How Documentary Filmmaker Erin Lee Carr Brings ‘Radical Empathy’ to True Crime

The documentary filmmaker tells TIME about her new movie, true crime's pull toward darkness and lessons from her famous father.

I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth v. Michelle Carter, out July 9 on HBO, takes on the "texting suicide" case in which a teenager, Michelle Carter, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for encouraging her boyfriend, Conrad Roy III, to kill himself. [Carter started serving a 15-month prison sentence in February.

The documentary filmmaker tells TIME about her new movie, true crime's pull toward darkness and lessons from her famous father. I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth v. Michelle Carter, out July 9 on HBO, takes on the "texting suicide" case in which a teenager, Michelle Carter, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for encouraging her boyfriend, Conrad Roy III, to kill himself. [Carter started serving a 15-month prison sentence in February.