A Massachusetts woman who encouraged her boyfriend to kill himself through dozens of texts and a series of phone calls, has been convicted of involuntary manslaughter.
Michelle Carter was 17 when she persuaded her 18-year old boyfriend, Conrad Roy lll, to kill himself in July of 2014.
Bristol Juvenile Court Judge Lawrence Moniz delivered the guilty verdict saying, “Having reviewed the evidence and having applied the law thereto, finds you guilty of the indictment charging you with the involuntary manslaughter with the person Conrad Roy the third.”
Roy was found dead of carbon monoxide poisoning in his pick up truck. Carter’s attorney says Roy had a history of depression and had tried committing suicide in the past, but texts read during the trial showed Carter admitted some guilt.
“It’s my fault,” Carter texted to her school friend Samantha Boardman, two months after Roy’s death. “I could have stropped him but I told him to get back in the car.”
In another text to another friend, she said, “I was talking on the phone when he killed himself…I heard him die.”
She faces up to 20 years in prison when she’s sentenced.
Sharon Reardon
KABC News