Michelle Carter Suicide-Texting Case To Become Lifetime Movie

Lifetime is making a movie about the high-profile suicide-texting case that continues to make headlines.

“Conrad and Michelle: If Words Could Kill,” is set to air on the network Sept. 23. It is based on the death of Massachusetts teen Conrad Roy III, who was encouraged to commit suicide via text messages from his girlfriend, Michelle Carter.

Roy is played by Austin P. McKenzie while Carter is played by Bella Thorne.

Carter, a Plainville native, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in June 2017. Roy died in July 2014 in the parking lot of the Fairhaven Kmart from carbon monoxide fumes from a gas-powered water pump. Texts between the two show Carter, who was 17 at the time, spending days encouraging Roy to end his life and telling him to get back into the truck when he began to have second thoughts.

She was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in jail with 15 months to serve and five years probation, but she has remained free on bail pending the result of her appeal to the state Supreme Judicial Court. The court is scheduled to hear the appeal in the fall.

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