A Stepmother Says Her Husband Killed His 5-Year-Old and Hid Her Body. His Lawyers Say She’s Lying

A Stepmother Says Her Husband Killed His 5-Year-Old and Hid Her Body. His Lawyers Say She’s Lying
Kayla Montgomery testifies during the trial of Adam Montgomery at Hillsborough County Superior Court in Manchester, N.H, on Friday, Feb. 9, 2024. Adam Montgomery is accused of killing his 5-year-old daughter and spending months moving her body before disposing of it. Jeffrey Hastings/Pool Photo via AP
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CONCORD, N.H. — The estranged wife of a New Hampshire man accused of beating his young daughter to death testified Friday that he punched the 5-year-old to death, folded her body into a duffel bag, then hid it in the trunk of his car, then a ceiling vent and a restaurant freezer while deciding how to dispose of the body.

Kayla Montgomery testified that her stepdaughter, Harmony Montgomery, whose body has not been found, died Dec. 7, 2019, in a car the family was living in after getting evicted. It was the third day of Adam Montgomery’s murder trial in Manchester, which he hasn’t been attending.