Massachusetts
Volunteers comb Massachusetts sea towns for remains of little girl ‘butchered’ by inmate father
Volunteers searched several communities on the North Shore of Massachusetts Saturday as they hunted for the remains of Harmony Montgomery, the little girl who was brutally beaten to death by her father in 2019.
Crews combed the 600-acre Rumney Marsh Reservation as they tried to find Harmony Montgomery’s body, the location of which her killer dad has refused to reveal.
“That’s the acceptance I’ve had to come to terms with in my grief — just accepting the fact that he’s never going to do the right thing for her,” Crystal Sorey, Harmony’s heartbroken mom, told WCVB 5 in Boston.
Harmony’s dad, 34-year-old Adam Montgomery, was sentenced to 45 years to life in prison in May for murdering the 5-year-old girl, then hiding her body in a tote bag, a cooler and a freezer at the restaurant at which he worked.
Eventually, he disposed of her remains — but he’s never said where.
Prosecutors even offered him a lighter sentence that would have cut his jail time by 21 years in return for the information. But Adam Montgomery remained mum.
“I’ve had a lot of dreams and this area has been in my dreams,” Sorey said Saturday, according to the outlet.
“It’s like looking for a needle in a haystack, right?” added volunteer Thomas Seretta.
“I just wish that monster would have shared some dignity to help put her to rest,” said Susan Vandecasteele, who was also helping comb the area.
Authorities had narrowed their search to a 106-mile route between Manchester and the Tobin Bridge in Boston that Adam Montgomery had driven in a rented U-Haul in March 2020, according to the station.
“Harmony’s remains are likely somewhere along this route,” Senior Assistant Attorney General Ben Agati said.
Sorey plans to organize monthly searches as she continues to look for her vanished daughter. She encouraged anyone with information to call the case tip line at 603-932-8997.
“There’s no reason to be afraid anymore,” she told the network. “Even if you think it’s the tiniest of information, it can help in a huge way.”
At his trial, prosecutors said Adam Montgomery beat the girl to death in a fit of rage because she had bathroom accidents in their car. Then he went for fast food and did drugs — all while ignoring her final cries as she died in the backseat, the court was told.
Afterward, he lugged her decomposing body to the restaurant each day and left it in the freezer, keeping it next to food.
Eventually, he threw out the little girl “like yesterday’s trash,” prosecutors said.
During Adam Montgomery’s sentencing, Agati told Judge Amy Messer that Harmony’s family would get much-needed closure if her dad would reveal where he left the little girl’s body.
But Adam — who has maintained his innocence — refused to answer.
So Agati said the killer’s inability to repent was “yet another reason” why Judge Messer should throw the book at him.
The court sent him to jail for 45 years to life, a sentence to run consecutively to the decades-long term he was already serving for weapons charges.
“In light of the egregious nature of the crimes of which you have been convicted in this case, and taking into consideration your extremely violent criminal history, the court finds the only way to do this is to keep you off the streets,” the judge said.
Harmony disappeared in 2019, but cops didn’t learn about the disappearance until two years later.
Massachusetts
Mass stranding of bottlenose dolphins off Cape Cod said to be largest in Massachusetts history
Rescuers were working to save around 30 bottlenose dolphins that got stranded off the coast of Cape Cod early Monday morning. It is the largest known stranding of bottlenose dolphins off Massachusetts, according to the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW).
The dolphins had become stranded between First Light and Ellis Landing in Brewster at about 5:30 a.m. when they came in with the tide. A woman noticed the animals and reported it. The IFAW quickly responded to the area, but five to six of the marine mammals died before help arrived.
The IFAW worked throughout the day on Monday to get the mammals away from the shoreline before the next low tide at 5:13 p.m. They said late Monday afternoon that they were still successfully being steered away.
“Our team remains in the area to monitor and herd the animals away from shore,” an IFAW spokesperson said. “We know these events can sometimes repeat in the coming hours and days, but we remain hopeful.”
The organization said it had seen an uptick in bottlenose dolphins becoming stranded off Cape Cod in the last few years.
“Bottlenose dolphins are typically an offshore species,” the spokesperson said.
They asked that anyone who encounters a stranded or distressed marine mammal not get close and never drag or push the animal back into the water.
“Similar to a person involved in a car accident, dolphins can become injured and exhausted during a stranding event,” the IFAW said.
Instead, they recommend calling their IFAW stranding hotline at 508-743-9548.
Massachusetts
Man dead after apparent drowning in Randolph pond
A man has died following an apparent drowning at a pond in Randolph, Massachusetts, on Sunday.
The Randolph police and fire departments received a 911 call at around 4 p.m. for a swimmer in distress in the water on Pond Street, according to the Norfolk County District Attorney’s Office..
Firefighters located the man a short time later, officials added, and he was taken by ambulance to an area hospital where he was pronounced dead.
The Kingston Fire Department had said just before 4 p.m. that their dive team was activated for a missing swimmer in Randolph, but that the activation was canceled after the swimmer was located.
Further information is not being released at this time, including the man’s name.
Massachusetts State Police detectives and the Randolph Police Department are investigating.
Massachusetts
Fire spreads to 3 multi-family buildings in Lawrence, Massachusetts
Firefighters in Lawrence, Massachusetts are working to contain a fire that damaged at least three buildings on Sunday afternoon.
Lawrence Fire Chief Patrick Delaney said they received multiple 911 calls about the buildings on fire at the intersection of Haverhill and Margin Street at about 12:45 p.m.
When firefighters arrived, there were three occupied multi-family buildings with heavy fire.
“Crews did an excellent job once they arrived on scene to make sure we did a primary search of all three buildings, make sure everybody was out,” Chief Delaney said.
No injuries have been reported. It is unclear how many people have been displaced from the three buildings that were on fire.
Chief Delaney said the firefighters were impacted by the hot weather.
“The crews are working extremely hard, they’re taking a lot of heat in all three fire buildings and we’re trying to get crews in here to make sure that they’re safe and give them some relief,” Chief Delaney said.
Investigators are working to determine the cause of the fire. Firefighters from other nearby communities responded for mutual aid.
“We’re at a fourth alarm which brings a lot of resources to our city, but they’re well needed in a fire like this,” Chief Delaney said.
Police are asking residents to avoid the area of Haverhill Street at Margin Street because of the fire.
Lawrence, Massachusetts is a city about 30 miles north of Boston.
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