A choose has sentenced Adam Montgomery to jail for 56 years to life, noting that he took a human life “in probably the most callous and heartless of the way.”
In Feb., a New Hampshire jury discovered Adam responsible of all expenses within the loss of life of his 5-year-old daughter, Concord Montgomery, together with second-degree homicide. Decide Amy Messer sentenced Adam to 45 years to life for the homicide, to be served consecutively with every of the opposite expenses.
Utilizing a timeline put collectively by investigators, prosecutors argued Concord was murdered in Dec. 2019, although she wasn’t reported lacking for almost two years. Her mom, Crystal Sorey, alerted police to Concord’s disappearance on Nov. 18, 2021, after she was unable to achieve her for months.
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Prosecutors stated that Adam beat Concord to loss of life on Dec. 7, 2019, whereas the 2 had been dwelling in a automotive with Adam’s spouse, Kayla, and the couple’s different kids. Kayla advised police that Adam was offended as a result of Concord would incessantly have accidents within the automotive and that he would incessantly hit her within the head with a closed fist.
Investigators stated that over the following a number of months, Adam and Kayla moved Concord’s physique from the automotive, to banks of snow, to a cooler, to a ceiling vent and a walk-in freezer as they continued to hide her loss of life. Adam additionally tried to assist decomposition with lime.
Investigators stated that within the spring of 2020, Adam rented a U-Haul and took the bag with Concord’s stays to eliminate them. Her physique was by no means discovered.
At trial, Adam’s public defender admitted his consumer helped cowl up Concord’s loss of life, however pointed the finger at Kayla for homicide.
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At his sentencing listening to, prosecutors stated that if Adam revealed the placement of Concord’s stays which led to their restoration inside seven days, they might advocate a shorter sentence. Adam’s attorneys referred to as the provide a “stunt” and accused prosecutors of in search of a response solely to name him “heartless, immoral and with out regret” when he acted “acceptable, together with his counsel’s advice.”
Sorey spoke on to Adam at his sentencing, saying that he killed their daughter as a result of “she wasn’t a coward such as you.” “I want you nothing however ache and distress for the remainder of your pathetic life,” Sorey stated. “You’re simply plain evil.”
Adam is presently serving a decades-long jail sentence in a weapons theft case. Decide Messer stated that the sentences handed down for Concord’s homicide would serve consecutive to that sentence. Addressing him at sentencing, Decide Messer stated, “You handled [Harmony’s] physique prefer it was trash, worse than trash, did unimaginable issues to her physique.”
Though he waived his proper to look throughout his homicide trial, the choose dominated he needed to seem in particular person at sentencing.
This story was initially printed by Lauren Silver, Ivy Brown and John Cowley IV at CourtTV.com.
