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48 Hours

Death by Text - Encore

48 Hours

CBS News

True Crime, News, Tv & Film, Cbs

3.97K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Inside the groundbreaking case of a crime of the digital age — a young woman convicted of involuntary manslaughter because she used text messages to encourage a friend to take his own life. "48 Hours" Erin Moriarty reports.

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0:24.1

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0:30.4

Hi, this is Kong Nebrew. I'm going to talk to you about Sofoon Zahidi,

0:43.2

Sofoon Zahidi Depression. It's controlling me.

0:48.4

There's people that love me. I have a great mom, great dad,

0:52.3

but I'm so depressed.

0:57.3

We spent the day walking the beach and we had a conversation and I asked him about school

1:02.9

and he's like, I'm not sure what I'm going to do and I said, you know, don't worry about it.

1:08.5

Everything is going to be okay. It was a nice day out with the family.

1:13.5

Nothing to give any hint of what was to come later in the day.

1:17.7

There was no indication that anything was going on.

1:20.5

I've created a monster in myself

1:24.4

for the past few years because of my depression,

1:29.3

racing thoughts,

1:32.5

just other thoughts.

1:35.9

Do you remember when is the last time you saw your brother?

1:39.2

He was like going at the door, but how he was just going to his friend's house.

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