“It was one of those things where you keep reading and it just keeps getting worse. And that’s what kinda put everything in motion,” Fairhaven Police Detective Scott Gordon tells NBC News’ Andrea Canning in an upcoming episode ofDateline: Reckless, which airs Friday at 10 p.m. ET/9 p.m. CT on NBC. (A clip from the interview is shown above.)
Roydied in his pickup truck from carbon monoxide poisoningon July 13, 2014 — an act Carter had supported and encouraged in text and phone conversations.
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Carter, now 21,was indicted in 2015, after her numerous text messages were discovered.
Those messages, as well as calls between the pair, showed that Carter encouraged Roy’s plan to kill himself — even when he was wavering. For example, in the days before his death, she texted him, “You’re ready and prepared. All you have to do is turn the generator on and you [will] be free and happy. No more pushing it, no more waiting.”
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After Roy’s body was found, Carter texted a friend to confess.
“I could have stopped it,” she wrote. “I was on the phone with him and he got out of the car because it was working and he got scared and I [expletive] told him to get back in.”
At issue, essentially, was one question: Could one person kill another — commit manslaughter — through words alone?
In the end, the court said yes.
After Carter’s appeal was rejected, theBristol County Attorney’s Officesaid in a statement it would soon ask the Juvenile Court to order Carter to begin serving her sentence. On Thursday, prosecutors filed a motion in court to revoke the stay of Carter’s sentence.
Dateline: Recklessairs Friday at 10 p.m. ET on NBC.
If you or someone you know is considering suicide, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255), text “home” to the Crisis Text Line at 741-741 or go tosuicidepreventionlifeline.org.
source: people.com
