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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Death by text? Is Michelle Carter guilty of manslaughter in boyfriend’s suicide?

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

News, True Crime

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Michelle Carter sent dozens of texts to Conrad Roy urging her boyfriend to kill himself in the days before the teen killed himself. Carter, now 20, is on trial in Massachusetts for manslaughter as prosecutors argued Roy’s death was the result of her cruel words. In this episode, Nancy Grace discusses the unusual case with Maryland criminal defense lawyer Robin Ficker.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The involuntary manslaughter trial of Michelle Carter, the 20-year-old plain-vill woman accused

0:15.7

of causing her boyfriend, Conrad Roy's death, by pushing him to kill himself back in July

0:20.7

2014.

0:21.7

She used Conrad as a pawn.

0:23.6

Prosecutors say it was all an act, though, from a teen, now age 20, who wanted attention

0:28.2

from her boyfriend's death.

0:30.0

This is Conrad's stories with Nancy Grace.

0:33.0

Prosecutors in her trial claim that she told the 18-year-old to kill himself numerous times

0:37.8

over text messages and phone calls.

0:40.0

Text between Carter and Roy shows she pushed him to drive out to a remote spot and poison

0:45.3

himself with carbon monoxide in his car.

0:47.8

As his truck was filling with carbon monoxide, he was scared.

0:51.8

He got out.

0:52.8

It was the defendant on the other end of the phone who ordered him back in.

0:58.2

Did she use her boyfriend as a pawn in a sick game, persuading him just a young boy,

1:08.1

a teen, a sensitive boy that had bouts of depression that had tried to kill himself before?

1:15.6

Did she use him, convince him, to commit suicide in order to get attention as the quote

1:22.6

grieving girlfriend, even carrying out a dry run two days before Conrad Roy III committed

1:33.0

suicide?

1:34.0

I Nancy Grace, this is Crime Stories, and joining me, every now and attorney Robin Ficker

1:42.4

out of the Maryland jurisdiction, who practices all across the country, Ficker, have you,

1:49.9

first of all, welcome?

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