Conrad Roy III's Father

Conrad was her firstborn.

Two daughters would come later.

Looking back, she remembers his early years as good ones.

Every picture I have of him, he looks like a little goofball.

The happiest child.

He was always happy.

Conrad grew up in and around the old fishing town of New Bedford, Massachusetts, where his father and grandfather run a tugboat and barge business.

His dad said it seemed Conrad was destined to take to the sea from day one.

Not only was Conrad the firstborn in the Roy family, he was also the first grandchild.

His aunt, Chrissy Roy, says his cousins adored him.

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, you know, going through the hormones.

And he obviously had anxiety and depression.

It just manifested at that time.

He talked about it in this video diary.

It was at 16, while struggling with anxiety and depression, that Conrad encountered a 15-year-old girl named Michelle Carter.

They met, Conrad's grandmother says, when Conrad and his sisters went to Florida to visit family.