The Girl From Plainville’s Producers on Adapting 2014’s Texting-Suicide Case for TV

When Michelle Carter stood trial for involuntary manslaughter, after she encouraged boyfriend Conrad Roy III to take his life via text messages, media coverage cast the teenage Carter as the clear villain in the tragedy. But Jesse Barron’s 2017 Esquire feature and Erin Lee Carter’s 2019 HBO documentary I Love You, Now Die described details about the case that complicated news outlets’ two-dimensional depictions. Both addressed Carter’s and Roy’s complex histories with mental illness and medication, as well as the possibility that neither Massachusetts teen had a firm grasp on reality in the days ahead of the 2014 suicide. (Carter… Read Full Article