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NBC Sued for $105 Mil over Predator Suicide
The sister of Louis William Conradt, a former U.S. state prosecutor who shot himself upon being approached by policemen doing Dateline: To Catch a Predator's bidding, has sued NBC Universal for $105 million, claiming that producers leaned on cops to target Conradt, and that said lawmen possessed "neither a search warrant nor an arrest warrant" meeting legal standards.
As camera-toting officers arrived at Conradt's home last November, "He told them, 'I'm not going to hurt anyone,' and shot himself," reads the lawsuit. "Then a police officer said to a Dateline producer, 'That'll make good TV.' Death was an hour later."
NBCU has yet to receive the lawsuit but says in a statement to Reuters, "We believe the claims... to be completely without merit."
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Jul 24, 2007 9:30 AM
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If this woman wins her suit, I would like to see Conradt's victims counter-sue her!
I don't watch these NBC shows, but I'm awfully glad they are being done.
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Jul 24, 2007 1:07 PM
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She doesn't really have a case. She's basically saying that she should be owed something becuse her brother was a perv. This man got caught doing something he had no business doing, he couldn't handle the fact that he got in some deep trouble so he took the cowardly way out. He worked for the law and you think that he would know better. And speaking of pervs, where is Mike Foley? Did he go to jail yet, or is he still in rehab?
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Jul 24, 2007 1:46 PM
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I love Dateline: To Catch a Predator. A lot of times when these guys get caught, they've see the show before. I can't believe people would be that stupid. And they ALL say they weren't really going to do anything. Right! Then they have to call their wives to bail them out of jail, idiots!
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Jul 24, 2007 2:09 PM
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I have to express my strong disagreement with everyone who has commented on this thus far. I think shows like this are sensationalistic crap. They are not out to protect anyone. They exist to titilate and scare. And they are entrapment. And before anyone casts aspersions on my character, let me say that I'm a mom and of course I'm no fan of pedophilia. I just believe in civil rights. For christ's sake is everyone who posts on this site a conservative?
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Jul 24, 2007 2:43 PM
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blueangel, you must be new here, to accuse any of us who have posted so far of being...(gasp)...CONSERVATIVE! 
You raise a good point about that whole presumed innocent stuff, but let's see...um, how many of these accused predators managed to sue NBC or the police for false accusations or arrests??? I think that would be NONE!
As I wrote previously, I don't watch those shows (because I see NOTHING entertaining about watching these losers leap into the trap), but I will defend to the death NBC's right to air these shows...if it gets some of these creepiest of creeps out of circulation. When you stop to think that ONE predator can have HUNDREDS of victims, how can you oppose the show, regardless of how titilating it might be. Personally, I think any parents who get their "jollies" by watching someone who MIGHT have lost a child to these jerks is perfectly justified in enjoying the spectacle of it all.
And make no mistake...kids who are preyed upon by these #$%@$#@s are often RUINED by their experiences. Sometimes, it's a fate worse than death. I wish the courts would deal more harshly with pedophiles than they do. Until that day, people have to be satisfied with the vicarious enjoyment of watching NBC take them down...one creep at a time.
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Jul 24, 2007 3:05 PM
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Would it make the concept of the show better to let them start doing stuff to the supposed child before they busted them? Many times, she will ask them what they are going to do so she knows. I do not consider that entrapment. I could be wrong though. All I know is I don't have any respect for grown men who want to do anything sexual with a child. I guess that makes me conservative?
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Jul 24, 2007 3:39 PM
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I happen to agree with TV Gord, Wycked1 and Mannie_Annie. Predators deserve what they get. Conradt's suicide was, indeed, a cowardly act by someone who felt he couldn't face the consequences of his actions.
In this country, murder is the only act that will get you the death penalty in the states that have it. But, child molesters have been shown, time and time again, to be unable to reform. Isn't the destruction of a child, even though the victim still lives, equally as, or ever more, heinous than killing? Child molesting should either bring a mandatory life sentence or death, in my book.
For the record, I'm a moderate independent.
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Jul 24, 2007 4:28 PM
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That sucks bowlby4. I thought they only arrested people when they show up to the person's house, but reading that article they made it seem like he didn't show up, so they went to his house. I don't think that is right. When they show up, that shows intent and that's when they should be arrested.
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Jul 24, 2007 5:02 PM
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I wonder if them dropping those cases will open a Pandora's box.
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Jul 24, 2007 5:05 PM
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Gee, my heart bleeds.
I'm a liberal. I'm far more concerned with my civil rights and those of the children than this perv. (You know, the right NOT to be preyed upon.)
If the police or the show had killed him, I'd say you have a case, but he killed HIMSELF.
Only he kept himself from getting his day in court.
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Jul 24, 2007 5:44 PM
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Wow....only 11 comments. I am surprised.
My 2 cents....this sister is really pushing the envelope on this one. Looking to get some CA$H from her brother's death that HE COMMITTED. Give me a break. He did take the cowards way out as far as I am concerned.
Miss "blue"..why not toodle on over to the USA Today website to voice your outrage over this. At this writing, there are over 300 postings and growing. Last I saw, very few have sympathy for this PERV.
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Jul 24, 2007 6:40 PM
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This is the best show on TV.
Every police dept should be running their own operation every single day to get these perverts off the street.
Whoever has any sympathy for this pervert who took the easy way out should look to the young girls and boys these men plan to abuse.
His family is suing because he got caught being a pervert criminal????
That's hilarious
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Jul 25, 2007 10:43 AM
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Entrapment means that the government induces someone whom they had no reason to believe was likely to do to commit a crime they would not otherwise have committed.
A typical scenario: an undercover cop knows a marijuana dealer who only sells pot, but keeps asking him for cocaine offering him well above the going rate until the marijuana dealer finally breaks down and arranges a cocaine buy, only to get busted. The pot dealer has never sold coke before, the cop knows the pot dealer has never sold coke before, has no reason to believe the pot dealer would ever sell coke, the pot dealer has repeatedly told the cop he doesn't sell coke, yet the cop wants to manufacture the coke deal in order to get a more significant bust.
In this case, Perverted Justice goes online in chatrooms and waits for the child predators to initiate contact. The predator initiates any sexual conversation. The predator sends lewd photos to the decoy, not the other way around. The predator solicits sex from someone they perceive to be underage. Those elements by themselves are sufficient to have committed a crime. They don't need to show up in person to get arrested. Sending pics of sex organs to a minor and an adult asking a minor to engage in sex, whether there is an intention to follow through or not, by themselves are crimes.
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Jul 25, 2007 11:56 AM
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