Me. The police told my father that he was gone. Are you sure . What are you talking about . Grieving alongside his family, his girlfriend. She sent messages of condolences. To be strong together. She gave me a lot of support. Just there for me when i needed her. But was there something about the two that no one knew . What are you seeing . A series of messages. I had to read them a couple of time to really take it all in. Utterly shocking. A trail of Text Messages leading to the darkest of discoveries. Keeping all the light history is difficult. She did it masterfully. I closed my eyes and i 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 kids lives, can it be very scary when you dont. . Hello and welcome to dateline. 18yearold conrad roy battled depression and anxiety. Then but seemed to be finding his way. He was headed to college and excited about his new job. Then one night the teenager vanished,
soul, i know is my son but he is the kind of person i ve ever met my life. use demagogic after me. it loved teenage boy who disappeared. the police told my father that are you sure, what are you talking. about grieving alongside his family, his girlfriend, he sent messages of condolences, we all need to be strong together just there for me when i needed her. was there something about these two that no one knew? a series of messages. i need to read it a couple times take it all in. it was 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 the story every parent needs to see, because it can be very scary when we don t. . it hello welcome to dateline, conrad roy battled anxiety depression an exciting, but seem to be finding isdepressionu seem to be finding i and ended two years with one of t
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
be to her, because she wanted texts to his phone for months. nearly 80 of them. the prosecution argued she deliberately sent the texts as a way to change her story. at the time i went along with it because i knew you were not going to do anything. but you bleep did it and i m so sorry is i didn t save you. it was agonizing for conrad s family to sit in the courtroom and hear these new details. it was pretty shocking. a lot of times it doesn t seem real. do you believe in your heart that it was criminal? i do. for someone in a fragile state and you persuade them in the worst way possible. yeah, definitely is criminal. social anxiety in me is lynn said her son s own words a month before he died show he wanted to live. i want to recover from this. i feel like i have not recovered from it yet. i do have a lot going for me. i just got a job on the boston to captain their boat, that s a huge accomplishment. there was another side to the story. michelle s. and her lawyer was
getting better. a year later, by june, 2014, conrad had graduated from high school, gotten a scholarship to college and earned his captain s license. that must have been a really big day. conrad getting his captain s license. it was. i was very proud of him. are you feeling good about the place he is in? i felt that he was still struggling but i felt very positive that he was not going to do anything to harm himself. it was right around this time when conrad recorded that private video sharing his inner most thoughts. i feel like i still have a long way to go to recover from the social anxieties, feeling of insecurity. but if i keep talking, keep talking, it s going to get better. on july 12th, conrad headed to the beach with his mom and two sisters. lynn vividly remembers walking the shoreline