Whatever happened to that dude? The show seemed to abruptly end
Cancellation[edit]
The show was cancelled in 2008, in part because
Louis Conradt, an assistant district attorney in
Rockwall County, Texas, shot himself after he was caught talking to and exchanging pictures with a Perverted-Justice volunteer posing as a 13-year-old boy.
[46] When Conradt did not show up for a prearranged meeting, NBC and local police tracked him to his home. He committed suicide as police and an NBC camera crew entered his home.
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In an interview with
Time magazine, Hansen opined that the show had simply run its course.
[48] The original episodes of
To Catch a Predator continue to air occasionally on
MSNBC.
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In late 2007, Conradt's sister, Patricia Conradt, subsequently sued NBC Universal, saying that the police had raided Conradt's house at the behest of NBC. In January 2008, federal judge
Denny Chin dismissed most of Patricia Conradt's claims, but found that she had a reasonable chance of proving that NBC had pressed police into engaging in unreasonable and unnecessary tactics solely for entertainment value, thus creating "a substantial risk of suicide or other harm." He also found that Conradt could prove that police disregarded their duty to prevent Conradt from killing himself and that NBC's actions amounted to "conduct so outrageous and extreme that no civilized society should tolerate it."
[49] NBC and Patricia Conradt reached an undisclosed settlement that June.
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