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Erin Lee Carr

The documentary filmmaker on 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.] Why did you want to tell this story? I wanted to create an

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