Conrad Roy III was a troubled teenager, that point has never been questioned, but what part did Michelle Carter, Roy's teen girlfriend play in his 2014 suicide and how is she culpable? Roy suffered from bouts of depression with suicidal thoughts, but it was his girlfriend's alleged goading that drove him to commit suicide. Michelle Carter faced involuntary manslaughter charges on Wednesday for the dozens of texts in the weeks prior to Roy taking his own life, urging him to commit suicide, according to the Inquisitr.
"You can't think about it. You just have to do it. You said you were gonna do it. Like I don't get why you aren't," Carter said to Roy the day he died. "But I bet you're gonna be like 'oh, it didn't work because I didn't tape the tube right or something like that," she wrote. "I bet you're gonna say an excuse like that... you seem to always."
Prosecutors say 17-year-old Carter played a pivotal role, without being physically there. They showed the text messaging sent to Roy III, encouraging him to do it, even telling him to get back in his truck when he had gotten out due to the overwhelming nausea and his fear.
Authorities say she pushed, even going so far as to research techniques on how to die without pain, as previously reported by HNGN. She allegedly lied to everyone involved in the aftermath; police, his family, their friends, according to authorities.
And because of her full throttle involvement and despite Carter's lawyers insisting her texts promoting suicide amount to free speech protected by the U.S. First Amendment, not manslaughter, according to the Inquisitr, Carter has been charged.
Roy and Carter met during separate family vacations in Florida, according to the Examiner, but continued their relationship once back home, just 50 miles apart. A year after that first meeting, Roy committed suicide.
