strong together. she gave me a lot of support, just there for me, when i needed her. but was there something about these two that no one knew? what are you seeing? a series of messages. i had to read them a couple of times to take it all in. really shocking. a trail of text messages, leading to the darkest of discoveries. keeping all the lies straight is difficult. she did it masterfully. i close my eyes and said, this is not real. a twist no one saw coming. and a story that every parent needs to see. we need to know what is going on in our kid s lives, because it can be very scary when we don t. hello and welcome to dateline . 18-year-old conrad roy battled depression and anxiety, but seemed to be finding his way. he was headed to college and excited about his new job. then one night, the teenager vanished. turns out conrad had a dark secret, one he shared with someone close to him. what that confidant did and did not do next would shatter to famil
where she accepts responsibility for her actions. then, the judge sentenced her. court now sentences you to 2-1/2 years in the bristol county house of corrections. 15 months of said sentence shall be deemed a committed sentence. 15 months behind bars. but before michelle could be led away in handcuffs, her lawyer requested she be allowed to remain free pending an appeal. the judge agreed. i continue to be encouraged that this will be a successful appeal. your eyes are watering. is that because you are emotional about this? i m passionate about it. i m passionate about it. i don t like when courts make new law and apply it to a 17-year-old girl who has psychiatric issues herself. so, this one hurt. oh, it hurt. if they see one to five in october, 2018,
there was text messages to her friends, describing with that phone conversation was like. the detective says a message that michele center friend described it all. sam, his death is my fault, like, honestly i could ve stopped him and i was on the phone and he got out of the car because it was working and he got scared, and i told him to get back in. as much as we were in shock about your language part of that, once we read that, that was really disturbing. prosecutor flynn says a another text message to that friend made it clear that michele knew what she done was wrong. she said, sam, i just found out from his mother that the detectives had some of his things and are going through them, to see if anybody texted him or encouraged him. if they read my text messages him, and i m done, his family will hate me and i could go to jail. and that s what was at stake on june 5th, 2017, almost three years after conrad roy s death. but the bristol county
three years after conrad roy s death. at the bristol county courthouse in taunton, massachusetts, michelle carter went on trial. i d like miss carter to take the witness stand please. reporter: the drama began almost immediately. instead of having the case go before a jury, michelle, at the last minute, chose to let a judge decide her fate. are you doing that of your own free will knowingly and voluntarily? yes. all right. reporter: in her opening statement, flynn drew a straight line from michelle carter s badgering and bullying to conrad s death in the truck that night. she assisted and devised and advised and planned his suicide. she reasoned him out of his reservations. she told him that once he was dead he would be free and happy. he kept saying that to her. i don t wanna do this. it would hurt my family. and she kept saying, don t worry about them. all the fears that he brought up, she had a reason to go around them and convince him that those things weren t re
on june 5th, 2017. almost three years after conrad roy s death. at the bristol county courthouse in taunton, massachusetts, michelle carter went on trial. miss carter, take the witness stand. please the drama began almost immediately. instead of having the case could be for the jury, michelle at the last minute choose who let a judge to decide her fate. are you doing that of your own free will? yes. in her opening statement, flynn drew a straight line from michel carter s badgering and bullying, to conrad s death in the truck that. night she assisted and devised and advice and planned a suicide. she reasoned him out of his reservations. she told him that once he was dead he would be free and happy. he kept saying to her, i don t want to do this. it would hurt my family. she kept saying, don t worry about them. all the fears that he brought up, she had a reason to go around them and convince him that those things weren t real.