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The story of a teenager accused of manslaughter for encouraging her boyfriend to kill himself
Two troubled teenagers were in a relationship mainly via text. They said they were in love with each other. The boyfriend was seriously depressed and suicidal.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readTwo troubled teenagers were in a relationship mainly via text. They said they were in love with each other. The boyfriend was seriously depressed and suicidal. In 2014, the girlfriend sent him a series of texts:
“It’s now or never."
Conrad Roy killed himself using carbon monoxide gas as he sat in his truck in a K-Mart parking lot in his Massachusetts town. Michelle Carter was charged with involuntary manslaughter for texting him to do it.
That story is told in a two-part HBO documentary that begins on July 9, called "I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth vs. Michelle Carter."
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The full episode
4 of 5Is the big one imminent?- 0:00Hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein charged with allegedly running a worldwide trafficking ring
- 11:03Jeffrey Epstein’s controversial 2008 plea deal and the latest in the battle to add a citizenship to the census
- 18:53Do the recent quakes tell us anything about the big one?
- 26:58The story of a teenager accused of manslaughter for encouraging her boyfriend to kill himselfYou’re reading this
- 39:32The relationship between Leonard Cohen and Marianne Ihlen