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Adam Montgomery Murder Conviction Overturned in Death of 5YO Harmony | Crime Alert 06.12.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Sidney Silvanni.
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  Speaker 1: The New Hampshire Supreme Court has overturned the murder conviction
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  Speaker 1: of Adam Montgomery, previously found guilty of brutally beating his
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  Speaker 1: five year old daughter Harmony to death in twenty nineteen
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  Speaker 1: and then hiding her remains, which have tragically never been found.
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  Speaker 1: Montgomery's conviction on the second degree murder charge now vacated
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  Speaker 1: due to a legal technicality the Supreme Court said resulted
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  Speaker 1: in an unfair trial. The High Court ruled that prosecutors
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  Speaker 1: should not have tried Montgomery's second degree murder charge alongside
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  Speaker 1: an earlier, separate second degree assault charge from months prior.
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  Speaker 1: The justices argued that hearing evidence of the first beating
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  Speaker 1: improperly led the jury to assume he must have committed
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  Speaker 1: the fatal December assault, creating an impermissible inference. The ruling
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  Speaker 1: read that the state produced much stronger evidence that Montgomery
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  Speaker 1: committed the first July twenty nineteen beating, with four witnesses
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  Speaker 1: who claimed they noticed Harmony with a black eye. Several
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  Speaker 1: of those witnesses also testified when confronted about that bruise,
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  Speaker 1: Montgomery admitted to striking the little girl. The evidence in
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  Speaker 1: the allegedly fatal December beating was weaker. Only Kayla Montgomery,
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  Speaker 1: Adam's wife at the time, who was offered a deal
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  Speaker 1: in exchange for her testimony, witnessed the assault. She said
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  Speaker 1: that Montgomery beat Harmony in the head for soiling her
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  Speaker 1: bed in her sleep, saying immediately afterward of the attack,
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  Speaker 1: I think I really heard her this time. The defense
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  Speaker 1: attacked Kayla Montgomery's credibility and argued she was truly responsible
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  Speaker 1: for Harmony's death. The backlash of the vacated conviction was immediate.
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  Speaker 1: The adoptive parents of Harmony's younger brother released a searing
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  Speaker 1: statement saying we are absolutely disgusted. The reality is more
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  Speaker 1: protection is in place for this monster than Harmony ever received.
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  Speaker 1: But before there's panic, Montgomery is not walking free. The
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  Speaker 1: court upheld all of his other convictions, including abuse of
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  Speaker 1: a corpse and tampering with evidence. His forty three and
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  Speaker 1: a half year sentence for those charges stands completely unaffected. Furthermore,
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  Speaker 1: the New Hampshire Attorney General's Office has already confirmed they
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  Speaker 1: are absolutely pursuing a retrial for the murder charge, stating
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  Speaker 1: they remain entirely confident in the facts of the case. Next,
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  Speaker 1: we moved south to Massachusetts, where Boston police are currently
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  Speaker 1: hunting for two suspects who pulled off an armed robbery.
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  Speaker 1: The target a neighborhood children's lemonade stand. On Wednesday afternoon
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  Speaker 1: in South Boston, a pair of sibling entrepreneurs were approached
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  Speaker 1: by two young males who asked if the stand accepted
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  Speaker 1: Apple Pay. But before the kids could even answer, one
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  Speaker 1: of the suspects snatched the cash box, containing about fifty dollars.
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  Speaker 1: When the kids looked up, they spotted a black firearm
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  Speaker 1: tucked into the suspects waistband, right before the duo took
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  Speaker 1: off running. The description of the suspects makes this even
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  Speaker 1: more jarring. Police say they appear to be kids themselves,
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  Speaker 1: one around fourteen years old, the other just eleven years old,
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  Speaker 1: both wearing full faced Nike masks typically meant to go
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  Speaker 1: under a football helmet. Boston City councilor Ed Flynn took
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  Speaker 1: to Facebook to voice the neighborhood's collective outrage, writing, there
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  Speaker 1: is little I can think of more disturbing than the
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  Speaker 1: innocence of a children's lemonade stand being violated by an
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  Speaker 1: armed robbery. Local street cameras unfortunately missed the incident, but
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  Speaker 1: the South Boston community isn't letting the bad guys win.
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  Speaker 1: Neighbors are already rallying together and they plan to help
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  Speaker 1: the siblings reopen their lemonade stand this afternoon. More crime
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  Speaker 1: and justice news after this. Finally, a shocking political and
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  Speaker 1: sex abuse standal out of Louisiana has culminated in a
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  Speaker 1: highly emotional and contentious sentencing hearing in Deritter, Louisiana. The
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  Speaker 1: city's former mayor, forty three year old Misty Roberts, has
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  Speaker 1: been sentenced to ninety days behind bars. This sentence follows
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  Speaker 1: her high profile conviction in March on charges of carnal
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  Speaker 1: knowledge of a juvenile and indecent behavior with a juvenile.
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  Speaker 1: The charges stem from a July twenty twenty four incident
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  Speaker 1: where Roberts engaged in sexual activity with her teenage son's
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  Speaker 1: sixteen year old friend during an alcohol fueled birthday party
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  Speaker 1: hosted at her own residence. The court room dynamic on
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday was explosive. Prosecutor Charles Robinson fiercely argued for the
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  Speaker 1: maximum allowable penalty of seventeen years in prison. Robinson emphasized
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  Speaker 1: that Roberts is a highly intelligent individual who managed an
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  Speaker 1: entire municipal budget, yet completely failed to accept accountability for
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  Speaker 1: her predatory actions. The victim's mother took the stand to
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  Speaker 1: deliver a blistering victim impact statement, explicitly branding the disgraced
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  Speaker 1: politician a predator who hides behind hair extensions, high heels, botox,
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  Speaker 1: and cosmetic augmentations, warning the court that danger does not
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  Speaker 1: always look like danger. Despite the state's push for a
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  Speaker 1: lengthy prison sentence, Judge Kent Savoy opted for a ninety
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  Speaker 1: day jail term combined with two suspended five year sentences.
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  Speaker 1: Judge Savoy additionally mandated that Roberts undergo mandatory therapy, officially
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  Speaker 1: register as a sex offender, and submit to regular ongoing
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  Speaker 1: drug and alcohol testing. The family fabric completely unraveled on
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  Speaker 1: the witness stamp. Roberts's own daughter testified graphically that she
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  Speaker 1: personally witnessed her mother and the teenage victim on top
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  Speaker 1: of each other on the night of the party. Furthermore,
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  Speaker 1: Robert's ex husband, Duncan Clinton, testified that Roberts explicitly confessed
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  Speaker 1: the sexual encounter to him. Admitting that their own children
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  Speaker 1: had caught them in the act. While addressing the court
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  Speaker 1: during her sentencing, Roberts expressed deep shame, calling herself an
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  Speaker 1: embarrassment to the city of Deritter. She confessed that she
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  Speaker 1: had desperately begged others to lie on her behalf following
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  Speaker 1: the incident because she feared her ex husband would sever
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  Speaker 1: her access to her children. Roberts wept as she asked
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  Speaker 1: the court for grace and mercy, stating she simply wanted
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  Speaker 1: the opportunity to do what the Lord asked her to do,
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  Speaker 1: which was to be a mother. For the latest crime
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  Speaker 1: Sidney Silvanni.