Hi everyone, this is Jillian and you are listening to Episode 29 of the Core Junkie Podcast.

Today's case is one that I guarantee will have some sort of lasting effect on you, because

it includes behavior that seems almost unheard of, behavior that's difficult to wrap your head around.

It involves two teenagers whose unique relationship ends with the death of one of them

and a charge of involuntary manslaughter for the other.

18-year-old Conrad Roy III had attempted suicide before. In fact, he had attempted it more than once.

But each time before, when he had tried to drown himself in October of 2012,

or when he had taken too many pills a few weeks after that, he had changed his mind and sought help

immediately afterwards. But this time, in July 2014, things would be different.

Conrad Roy III, whose loved ones affectionately referred to him as Coco, was born in 1995

to Conrad Roy Jr. and Lynn Roy, who was a nurse. He was the oldest of three children,

with two younger sisters. Conrad grew up in Metapoisette, Massachusetts, about 65 miles south of Boston.

He was an honor role student while in high school and played baseball, rode crew, and ran track.

After he graduated, he earned his charter boat captain's license at the age of 18,

from the Northeast Maritime Institute. He had spent years working with his father

at his family's Marine Salvage business in the New England area.

Conrad's parents had gotten divorced in 2012 when he was 16.

He and his siblings spent half the time with their mom and half the time with their father.

Conrad was experiencing anxiety issues and depression, which his mother would later say were

exasperated by the divorce. He went through various programs to help. In September 2011,

he entered a partial day hospitalization program, and in 2012, he entered another treatment program.

But, at least to his family, by the summer of 2014, Conrad appeared to be better.

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