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Children. here on the familys last vacation together. 52 years after he said goodbye, the little boy in this photo, he flew his father home. roy iii met them. >> the emotions hes coming home is a good thing. there is also the aspect where we are reliving the loss. ♪ >> reporter: the family will now go through the rituals denied them for half a century, mourning again, their hero of the sky. >> thank you to nbcs nann thompson for that report. >> just shows you the amount of respect everyone had...

>> reporter: roy knight jr. finally came home. the air force colonel shot down over laos in 1967 during the vietnam war. initially declared missing, then killed in action, knights remains were at last recovered and identified in june. his homecoming bringing dallas busy love field to a stop as travelers paid respect and workers on the tarmac stood at attention. the air force was knights career. the native texan loved to hunt and fish, but his life was anchored by patricia and their three childre...

His homecoming bringing dallass busy love field to a stop as travellers paid respect and workers on the tarmac stood at attention. the air force was knights career the native texan loved to hunt and fish but his life was anchored by his wife patricia and their children, roy iii, gay ann, and brian here on the familys last vacation together. 52 years after he said good-bye, he flew his father home. roy iii met them >> its competing emotions hes coming home which is a good thing. >> reporter: the ...

>> reporter: nearly five years after conrad roy iii committed suicide in his truck, the woman who urged him to do it is going to prison. >> miss carter will now be taken into custody. >> reporter: michelle carter showing no emotion as she was led away to begin a 15-month sentence after the highest court in massachusetts upheld her conviction. carter was 17 and roy 18 when he took his own life by filling his truck with carbon monoxide in 2014. in dozens of text messages revealed at trial, carter ...

Exchanged a relentless series of communications with her teenage boyfriend, urging him to go through with his planned suicide. he did. the judge convicted carteder of involuntary manslaughter last year holding the teen, who was 17 at the time those messages were sent, responsible for the death of 18-year-old conrad roy iii. he killed himself after rigging his pickup truck to fill with carbon monoxide. he exited the truck and carter told him to get back in. earlier text scolded, you keep pushing ...

Quote, was working and he got scared, and that carter told him to get back in. and potentially the most damaging evidence, carter asked roy to delete the messages she sent him before killing himself. soon after his death, she tells a friend that if police quote, read my messages with him, im done. >> if she really loved him as she said she did, why didnt she try to persuade him not to? every day you wake up and think, you know, why? why? why? >> reporter: in response, michelle carters attorney s...

Are now the subject of a criminal case against michelle. prosecutors claim she not only pressured roy into killing himself but helped him plan suicide. according to court documents, the two spoke about roy killing himself for weeks with carter texting him quote, youre finally going to be happy in heaven. no more pain, no more bad thoughts and worries. youll be free. when the 18-year-old voiced concerns about how his parents would feel, carter wrote quote, i think your parents know youre in a rea...

The texts show that she helped him choose his method of carbon monoxide and several texts while he was triangle he told michele he was scared and didnt want to leave his family but still police say she continued to encourage him to go through with it. at one point conrad even got out of the truck in which michele replied get back in. >> instead of attempting to assist him or notify a school official counselor family member, anyone miss carter is alleged to have strongly influenced his decision t...

Leave his family but stillku8jt prosecutors say she continued to encourage him to go through with it. at one point conrad got out of the truck in which michelle replied get back in. >> instead of attempting to assist him or notify a school official, a counselor, a family member, anyone, miss carter is alleged to haveqe k ñ strongly influenced his decision to take his own life. >> michelle carters lawyers said the text messages are beingaóy= read out of context, telling me this morning it was n...