Harmony Montgomery trial hears how girl’s remains were ‘crushed into diaper bag’: Updates

The defence introduced pictures of several tools that Kayla Montgomery had said her husband could have used to reduce Harmony’s remains.

Among them was a grinder of a similar model to one her mother owned.

“Because my mom had a similar tool, just like that one. Adam asked to take it and I said, ‘No, you’re not taking it, it’s my mother’s,’” Kayla told jurors.

“And he wanted to take it and I don’t remember if he took it or not, because he would have [done] it behind my back.”

The proceedings will resume shortly.

The body was first stored in a duffel bag and later inside a trash bag that remained in the closet at the shelter for two days.

Then, Kayla Montgomery said, her husband entered the bathroom and crushed the remains until they fit inside a CMC (Catholic Medical Center) tote bag that she was given at the hospital after delivering her son.

“It was a diaper bag,” Kayla said.

Harmony had dried blood from being hit days before her death

“And you ddin’’t clean her face?” Ms Smith asked.

“No, we just kept her under the blanket,” Montgomery answered.

Kayla says that she saw dried blood on Harmony’s face after they realised she was dead.

Montgomerclesned the car’s seat with napkins before putting the body inside a duffel bag.

Kayla said the babies were not crying in the ca when her husband reportedly hurt Harmony.

“And Adam striking Shamus’ sister didn’t cause him to cry?” Ms Smith said.

Ms Smith also asked Kayla if she remember whether Montgomery paid in cash at the Burguer King they went right after the attack.

Ms Smiths points out that although Kayla does not remember whether Montgomery actually did, she seemed to recall that in last year’s testimony.

Harmony Montgomery had a set of maybe seven or eight underwear, and a few sets of clothes.

The family often stopped at public bathrooms to wash themselves.

Defence attorney Caroline Smith is grilling Ms Montgomery.

Kayla Montgomery’s harrowing testimony in court included disturbing descriptions of the plans to dispose of Harmony’s body that Adam Montgomery discussed after the little girl was murdered on 7 December.

Montgomery, 34, is currently standing trial in Manchester, New Hampshire on a second-degree murder charge after conceding on two lesser charges of abuse of a corpse and falsifying information.

The first week of Adam Montgomery’s trial over the murder of his five-year-old daughter Harmony was set off to a harrowing start as the court heard disturbing theories of the things he did to conceal the little girl’s corpse.

Montgomery, 34, is charged with second-degree murder in the December 2019 death of Harmony Montgomery. On Wednesday, he said he intended to plead guilty to two lesser charges of abuse of a corpse and falsifying information.