Michelle Carter Spotted 2 Years After Leaving Prison For Convincing Boyfriend To Kill Himself

For the first time since she was released from prison in 2020 on good behavior, Michelle Carter was spotted amid increased interest in her case. Carter was convicted of manslaughter for convincing her boyfriend, Conrad Roy III to kill himself when she was 17. Her crime and trial have been adapted in the Hulu miniseries The Girl From Plainville.

Carter, who is now 25, was photographed doing yard work on Wednesday in her home in Plainville, Massachusetts. She sported a short haircut, which is a contrast from her long hair in 2017 court photos. She served 11 months of her 15-month sentence in Bristol County jail beginning in 2019 and was released early for good behavior on Jan 23, 2020.

Her trial was highly publicized in the media, and she was eventually found guilty of convincing Roy to kill himself by rigging his car to fill with carbon monoxide in a Kmart parking lot. Records recovered by police even suggest that Carter called him and convinced Roy to go back into the car after he had a change of heart. Carter later told a friend in a text, “I f––king told him to get back in … because I knew that he would do it all over again the next day and I couldn’t have him live the way he was living anymore.”

Roy’s mother, Lydia St. Denis, was the last person to see Roy alive, and she told the court that Roy saw the text later believed to be the one of Carter telling him to commit to his suicide in the middle of a conversation with her. She said that Roy left their house after reading the text and that’s when he drove to the Kmart.

“Was she really a friend, or did she really care about him? I mean, for someone to do what she did, how could he think that she cared,” St. Denis said. She is now working to get a law passed called Conrad’s Law, which would increase the possible sentence for suicide coercion to five years in prison.

You can watch the trailer for The Girl From Plainville, which stars Elle Fanning and Colton Ryan, below.