She reached out to her sister Faith with a chilling text, claiming that her boyfriend had attacked her.

“He threw me on the ground, and pulled my hair and strangled me,” she wrote, according to the New York Post.

“My phone’s at 4 percent if I die, it was Greg.”

The next morning, Groom went to the police in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, reporting Monteiro missing.

He told investigators she had recently left a residential program and had taken a rideshare to his home on August 6, where she wanted to stay. Groom claimed the two argued over her living arrangements and that she later left.

But it was clear that something was very wrong.

”I know there’s been a lot of speculation..”

Concern grew among Monteiro’s family when the teen, known for her active social media presence, suddenly stopped posting online. On her TikTok account, she