Houston & Texas News

Nov. 27, 2007, 11:31PM
Child porn found at home of prosecutor who killed self
Associated Press



DALLAS - Authorities found child pornography among the possessions of a
prosecutor who fatally shot himself last year when police arrived at his home as
part of a sting arranged by Dateline NBC: To Catch A Predator, according to a
state report.
When they knocked on the door of his Terrell home last November, police
planned to arrest Louis "Bill" Conradt Jr., 57, on a warrant accusing him of
soliciting sex from a minor. They said Conradt, the former Kaufman County
district attorney, had online sexual chats with an adult who pretended to be a
13-year-old boy.
Conradt was targeted in a sting arranged by Dateline and the activist group
Perverted Justice, which supplied adults who trolled Internet chat rooms,
posing as underage boys and girls, and trying to collect incriminating sex talk.
The program set up shop last November in a two-story home in Collin County,
where 24 men were arrested after being accused of arranging to meet boys or
girls there.
When Conradt didn't show up for a meeting, police went to his home,
accompanied by a Dateline camera crew.
The state probe of Conradt's death found evidence of the online chats at his
home, according to a Texas Department of Public Safety report released to The
Dallas Morning News.

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