Conrad Roy III's Father

Among Conrad's things were goodbye letters he'd written to different people, like this one to Michelle.

It was very positive.

Keep doing what you're doing, Michelle.

Keep moving on and doing great things.

After reading this letter, you must have thought, oh, Conrad and Michelle really had a special friendship that he wrote her this letter.

I was very happy that she was in his life.

I thanked her for being there for him.

Just weeks after Conrad died, Michelle contacted his family saying she wanted to raise awareness for suicide prevention by organizing a baseball tournament, Homers for Conrad.

I was thinking, wow, this is really impressive.

Here's a teenager, a high school senior, and she's only a month later starting to plan this large fundraiser.

Conrad's whole family showed up.

His Aunt Chrissy was impressed with Michelle, then just 17.

I went up to her parents at that fundraiser and I said, you must be so proud of your daughter.

She's quite an amazing girl.

Unbeknownst to the family, back in Fairhaven, Detective Gordon was digging around for answers, hoping to discover why Conrad might have taken his own life.

I just found it odd that an 18-year-old would do it in that manner.

The detective figured there were clues on Conrad's cell phone, which was found in his truck.

And sure enough, when he powered it up, he discovered a string of text messages left on the phone from just one person.

He had deleted all other text conversations with other people?

And when the detective started reading the texts, he couldn't believe what he was seeing.