MORE: Elle Fanning talks ‘The Girl From Plainville’Įlle Fanning plays Michelle Carter and Chloë Sevigny plays Lynn Roy, Conrad's mother. Hulu is a division of Disney, ABC’s parent company. She understands," he told "20/20."Ī dramatized version of Carter and the Roy family and their story is playing out on "The Girl from Plainville," which premiered on Hulu on March 29. Her attorney, Joseph Cataldo, told "20/20" that she's "remorseful over the situation." One of the most hated people in the country, so good luck with that," Bozzi told "20/20" after the sentencing.Īfter nearly two years of unsuccessful court appeals, Carter began her sentence in 2019 and, in January 2020, she was released early from prison for good behavior.Ĭarter has kept a low profile since her release.
"She has to live the rest of her life in her skin, as her. PHOTO: Kim Bozzi, Conrad Roy's aunt, spoke to '20/20' in 2017 about the manslaughter case against Michelle Carter. She was also sentenced to five years probation.īozzi asked the judge to give Carter a 20-year sentence in a letter before the sentencing. The judge sentenced Carter to 2 1/2 years in prison with 15 months served and the rest suspended. While announcing the verdict, Moniz said that Carter instructed Roy "to get back into the truck, well knowing of all of the feelings he exchanged with her, his ambiguities, his fears, his concerns." Ultimately, Moniz found Carter guilty of involuntary manslaughter and described her behavior as "reckless." MORE: Michelle Carter sentenced to 2.5 years for texting suicide case "She texted my niece a couple of hours later, 'Hey, do you know where your brother is?' Then she texted his mom the next day, 'Oh, hey, have you heard from Conrad?' Knowing all along," she said.Ĭarter's defense attorney claimed that she had previously tried to talk Roy out of harming himself, pointing to one conversation where Roy told Carter he regretted dragging her into his plans to kill himself. (Charles Krupa/Pool via AP, FILE)īozzi said the most "unbelievable" part of Carter's actions was "how she acted after the fact." PHOTO: In this June 8, 2017, file photo, Michelle Carter attends a court hearing in Taunton, Mass. he was scared." Carter texted that she "told him to get back in." Carter texted that she and Roy were on the phone the day of his suicide when Roy "got out of the car. "I could’ve stopped him," Carter texted a classmate two months after Roy's death, according to testimony during the trial. Carter's trial, decided by Massachusetts Judge Lawrence Moniz and not a jury, began two years later.ĭuring the two-week bench trial, some of the text exchanges following Roy's death were read aloud with Roy's family in attendance. She was arrested in 2015 and charged with involuntary manslaughter. Prosecutors said that Carter, then 17, had been texting Roy for months about his bouts with depression and, in some messages, encouraged him to go forward with his suicide.
(ABC News)īozzi said Roy struggled with depression, and the family tried to help him deal with his mental health issues.Įvidence recovered by investigators showed that Roy shared his inner turmoil and thoughts with Carter, with whom he had an online relationship. His online girlfriend, Michelle Carter, was convicted of manslaughter three years later for texts she sent to him prior to his death.
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