Michelle Carter, the Massachusetts woman who was convicted in the 2014 suicide of her boyfriend, has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison, and now her late boyfriend’s family is speaking out.
During an interview with 20/20, Conrad Roy III’s aunt, Kim Bozzi, said, “She has to live as one of the most hated people in the country. I don’t think she helped to kill himself, I think she forced him to kill himself.”
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She then added, “I think if it wasn’t for her, he’d still be here.”
On the subject of trying to come to terms with Roy’s death, Bozzi said, “There was no way to wrap your mind around it. He was a kid, he was just a kid.”
Bozzi went on to reveal that after Roy passed, Carter came over to his house to go through his things. She said, “[Carter] wanted to go through his room and take some of his belongings.”
Carter, according to Bozzi, also wanted some of Roy’s ashes. “That’s when things started to get weird,” she said.
Bozzi wasn’t the only one of Roy’s family members to speak out against Carter. His cousin Makenna O’Donnell spoke to GMA, saying, “It’s not enough. She should be in jail,” in response to Carter being able to be free on probation until the time of her appeal.
She went on to say, “It’s just, I don’t understand how someone can be free knowing that she deliberately told him to get back in the car. And she gets to sleep in her own bed tonight, she gets to eat breakfast, she gets to wake up with her family. Meanwhile, where’s Conrad? Where’s Conrad? He’s watching us from above. He’s not going to be here anymore.”
Additionally, O’Donnell doesn’t feel that the two and a half year sentence is good enough.
She stated, “No normal human being who doesn’t have problems would tell someone to get back in a truck that is a toxic environment. I do believe she needs help and I do believe that she needs to take responsibility for her actions. She hasn’t shown anything – nothing, it’s just blank.”
In June, a judge found Carter guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the 2014 death of Roy. The prosecution argued that Carter encouraged Roy to kill himself through a series of phone calls and text messages.
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