A judge has sentenced Adam Montgomery to prison for 56 years to life, noting that he took a human life “in the most callous and heartless of ways.”
Using a timeline put together by investigators, prosecutors argued Harmony was murdered in Dec. 2019, though she wasn’t reported missing for nearly two years. Her mother, Crystal Sorey, alerted police to Harmony’s disappearance on Nov. 18, 2021, after she was unable to reach her for months.Prosecutors said that Adam beat Harmony to death on Dec. 7, 2019, while the two were living in a car with Adam’s wife, Kayla, and the couple’s other children.
Investigators said that in the spring of 2020, Adam rented a U-Haul and took the bag with Harmony’s remains to dispose of them. Her body was never found. At his sentencing hearing, prosecutors said that if Adam revealed the location of Harmony’s remains which led to their recovery within seven days, they would recommend a shorter sentence. Adam’s attorneys called the offer a “stunt” and accused prosecutors of seeking a reaction only to call him “heartless, immoral and without remorse” when he acted “appropriate, with his counsel’s recommendation.”