Texts reveal how Michelle Carter encouraged Conrad Roy III to kill himself

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Newly released text messages detail how Michelle Carter, 18, 'encouraged her boyfriend Conrad Roy III, also 18, to kill himself inside his truck'
She told him: 'Everyone will be sad for a while but they will get over it'
Carter is accused of involuntary manslaughter after Roy died of carbon monoxide poisoning in July last year
Afterwards she pretended to not know where he was, despite having contact with him moments before he died
Her lawyers claim the text messages violate no laws
Massachusetts does not have a statute that criminalizes assisted suicide

Published: 10:56 EST, 30 August 2015 | Updated: 15:38 EST, 30 August 2015

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The teenager accused of manslaughter for encouraging her online boyfriend to kill himself sent him text messages saying: 'You just have to do it', 'tonight is the night', and 'it's painless and quick'.

The messages from Michelle Carter, 18, to Conrad Roy III, were released by the Bristol County District Attorney's Office in Massachusetts after her lawyers tried to get the charges dropped.

They show that Carter even helped 18-year-old Roy research the best method of siphoning carbon monoxide into his truck. He gassed himself in the vehicle in the parking lot of a K-Mart in Fairhaven in July 2014.

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'You just gotta do it, babe': Michelle Carter (above) is charged with involuntary manslaughter for allegedly encouraging the death of Conrad Roy III through hundreds of text messages

Hesitant: When the Roy (above) expressed hesitancy at going through with the suicide, Carter allegedly sent him more messages expressing her frustration and encouraged him more

Carter's lawyers are insisting that she has not broken any laws and that she had tried to help Roy by urging him to go to a mental health clinic where she was a patient. She is charged with involuntary manslaughter for allegedly encouraging Roy's death.

The newly released text messages show that she told him if he killed himself, 'everyone will be sad for a while but they will get over it and move on'.

When the 18-year-old man expressed hesitancy at going through with the suicide, she sent him more messages expressing her frustration.

'You always say you're gonna do it, but you never do,' she texted. 'I just want to make sure tonight is the real thing.'

She also said: 'You seem to always have an excuse.'

Carter even messaged him stating that if carbon monoxide poisoning did not kill him, he should 'try the bag or hanging.'

Revealed: The text messages reveal how Carter (above) went so far as to help Roy research and determine the best method of siphoning carbon monoxide into his truck

Last Monday, Carter appeared in court looking defiant as lawyers attempted to have the charges against her dismissed, maintaining that she tried to help him with his mental health issues.

The text messages were released on Friday.

On the day of Roy's death, he took his sisters out for ice cream after messaging Carter that he wanted them to know he loved them.

According to the documents, the pair sat on the phone for more than an hour as Roy sat in his truck while she encouraged him to stay in the vehicle while the carbon monoxide entered the cabin.

'Like, honestly I could have stopped it,' Carter said in a text to her friend months after his death.

'I was the one on the phone with him and he got out of the car because [the carbon monoxide] was working and he got scared.

'I f***en [sic] told him to get back in.'

'Encouragement': In the hours leading up to Roy's death, Carter (left) had reportedly sent the boy (right) text messages urging him to follow through with his suicide attempt and ordering him to 'get back in' his truck

Carter faces involuntary manslaughter charges and her lawyer is urging a New Bedford judge to dismiss the case because he said Carter’s First Amendment rights are being violated

After Roy's suicide, Carter pretended not to know anything about his death, prosecutors contend.

'Do you know where your brother is?' Carter allegedly texted the victim's sister after his death.

However, her defense attorney, Joseph Cataldo, said in court on Monday that Roy was trying to get her to participate in a Romeo and Juliet-style death pact when she was 'brainwashed' into helping him commit suicide.

Cataldo argues that it was Roy's plan for them to die together and is hoping to get Carter's manslaughter charges dismissed.

Her next court date is October 2.