REVERE, Mass. (WCAX) – More than 100 people helped search for the remains of a missing child in Massachusetts on Saturday. Harmony Montgomery’s father was convicted of her murder earlier this year.
Volunteers fanned out through growth and brush in the Rumney Marsh Reservation on the Revere-Saugus line compelled by one mission: to find a little girl they never personally knew.
“It was a story that really had an impact on me when I heard about it, initially,” volunteer searcher Matthew Parlante said. “Still a little girl’s body hasn’t been returned to her mother.”
“I just want to help bring Harmony home so she can get a proper burial,” volunteer searcher Barbara Patti said.
The search was organized by Harmony’s mother, Crystal Sorey, who said intuition brought her there. And it’s not the first time she’s called for help.
“I’ve had a lot of dreams and this area is in my dreams trying to go with intuition really that’s more powerful than anything, I think,” Sorey said.
Harmony’s father, Adam Montgomery, was convicted of her murder back in February. The little girl was reported missing to New Hampshire authorities in 2021 but they believe he killed her nearly two years earlier and disposed of her remains. A U-Haul truck they say he rented was pinged on the Tobin Bridge at one point, and Montgomery is from Revere. He’s refused to say where the remains are.
But Sorey and the volunteers refuse to give up the search. They used pink markers for anything that caught their attention.
While investigators weren’t involved in Saturday’s search, they have also searched the same marshy areas without success.
“It’s time to bring her home,” Sorey said. “It’s been too long.”
Volunteers say that is what motivates them.
“If it was my kid, I’d want everyone out here looking. You’d think other people would, too,” Patti said.