After Conradt's suicide, an article in the Columbia Journalism Review extensively investigated To Catch a Predator and the transparent Chinese wall between itself, Perverted-Justice, and law-enforcement.

Louis William "Bill" Conradt Jr. was a predator who was supposed to be caught during the Murphy, Texas investigation. He shot himself before police could apprehend him. His death and fallout of his sister's lawsuit ultimately resulted in the cancellation of To Catch A Predator.

June 24, 2008 -- NBC has settled a lawsuit that blamed the network for the suicide of a Texas prosecutor who was targeted in an undercover sting against alleged pedophiles as part of the Dateline: To Catch a Predator show.

Nov 6, 2006 · Louis “Bill” Conradt Jr., 56, chief felony assistant district attorney for nearby Rockwall County and former district attorney in Kaufman County, died Sunday. Police forced their way into...

Jun 24, 2008 · Louis Conradt was one of two dozen men in the Dallas-Fort Worth area snared by the ninth “Predator” sting in the fall of 2006. He allegedly engaged in a sexually explicit online chat with a...

Jan 5, 2023 · Why did “To Catch a Predator” end or get canceled? The likely reason is due to one assistant district attorney (DA) from Texas named Louis Conradt Jr., who committed suicide during an on-air sting operation.

Jun 26, 2008 · The family of Louis W. Conradt Jr. filed a $105 million lawsuit last year against NBC, which ran the “Predator” episode as part of its “Dateline NBC” newsmagazine series. The network refused to...

Nov 7, 2006 · The prosecutor, Louis Conradt Jr., had been caught in a sting operation set up by Dateline NBC, the television news magazine, and an Internet watchdog group called Perverted Justice. An NBC...

Feb 11, 2009 · In 2006, NBC's "To Catch a Predator" arrived in Murphy, Texas, to conduct a sting operation. The only thing that followed was the gunshot.

Apr 17, 2023 · Located in Texas, local district attorney Bill Conradt was a well-to-do man: an intelligent man, Louis William Conradt Jr. graduated from the University of Texas with an undergrad and his...