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Dateline NBC

Reckless

Dateline NBC

NBC News

True Crime, Culture, Social, Society & Culture, News

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Lead detectives and family members speak to Dateline about the case of teenager Michelle Carter, who was convicted of bullying her boyfriend to kill himself. Andrea Canning reports. Originally aired on NBC on February 8, 2019.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I feel like I still have a long way to go to recover from this feeling of insecurity.

0:09.0

But if I keep talking, keep talking, it's going to get better.

0:17.0

I asked you a report by Senator Nissar and his truck,

0:20.0

but we cautioned him around it. The police told my father that he was going.

0:24.0

Are you sure? What are you talking about?

0:26.0

I felt like all the blood just straight right out of your body.

0:30.0

She sent messages of condolences and she never tried so hard in her life to save someone.

0:36.0

I was very happy that she was in this life. I thanked her for being there for him.

0:42.0

What are you seeing? A series of messages.

0:45.0

I had to read them a couple of times to really take it all in.

0:48.0

I literally shocking.

0:51.0

Keeping all the lies straight is difficult. She did it masterfully.

0:55.0

That's not normal. He kept saying to her,

0:57.0

I don't want to do this, it would hurt my family.

0:59.0

And she kept saying, don't worry about them.

1:01.0

She told him that once he was dead he would be free and happy.

1:04.0

We need to know what's going on in our kids' lives,

1:06.0

because it could be very scary when we don't.

1:13.0

It began as a chance encounter between two teens on vacation.

1:17.0

She was a family friend that he met in Florida.

1:20.0

And ended two years later with one of them dead.

1:24.0

He was smiling before he left the house.

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