Girlfriend talks boyfriend into suicide

This. Is. Farked.


http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/re...roy-suicide-case/story-fnixwvgh-1227497993461

WHEN Conrad Roy took his own life, police initially did not think it was suspicious.
The Massachusetts teenager suffered from anxiety and had tried to commit suicide before. But in the days after his death, police began to suspect that it was not as simple as they first thought.
As they trawled through his mobile phone they found more than 1000 text messages from a girl allegedly encouraging him to carry out the act. Those messages were from Michelle Carter, the granddaughter of his parent’s family friend whom he met while on vacation a few years earlier.
In the six days leading up to his death, the pair had exchanged numerous messages, the content of which led police to charge the then 17-year-old Carter with involuntary manslaughter. It is understood this is the first time such a case has ever been tried worldwide.
Now the details of those messages have been made public, and it doesn’t look good for Carter, who is trying to have the charges against her thrown out of court. She’s now 18 and is being prosecuted as an adult under the Massachusetts Youthful Offender Law.
The Bristol County District Attorney’s office submitted the text messages in response to the motion filed by Carter’s lawyer to have the charges dismissed.
Prosecutors claim Carter tried to guide Roy through the suicide, urging him to overcome doubts and telling him he would be at peace and that his parents wouldn’t suffer too much from his loss, The Sun Chronicle reported.


“I think your parents know you’re in a really bad place,” Carter tells him in the first series of text messages. “I’m not saying they want you to do it but I honestly feel like they can accept it.
They know there is nothing they can do. They’ve tried helping. Everyone’s tried, but there is a point that comes where there isn’t anything anyone can do to save you, not even yourself.
“And you’ve hit that point and I think your parents know you’ve hit that point. You said your mom saw a suicide thing on your computer and she didn’t say anything. I think she knows it’s on your mind and she’s prepared for it.
“Everyone will be sad for a while but they will get over it and move on. They won’t be in depression. I won’t let that happen. They know how sad you are, and they know that you are doing this to be happy and I think they will understand and accept it.
“They will always carry you in their hearts.”
Roy responds: “Aww. Thank you, Michelle.”

Carter then tells him to stop “thinking about” it and “just do it” to which he responded: “I’ve been thinking about it for too long.”
“Always smile, and, yeah, you have to just do it,” she writes back. “You have everything you need. There is no way you can fail. Tonight is the night. It’s now or never.”
In other messages Carter tells Roy not to be “scared” because he had already made the decision and that he would finally be “happy in heaven”.
“No more pain. No more bad thoughts and worries. You’ll be free. It’s okay to be scared and it’s normal. I mean, you’re about to die. I would be concerned if you weren’t scared, but I know how bad you want this and how bad you want to be happy. You have to face your fears for what you want,” she adds.
Roy was found dead in his pick-up truck on July 13, 2014.
The night before his death the pair had exchanged dozens of messages in which Carter not only encourages him to go through with his plans, but appears to be frustrated that he has second thoughts.
“You can’t think about it,’ she writes. “You just have to do it. You said you were gonna do it. Like I don’t get why you aren’t.”
He responded: “I don’t get it either. I don’t know.”

“So I guess you aren’t gonna do it then. All that for nothing. I’m just confused. Like you were so ready and determined.”
“I am gonna eventually. I really don’t know what I’m waiting for but I have everything lined up,” Roy writes back.
“No, you’re not, Conrad. Last night was it. You kept pushing it off and you say you’ll do it, but you never do. It’s always gonna be that way if you don’t take action. You’re just making it harder on yourself by pushing it off. You just have to do it. Do you want to do it now?”
Roy then writes back saying he thought it was too late and appears to have changed his mind but Carter insists that he does it that moment.


“No. It’s probably the best time now because everyone is sleeping. Just go somewhere in your truck and no one is really out there right now because it’s an awkward time. If you don’t do it now you’re never gonna do it, and you can say you’ll do it tomorrow, but you probably won’t. Tonight? Love you.”
Then when Roy says he is scared and was “freaking out again” and worried about his family Carter writes back: “I thought you wanted to do this. This time is right and you’re ready. You just need to do it. You can’t keep living this way. You just need to do it like you did the last time and not think about it and just do it, babe. You can’t keep doing this every day.”
When Roy says he will finally “do it” Carter responds by saying “You promise?”
“I promise, babe. I have to now,” Roy writes back.
Police have also alleged that in the days before Roy’s death, Carter had sent her friends text messages claiming the Roy had been missing for days and that she hadn’t heard from him.
They claim Carter was continuing to encourage Conrad to take his own life while at the same time trying to put together a plan to get sympathy from her friends, People reported.
But the most chilling allegation made by police is that when Roy had second thoughts and got out of his truck and texted Carter, she allegedly replied: “Get back in.”, The Washington Post reported.

The case continues.