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‘Monster’ Adam Montgomery found guilty of 5-year-old daughter Harmony’s murder

New Hampshire dad Adam Montgomery was found guilty on Thursday of murdering his 5-year-old daughter, Harmony, whose body has never been recovered.

Montgomery, 34, did not attend his two-week trial and was not in the courtroom when the jury returned its verdict, convicting him of second-degree murder, second-degree assault, witness tampering, falsifying physical evidence and abuse of a corpse.

Jurors reached the verdict after six hours of deliberation spread over two days.

New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, a Republican, applauded Montgomery’s conviction, writing on X: “Adam Montgomery is a monster and deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison.”

Adam Montgomery was found guilty of murdering his daughter AP
Harmony Montgomery was five years old.

Prosecutors argued that in 2019, Montgomery savagely beat Harmony for having bathroom accidents in the family car — and then went to buy fast food as the girl lay dying in the backseat.

Harmony Montgomery’s biological mother, Crystal Sorey, broke down in tears as she heard closing arguments in the trial on Wednesday AP

He then allegedly spent months moving his daughter’s compressed and decomposing body in a tote bag and a cooler to various hiding spots — before ultimately throwing it out “like yesterday’s trash.”

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