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Over the past year, Slate's Emily Bazelon has been reporting on what led to the 2010 suicide of a 15-year-old

Western Massachusetts girl named Phoebe Prince. The early reporting on the case said her death was the

direct result of severe bullying by six fellow high school students, a group that quickly became

known among locals and the media as the South Hadley Six. The district attorney at the time,

Elizabeth Scheibel, charged the six students with serious felonies, five facing a charge that held

them responsible for Phoebe's death. The kids became infamous across the nation as supposed symbols of lethal cyberbullying.

But Emily Bazelon's reporting painted a more nuanced picture.

Among other things, Emily learned that Phoebe Prince had a history of depression

and a previous suicide attempt that predated the accusations of bullying.

In May 2011, the new district attorney for South Hadley, David Sullivan, changed course.

He agreed to let the four girls charged with bullying admit to facts supporting one minor

misdemeanor charge. Once the girls complete probation, they'll emerge with clean records.

A fifth teenager, a boy, pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor offense and also got probation.

Statutory rape charges against the sixth teen, Austin Renault, were dropped entirely,

and that was the end of the official case.

But it's not over for those involved, either for Phoebe Prince's family or for the kids accused,

they believe unfairly of causing Phoebe's death.

After the court case wrapped up, Emily Bazelon sat down for the first public interview with one member of the so-called South Hadley Six,

a girl who has not spoken out until now about her experience in the legal and media glare.

She is Flannery Mullins, now 18.

And as she tells the story, her main role in this drama was clashing with Phoebe over Austin Renaud,

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