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
that. i think personal responsibility something that is very important. that being said, it was clear from the text messages, especially he s her text messages to sam boredom in, we are she told him to get back in the car, that he didn t want to do it. the commonwealth puts them sam boredom and on the stand, to me that text messages. and another one in which michel described listening to conrad dime. sam, he just called me, and it was a loud noise, like a motor, and i heard moaning like someone was in pain, and he wouldn t answer when i said his name. i stayed on the phone for 20 minutes and that s all i heard. i think he just killed himself. but as the trial continued, there was a nagging question why would she do this? she wanted the attention. when her friends were not hanging out with her or not spending time with her, she would say things and do things to try to get their attention. she wanted them to be friends with her. it was a shocking theory. prosecutors were
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