That Child Predator Dateline Might've Helped Commit Suicide? NBC Has Settled the Matter
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Dateline had a certified hit on its hands with “To Catch a Predator,” the game-show program where Chris Hansen and Perverted Justice invited would-be kiddie pervs to their camera-laced house, where handcuffs were the door prize. Then Dallas prosecutor Louis William Conradt Jr. had to go and kill himself when NBC’s cameras and police officers showed up at his house to ...
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