Michelle Carter looks dramatically different in the first photos of her since her release from jail. Carter, 28, was spotted doing yard work outside her Plainville, Massachusetts home.
Carter was released from jail in 2020 for good behavior.
She was charged with manslaughter in the 2014 death of her boyfriend Carter Roy IIICredit: Facebook
The woman was seen with short, bleach blonde hair, black shorts, and a Falmouth University hoodie.
This is the first time Carter has been seen in five years. She was released from jail for good behavior in 2020, only serving 11 months of her 15-month sentence for the 2014 manslaughter of her boyfriend, Conrad Roy III.
On July 13, 2014, Roy was found dead in his truck outside a superstore in Massachusetts after he had attached a hose from a generator and filled his truck up with carbon monoxide.
Roy reportedly had a brief change of heart as he had poisoned himself and even got out of the vehicle. Phone records, shown in Carter’s trial, show that she called her boyfriend and told him to get back inside the truck.
At the time, the 18-year-old had been battling anxiety and depression, and Carter, who was 17 years old, encouraged him to end his life through a series of texts that were discovered during the investigation.
Outside of her case, little information is known about Carter's personal life.
In February 2015, Carter was arrested and charged with involuntary manslaughter in connection to her boyfriend's death. During the investigation, authorities found messages on Roy's phone from Carter which read, "You keep pushing it off and say you'll do it but you never do.
"It's always gonna be that way if you don't take action.
"You just need to do it."
Other texts sent from Carter show that she had even suggested different ways Roy could end his life: “Why don’t you just drink bleach? Hang yourself…jump over a building, stab yourself, idk.”
When Roy hesitated, Carter texted, “You better not be bulls****ing me and just pretending. Tonight is the night, it’s now or never,” read court documents.
Carter never called police or Roy’s parents as he died. She later texted his mother, Lynn St Denis, to give her condolences but did not tell her that she had prior knowledge of the teen’s plans to end his life.
Prosecutors said that Carter had told a friend that she could have stopped Roy in the moments before his death.
“His death is my fault. Like, honestly I could have stopped it,” she wrote.
“I was on the phone with him and he got out of the car because [it] was working and he got scared and I f***ing 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.
“Like, I should have did more and it’s all my fault because I could have stopped him but I f***ing didn’t. And all I had to say was, 'I love you and don’t do this,' one more time and he’d still be here.”
Carter was found guilty during her trial and sentenced to two and a half years in prison but her sentence was later reduced to 15 months.
Carter's story is the subject of multiple documentaries, including the 2019 HBO film, "I Love You, Now Die."
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