BE ADVISED: This episode includes discussion of suicide and other sensitive subject matter. If you or someone you know is struggling with mental health and/or suicidal ideations, please call or text 988, and remember ... YOU MATTER.
The saying goes: Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never harm me. Not so, Escape Artists, not so – as proven by today’s episode in which a teen girl’s text messages are used against her as she faces charges in her friend’s tragic death. What does this case tell us about the power of influence in the digital age? And where does the First Amendment fit in? The co-hosts debate and discuss it all in this edition of The Escape Pod.
Bullet Points of Key Topics and Markers:
Topic #1 1:12 Escaping a glitch in The Matrix (kidding ... kind of)
Topic #2 9:50 Meet Michelle and Conrad
Topic #3 21:39 A suicide investigation becomes a homicide case
Topic #4 36:15 Escapism, co-host-style
Resources & Links
Michelle Carter Case: The 'Texting-Suicide' Case Five Years After Sentencing
Michelle Carter’s Texting Suicide Trial Revisited
The Death of Conrad Roy: Michelle Carter's 'Virtual Presence' and 'Failure to Act' in Texting Case
The Girl From Plainville: Where is Michelle Carter Now?
Homicide by Text: Michelle Carter and the Death of Conrad Roy
Esquire: The Girl from Plainville
Inside the True Story of Michelle Carter, the Teen in the 'Texting Suicide Case'
Michelle Carter's Trial Sparked a Nationwide Debate About Mental Illness
Facebook photo of Michelle Carter
Conrad Roy and Michelle Carter Photo: Facebook; Getty Images
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