Posted on 08/07/2017 7:30:32 AM PDT by Gamecock
TAUNTON, Mass. — Michelle Carter, the young woman found guilty in June of 2017 of involuntary manslaughter for encouraging her boyfriend to commit suicide, behaved oddly following the young man’s death, according to Roy’s aunt.
She even requested to take home the victim’s ashes.
Bozzi said that she found Carter’s behavior following the teenager’s death disturbing.
Carter attended Roy’s wake and funeral and asked to take home the victim’s ashes and some his property.
“She wanted to go through his room and take some of his belongings,” Bozzi said. “That’s when things started to get a little weird. Yeah, you don’t do that.” Bozzi has said she feels Carter has a “damaged moral core.”
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There should be a “crazy woman” registry. If you plan to go out with a woman, you check the registry first. When you find out that your prospective babe is looney as a jaybird you run the other way.
This nutjob would be the first one on the list.
Psychopath murderer, like narcs they can commit the perfect murder by causing others to commit suicide by using mindwarping....
I understand that, but it may have been a good idea for a reasonable person to stop reading or taking the texts and/or blocking her.
Don’t get me wrong, I think she is a real piece of work, but I still put this on the person that actually offed them self.
How many texts is enough to make you responsible? One? Ten, twenty? A hundred? When is the other person no longer responsible for what they do.
Now, if she had been telling him to kill someone else, I’d have a different opinion on this, obviously. But I rack this up to a perfect storm of mean spirited person meets VERY weak person. It is an interesting exercise in psychology, not to mention the law.
I wonder what law that is on the books she actually broke.
She wanted some trophies of her first kill. It’s what serial killers do.
In some states, as I understand it, there’s such a thing as a “Depraved Heart” crime. It’s when somebody dies because of the shocking indifference to Human life, of a person who could have prevented the loss of life -— or at least tried-—without endangering themselves.
Different in different states, perhaps.
I’m no lawyer, but this sounds to me like a Depraved Heart crime.
“I wonder what law that is on the books she actually broke.”
The law she broke, in her state, is failure to make an effort to stop what he was doing. She did just the opposite. Why draw a distinction between her egging him on to kill himself, as opposed to another person.
He was certainly wounded psychologically but he would have avoided that particular effort if she had not ordered him back into the truck.
...failure to make an effort to stop what he was doing.
That said, I don’t know if she was or wasn’t, I’m just applying my binary mind to the problem. The law is binary too, so this sort of thing is pretty easy for me to process.
My take is that this case is a lesson for lawmakers. If they think this is destined to be a problem in the future, they need to pass a law making it illegal to “intentionally, with clear intent to see the other person carry it out, telling a person to end their own life”. Without such a law, I don’t know how this sticks.
And I don’t know that such a law is necessary. A single death does not warrant yet another law just as a single death at a four way stop does not warrant the installation of a traffic light.
Execute her for sending text messages? Check your mirror.
Her text messages are a little different from my text messages. Her texts were ... special.
But I'll step back and admit that she is not the best possible candidate for capital punishment. I think she convinced someone to commit suicide when a decent person would have convinced someone NOT to commit suicide. I think she's fundamentally damaged. I think she's an incurable sociopath. But perhaps she has not done anything which warrants execution. I'll admit that.
But I do say that many career criminals who have damaged the lives of many people are just being warehoused in prisons, and those people, IMO, should just be done away with.
I read the details of the evidence. It wasn't a casual, "Oh, go jump in a lake!" or even an angry, "I hate you, just kill yourself." She worked hard to get him to do it. An interesting question is whether she did it for the sympathy, "Poor me, my boyfriend killed himself," our old friend Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy, or whether she's a stone sociopath. As some have suggested above, her going through his things is consistent with a serial killer's taking trophies. On the other hand, it's also consistent with, "Look at me grieving! Look at me!"
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