Murder conviction reversed for Harmony Montgomery’s father

CONCORD, N.H. — The father of Harmony Montgomery, convicted after beating his 5-year-old daughter to death in a car, had his second-degree murder conviction reversed by the New Hampshire Supreme Court, though his convictions for assault, falsifying evidence, witness tampering and abuse of a corpse still stand. Overwhelming evidence exists for these counts, but only his wife’s testimony “directly implicated the defendant in the victim’s death,” and evidence that he hated his daughter and that “that he ‘f**ked up’ are far from overwhelming evidence that he killed the victim.”