Shocking Legal Twist: Teen Text Killer Michelle Carter's $4.2 Million Wrongful Death Lawsuit Dropped
Apr. 10 2019, Published 7:34 p.m. ET
Teen Text Killer Michelle Carter is locked up behind bars, but the $4.2 million lawsuit filed against her by the mother of the boyfriend she encouraged to commit suicide has been dropped, RadarOnline.com confirmed.
After a judge found her guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Conrad Roy III, his mother Lynne Roy filed the lawsuit against her, claiming she “inflicted severe personal injuries, great conscious pain and suffering of body and mind and ultimately death,” according to the documents obtained by RadarOnline.com.
The Massachusetts Superior Court Clerk confirmed to RadarOnline.com that the case was dismissed on April 9, 2019.
The clerk told RadarOnline.com the case was a “’Stipulation of dismissal with prejudice and without cost,’ which means it was an agreement of parties.”
On Feb. 11, 2019 Carter began serving her sentence at the Bristol County House of Corrections, the Taunton Clerk of Court told RadarOnline.com.
During her trial, prosecutors presented the 20,000 text messages exchanged between Carter and Roy in the days, hours and minutes leading up to his suicide in a K-Mart parking lot in July 2014.
“You're so hesistant (sic) because you keep overthinking it and pushing it off. You just need to do it Conrad. The more you push it off, the more it will eat at you,” Carter texted to Roy on July 12, 2014 as he wavered in his decision to kill himself.
The same day, she sent him another text that said, “You're ready and prepared. All you have to do is turn the generator on and you be free and happy. No more pushing it off, no more waiting.”
On July 13, 2014, Roy committed suicide by poisoning himself with carbon monoxide fumes in his truck in Fairhaven, Massachusetts.
In their response to his mother Lynn Roy's lawsuit, Carter’s attorneys previously wrote: “She neither admits nor denies the accusations.”
The $4.2 million lawsuit detailed Carter’s actions, claiming she “inflicted severe personal injuries, great conscious pain and suffering of body and mind and ultimately death. Lynn also accused Carter of “gross negligence, and/or her willful, wanton and or reckless conduct after she encouraged Mr. Roy to kill himself.”
Conrad’s mother’s lawsuit claimed: “Miss Carter knew that Mr. Roy had a history of attempted suicides and was being treated for mental health issues including severe depression."
The mother’s argument continued: “During the months and weeks prior to his death, Conrad H. Roy III exchanged communication with the defendant, Michelle Carter, in which Ms. Carter encourage Mr. Roy to kill himself and chastise him for delaying the act.”
Carter’s lawyers argued in their response: “If, in fact, the defendant was negligent, the negligence of the Plaintiffs decedent was of a greater degree than that of the Defendant, whereby the Plaintiff is barred from recovery.”
Carter was only 17 at the time of Roy’s death and was sentenced to "2.5 years in the Bristol County House of correction, with 15 months to be served and the balance to spend it with probation for five years from August 3, 2017 to August 1, 2022,” court documents stated after her conviction.