Court reverses murder conviction in Harmony Montgomery case

Key Points:

• The New Hampshire Supreme Court reversed Adam Montgomery's second-degree murder conviction for killing his 5-year-old daughter, Harmony Montgomery, ruling that the assault charge should have been prosecuted separately to ensure a fair trial.
• The court sent the murder charge back to the lower court for retrial but upheld convictions for abuse of a corpse, falsifying evidence, witness tampering, and assault.
• Harmony's body has never been found, but authorities believe she was killed in 2019, nearly two years before being reported missing, with her father originally sentenced to a minimum of 56 years in prison.
• The state plans to retry Montgomery on the murder charge, while last year it settled a $2.25 million lawsuit with Harmony's mother over social workers allegedly ignoring abuse signs after custody was awarded to Montgomery.
• Key prosecution testimony came from Montgomery's wife, Kayla, who claimed he fatally assaulted Harmony and moved her body multiple times; Kayla served 18 months for lying to a grand jury about Harmony's last known whereabouts.