turn the case on its head. once again, here is andrea canning with reckless. two days after conrad roy s death, detective scott gordon of the fair haven police department have found a clue. and it was a bombshell. a string of text messages from shell carter on conrad s phone what are you seeing? it was a series of messages that seem to be encouraging him to take his own life. encouraging him to take his own life? to the detective, it was unimaginable. he learned michelle and conrad had been texting, like teenagers do, for almost two years. but if you weeks before his death, something changed. it seemed michel started a campaign to get conrad to get to commit suicide. she even gave him suggestions on how to do it hang yourself, jump off a building, stab yourself. i don t know, there is a lot of ways. gordon s partner, detective
i promise, babe. i have to now like right now,? and you can break a promise and just go in quiet parking lot or something. have you ever seen anything like that in your career as a detective? no. no. it was clear to the detectives that conrad had died by his own hand. but was what michel did actually a crime? detective gordon contacted assistant da mary claire flynn. he said, i want to send you these text messages, if you can please just take a look at them. i said, sure i will. and it was just utterly shocking. she checked with katie rayburn, her colleague at the time, and they agreed, those text messages warranted further investigation. i could not believe what was in them. i had to read them a couple of times to really take it all in. clearly, it s black and white for you, that you know this is wrong. but is it black and white, we are going to go forward with this? this is a crime? i would imagine for you, it s complicated. yes.
saying, are we sure we have the right girl. she just seems so normal. a few months later, as the investigation continued, detective gordon decided to pay michel carter a visit. he found her after school and approached her. michelle, the reason we came out here is because we were looking into conrad s unfortunate passing, all right? and she has no idea? she has been watched? she has no idea. did she look surprised? a little bit. but at that point, i don t think she understood, really, what we had. and where we were going with it. at first, michelle told the detective she tried to talk conrad out of suicide. how did you help him to try and see that suicide wasn t the right thing to do? well, i told him a lot of things. i told him that i loved him. i told him that a lot of people loved him. yeah. and, how, like without him, nothing would be the same i had personal issues that i got help for. and i told him that he should
michelle contacted his family saying she wanted to raise awareness for suicide prevention by organizing a baseball tournament, homers for conrad. i was thinking, wow, here is a teenager, a high school senior. and she s only a month later, starting to plan this large fund-raiser. conrad s whole family showed up. his aunt chrissy was impressed with michelle, then just 17. i went up to her parents at that fund-raiser and i said, you must be so proud of your daughter. she is quite an amazing girl. unbeknownst to the family, that can fair haven, detective gordon was digging around for answers, hoping to discover why conrad might have taken his own life. i just found it odd that an 18 year old would do it in that manner. the detective figured they were clues on conrad s cell phone, which was found in his truck. and sure enough, when he-powered it up, he discovered a string of text messages left on the phone from just one person. and that was