‘Disgusting’ to play politics with Harmony Montgomery case, says Chief Aldenberg
Police Chief Allen Aldenberg says politics is a poor excuse for exploiting the murder of a child.
Police Chief Allen Aldenberg says politics is a poor excuse for exploiting the murder of a child.
The details of how a little girl died, allegedly at the hands of her father who for months hid her remains in an ice cooler, an apartment ceiling, a commercial freezer and an apartment refrigerator/freezer, are contained in the 48-page probable cause statement of Manchester Police Det. John Dunleavy. The document, on file in Hillsborough County Superior Court Northern District, was released Tuesday after WMUR-TV filed a lawsuit requesting it be unsealed.
CONCORD, NH – Attorney General John M. Formella and Manchester Police Chief Allen D. Aldenberg announce that today the Manchester
The brief press conference held Monday at Manchester Police headquarters was the formal announcement by local and state law enforcement officials that Adam Montgomery was charged at about 10:30 a.m. with murdering his daughter, Harmony Montgomery, in 2019. He is facing four new charges – second-degree murder, falsifying physical evidence, abuse of a corpse and tampering with a witness, Aldenberg said.
According to State Attorney General John M. Formella, investigators have concluded that the Manchester girl, missing for nearly three years, is dead and that her death is the result of foul play.
A Hillsborough County Superior Court Northern District grand jury returned the indictments on June 20, but they were not made public until Monday.
Sabrina Martin, 28, has lived in a first-floor Orange Street apartment building adjacent to 644 Union St. since before Thanksgiving 2019.
The reality of the grim case leads to the thought of where Harmony could be, a thought that has haunted so many of those who found their way to the block on Tuesday morning, where detectives set up tents in the front to protect from plain view the entryway of the apartment building, and in the back parking lot, where a Manchester Fire vehicle was parked near a red tent.
The pair were ordered to have no contact, but at Thursday’s bail hearing held in the Hillsborough Superior Court – North in Manchester, Assistant Attorney General Jesse O’Neill told Judge Amy Messer that Kayla Montgomery told her father-in-law to pass a message on to Adam Montgomery. “I still love him,” Kayla Montgomery said in a recorded jailhouse call.
New charges have been brought against Kayla Montgomery, step-mother of Harmony Montgomery, 7, the child who has been missing since 2019 and subject of an ongoing search national search.