TAUNTON, Mass. — The pathologist who conducted the autopsy on a Massachusetts teenager prosecutors say was coaxed into killing himself through dozens of text messages from his girlfriend has confirmed the teen died of carbon monoxide poisoning.
Dr. Faryl Sandler testified at the manslaughter trial of Michelle Carter on Thursday.
Sandler says Conrad Roy III had no alcohol or illicit drugs in his system. Under cross-examination by Carter's attorney, however, she acknowledged that she listed suicide as the cause of death on Roy's death certificate.
Carter was 17 when the 18-year-old Roy died in July 2014.
State troopers who conducted the investigation also took the stand. They reviewed thousands of texts between the couple, including one in which Carter wrote: "Hang yourself, jump off a building, stab yourself idk there's a lot of ways."
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