Overview
- Prosecutors said Groom admitted during questioning that he stabbed Monteiro, 18, and drew a map directing investigators to a burial site on his family’s Rehoboth property.
- Human remains consistent with Monteiro were recovered about 20 yards from a shed and approximately five feet underground, with officials awaiting formal identification and autopsy results.
- In court, prosecutors said a stab wound to Monteiro’s chest broke the knife blade and that Groom described digging a hole and covering the grave with brush.
- Groom had reported Monteiro missing on Aug. 8, a day after she was last seen; investigators cited a text she sent her sister saying, “If I die, it was Greg,” after an alleged Aug. 6 assault.
- He pleaded not guilty to murder and related assault and intimidation charges at his Taunton District Court arraignment; a probable cause hearing is scheduled for Sept. 10.