just heard her
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Speaker 1: bio mom talking about I would know, I would know
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Speaker 1: if she was dead. That is bull because she apparently
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Speaker 1: didn't know when her daughter was getting beaten in the
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Speaker 1: face and did nothing about it. What's the very Let
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Speaker 1: me let me get off the mom. Let's talk about
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Speaker 1: what we know about harmony right now. What's the latest,
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Speaker 1: Jackson Miller. So, I think everyone's trying to scramble and
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Speaker 1: catch up because we have this this two year span
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Speaker 1: of time. That's two years of evidence that's lost. That's
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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. So I think everyone's trying to
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Speaker 1: hit the ground running but we're still trying to play
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Speaker 1: catch up. There's been a lot of developments in the
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Speaker 1: recent weeks, including the arrests of Anthony Montgomery or I'm sorry,
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Speaker 1: I'm Adam Montgomery. Who is the bio dad for those
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Speaker 1: of you just joining us, Harmony Mountgomery's missing. Her bio
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Speaker 1: dad is Adam Montgomery, the one I told you about
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Speaker 1: with a big rap sheet, including shooting somebody in the
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Speaker 1: face during a drug deal. How many children does he have,
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Speaker 1: Blayer Miller, Three that we know of or four? We
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Speaker 1: think it's three, but you know, you know, it's kind
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Speaker 1: of hard to know. One is Jamison that you have,
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Speaker 1: One is Harmony that's been missing for two years. And
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Speaker 1: Jamison has a brother. Correct, Jamison has a brother as
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Speaker 1: well a biological brother, and obviously Harmony as biological sisters.
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Speaker 1: So those are the three that we know of, guys.
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Speaker 1: Speaking of the father, Adam Montgomery, he's the one. Didn't
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Speaker 1: he claim Jack's Miller that he quote bashed a little
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Speaker 1: girl around the house. Yeah, that's what's being reported, that
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Speaker 1: he had said that he'd done that. There are reports
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Speaker 1: that he had forced Harmony need to stand in the
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Speaker 1: corner for hours and that she had to clean the
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Speaker 1: house with a toothbrush, including the toilet, which is just
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Speaker 1: so incredibly excessive and just horrible to even think about.
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Speaker 1: You know, I'm listening to this and I need to shrink.
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Speaker 1: Doctor Jerry Crawls and Psychologists, Faculty, Saint Leos University forcing
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Speaker 1: a child to clean the bathroom including the commod with
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Speaker 1: their toothbrush, making her stand in the corner for hours
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Speaker 1: on until she couldn't even stand up anymore, giving her
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Speaker 1: a black eye? Why that comes from his just abusive nature,
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Speaker 1: the aggressiveness of him. First off, he should have never
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Speaker 1: had this child in the custody of himself. That gets
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Speaker 1: back to the DCYF and their protocol um. You know,
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Speaker 1: he repeatedly from his behavior showed this aggressive nature and violence,
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Speaker 1: and 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. That's 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 shows that the daughter or the child
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Speaker 1: is related to the other parent. So he's basically focusing
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Speaker 1: his hatred is anger on her mother through her by
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Speaker 1: making and forcing that control over her. Okay, let me
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Speaker 1: tell you a technical legal term, doctor Jorry Cross. And
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Speaker 1: then you may not have learned in psychology when you're
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Speaker 1: getting your doctorate. It's called an a hole, all right,
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Speaker 1: And now I'm not getting you the full Latin word.
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Speaker 1: But to you, Nicoldeboard hots Globe, you've been a felony
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Speaker 1: pros keuter, now veteran defense attorney, high profile lawyer joining
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Speaker 1: Mata Houston. You've heard of those right a holes where
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Speaker 1: they don't really need or easily because yeah, I'm all
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Speaker 1: for you shrinking it, doctor Jerry Cross. And about he's
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Speaker 1: taking out his feelings against his wife, blah blah blah
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Speaker 1: on the daughter bs foul on that. Why did he
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Speaker 1: shoot somebody in the face? Why does he have assault, stalking,
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Speaker 1: theft charges? Was he all? That? Was all that acted
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Speaker 1: out because of his anger at his ex wife. No,
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Speaker 1: he is what we call in the law Nicole Hodts
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Speaker 1: globe and a hole. He needs to be in jail well,
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Speaker 1: and he definitely doesn't need to have custody of a
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Speaker 1: small child. And it's shocking to me, knowing what we
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Speaker 1: know now, with what appears to be minimal research after
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Speaker 1: she went missing or was reported missing, that his record
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Speaker 1: is a mile long. I don't understand how the people
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Speaker 1: in charge of making sure that this child was in
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Speaker 1: safe hands allowed that child, despite many reports potentially continuing abuse,
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Speaker 1: allowed her to stay in that home. Takeolos nowur cut
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Speaker 1: twenty seven. This is Harmony's bay A Mother again, Crystal. Sorry,
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Speaker 1: And I know Blair Miller is he has now full
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Speaker 1: adoptive custody of Harmony's little brother. He's not gonna say
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Speaker 1: one bad word about the bay A Mom because that
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Speaker 1: is his son's by a mom we're talking about. So
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Speaker 1: I'm not going to ask you to comment on this, Blair.
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Speaker 1: I'll do the heavy lifting. Take a listen. And he's
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Speaker 1: short tempered, you know, so he you know, as soon
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Speaker 1: as he gets the second or loses his temper, he's
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Speaker 1: gonna hit hit her, you know. And My daughter is um.
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Speaker 1: She's just like me. You know. She talks a lot,
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Speaker 1: and she's excited, and she's smart. You know, she kind
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Speaker 1: of even thinks she might even know a little bit
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Speaker 1: more than you, you know, even though she doesn't. But
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Speaker 1: that's just her, and she's just beautiful like that. But
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Speaker 1: I just don't ever see someone getting so angry where
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Speaker 1: they bash her around the house, as he said, you know,
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Speaker 1: I just don't. I just don't understand. If that was
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Speaker 1: the case, and that's what you planned on doing with her,
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Speaker 1: why go for custody spite me, to spite me, that's
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Speaker 1: all it was. It was never for love for honey.
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Speaker 1: Oh so mom thinks it's all about her. Now listen
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Speaker 1: to this. Let's analyze what I just heard. The mother
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Speaker 1: Crystal story is saying, he's short tempered, he's going to
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Speaker 1: hit your hit her, And she's like me. She talks
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Speaker 1: a lot, she's smart, she thinks she knows more than
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Speaker 1: you do. Well, would that be that hard to know
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Speaker 1: more than the mother and the father. The father he
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Speaker 1: shot some money in the face, the mother who let
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Speaker 1: her daughter be with this guy, even getting custody. Now,
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Speaker 1: she explains, she explains how that whole thing happened. Jack S.
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Speaker 1: Miller joining me from Oxygen dot Com. How is it
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Speaker 1: the dad got custody? Well, I think that's a million
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Speaker 1: or question, and I think everyone is hoping that there's
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Speaker 1: going to be an internal review with a DCYF, because
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Speaker 1: how does a child go back with the biological father
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Speaker 1: when he has a rap sheet like this? I mean
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Speaker 1: his rap sheet includes stabbing other people, pulling knives on people,
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Speaker 1: stalking people, armed robberies, shooting people in the head. It's
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Speaker 1: it's pretty lengthy. So I think we're all waiting to
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Speaker 1: see what the outcome of a review will be. You know,
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Speaker 1: interesting that the mom knows the dad is violent. Take
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Speaker 1: a listen to our cut twenty six. This is Crystal
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Speaker 1: Story speaking with Brian Enton. Have you ever seen Adam
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Speaker 1: be violent? Yeah, when I was, when I was in
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Speaker 1: a relationship with him. Used to choke me. I was pregnant,
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Speaker 1: Whether he choked me, like all kinds of stuff. If
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Speaker 1: if you did more than him, he choke you. If
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Speaker 1: if you were texting and he didn't want you to
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Speaker 1: or somebody he didn't like, he would do whatever do
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Speaker 1: you scream at you getting your face whatever? He used
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Speaker 1: his intimidation, to in manipulation to get what he wants
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Speaker 1: always has Have you ever seen him be violent towards
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Speaker 1: harmony towards her? Not me seeing this, but we had
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Speaker 1: a play therapist that she had while he was getting
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Speaker 1: visits when I had custody of her, and even my
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Speaker 1: play therapist had made a report before he got custody.
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Speaker 1: Mind you, I saw a custody of her at this point.
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Speaker 1: The play therapist made a report of abuse saying there
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Speaker 1: was definite abuse going on in the house during visits.
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Speaker 1: And when she told me that, I completely never let
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Speaker 1: him have visits with her again. You know. Okay, Now
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Speaker 1: this is the mother's explanation of what went wrong, how
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Speaker 1: Adam Montgomery got custody of Little Harmony and now many
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Speaker 1: people believe Harmony is dead. Take a listen to our
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Speaker 1: cut twenty eight Crystal story, Brian Inton. You're doing extreme
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Speaker 1: punishments to her, all kinds of stuff like that the
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Speaker 1: therapist had got and of her just by playing dolls
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Speaker 1: in a dollhouse. Imagine I was horrified. I was like no,
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Speaker 1: I told DCF and that was that. Like months later
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Speaker 1: they hand over custody. How is it possible she got
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Speaker 1: to stay with him after all of that. Understand I
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Speaker 1: still don't understand this day I had. I had a
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Speaker 1: court date on the same day of that hearing for
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Speaker 1: Jamison's adoption. Um So I sent over to get a
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Speaker 1: continuance from the courthouse saying, hey, we need a different
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Speaker 1: court date. I can't cut myself in half. They denied
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Speaker 1: my continuance and just handed him over custody because they
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Speaker 1: were they were They wanted to wash their hands of
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Speaker 1: the case. You know, they were done with it. It
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Speaker 1: was for the lady side. It was opened four years
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Speaker 1: too long. I find that very hard to believe. Time
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Speaker 1: stories with Nancy Grace to you. Blair Miller, the adoptive
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Speaker 1: dad of Harmony's little brother, Jamieson, Do you remember that
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Speaker 1: court date where you had the adoption hearing regarding Jamieson.
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Speaker 1: We had a couple of different hearings as far as
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Speaker 1: the focus on Harmony's timeline as far as her court dates.
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Speaker 1: We didn't know her court dates, so there could be
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Speaker 1: some court dates to get back. We were told that
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Speaker 1: Harmony had been reunited with her father officially by the state.
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Speaker 1: In February of twenty nineteen. We adopted Jamison. We were
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Speaker 1: matched with him in June, and then we officially adopted
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Speaker 1: him on National Adoption Day in November, about a week
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Speaker 1: before Thanksgiving. And if he's been falling, part of the timeline,
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Speaker 1: that's where it was. Some of the last peoples seen
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Speaker 1: Harmony was about a week later, right, so you get
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Speaker 1: Jamieson and then about a week later Harmony is seen.
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Speaker 1: Is that when she had the black eye? I think
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Speaker 1: that was maybe around in October. As far as when
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Speaker 1: she was last seen, we've heard some reports maybe around
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Speaker 1: Thanksgiving at twenty nineteen. So when we adopted Jamison a
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Speaker 1: National Adoption Day, because I worked in TV news, it
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Speaker 1: was something that was covered in Boston extensively on TV.
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Speaker 1: And we just find it very interesting that Jameson was
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Speaker 1: adopted in a very public way right before Thanksgiving and
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Speaker 1: then his sister last thing when early sees or is
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Speaker 1: maybe a week later. That tells me a lot was
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Speaker 1: going on, not like to Jamison of Harmony as well.
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Speaker 1: Now tell me something Jamis's adoption being so high profile,
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Speaker 1: do you think that anything to do with Harmony's disappearance.
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Speaker 1: I don't know, but I know it's something we shared
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Speaker 1: with police when we started hearing some new reports of
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Speaker 1: when Harmony was last seen being around Thanksgiving him twenty nineteen.
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Speaker 1: My husband I both went back over our timeline and thought,
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Speaker 1: so Jamison was adopted five days before that, that doesn't
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Speaker 1: that just seems really unusual, and so we shared that
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Speaker 1: was police. We talked with him about that, and we
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Speaker 1: don't know where that's puntable, but it certainly raised a
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Speaker 1: lot of questions for US. Jolisa, a former police lieutenant
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Speaker 1: joining US director of Center for Advancing Advanced Policing. Lisa,
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Speaker 1: thank you so much for being with us. You know,
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Speaker 1: I always say there is no coincidence in criminal law.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what the connection could be between Jamison
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Speaker 1: getting adopted in a high profile adoption, which is covered
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Speaker 1: on TV for National Adoption Day extensively, and then within
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Speaker 1: a couple of days Harmony is never seen again. Lisa,
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Speaker 1: I want you to listen to our cut thirty. It's
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Speaker 1: the mother again speaking to Brian Anton. I feel like
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Speaker 1: he's sold her. I think he's sold her because the
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Speaker 1: same week that they're saying this happened the day after
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Speaker 1: Thanksgiving to December sixth, was the week after my son
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Speaker 1: legally got adopted on the news. You know, what I mean,
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Speaker 1: And he knew what my son looked like. He you know,
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Speaker 1: kicked out to my daughter's brother. So he saw that,
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Speaker 1: and I really thinks it's connected. I think like he
22:02
Speaker 1: got that idea from seeing that and was like, oh,
22:08
Speaker 1: I can do it illegally, you know. So Lisa daddy
22:12
Speaker 1: from reports that the mother has given they buy a mom.
22:17
Speaker 1: She believes the dad, Adam Montgomery, sold this little five
22:21
Speaker 1: year old girl blind in one eye. What about it? So,
22:25
Speaker 1: I mean, it's obviously something that has to be looked into,
22:29
Speaker 1: especially given his history not just with the violence, but
22:32
Speaker 1: also his substance abuse issues that he also had, and
22:38
Speaker 1: selling her to someone a group in order to get
22:43
Speaker 1: money to further his whatever is definitely possible. And we
22:48
Speaker 1: all know of cases that this has happened throughout the
22:52
Speaker 1: country where children are sold in order for their parent
22:56
Speaker 1: or parents to get money. So it's something that law
22:59
Speaker 1: enforced definitely has to run down, but it's going to
23:02
Speaker 1: be hard. The best thing they could do is just
23:06
Speaker 1: keep you know, blasting all media sources continually with her
23:11
Speaker 1: picture and asking for somebody to step up if they're
23:14
Speaker 1: aware of any information, which I know they're doing. But
23:17
Speaker 1: we're now two years behind when this poor child went missing.
23:24
Speaker 1: Two Jackson Miller joining us from Oxygen dot com, author
23:28
Speaker 1: of Hell in the Heartland, Murder and Meth and the
23:31
Speaker 1: Case of Two Missing Girls. Jack Miller again, thank you
23:34
Speaker 1: for being with us. I'm listening to everything Blair Miller
23:37
Speaker 1: and Nicole Hodge Globe, doctor Jerry Cross and Lisa Daddy
23:41
Speaker 1: are saying. The reality is a time is ticking by
23:46
Speaker 1: cops are two years later they went to the home
23:49
Speaker 1: when the little girl had the black eye, They were there,
23:52
Speaker 1: they left her there. Can you tell me, Jack Miller,
23:56
Speaker 1: was there ever a home study done like you're supposed
24:00
Speaker 1: to do before you hand over custody with the father,
24:03
Speaker 1: Adam mctgomery, before they just handed up this little girl
24:05
Speaker 1: on a silver platter. Yeah. I spoke to the Manchester
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Speaker 1: Police Department. I was in contact with the spokesperson Heather Hamill,
24:12
Speaker 1: who confirmed that the police did do a home visit
24:16
Speaker 1: back in twenty nineteen at her Manchester home and they
24:19
Speaker 1: confirmed that she was there. We know that after that
24:22
Speaker 1: the house seemingly went into foreclosure. That's on the Guildford
24:25
Speaker 1: Street where they had done the search. So I think
24:29
Speaker 1: it's that timeline from there after they moved. What happened?
24:32
Speaker 1: Who had you know? I feel like I feel like
24:34
Speaker 1: Harmony's case is a bar of soap, and you have
24:36
Speaker 1: all these people, all these agencies, all these relatives trying
24:39
Speaker 1: to get a grip it. Nobody has a firm grip
24:41
Speaker 1: on where this girl is for the next two years.
24:44
Speaker 1: But a home study, a home study, I mean, Blair Miller,
24:48
Speaker 1: you adopted Jamison, Harmony's little brother. I'm sure they did
24:51
Speaker 1: a home study before you got Jamison, right absolutely. When
24:54
Speaker 1: weved up in all three of our boys, after we
24:57
Speaker 1: were placed with them and after we had earned option.
25:01
Speaker 1: In our case, we adopted Darren Boston with jam of Sinemi.
25:04
Speaker 1: We ended up moving to the BC area and the
25:07
Speaker 1: soccilicate here in Virginia coming to our house for six
25:10
Speaker 1: months to make sure we were doing the right things,
25:12
Speaker 1: the game of filic in school, he was going to doctors,
25:14
Speaker 1: he was in a good setting, he had a better room,
25:17
Speaker 1: and it would be able to see healthy and be healthy.
25:19
Speaker 1: And so we went through that. And those are many
25:23
Speaker 1: of the questions we're asking right now, is what happened
25:25
Speaker 1: in the case. Why didn't Harmony go through the same thing?
25:27
Speaker 1: No home study for harmony, because you'd think that figure
25:31
Speaker 1: out her dad shot somebody in the face and was
25:35
Speaker 1: on dope. I mean. And then you got Blair Miller,
25:39
Speaker 1: who holds down not just a job, at an incredible job, stable,
25:43
Speaker 1: happy home. He's got three boys now that they have adopted.
25:48
Speaker 1: He can tell you all about home studies. They look
25:51
Speaker 1: at everything, but nothing was done for harmony. So all
25:55
Speaker 1: this time, what is mom doing? Take a listen to
25:59
Speaker 1: our at twenty four Knee's Nation. What did she seem
26:03
Speaker 1: like when you saw her on FaceTime? Terrified? She I
26:08
Speaker 1: would say, hey, you know what's going on? You know,
26:10
Speaker 1: what'd you eat for lunch? Would you do today? You know?
26:13
Speaker 1: Are you going to school yet? Like you know how
26:16
Speaker 1: your brothers and sisters, you got any friends? You know,
26:18
Speaker 1: little questions like I'm a mom, like I want to
26:20
Speaker 1: know these things. I want to know if she's happy.
26:23
Speaker 1: And every time I ask these things, he would pause
26:26
Speaker 1: it and he'd tell whatever you'd say to or I
26:28
Speaker 1: can't hear him. He mute it, and she'd be like,
26:31
Speaker 1: don't tell her, and she'd be like, like, you know,
26:35
Speaker 1: and I'm watching her, so he'd un mute it, and
26:37
Speaker 1: I'm like, what's going on, like why are you muting it?
26:41
Speaker 1: Every time I ask her a question? Why aren't you
26:43
Speaker 1: letting her talk to me? Why are you answering for her?
26:45
Speaker 1: Like you're acting weird at him. I'm like, what's going on?
26:49
Speaker 1: Like we're co parenting, Like we're you're letting me have usinits, Like,
26:53
Speaker 1: what's going on? He's like, He's like, I have soul, custody,
26:57
Speaker 1: sole decision making. You don't get to ask me, and
27:00
Speaker 1: he hangs up and blocks me. Okay, So at that
27:03
Speaker 1: point Jack's Miller when the dad reportedly blocks her from
27:08
Speaker 1: calling or emailing her daughter, what if anything, does she do?
27:12
Speaker 1: You know? From what I understand, she was sending emails.
27:16
Speaker 1: But I think the big thing is is that there
27:18
Speaker 1: were thirteen quolls made to Harmonies home within a five
27:22
Speaker 1: month period in twenty nineteen and twenty nine coals. Between
27:26
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen and twenty twenty. There was a report that
27:30
Speaker 1: the home had no electricity and no food. But then
27:33
Speaker 1: according to authorities, when DCYF checked in on the girl,
27:38
Speaker 1: they said there was electricity and there was food. So
27:41
Speaker 1: that adds to the confusion, and of course enter the
27:45
Speaker 1: next player in this scenario, the so called evil step mother.
27:50
Speaker 1: Take a listen to our friend of WMU R Amy
27:54
Speaker 1: Cavino and our cut thirty nine. These are the criminal
27:59
Speaker 1: complaints filed late this afternoon against thirty two year old
28:02
Speaker 1: Kayala Montgomery, alleging between November thirtieth, twenty nineteen and June second,
28:08
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, Kayla fraudulently represented to DHHS that Harmony
28:12
Speaker 1: Montgomery was a member of her household. The purpose, prosecutors say,
28:17
Speaker 1: was to receive undeserved foodstamp benefits and excess of fifteen
28:21
Speaker 1: hundred dollars. The policeffidavit provides a timeline of Harmony's life
28:25
Speaker 1: in New Hampshire. On February twenty fifth, twenty nineteen, Kayla
28:29
Speaker 1: allegedly filed a report with DHHS, adding Harmony as a
28:33
Speaker 1: new household member. The affidavit states Ada Montgomery, Harmony's father,
28:37
Speaker 1: was granted full custody of her February twenty second, twenty nineteen,
28:42
Speaker 1: and that DHHS records show eight hundred EBT card transactions
28:47
Speaker 1: during that time period, and state that on three occasions
28:50
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, Kayla applied for SNAP benefits listing Harmony
28:55
Speaker 1: as a family member. In February twenty twenty one, Kala
28:58
Speaker 1: stopped listing Harmony as a beneficiary for food assistance, and
29:02
Speaker 1: in June twenty twenty one told a DHHS caseworker that
29:06
Speaker 1: Harmony had moved back with her mother and could be
29:09
Speaker 1: removed from the case. Crime stories with Nancy Grace, so
29:30
Speaker 1: long story is shortened to coldeboard, hotge globe. You're the
29:32
Speaker 1: high profile lawyer joining us out of Texas for literally years,
29:37
Speaker 1: this evil stepmother gets government benefits and Harmony's name, knowing
29:42
Speaker 1: Harmony doesn't live there. That doesn't look good. Well, not
29:45
Speaker 1: only does it not look good is a crime. So
29:47
Speaker 1: she's receiving funds from the government, effectively stealing from the
29:51
Speaker 1: government by lying about this child living in her home.
29:55
Speaker 1: And I think that now she is in a good
29:58
Speaker 1: position to really think about whether or not she wants
30:01
Speaker 1: to tell the government what she knows, tell law enforcement
30:04
Speaker 1: what she knows, to help everyone find Harmony. I would
30:07
Speaker 1: keep her behind bars on this fraud until she told
30:11
Speaker 1: me something. Guys, take a listen to our cut thirty three.
30:16
Speaker 1: Now this is behavioral evidence that a defense team could
30:19
Speaker 1: attack at trial. They claim it means nothing. I think
30:22
Speaker 1: it means a lot. Take a listen to Mora Barrett
30:25
Speaker 1: NBC News. Adam Montgomery's charged with second degree assault, interference
30:29
Speaker 1: with custody, and endangering the welfare of a child. One
30:33
Speaker 1: of those instances, investigators say Adam struck Harmony in the face,
30:37
Speaker 1: causing a black eye. In twenty nineteen. Kevin Montgomery, Adam's uncle,
30:42
Speaker 1: was visiting the home around that time. I walked in
30:44
Speaker 1: the house at Harmony had a black guy like you
30:47
Speaker 1: see in a boxing match between two men. He bashed
30:49
Speaker 1: her around the apartment. Kind of her were his exact words.
30:54
Speaker 1: According to court documents. Kevin says he and other family
30:57
Speaker 1: members made multiple reports to newhamp Division for Children, Youth
31:01
Speaker 1: and Families, and I don't know how they missed the
31:04
Speaker 1: black guy that I saw. Police say they found Adam
31:07
Speaker 1: sleeping in his car with his new girlfriend on New
31:10
Speaker 1: Year's Eve. He told police he'd given Harmony back to
31:12
Speaker 1: her biological mother around Thanksgiving back in twenty nineteen. Her mother,
31:17
Speaker 1: Crystal Sorry, disputes this. According to the court documents, police
31:21
Speaker 1: say he made some contradictory stevements and quote did not
31:23
Speaker 1: exhibit much emotion or reaction to the fact that Harmony
31:26
Speaker 1: hadn't been seen in two years. You know, I'll just
31:30
Speaker 1: never forget Lisa. Daddy. Oh, my son John David, who's
31:34
Speaker 1: about two and a half three at the time, went
31:38
Speaker 1: and hid inside as a superstore babies or us. I
31:44
Speaker 1: was looking for this organic sunscreen lotion and was digging
31:47
Speaker 1: through piles of sunscreen. I turned around there was Lucy
31:51
Speaker 1: and know John David. I started screaming. I tuck Lucy
31:55
Speaker 1: under my arm like a football and started running screaming
31:57
Speaker 1: for them to lock the doors. He was hiding about
32:01
Speaker 1: two miles away, thinking it had no idea the panic
32:04
Speaker 1: he had called, but it caused. But I find it
32:06
Speaker 1: really interesting that when they told Adam Montgomery harmony hasn't
32:10
Speaker 1: been seen in two years, he showed no emotion whatsoever. Yeah,
32:13
Speaker 1: you know, it's and I've been in that position too
32:17
Speaker 1: with my youngest son, Nancy. I mean, it's the worst
32:19
Speaker 1: feeling in the whole world. So there's just so many
32:22
Speaker 1: things about this case, both from biological mom and biological
32:27
Speaker 1: So Daddy, oh, you're a firm and police. Lu said
32:30
Speaker 1: it right, Yes, ma'am, call it. It's bs. It stinks
32:34
Speaker 1: to I have it. He showed no emotion. I mean
32:37
Speaker 1: when my cat went missing. I screamed till I couldn't
32:40
Speaker 1: scream ast my voice. I couldn't be on the air
32:42
Speaker 1: the next day. I screamed and screaming until midnight until
32:45
Speaker 1: we found the cat. And he shows no emotion. That's BS, Nancy.
32:52
Speaker 1: I agree with you one hundred percent. But look at
32:55
Speaker 1: this guy's pass and his history, and I'm not making
32:57
Speaker 1: excuses for him. Trust me, I would never do that.
33:00
Speaker 1: But I he's void of everything, and so in light
33:04
Speaker 1: of everything, it doesn't shock me. But I always think
33:08
Speaker 1: when someone doesn't react the way that we think they
33:10
Speaker 1: should react, what is the reason why exactly? There is
33:14
Speaker 1: a twenty four seven three sixty five tip line devoted
33:19
Speaker 1: to Harmony's We're about six zero three two zero three
33:23
Speaker 1: sixty sixty repeat six zero three two zero three sixty sixty.
33:30
Speaker 1: The reward is now over one hundred and four thousand
33:34
Speaker 1: dollars one hundred and four thousand dollars and climbing. Please
33:41
Speaker 1: help us bring home Jamison's sister. Take a listen now
33:46
Speaker 1: to our friend Jason law at Boston twenty five. What
33:50
Speaker 1: do you think happened to Harmony? The answers lie in him. Tuesday, Boston,
33:54
Speaker 1: twenty five, spoke with Harmony's maternal grandfather, Tim Flanagan. He
33:58
Speaker 1: says his daughter was a range from Adam Montgomery. Court
34:02
Speaker 1: documents showed the mother last spoke to her daughter sometime
34:04
Speaker 1: in the spring of twenty nineteen. A lot of people
34:07
Speaker 1: may wonder, you know, why wasn't the mom were involved?
34:09
Speaker 1: Why why didn't she see Harmony in the last two
34:12
Speaker 1: years because the father would not let her. Every time
34:16
Speaker 1: that he didn't let her, she would call the Spotment
34:20
Speaker 1: of Social Services, and Social Services would say one thing, yes,
34:25
Speaker 1: we'll get on it, and they never did. Why is it,
34:30
Speaker 1: nicolde board hats globe that Department of Family Shoulder Services
34:33
Speaker 1: cannot be held accountable. I've been asking that for many,
34:37
Speaker 1: many years. When they leave children in horrible situations and
34:42
Speaker 1: then the child is murdered. Here's a great example, the
34:45
Speaker 1: Josh Powell case where Susan Powell goes missing and the
34:50
Speaker 1: children draw pictures of Mommy in a car trunk and
34:53
Speaker 1: being buried by daddy, and then he still has visitation
35:00
Speaker 1: and he murders them and blows up the house. It
35:03
Speaker 1: goes on and on and on about how children are
35:06
Speaker 1: mistreated and defacts does nothing. Why aren't they prosecuted Nicole. Well,
35:12
Speaker 1: I think that they could be. And there is immunity
35:15
Speaker 1: when you're a government agency from certain types of liability.
35:18
Speaker 1: But when you exceed this type of negligence, I think
35:22
Speaker 1: there's a real question about whether or not there is
35:26
Speaker 1: now the possibility of seeking redress for civil rights violations,
35:30
Speaker 1: for due process rights violations. Dead and she's probably dead
35:36
Speaker 1: and they left or in an abusive home. Civil money,
35:41
Speaker 1: what money? What money does Adam Montgomery have? I mean
35:47
Speaker 1: money from defacts. I think they need to go to
35:50
Speaker 1: jail Nicole possibly, which is unfortunate. Well, the problem is
35:54
Speaker 1: is that that finding one particular individual liable could be
35:58
Speaker 1: extremely difficult criminal context, and it may take a civil
36:03
Speaker 1: lawsuit to get the agency to pay attention. You know, look,
36:07
Speaker 1: I look at Crystal here as another victim. I mean,
36:10
Speaker 1: she did everything she could to alert this system that
36:13
Speaker 1: she thought that there was a problem. She'd lost custody.
36:17
Speaker 1: They continue to treat her like trash and ignore everything
36:19
Speaker 1: that she said, despite the fact that she gave them
36:21
Speaker 1: multiple learning Well, you're right about that she did. According
36:25
Speaker 1: to her, she sent multiple emails to Department of Family
36:28
Speaker 1: Children's Services, which they ignored. They discounted her because she
36:33
Speaker 1: had had problems in the past. But they do that too.
36:37
Speaker 1: A lot of people totally blow them off. I'll pay
36:40
Speaker 1: any attention to what they're saying. And the child ends
36:43
Speaker 1: up dead. She's not alone. Neighbors called the uncle, called
36:47
Speaker 1: the uncle, called police to the home, and still nothing
36:51
Speaker 1: was done, and defects sits on their thumb and lets
36:55
Speaker 1: it happen. And now she's gone. So right now, this
36:59
Speaker 1: is what we know about the current search. Take a listen.
37:02
Speaker 1: Manchester Police along with the FBI set up tents in
37:06
Speaker 1: this backyard and brought ground thawing equipment over the weekend
37:10
Speaker 1: as a search for many continues. This aerial view shows
37:13
Speaker 1: about a dozen investigators and heavy equipment on the property
37:17
Speaker 1: Monday morning, before it was taken down and packed up
37:20
Speaker 1: by the afternoon. Authorities tight lift about what investigators uncovered
37:26
Speaker 1: or discovered if anything. The search of the property is
37:29
Speaker 1: the latest and the investigation police launched over a week ago.
37:33
Speaker 1: To you, Jackson Miller joining us from oxygen dot com,
37:36
Speaker 1: what do you know about the ground thawing equipment used
37:41
Speaker 1: in the backyard where Harmony was last seen? So I
37:43
Speaker 1: know that it's in the hands of new owners. The
37:47
Speaker 1: new owners are being very cooperative with police. When I
37:51
Speaker 1: contacted Heather Hamill, the spokesperson for the Manchester Police Department,
37:54
Speaker 1: they could not they could not comment on what they
37:57
Speaker 1: had found, if anything, So I think that's something hopefully
38:01
Speaker 1: we'll learn more about in the near future. Well, the
38:04
Speaker 1: fact that nothing was announced and no charges were developed.
38:08
Speaker 1: And by the way, you were hearing our friend Oscar
38:10
Speaker 1: Margain at NBC Boston talking about the ground thawing equipment
38:16
Speaker 1: in order to use ground penetrating sonar, which I've used
38:22
Speaker 1: many times along with cadaver dogs. You can have you
38:28
Speaker 1: ever seen a metal detector people going up and down
38:30
Speaker 1: the beach with them. You run the put the groundbreaking
38:35
Speaker 1: sonar over the earth and you can get kind of
38:39
Speaker 1: like a sonogram of what's below, and you can see
38:43
Speaker 1: whether earth has been disturbed, in other words, whether somebody
38:47
Speaker 1: was buried there and the earth was relocated, the soil
38:51
Speaker 1: was relocated. Sometimes you can pick up if there's an
38:55
Speaker 1: object there, like you would pick up in a sonogram
38:57
Speaker 1: where you see the outline of the baby. That's what
38:59
Speaker 1: it looks like. You have to know what you're doing
39:02
Speaker 1: to read it. That's why they would need ground thawing
39:06
Speaker 1: equipment to either dig or using ground penetrating sonar, and
39:10
Speaker 1: that's not good. If they are at the point where
39:12
Speaker 1: they're ready to dig for evidence, that means they're looking
39:16
Speaker 1: for her remains. To Blair Miller, the adoptive father of
39:20
Speaker 1: Harmony's little brother, Jamieson reporter anchor with CMG in the
39:24
Speaker 1: Washington News Bureau, Blair, how much of this does Jamison know?
39:29
Speaker 1: Does he understand what's happening? Yeah? Man, So we haven't
39:32
Speaker 1: talking about it yet, largely because we just don't know how.
39:36
Speaker 1: So really we don't have the answers for him. We
39:38
Speaker 1: don't know how to process this for a five year
39:40
Speaker 1: old or help a five year old process has Adults
39:43
Speaker 1: caneman figure this out right now? So what are we
39:45
Speaker 1: supposed to tell Jamison? But I will tell you that's
39:48
Speaker 1: our motivation behind everything. You know, one day when he's fifteen,
39:52
Speaker 1: when he's twenty, when he's thirty or forty, he's gonna
39:54
Speaker 1: have some serious questions along the way, and we want
39:57
Speaker 1: to make sure we're doing everything we can to be
39:59
Speaker 1: able do what he would want us to do right now,
40:02
Speaker 1: and that's trying to keep the hope and optimism out
40:05
Speaker 1: there and keep the attention out there, because yes, two
40:08
Speaker 1: years have gone by, but we know how fast paced
40:11
Speaker 1: things move right now in people's lives, and they're actually
40:14
Speaker 1: going to forget about this, and it's our job's not
40:16
Speaker 1: let people forget Blair Miller. We will do everything in
40:19
Speaker 1: our power to help you on your mission. And you're right,
40:24
Speaker 1: why would you tell Jamison now you don't know what
40:26
Speaker 1: to tell him, that she's missing, that she's dead, that
40:29
Speaker 1: she had a black eye. Why would you tell him
40:31
Speaker 1: any of that until you have some answers, God willing
40:34
Speaker 1: we get answers again the tip line six three two
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Speaker 1: zero three sixty sixty Harmony, Where are you? Nancy Grace
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