of course these people need to be off the streets, but the episodes still make me a little ill for reasons beyond the disgusting perps that are caught in the net. then again, if it starts to make pedos think twice about trying to meet anyone through the internet, maybe it's a good thing?
Prosecutor Kills Himself in Texas Raid Over Child Sex By TIM EATONPublished: November 7, 2006TERRELL, Tex., Nov. 6 — A prosecutor in this North Texas town killed himself Sunday as the police tried to arrest him on charges of soliciting sex over the Internet from a person he thought was a 13-year-old boy.
The prosecutor, Louis Conradt Jr., 56, 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 camera crew was outside the house to film the scene when the fatal shot was fired.
Mr. Conradt had refused to open the door when police officers arrived at his house, where he lived alone, said Sgt. Snow Robertson of the Police Department in Murphy, a nearby town where officers said Mr. Conradt intended to meet the boy he thought he had communicated with.
Officers eventually forced their way into the house, only to find that Mr. Conradt had shot himself in the head with a small-caliber semi-automatic handgun, Sergeant Robertson said. Mr. Conradt died later at Parkland Hospital in Dallas.
Police officers from Murphy had gone to the house with a tactical team and two officers from Terrell to serve a warrant for Mr. Conradt’s arrest. One of the officers from Terrell knew Mr. Conradt from his work as a prosecutor, Sergeant Robertson said.
Mr. Conradt had been a district attorney in Kaufman County and was the chief felony assistant district attorney in Rockwall County at the time of his death.
The police planned to search his computer and his house, Sergeant Robertson said.
The sergeant’s department had been working with Perverted Justice and NBC News in a sting operation singling out people who solicit sex from children.
Allison Gollust, an NBC News spokeswoman, said the crew for Dateline NBC’s “To Catch a Predator” series was taping as the police approached the house. But Ms. Gollust added that no one from Dateline had had contact with Mr. Conradt and that there was nothing to suggest that he had seen the crew before he turned the gun on himself.
“There’s absolutely no evidence that would suggest that he was aware of us,” Ms. Gollust said. “We don’t anticipate making a change to our reporting.”
Xavier Von Erck, director of operations with Perverted Justice, said Mr. Conradt had made contact in an AOL chat room with a decoy from Perverted Justice who was posing as a 13-year-old boy. Mr. Von Erck would not disclose the details of the chat, but he said, “It was sexual in nature.”
Unlike some suspects in pedophile stings that appear on “Dateline NBC,” Mr. Conradt had not actually met the person he thought was the teenager, but Sergeant Robertson said he planned to do so. Perverted Justice staff members found profiles from Mr. Conradt on AOL, Yahoo and MySpace.com, Mr. Von Erck said. He also said that he thought Mr. Conradt had tried to erase at least one online profile, on MySpace.com, a popular online social networking community used mainly by teenagers, in the moments before he shot himself.
Sergeant Robertson said the police in his town of 3,100 had apprehended 22 other people in stings since last Thursday, mostly from the Dallas-Fort Worth area, with the help of Perverted Justice. He said more would be arrested in the coming days.
“We’ll continue to work with them right now,” Sergeant Robertson said.
Perverted Justice stings have led to the arrests of 260 people nationwide this year, Mr. Von Erck said.
Several residents in this town of 14,000 about 30 miles east of Dallas said they were shocked to hear the accusations of pedophilia against Mr. Conradt, who had served two terms as district attorney.
Kirby Webb, an investment advisor from Terrell, said he never wanted to hear about people taking their own lives, but he applauded law enforcement’s effort to catch online child predators in the town.
“This is a good family town,” Mr. Webb said. “We want to preserve that image.”
― gear (gear), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:48 (eighteen years ago)
― gear (gear), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:49 (eighteen years ago)
― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:51 (eighteen years ago)
― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:51 (eighteen years ago)
― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:52 (eighteen years ago)
easier and more legal than lynching the pervert I guess.
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:57 (eighteen years ago)
― gear (gear), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:04 (eighteen years ago)
― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:05 (eighteen years ago)
― gear (gear), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:10 (eighteen years ago)
― wordy rappinghood (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:12 (eighteen years ago)
― geoff (gcannon), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:13 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/10/19/neighbor.stabbed.ap/index.html
― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:15 (eighteen years ago)
there was that one guy they caught who brought his 3 yr old son along with him to the house, though.
― gear (gear), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:18 (eighteen years ago)
― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:24 (eighteen years ago)
― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:27 (eighteen years ago)
― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:28 (eighteen years ago)
they guy with his kid was really unsettling and bizarre and awful. but the next step after thinking "wow, how many asshole abuser wierdos are out there" is thinking "uh ok this is kind of a lot of low hanging fruit you're bringing in"
― geoff (gcannon), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:30 (eighteen years ago)
― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:30 (eighteen years ago)
― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:32 (eighteen years ago)
― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:33 (eighteen years ago)
Dateline/Perverted Justice is certainly the most well-known but law enforcement agencies across the country do these sorts of stings all the time.
― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:35 (eighteen years ago)
I would love to see a clip show of courtroom theatrics where victim's parents get to berate scumball molesters. Actually, I'm sure I could "create" a clipshow over at YouTube.
― don weiner (don weiner), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:35 (eighteen years ago)
― bo janglin (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:37 (eighteen years ago)
― Beth S. (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:41 (eighteen years ago)
but that's what so nuts, it doesn't seem to be doing so! you could only really measure this by seeing the number of guys drop off, but as of now they're still lining up at the door to get arrested with a camera in their face. i don't know whether to think this is a good thing (paedos r dumm, reel them all in) or not (how fkn many creeps are there? how many more have already moved off radar?)
― geoff (gcannon), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:43 (eighteen years ago)
― geoff (gcannon), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:45 (eighteen years ago)
I dunno, maybe it's because of the Rev.-Haggard-gay-sex-&-meth story in the news cycle now, but I can't help but suspect the motivation of persons obsessed with persecuting "perverts" as a way of sublimating / doing penenace for their own shameful urges.
And yes, I realize I'm on extremely shaky ground here. Just throwing it out there.
― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:47 (eighteen years ago)
there's no way to measure this although there are loads of studies showing the influence of deterrence on crime.
also, although the vast majority of molestation occurs from non-strangers, that might be a condition of convenience. In other words, scumballs probably have an easier time raping their relatives and gym class students rather than kids who they don't know.
― don weiner (don weiner), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:49 (eighteen years ago)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e9/Disney_World_Girl.jpg
I think about the person who had to doctor that child abuse photo to make it "presentable" for the public.
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:55 (eighteen years ago)
xpost
― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:56 (eighteen years ago)
Who was it?
― researching ur life (grady), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:57 (eighteen years ago)
― geoff (gcannon), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:57 (eighteen years ago)
― gear (gear), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:57 (eighteen years ago)
― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:57 (eighteen years ago)
yeah i mean i watch this show and i think these dudes are creepy scumfucks but i also think the really, really twisted, fucked up ones aren't the ones stealing out to some 15 yr old girl's house hoping to get a blowjob. though i guess that one dude with the cat fetish is another story ; (
― gear (gear), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:00 (eighteen years ago)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masha_Allen
― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:03 (eighteen years ago)
― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:04 (eighteen years ago)
― like murderinging (modestmickey), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:07 (eighteen years ago)
― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:09 (eighteen years ago)
― like murderinging (modestmickey), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:13 (eighteen years ago)
― Eppy (Eppy), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:15 (eighteen years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:16 (eighteen years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:17 (eighteen years ago)
Whoof, vague-o-rama. So they basically have to blackmail you into comitting a crime for it to be entrapment? And even then you have to be crying while you do it?
― Eppy (Eppy), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:20 (eighteen years ago)
other than that, entrapment can only be proven if the accused did not already want to initiate the crime. so, it's my understanding that the Dateline people just go online in these chat rooms that are likely to attract pedophiles and be provocative/flirtatious enough for the pedophile to make an advance. unless the Dateline people themselves proposed sexual conduct, they didn't legally entrap the accused.
or so i understand.
― like murderinging (modestmickey), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:20 (eighteen years ago)
selling drugs to kid who asks for them=okay
― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:20 (eighteen years ago)
― hearditonthexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:21 (eighteen years ago)
what is this, candyman?
― bo janglin (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:21 (eighteen years ago)
wow, this is just so wrong.
― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:22 (eighteen years ago)
2012 republican presidential nominee
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:32 (fourteen years ago)
cleverly disguised as "2012 republican presidential nominee"
― blended haircrüt (absolutely clean glasses), Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:34 (fourteen years ago)
http://www.realmofdarkness.net/sounds/hansen/chrishansen-soundboard-2.htm
― rip nyc chicken (am0n), Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:35 (fourteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCkolIsO1ic
"I don't wanna be on the news, dawg.""Well, it's a little late for that, dawg."He quickly comes up with a... disguise!
― blended haircrüt (absolutely clean glasses), Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:38 (fourteen years ago)
The Mississippi thing is so fucked and confusing. Like, I don't even really get how that makes any sense at all.
I'm really freaked out by how much Hanson's wife and mistress look alike. I mean - it's ridiculous.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:41 (fourteen years ago)
he's clearly a man with...predilections.
― death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:43 (fourteen years ago)
just let me drive baby . . . I'll show you heaven
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:44 (fourteen years ago)
predilicktions
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:44 (fourteen years ago)
preyledicktions
― DJP, Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:45 (fourteen years ago)
preydelicktions
― death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:46 (fourteen years ago)
preydelickshots
preydicklic . . . no, I'm not going to do it.
― Michael Bay, CEO of Transformers (Phil D.), Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:46 (fourteen years ago)
I feel like in general the similarities are a sign that really wants to be w his wife, but a version from before life happened to them. Like whatever their cumulative issues/damage are from over the years, the version from before that, when responsibilities were less demanding, and personal failures on both sides hadn't made everything much more complicated.
― you're in the club and the light hits your ass like pow (Laurel), Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:47 (fourteen years ago)
http://i55.tinypic.com/2wpulg8.gif
― blended haircrüt (absolutely clean glasses), Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:47 (fourteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3FxdOBXWC8
― rip nyc chicken (am0n), Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:48 (fourteen years ago)
i bet marc ecko was really plzd with that free advertisement
― death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:48 (fourteen years ago)
oh man the disguise is the best
Laurel - yeah, I think you're probably onto something. It's still very strange though.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:49 (fourteen years ago)
omg dying at the crank calls
I'm cute though, built good?
Well, that's fun.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:50 (fourteen years ago)
oh man those phone calls
― blended haircrüt (absolutely clean glasses), Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:50 (fourteen years ago)
"laugh out loud"
― rip nyc chicken (am0n), Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:51 (fourteen years ago)
i wish he'd just use "lawl"
omg that was amazing
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:52 (fourteen years ago)
oh yeah
I have tears in my eyes from trying so hard not to lawl at my desk.
it's a funny desk
― Mark G, Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:56 (fourteen years ago)
ha
― DJP, Thursday, 30 June 2011 16:00 (fourteen years ago)
enbb is called into her boss's office later and asked to just have a seat over there
― death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 30 June 2011 16:00 (fourteen years ago)
Don't say that!!!
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Thursday, 30 June 2011 16:03 (fourteen years ago)
http://www.gifsoup.com/view/143102/to-catch-a-streaker-o.gif
― rip nyc chicken (am0n), Thursday, 30 June 2011 16:04 (fourteen years ago)
just a bit of fun on a thread about pedos, lets just have a seat over there and be cool
― death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 30 June 2011 16:04 (fourteen years ago)
omg the naked guy
youtube?
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Thursday, 30 June 2011 16:05 (fourteen years ago)
i can't control my horny level
― ☂ (max), Thursday, 30 June 2011 16:08 (fourteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jazY7cLfHr0
― rip nyc chicken (am0n), Thursday, 30 June 2011 16:08 (fourteen years ago)
Wait i probably shouldn't watch that at work, right?
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Thursday, 30 June 2011 16:09 (fourteen years ago)
― ☂ (max), Thursday, June 30, 2011 12:08 PM
http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/NewAnswersControllerServlet?boardid=47
― rip nyc chicken (am0n), Thursday, 30 June 2011 16:09 (fourteen years ago)
laugh out loud
― ☂ (max), Thursday, 30 June 2011 16:10 (fourteen years ago)
lawl
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Thursday, 30 June 2011 16:12 (fourteen years ago)
"horny level" is p much the funniest thing I've ever to me right now
cleanest, best lawl
― buzza, Thursday, 30 June 2011 16:47 (fourteen years ago)
buzza ^_____^
― dirty deathdrone boys (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 30 June 2011 17:03 (fourteen years ago)
lol @ the enquirer
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid115538958001?bckey=AQ~~,AAAAAFSNYNw~,u7cY7sAR_aTMMJ2KHrqOorGqvxGLeODL&bctid=1032435569001
― buzza, Thursday, 30 June 2011 18:49 (fourteen years ago)
http://static.tvfanatic.com/images/gallery/homer-and-apu-picture.png
― rip nyc chicken (am0n), Thursday, 30 June 2011 19:20 (fourteen years ago)
Hey, smashed hat. Why don't you have a seat over there.
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 30 June 2011 19:21 (fourteen years ago)
http://www.csnwashington.com/sportsnetWashington/search/v/48504883/nbc-s-chris-hansen-on-the-jerry-sandusky-sexual-abuse-scandal-11-9.htm
― buzza, Friday, 11 November 2011 00:14 (thirteen years ago)
In a sensational new twist to an outrageous scandal, “Dateline NBC” star Chris Hansen is still cheating with his sexy girlfriend months after The ENQUIRER exposed the affair – and now he’s vowing to dump his wife for her, say sources.
In our July 11, 2011, issue, The ENQUIRER exposed Hansen – best known for catching Internet sex perverts on “To Catch a Predator” – for straying from his wife Mary and hooking up with Kristyn Caddell, then a news reporter at NBC affiliate WPTV in West Palm Beach, Fla.
Although Kristyn, 30, resigned from her news position in December and is moving to the Tampa area, an insider says the twosome are still sneaking around behind Mary’s back. And the 52-year-old newsman is promising his girlfriend a bright future together, says the source.
“Exposing the scandal didn’t stop Chris and Kristyn from seeing each other – it just taught them to be more careful when they’re meeting,” revealed a close source.
“After they were caught cheating, Chris encouraged her to lay low for a while to let the scandal blow over, but they vowed to resume the relationship when there weren’t so many prying eyes.
“Now that Kristyn isn’t in the public eye, it’s a lot easier for them.
“She’s flown to a secret location to meet with Chris at least twice since the cheating scandal broke, and they speak regularly on the telephone.”
Meantime, the source says that Mary hasbeen loyally standing by her two-timing husband’s side.
“It’s sickening because Chris has been telling Kristyn all along that he intends to leave his wife for her,” the source revealed. “He’s just waiting for the right time."
― Best-Penis (buzza), Thursday, 5 January 2012 07:52 (thirteen years ago)
http://www.nationalenquirer.com/sites/nationalenquirer.com/files/imagecache/node_page_image/article_images/hansen_story_2.jpg
― Best-Penis (buzza), Thursday, 5 January 2012 07:53 (thirteen years ago)
Time is moving too fast these days.
http://i.imgur.com/oCdxOjg.jpg
― pplains, Saturday, 16 May 2015 17:07 (ten years ago)
I guess we're about at the point where kids born when that show was on are old enough to chat now.
But anyway, back to HANSEN vs PREDATOR: http://www.hansenvpredator.com/
http://i.imgur.com/yXD0Huh.gif
― pplains, Saturday, 16 May 2015 17:08 (ten years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/Mn5Fkr2.jpg
― pplains, Saturday, 16 May 2015 17:11 (ten years ago)