Michelle Carter allegedly urged her boyfriend to take his own life (Picture: AP)

A teenage girl who is accused of convincing her 18-year-old boyfriend to commit suicide will now stand trial.

Michelle Carter, 18, is charged with involuntary manslaughter after she allegedly urged Conrad Roy to kill himself in a series of texts in 2014.

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In one of the texts, Ms Carter, then 17 years old, allegedly wrote: ‘You better not be bullsh*tting me and saying you gonna do this and then purposely get caught.’

Roy later died of carbon monoxide poisoning when he locked himself in a truck with the engine running in a K-Mart car park in Fairhaven.


Conrad Ry died of carbon monoxide poisoning (Picture: Facebook/Conrad Roy III)

The Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled on Friday that Ms Carter will have to stand trial.



Her lawyer argued that her texts were free speech protected by the First Amendment and did not cause Roy to kill himself.

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Text messages from that night suggest Roy had second thoughts about taking his own life and he left the truck.

But Ms Carter allegedly instructed him to ‘get back in’.

Justice Robert Cordy said: ‘…but for the defendant’s admonishments, pressure, and instructions, the victim would not have gotten back into the truck and poisoned himself to death.’

Text records seen in court reveal Carter later told her friend: ‘Like, honestly, I could have stopped it. I was the one on the phone with him and he got out of the car because [the carbon monoxide] was working and he got scared. I f***en told him to get back in.’

Ms Carter’s defence said her texts were free speech protected (Picture: AP)

Earlier this year, transcripts of the text messages were made public.

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‘I thought you wanted to do this. The time is right and you’re ready, you just need to do it!’ Ms Carter wrote in one message.

‘You can’t think about it. You just have to do it. You said you were gonna do it. Like I don’t get why you aren’t,’ she wrote in another message.

THE TEXT MESSAGE EXCHANGE THAT LED UP TO CONRAD'S DEATH CARTER: Well, wait, the generator is gonna be on because you’ll be passed out, so they’ll know you used carbon monoxide. Dead. It’s not loud is it? CONRAD: Not really, LMAO. CARTER: Okay, good. Are you gonna do it now? At approximately 5:08 PM, Roy had returned from the beach and was considering backing out of the plan. CONRAD: I’m home. CARTER: Okay. CONRAD: Ah. CARTER: What? CONRAD: I don’t know. I’m stressing. CARTER: You’re fine. It’s gonna be okay. You just gotta do it, babe. You can’t think about it. CONRAD: Okay. Okay. I got this. CARTER: Yes, you do. I believe in you. Did you delete the messages? CONRAD: Yes. But you’re going to keep messaging me. CARTER: I will until you turn on the generator. CONRAD: Okay. Well, I’m bringing my sisters for ice cream. CARTER: So will you do it when you get back? CONRAD: Yup, I’ll go right there. CARTER: Okay. CONRAD: Love you. CARTER: I love so much. CONRAD: (Smiley face). CARTER: 33. CONRAD: Ha ha. What are you doing? CARTER: Nothing really. Just resting. CONRAD: Okay. Ha, ha I’m procrastinating. CARTER: Yeah, ha ha, I know. Are you back? CONRAD: Yup. CARTER: So it’s time? CONRAD: Oh, it’s been time. CARTER: Are you gonna do it now? CONRAD: I just don’t know how to leave them, you know. CARTER: Say you’re gonna go the store or something. CONRAD: Like, I want them to know that I love them. CARTER: They know. That’s one thing they definitely know. You’re over thinking. CONRAD: I know I’m over thinking. I’ve been over thinking for a while now. CARTER: I know. You just have to do it like you said. Are you gonna do it now? CONRAD: I still haven’t left yet, ha ha. CARTER: Why? CONRAD: Leaving now. CARTER: Okay. You can do this. CONRAD: Okay. I’m almost there. The couple then speak for 43 minutes on the phone. Carter later tells a friend by text that Conrad exited the car when he realised the carbon monoxide poisoining was taking effect. Carter persuaded him to get back in. He died soon afterwards and his body was found in his pick-up truck after his parents reported him missing. In the time between Conrad’s death and his body being found, Carter had contacted his family to ask if they knew where he was.