More than 100 people joined a search for Harmony Montgomery's remains in Saugus, Massachusetts, on Saturday morning.
Volunteers, friends and family searched the Rumney Marsh Reservation near the Saugus-Revere town line.
Harmony's mother, Crystal Sorey, organized the search and says Harmony's father, Adam Montgomery, drove through the area they searched Saturday with a U-Haul truck.
"There's 23 miles that he went back and forth to from the Tobin Bridge all the way out to here," she said. "I want to be able to tell her brother like, mommy found her. I just want to be able to tell them that I never gave up and I did what I could to bring her home."
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The search will continue Sunday.
Investigators believe Harmony was murdered in December 2019, though she wasn't reported missing for nearly two years. During the trial, Kayla Montgomery testified that Harmony's body was hidden in the trunk of a car, a cooler, a ceiling vent and a workplace freezer before Adam Montgomery disposed of it.
She also testified that Adam Montgomery repeatedly punched Harmony in the head because the girl had wet herself and that he drove away with Harmony's remains in a rental truck in March 2020, and that he didn't say where he was going.
Adam was found guilty in February of killing his 5-year-old daughter Harmony, and a judge sentenced him to 45 years to life for murder and added a minimum total of 11 more years — all to be served consecutively — for charges of falsifying evidence, tampering with a witness and second-degree assault.
Adam Montgomery has refused to say where Harmony's remains are, but Sorey and authorities are hopeful that it will be found.
