Conrad Roy III's Father

Like right now, where do I go?

And you can't break a promise.

And just go in a quiet parking lot or something.

Have you ever seen anything like that in your career as a detective?

It was clear to the detectives that Conrad had died by his own hand.

But was what Michelle did actually a crime?

Detective Gordon contacted Assistant DA Mary Claire Flynn.

He said, I want to send you these text messages.

If you could please just take a look at them.

And I said, sure, I will.

And it was just utterly shocking.

She checked with Katie Rayburn, her colleague at the time, and they agreed those text messages warranted further investigation.

I couldn't believe what was in them.

I had to read them a couple of times to really sort of take it all in.

Clearly it's black and white for you that you know this is wrong.

But is it black and white?

We're going to go forward with this.

This is a crime.

I mean, I would imagine for you it's complicated.

Yes, and with all investigations, it's our duty and our responsibility to follow the evidence where it takes us.