A 21-year-old California man stabbed his own mother to death inside her Glendale home Monday, and across the country a 23-year-old Massachusetts man confessed to stabbing his pregnant girlfriend and burying her in a shallow grave on his family's property. Two women dead at the hands of the men closest to them — and nobody in the press will ask what kind of culture produces sons who do this.
Yana Landau, 55, was found with multiple stab wounds at her residence on Justin Avenue after someone reported discovering blood inside the home around 6 p.m., according to Glendale police. Officers pronounced her dead at the scene. Her son, Sebastian Landau, was found sitting in a parked vehicle nearby. He is being held on $2 million bail. Police recovered a weapon but have not disclosed a motive.
Three thousand miles away, Gregory Gloom, 23, pleaded guilty Tuesday to second-degree murder in the killing of Kylee Monteiro, 18, who was 11 weeks pregnant when he stabbed her twice in the neck and once in the chest on his family's 20-acre Rehoboth property in August 2025. Gloom then spent several hours digging a five-foot hole in the woods, pushed her body in, and covered it with brush, according to MassLive's account of police records. A Bristol County judge sentenced him to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 28 years.
The details in Monteiro's killing are staggering in their coldness. She had texted her sister: "My phones at 4% if I die it was Greg." She had told family Groom threw her to the ground, pulled her hair, and strangled her. She had run from her own home to a shelter — and then, with nowhere else to go, went to stay with the man who would kill her. Groom had already been charged with aggravated assault and battery on a pregnant person before the murder.
In Glendale, the picture is still incomplete. Yana Landau was a licensed esthetician with more than 25 years of experience who ran her own skincare studio. According to the New York Post, her social media featured photos with friends and family, including her son. Her Facebook profile listed her as divorced. What happened inside that home — what drove a son to turn a blade on the woman who raised him — police have not said.
What the outlets covering these stories will not say is what connects them. Both victims were women betrayed by the men supposed to protect them. Both killers were young men — 21 and 23 — who treated the women in their lives as obstacles to be eliminated. One killed the mother who bore him. The other killed the woman carrying his child. The press will call these isolated incidents. They are not. They are what happens when a civilization stops teaching that family is sacred, that life is inviolable, and that men bear duties they cannot discard. The only question left is how many more women have to die before anyone is willing to say it.
