After being “caught” on NBC’s Dateline: To Catch a Predator show, William Conradt Jr. killed himself and now Conradt’s sister has successfully filed a lawsuit against NBC blaming the TV show for her brothers death.

The suit was brought by the sister of William Conradt Jr., an assistant district attorney in Rockland County, Texas, who shot himself in the head after a local police SWAT team, accompanied by a Dateline crew, surrounded his house and moved in to arrest him in November 2006.Conradt’s suicide was at the center of an ABC News 20/20 investigation looking into troubling questions for both law enforcement and the news media raised by the popular Dateline series.

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Even after watching countless episodes of “ To Catch a Predator” on MSNBC I am still in awe of how disgusting and stupid some adults are when trying to solicit sex from minors.I am also amused by the use of 20 + cops “ To Catch a Predator” uses when taking down a perpetrator. I mean really? Does it really take 20 armed officers to arrest one pervert?But that’s beside the point…In effort to stop even more sickos from trying to get their cyber-paws on young teens, MySpace is also making some changes. Legal authorities in 49 states reached an agreement with MySpace to add new safety measures to the site that will help prevent misuse by sexual predators.

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