Timeline
January 18, 2022
Jan 24, 2014 – Harmony’s father, AM, whose
criminal history includes burglary, first degree assault, and stalking, and which dates back to 2007, shot RJ, in the face
during a heroin deal. A surveillance camera captured audio and video of the shooting, which was alleged to have involved multiple people,
including CS and her uncle, JS.
Jan 28, 2014 -
U.S. Marshall’s located AM in Manchester, NH and arrested him on an unrelated probation violation warrant out of Middlesex Superior Court. AM had a bullet wound in his right arm.
On or after Jan 28, 2014 -
Harmony’s mother was also charged on allegations she helped Adam evade police, although the charges were later dropped. She was four months pregnant at the time.
Mar 2014 - AM was arraigned on charges of
armed robbery and assault with intent to murder and held without bail but the
charges were later reduced.
Jun 7, 2014 -
Harmony was born.
Sep 2014 -
AM received a sentence of 18 months behind bars, after
pleading guilty to lesser charges of larceny, carrying a firearm without a license and discharging a firearm within 500 feet of a building in an armed robbery during which he allegedly shot a man in the head.
Jun 8, 2017 - AM and KM's first child was born.
010622MontgomeryK-Affidavit.pdf (nh.gov)
Jul 2018 - Court documents show
Harmony’s mother lost custody of Harmony
because of substance abuse issues. Harmony began bouncing
in and out of foster care.
Dec 2018 -
The MA DCF requested that NH DCYF conduct a home study of AM and KM. NH's DCYF Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children unit responded to MA DCF stating that in order to conduct the home study, add'l info was needed regarding AM and his wife's progress and their engagement of services with MA DCF. While NH DCYF was waiting for the information, a court in Lawrence, MA abruptly gave sole custody of Harmony to her father 2/2019.
Sometime in 2019 – Harmony was last enrolled in school in Massachusetts, but (as of 12/31/21) LE did not yet know where.
Jan 30, 2019 - AM and KM's second child was born.
010622MontgomeryK-Affidavit.pdf (nh.gov)
Feb 22, 2019 – Harmony’s mother no longer had custody.
Harmony was returned to her father without an
Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children (ICPC) and was no longer in MA foster care system
according to juvenile court records from Lawrence, MA.
Feb 25, 2019 -
KM filed a change report to add Harmony to her DHHS account and monthly benefits increased $129.
About Apr 21, 2019 -
The last time CS spoke with Harmony was over a Facetime video call around Easter 2019. CS later told LE that
Harmony "seemed frightened" during the call.
Jun 7, 2019 -
BM and JM begin fostering Harmony's younger brother. "From night one, in the bedroom, he asked where Harmony was going to sleep," JM.
Jul 2019– The uncle of Harmony’s father reported an incident to DCYF. After he reported the incident, his nephew stopped speaking to him. Montgomery said
he called DCYF in July 2019 after he saw that she had a black eye — but nothing happened. From the affidavit: Due to the above facts and circumstances I believe probable cause exists that AM committed the crime of Second-Degree Assault, RSA 631:2, I(d)
on or between 7/1/2019 and 7/22/2019, in that he knowingly caused bodily injury to HM 06/07/2014, a child under the age of 13, by striking her in the face.
Aug 5, 2019 - LE responded to 77 Gilford due to a neighbor concerned for the wellbeing of a child. The report is noted, "MONTGOMERY RES. HAVE BEEN HERE SEVERAL TIMES" as well as "STILL WORKING WITH DEMETRIUS FROM DCYF"
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Aug 16, 2019 -
The Millers meet CS for the first time and offer to adopt Harmony if the need ever arises. They discuss J’s strong bond with his sister and exchange numbers with CS, remaining in regular contact ever since.
Aug 21, 2019 - LE responded to 77 Gilford; CHECK SECURITY OF BUILDING. Notes: Squatters, home up for auction, trash everywhere, unknown # of people, lots of calls about this, KM harassing them, DCYF involved as well.
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Sep 5, 2019 - The home at 77 Gilford St in Manchester, NH was owned by HM, 78, and CD from 2016 until
it was foreclosed on September 5, 2019, according to the
Hillsborough County Register of Deeds. … The property also appears to have been the home of KLM, 43.
LE responded to 77 Gilford; ANIMAL COMPLAINT. Caller concerned about the dog being abused, people yelling, dog yelping, dog put outside.
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Sep 11, 2019 -
The last time police saw Harmony (
12:40 mark in the video) during a service call to the home.
Sep 12, 2019 - An MPD Incident/Investigation report was emailed to DCYF after LE responded to 77 Gilford when KM and HM were at 77 Gilford to retrieve personal items. AM said the power was turned off several months ago due to nonpayment. A generator in the driveway powered the refrigerator. The home had running water.
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Sep 18, 2019 - LE responded to 77 Gilford; CHECK AREA FOR PROBLEM. Neighbor complained of music and talking @ 3 a.m., car appears broken into with pry marks all over it. Note: WE'VE DEALT WITH THIS ADDRESS QUITE A BIT IN THE LAST COUPLE OF MONTHS.
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Oct 2019 -
DCYF personnel saw Harmony.
Nov 2019 -
CS lived at 37 Chapel St #3, Lowell MA with her boyfriend JE who has never met Harmony in person.
Nov 22, 2019 - Boston 25's Blair Miller adopted Harmony's brother on National Adoption Day. Miller inquired with DCF about adopting Harmony as well. A caseworker told him then
Harmony had been reunited with her father.
Nov 2019 - The Millers reach out to CS and say they want to send Harmony a Christmas gift from her little brother, but
she tells them she’s again unable to reach AM.
Approx Nov 28, 2019 (Thanksgiving Day) - AM
told LE he hadn’t seen her since her mother came to pick her up around Thanksgiving of 2019.
The day after Thanksgiving, 2019 - KM told LE that on this date, AM dropped KM off at work and told her that
he was taking Harmony to her mother to live.
Around Thanksgiving 2019 - A neighbor, who has lived on Gilford St for decades, said
she went away for the Thanksgiving holidays in 2019 and returned to find the family had moved out. She said the house had fallen into foreclosure and AM and KM were refusing to leave and were “basically squatting” at the home with their children before finally being “forced out."
Late 2019 - AM's uncle, KM, said
he has not seen Harmony or AM since late 2019.
Dec 2019 - CL (KM's mother) said AM and KM were at her home at the end of December 2019, during the holidays. AM and KM were living on the streets and in a car. CL thinks something happened between the day after Thanksgiving and Dec 6. When the reporter asks her what the significance is of Dec 6, she says KM reminded her of that date because they were homeless, needed a place to stay, and they were there during that timeframe.
The mother of Kayla Montgomery speaks to the media - YouTube
Dec 2019 - An alleged incident of abuse occurred at this time
or was being investigated at this time.
mass-supreme-court-01182022.pdf (nh.gov) pg 2
Jan 12, 2020 -
Police were called for the last time concerning the front door being open; the caller thought it had been kicked in. Police said the door was not kicked in and noted that it looked like someone moved out and left the door open. The report has one or two words blacked out followed by AM’s name. “They were just airing it out,” the report says. “There was a very bad odor.”
Jun 2020 - Around Harmony’s sixth birthday,
CS tells the Millers she hasn't been able to reach AM or Harmony.
Nov 4, 2020 - AM and KM's third child was born.
010622MontgomeryK-Affidavit.pdf (nh.gov)
Jan 7, 2021 -
KM indicated to DHHS that her family consisted of 2 adults, married, and 4 children. A DHHS caseworker added a note to the redetermination paperwork that KM seemed confused about whether Harmony lived there "because she goes to her mom's every other weekend."
Mar 7, 2021 -
J asks his adoptive parents if they can adopt Harmony. "I want to call her a Miller too," JM quoted his son as saying at the time.
Mar 21, 2021 -
KM went to her mother’s house with the children "due to domestic violence on her from her husband, AM," according to the request for a restraining order against AM, filed in July 2021 by KM's mother.
Jun 2, 2021 - Another DHHS account change was initiated and DHHS noted that case management for Harmony was closed;
KM said Harmony had moved back with her mother.
Jun 2021 - With Harmony’s seventh birthday approaching, the Millers are still sending pictures of J to CS and asking about Harmony. She tells them
she wished her ex would stop avoiding her.
Jul 2, 2021 -
AM showed up outside KM's mothers' home, crept around her yard and tapped on her window at around 7:45 p.m.
Jul 5, 2021 - The
boyfriend of KM's mother found a steak knife in the yard where AM had been standing.
Jul 6, 2021 -
AM’s mother-in-law filed for a restraining order against him; KM was living with her mother at the time.
Jul 2021 -
Harmony’s great-grandmother called NH DHHS to check on Harmony's well-being and whereabouts after she heard AM had entered drug rehab. She said officials told her that Harmony wasn’t in their system, wasn’t in their custody, and that they didn’t have a case open.
Jul 29, 2021 - CS tells the Millers that
she finally found AM, but he immediately blocked her on social media.
Aug & Sep 2021 - AM's mother-in-law's restraining order was heard in court
in Aug 2021 and dismissed by the court in Sept 2021 for
lack of service.
Sep 2021 -
CS told JM she’d made contact with one of AM’s aunts, who told her she hadn’t seen Harmony since some point in 2019. Shortly afterward, she saw AM posting a lot of his belongings on Facebook Marketplace.
Sep 16, 2021 -
The Millers began attempting to contact AM and KM over Facebook but had no luck. BM reached out to NH’s DCYF. CS later tells them she finally heard back from the agency.
Oct 2021 - AM's estranged wife KM told officers
she had not seen Adam Montgomery since October 2021 and claimed he was living in a sober house.
He later moved to Maine with another woman, according to court documents.
Mid Nov 2021 -
KM last spoke to AM.
Nov 18, 2021 - Manchester school officials reveal they have
no records that Harmony has ever been enrolled there.
Harmony's mother CS called LE to say that Harmony was in the custody of AM, and she had not seen Harmony since around Easter, 2019.
Dec 27, 2021 -
DCYF notified the MPD that they were unable to locate HM.
Dec 29, 2021 - CS emailed the Mayor of Manchester.
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Lauren Smith, Mayor Craig’s Chief of Staff, confirmed they received an email from an individual stating issues with DCYF and concern regarding a child. ... They forwarded the information to the police. … Aldenberg said police opened the investigation after being contacted by DCYF.
Harmony’s mother claims she contacted the Mayor and police.
Dec 30, 2021 -
Adam’s brother spoke with LE. According to the affidavit the brother said, “Adam was physically abusive toward Harmony” The brother recalled that “Adam was ‘super short’ with the child, and he learned through family members that Adam had given Harmony a black eye” in 2019.
Dec 31, 2021 – LE said they received a report this week that Harmony has not been seen since late 2019.
Press conference #1 AM was
first questioned by police after being
found sleeping in a vehicle with his girlfriend KS in the area of Harvell St in Manchester. KS said she and AM have been romantically involved for over a year.
Jan 2, 2022 –
LE searched the home at 77 Gilford St, Manchester NH.
Jan 3, 2022 -
Press Conference #2
Jan 4, 2022 – The FBI officially joined the investigation, the reward is at $33k, and
Harmony's father, Adam Montgomery is arrested on a warrant for one felony charge of
second-degree assault arising from 2019 conduct against Harmony Montgomery, as well as one misdemeanor charge of interference with custody, and two misdemeanor charges of endangering the welfare of a child pertaining to Harmony.
Jan 5, 2022 -
Adam Montgomery was arraigned around noon in Hillsborough County Superior Court North.
AM waived his bail hearing and agreed to be held in preventive detention at the Hillsborough County House of Justice. The judge granted his petition for a public defender. He is held on no bond.
The reward increased to $43,000.
KM was arrested in Manchester for one charge of Welfare Fraud. The charge alleges that between Dec 2019 and Jun 2021, KM obtained over $1,500 in food stamp benefits by failing to remove Harmony from KM’s family account with NH DHHS Division of Family Assistance and continuing to collect food stamp benefits for Harmony, despite the fact that Harmony was no longer living with KM and husband, AM.
Jan 6, 2022 - KM was arraigned;
judge set bond @ $5k and the
Reward Money Climbs to $60,000.
Jan 7, 2022 - The reward for info that helps find Harmony
increased to $94k.
Jan 8, 2022 - LE returned to 77 Gilford St with
ground thawing equipment.
Jan 9, 2022 - LE returned again to 77 Gilford St where
tarps could be seen placed over the backyard and a trailer parked in the driveway with markings that indicate it is used to warm the ground.
A vigil was held for Harmony where CS first spoke in public. She said she has been "begging for any type of answer" since she last spoke to her daughter nearly three years ago.
Jan 10, 2022 - CS told Brian Entin that AM strangled her countless times when she was pregnant.
Full Interview - YouTube
KM's atty filed a
MOTION TO RECONSIDER/REOPEN BAIL ISSUE
The State filed an
OBJECTION TO DEFENDANT’S MOTION
Jan 11, 2022 - KM was charged with Theft By Deception and two misdemeanor counts of Prohibited Acts.
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The reward hits $100K
Jan 13, 2022 - The reward increased to $112K
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Jan 14, 2022 - The reward increased to $137K
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Jan 24, 2022 - KM's bail hearing.
Tim Callery on Twitter
Feb 25, 2022 -
Dispositional conference for KM @ 9 a.m.
Mar 4, 2022 -
Dispositional conference for AM @ 9 a.m.
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