Overview
- A Bristol County grand jury returned indictments charging Groom with first-degree murder and witness intimidation, moving the case from district to superior court.
- Groom, 22, has been held without bail since his late August arrest after investigators found Monteiro’s remains on his Rehoboth property.
- Prosecutors say Groom drew a map for police and described stabbing Monteiro twice in the neck and once in the chest with a kitchen knife, with the blade breaking during the attack.
- Investigators recovered evidence behind a shed on the County Street property and located a grave about 20 yards away where Monteiro’s body was buried roughly five feet deep.
- Court records note Monteiro, 18 and about 11 weeks pregnant, had texted her sister the day before she vanished alleging an assault and warning, “if I die, it was Greg.”