strong together. she gave me a lot of support, just there for me, when i needed her. but was there something about these two that no one knew? what are you seeing? a series of messages. i had to read them a couple of times to take it all in. really shocking. a trail of text messages, leading to the darkest of discoveries. keeping all the lies straight is difficult. she did it masterfully. i close my eyes and said, this is not real. a twist no one saw coming. and a story that every parent needs to see. we need to know what is going on in our kid s lives, because it can be very scary when we don t. hello and welcome to dateline . 18-year-old conrad roy battled depression and anxiety, but seemed to be finding his way. he was headed to college and excited about his new job. then one night, the teenager vanished. turns out conrad had a dark secret, one he shared with someone close to him. what that confidant did and did not do next would shatter to famil
they met conrad s grandmother says, when conrad and his sisters went to florida to visit family. and this was just supposed to be some our and our? yes. a week during school vacation her grandparents were friends with our great aunt. my sister came in and was like, hey, my mental. girl a short while. when they return from florida, conrad and michelle continued to stay in touch through text messages. michelle lived in plainville, massachusetts, about an hour away from conrad. achuthe two had a lot in common. she was a softball player. he played baseball. friends described both of them as quiet and funny, but even though the two communicated regularly, conrad and becky says he never mentioned michelle. he had other girlfriends where you knew their names and you had met them. she was not someone that he talked about. apparently, he kept a lot to himself. by the time he was 17, he had checked into psychiatric facilities a few times,
set of text messages that the prosecution had not mentioned. ones where she tried repeatedly to help conrad, have you thought about getting professional help? like, i think i m gonna go away to a place for my eating disorder to help me overcome it and stuff. where are you going? it s called mclean hospital, in belmont, massachusetts. i honestly think it would be so good for you and we would get through our issues together. michelle carter was trying to talk him out of it. go to maclean hospital. they will help you. she had nothing but resistance from conrad roy. one of the main points of your argument was that conrad roy had tried it before. he hide researched various ways to take his own life. that this was not something that was just created by michelle carter. right. michelle for a year and a half always tried to persuade him not to commit suicide. he always rejected her thoughts of staying alive. and
[inaudible] take over the business someday. not only was conrad the first born in the royal family, he was also the first grandchild. his aunt, chrissy roy, says his cousins adored him. my youngest said henry would follow him around like a duck. he was the cousin all the kids looked up to. but during his sophomore year in high school, his mom says her happy-go-lucky son started to change. his father and i, we got divorced and i don t know one child that doesn t get affected by a divorce. he was 16 at the time? and it s going through the hormones and he obviously had anxiety and depression he just manifested at that time. he talked about it in this video diary. i feel like i m differently wired from everyone else. like there s something wrong with me. it was at 16, well struggling with anxiety and depression, that conrad encountered a 15 year old girl named michelle carter.
suffering from deep depression. his mom says, one time, on the day he was discharged, he attempted suicide by swallowing a bottle of cough syrup. he felt bad. and i said, conrad, you have no idea how much you are loved and appreciated. so, he swore at that time after that, he would never attempt suicide again. and things did seem to be getting better. a year later, by june, 2014, conrad had graduated from high school, gotten a scholarship to college and earned his captain s license. that must have been a really big day. conrad getting his captain s license. it was, i was very proud of him. are you feeling good about the place he is in? i felt that he was still struggling. but i felt very positive that he was not going to do anything to harm himself. it was right around this time