This is a report from ABC News about a man who committed suicide and why his girlfriend is put behind bars.
What's Happening:
- Michelle Carter was put behind bars for encouraging her boyfriend, Conrad Roy, to commit suicide via text message.
- This episode of "20/20" will feature footage from the new Hulu series "The Girl from Plainville," which is based on the true story of this case.
- Carter used text messages to encourage her boyfriend Roy to commit suicide.
- This has landed Carter in prison.
- A two-hour episode of “20/20” featuring ABC News senior national affairs correspondent Deborah Roberts will report on the couple and their online relationship.
- It will share how they opened up to each other about personal matters, including struggling with depression.
- It will go into how authorities initially handled the case of suicide until they discovered these disturbing text messages from Carter in the weeks before Roy’s death.
- These text messages led to an involuntary manslaughter charge.
- This episode of “20/20” will include audio from police interviews with Carter as well as text messages between the couple and interviews with those who were close to them.
- This episode of “20/20” will air on April 8th at 9:01 p.m. through 11 p.m. Eastern.
- It will also be available the next day on Hulu.