Conrad Roy III's Father

It was one of those things where you keep reading and it just keeps getting worse.

And that's what's kind of put everything in motion.

Coming up, the text messages no one could fathom.

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

Who had been texting what to Conrad?

And I closed my eyes and I said, this is not real.

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And it just went on and on and on.

Two days after Conrad Roy's death, Detective Scott Gordon of the Fairhaven Police Department had found a clue.

And it was a bombshell.

A string of text messages from Michelle Carter on Conrad's phone.

What are you seeing?

It was just a series of messages that seemed to be encouraging him to take his own life.

Encouraging him to take his own life?

To the detective, it was unimaginable.

He learned Michelle and Conrad had been texting like teenagers do for almost two years.

But a few weeks before his death, something changed.

It seemed Michelle started a campaign to get Conrad to die by suicide.

She even gave him suggestions on how to do it.

Hang yourself.