Conrad Roy III was having second thoughts.
The 18-year-old had been planning to kill himself, to sit inside his truck while it filled with carbon monoxide, but he wasn’t sure if he could go through with it. In a series of insistent text messages, his 17-year-old girlfriend convinced him to follow through.
“You can’t think about it. You just have to do it,” Michelle Carter wrote. And, after he got out of his truck, she allegedly told him in a phone call to “get back in.”
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