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Alex Winter Explains How He Brought Humanity to a Predator in ‘Primetime’
On Nov. 5, 2006, as a camera crew from NBC’s hit tabloid news show To Catch a Predator descended upon his house alongside a seven-man SWAT team, Texas District Attorney Bill Conradt committed suicide with a Browning .380 pistol.
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On Nov. 5, 2006, as a camera crew from NBC’s hit tabloid news show To Catch a Predator descended upon his house alongside a seven-man SWAT team, Texas District Attorney Bill Conradt committed suicide with a Browning .380 pistol. He’d been communicating online and via telephone with someone he thought was a 13-year-old boy but was actually an adult working for the vigilante group Perverted Justice. The incident sparked a major lawsuit, and led directly to NBC’s decision to forever pull the plug on To Catch a Predator.
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