THE apartment in the middle of a renewed search for a missing eight-year-old girl is seen with missing floors and a torn closet in shocking new footage.
Police officers raided the small one-bedroom, New Hampshire, on June 14 where they were seen removing a refrigerator as part of their investigation into the disappearance of Harmony Montgomery, now 8 years old.
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However, the current owner has now revealed the other pieces of evidence taken away by the FBI who have been searching for the young girl for months.
The apartment was once inhabited by Harmony’s father, Adam Montgomery, and her ex-stepmother, Kayla.
“It’s heartbreaking to be in the apartment where you think something may have happened,” the current resident, aka Ginger, told Boston 25 News.
“I’ve been crying for days, though.”
She showed how extensive floors in the kitchen, hallway and in the bedroom were removed.
And the resident was provided with a new refrigerator after the other one was removed.
“That fridge is supposedly a newer fridge, it was not there when they were here.
“The maintenance man told me there were three other tenants in front of me.”
A worker also worked to rebuild the bedroom closet after police removed a shelf and a bar, among other things.
Ginger revealed that police seemed very interested in the closet.
“It was just all torn up,” she said.
“They took things out of the cupboard and then they took the walls out of the cupboard.”
“It breaks my heart,” Ginger added.
LAST SEEN
Harmony was last seen in 2019 in Manchester, New Hampshire, but her disappearance was mysteriously reported only at the end of December 2021.
According to data held by the Massachusetts DCF, Harmony spent much of her early life traveling back and forth between the care of her mother and the Department of Children and Families.
In 2019, when she was about five years old, father Adam got custody of the young girl.
Adam and his estranged wife Kayla cut off all communication with their families – and a series of mistakes by Child Protection Services left Harmony’s mother and family in the dark about her disappearance.
Until earlier this month, the investigation focused on a home on Gilford St in Manchester, New Hampshire, where Harmony was last seen.
Police reports obtained by The Sun through a public record request show that officers visited their home at least 16 times between January 2019 and January 2020.
HOME WANTED
Adam’s alleged criminal activities continued about four miles further on Union St, where he and Kayla lived for a period before they split up, according to a police report obtained by The Sun.
The house in Union Street has been identified as the address searched earlier this month.
There, the father, who is currently in jail, allegedly chased Kayla in March 2021 and was eventually arrested.
The arrest report mentioned three children in the home. All of their information except ages was edited, but none matched Harmony’s age.
The report also said Kayla told police she had lost her key, so she kept her back door and back window of the house open.
SEARCH continues
Harmony’s case frustrated the local police, oppressed the community and challenged the determination of Harmony’s loved ones.
But Harmony’s five-year-old brother Jamison, his adopted father Blair and Johnathon Miller, and older brothers did not give up hope that his life and that they would be reunited.
Blair Miller shared a video earlier this month of a smiling, baby-faced Jamison in front of a cake reading, “Happy Birthday Harmony” in pink icing earlier this month for Harmony’s eighth birthday.
In the video, Jameson said, “Harmony, I hope you’ve had a good birthday, big sister,” and blew her a kiss.
Then they released eight pink balloons with messages on them telling her how much they loved her.
“While Jamison may not know the insecurities surrounding his sister, he knows she is loved, missed and hopes these words of love find her,” Blair said.
“Johnathon and I would love to read how you celebrate her today. We will keep all these happy memories to share with Jamison when he is old enough to understand so he can see the good in this world.”
Harmony’s biological mother, Crystal Sorey, was outspoken about finding her daughter, who was given to her biological father, Adam Montgomery, by Child Protective Services in 2019.
Sorey said she last saw Harmony on Facetime around Easter 2019.
She probably disappeared somewhere between November 28 and December 10, 2019, while Adam and Kayla were living in a car, according to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s office.
PA TRAVELED
Sorey, according to police, is not a suspect, but Montgomery and his wife Kayla, who were with him when Harmony disappeared, were both arrested in January on separate charges.
Adam is accused of assaulting Harmony shortly before her disappearance and is also facing charges of interference with custody and two charges of endangering the welfare of a child.
The father has a violent past and allegedly “hybrid (Harmony) around the house” forced her to scrub the toilet with her toothbrush and stand in the corner for hours during a drug relapse, according to a probable cause oath.
A police report from January 2020 describes a “very bad smell” coming from the house, and therefore the door was open.
Kayla was arrested shortly after Adam and charged with one count of theft by deception and two counts of welfare fraud.
And earlier in June, Kayla was charged with perjury, a charge she pleaded not guilty to.
As more time passes, the situation becomes darker and the matter becomes more mysterious.
In mid-March, Adam’s ex-girlfriend Kelsey Small was found dead in the same town where Harmony went missing.
Her death, according to Manchester police, is not considered suspicious, but they did not release any other information because it is part of an ongoing investigation.
She dated Harmony’s father, Adam Montgomery, for more than a year, but told police she never knew about Harmony, according to court documents.
“We do not know what she knew, whether she knew anything, or the details of what happened to her,” Blair Miller, Harmony’s brother’s adopted father, told The Sun.
“When my husband and I heard about it, it stopped our death in our tracks. It’s a tragic loss. How many people’s lives are going to be ruined in this case?”