Gregory Groom has been charged with the murder of his girlfriend Kylee Monteiro, 18, in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, and prosecutors have said that just before she was killed, she texted her sister saying: “If I die, it was Greg.” Groom, 22, was arrested ...

Monteiro was nearly three months pregnant at the time, her family said, as previously reported by WCVB and WBZ. She had told a friend — one of the last ones to see Monteiro alive — that she was not feeling safe. "She was like 'I don't feel safe right now something's not right,'" the friend reportedly said, per WCVB.

The suspect in the murder of 18-year-old Kylee Monteiro faced a judge Wednesday morning where prosecutors recounted Gregory Groom's confession in the incident to Rehoboth police.

He threw me on the ground, and pulled my hair and strangled me,” she texted her sister. “My phones at 4 percent if I die, it was Greg.”

A Rehoboth man charged with murder reportedly drew a map pointing to a five-foot hole that he dug to bury his pregnant 18-year-old ex-girlfriend in after he stabbed her to death with a kitchen

She always brought a smile into every room she walked into and her laugh was contagious,” said a former classmate of Kylee Monteiro.

Kylee Monteiro’s disappearance and death, allegedly at the hands of her boyfriend, highlights an unsettling truth for many women in unstable and abusive relationships: pregnancy can increase the risk for violence.

The boyfriend of 18-year-old Kylee Monteiro is accused of fatally stabbing her in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, officials said. Screengrab via Faith Monteiro on Facebook A Massachusetts man told police his pregnant 18-year-old girlfriend was missing in early ...