News > NBC fields Predator suicide lawsuit
July 24, 2007
Written by: Josh Karp
Thank God this has happened (the lawsuit, NOT the suicide). The sister of former U.S. Prosecutor Louis William Conradt has sued NBC to the tune of $105 million. The suit comes as the result of a planned episode of NBC's Dateline: To Catch a Predator. The show was, as most Dateline episodes are, planned as a surprise expose of Conradt's secret life as a sexual predator. As TVGuide reports, however, things took a horrible turn for the worse. Conradt apparently anticipated the arrival of the crew, shouting "I'm not going to hurt anyone!" as the cameras arrived. He then proceeded to shoot himself. A police officer allegedly turned to a dateline producer following the gunshot and remarked "That'll make good TV." Yikes! Conradt died one hour later. The suit alleges that the policemen who accompanied the camera crew had neither a search nor an arrest warrant. Shaaady. To be perfectly honest, I hope that this lawsuit is successful not only in recovering the money for the affected family, but in removing the Dateline franchise from the airwaves entirely. The show. Must. Go.
