'My phone is at 4% and if I die it was Greg': Boyfriend murders girlfriend who was 11 weeks pregnant, buries her body in 5-foot grave, cops say

A Massachusetts antheral allegedly stabbed his woman to decease astatine his location earlier burying her successful a 5-foot sedate and calling cops to study her missing, claiming she stormed disconnected pursuing an argument.

Gregory Groom, 22, stands accused of murder, battle and artillery connected a large idiosyncratic and witnesser intimidation successful the decease of 18-year-old Kylee Monteiro successful Rehoboth, which is immoderate 50 miles southwest of Boston. Groom was arraigned connected the execution complaint connected Wednesday greeting aft investigators recovered Monteiro's assemblage connected Tuesday night.

According to prosecutors, Groom called Rehoboth cops connected Aug. 8 and told them Monteiro had been astatine his location 2 days prior, looking for a spot to stay. He claimed they got into a verbal spat and she near his home, and she hadn't been heard from since, District Attorney Jason Mohan told the judge. Groom told investigators that his woman was typically progressive connected societal media but had not posted since helium past saw her, according to a section excavation provender provided by Boston NBC affiliate WBZ.

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Detectives past spoke to Monteiro's sister, who received a substance connection from Monteiro connected Aug. 6 that allegedly stated that "he threw maine connected the crushed and pulled my hairsbreadth and strangled me. My telephone is astatine 4% and if I dice it was Greg." Family members said they tried to scope her but to nary avail.

Prosecutors noted astatine the proceeding that Monteiro was 11 weeks large astatine the clip of her death.

Cops went retired to Groom's location connected Aug. 14 to hunt the 25-acre spot with cadaver dogs and an exigency effect squad but did not travel up with thing of note.

Groom erstwhile again spoke with investigators connected Tuesday. During that interview, helium allegedly admitted to having an altercation with his girlfriend. During the argument, helium said helium knocked her cellphone retired of her hand. Detectives told Groom that they were again going to hunt his spot and "dig if necessary."

"Mr. Groom past paused," Mohan said. "He was fixed an accidental to archer the constabulary wherever Ms. Monteiro's assemblage was located either by being taken to his spot and pointing it retired oregon drafting a representation oregon telling officers wherever her assemblage was located, arsenic they believed Ms. Monteiro was dead."

The suspect past drew a "rudimentary" representation that showed a shed connected the property. He allegedly told cops that helium stabbed Monteiro doubly successful the cervix and erstwhile successful the thorax connected Aug. 6. The room weapon broke disconnected erstwhile helium stabbed her successful the chest, helium said, according to Mohan. She died, and Groom spent that nighttime and aboriginal greeting hours the adjacent time digging a grave. Once helium reached 5 feet of depth, helium pushed her assemblage into the spread and buried her, Mohan said.

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Crime country investigators went to the shed wherever they saw a ample heap of brush. Under the brush, they recovered a excavation of humor wherever Groom is believed to person killed his girlfriend. About 20 yards away, cops recovered "feet upon feet" of chopped down trees. They pushed the trees to the broadside wherever they recovered freshly moved dirt, according to Mohan.

In the spread was Monteiro's body.

Monteiro's household started a GoFundMe that was archetypal created to assistance successful the hunt for her.

Now, the fundraiser is for her funeral.

"Thank you for each your assistance successful spreading consciousness and for each the enactment our household has received truthful far," the household wrote. "This is closure and we are truthful thankful for everyone's assistance successful getting here. Obviously determination volition beryllium tribunal proceedings but we are taking this 1 measurement astatine a time."

Groom is adjacent scheduled to look successful tribunal connected Sept. 10. He is being held successful jailhouse without bond.