Prosecutors in Adam Montgomery’s trial over the murder of his five-year-old daughter revealed disturbing details about the way he abused the little girl’s corpse.
Mr Montgomery’s trial is under way in New Hampshire, more than four years after Harmony was last seen alive in late 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, falsifying physical evidence, and witness tampering.
According to an affidavit, Kayla Montgomery told police that her husband struck the little girl several times after she had a bathroom accident, He then placed Harmony’s body in a cooler which he then snuck into his workplace freezer, before disposing of her remains in March 2020. Harmony’s remains have never been found.
“She went from [being] a girl who radiated happiness, to a scared girl, and from there she went to be the dead girl rotting in the bag,” prosecutors said during opening statements. “And then she went to be the dead girl rotting in the ceiling, a ceiling the defendant slept under for months.”