On Wednesday, Hulu released the chilling trailer forThe Girl From Plainville.The upcoming limited series stars Fanning asMichelle Carter, who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter after sheencouraged her teen boyfriend Conrad Roy III’s 2014 suicidethrough texts and phone calls.
“All he thought about was dying… I really just wanted to help him,” Fanning says as Carter in the clip.
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In addition to Fanning and Ryan,The Girl From Plainvillestars Chloë Sevigny, Cara Buono, Kai Lennox, and Norbert Leo Butz.
The Girl From Plainvillepremieres March 29 on Hulu.
Carter was foundguilty of involuntary manslaughterandsentenced to 15 months in jailfor her role in the death of her 18-year-old boyfriend, who was found dead from carbon monoxide poisoning in his pickup truck on July 13, 2014, in the parking lot of a Fairhaven, Massachusetts, Kmart.
In hundreds of texts and statements that came to light afterward, Carter, who was 17 at the time, was revealed to have pressured Roy to go through with his suicide.
The judge who found her guilty cited Carter’s written admission to a friend that, after Roy got out of the truck and shared his last-minute fears with Carter in a phone call before he died, she had told him to “get back in.”
Both teens had struggled with depression, and Roy had made previous attempts at suicide.
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Although Carter’s defense acknowledged her exchanges with Roy, her attorneys argued that prosecutors had"cherry-picked"only those text messages that served their case against her, ignoring others in which Carter urged Roy toward help for his struggles.
But police said Carter deliberately misled friends and Roy’s family members in the days and hours before Roy died, claiming to them that he’d gone missing at the same time the two of them were in contact and he was planning his suicide.
Carter wasreleased from prisonin January 2020, more than three months before the end of her 15-month sentence.
If you or someone you know is considering suicide, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255), text “home” to the Crisis Text Line at 741-741 or go tosuicidepreventionlifeline.org.
source: people.com
