Adam Montgomery has remained absent from his own murder trial over the murder of his five-year-old daughter Harmony in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Mr Montgomery’s trial is under way more than four years after Harmony was last seen alive in 2019.
Authorities failed to search for the missing child – who was known to protective services – for more than two years after she went missing.
In 2022, Mr Montgomery was charged with second-degree murder, abuse of a corpse and falsifying physical evidence.
Kayla Montgomery told police that her husband struck the little girl several times after she had a bathroom accident.
The little girl’s remains were first hidden in a ceiling vent at a shelter where the family stayed after her death. Montgomery snuck the remains into his workplace freezer, before disposing of them in March 2020.
On Thursday, jurors heard evidence of a $400 purchase of items at a Home Depot that the prosecution alleges Montgomery used to destroy his daughter’s remains. A detective told the court that a $500 withdrawal from an account that belonged to Kayla Montgomery was made at a bank less than a mile away from the store.
Harmony’s remains have never been found.
Harmony Montgomery trial shown blood-stained ceiling drywall where little girl’s remains were hidden