The Disturbing Reason To Catch A Predator Was Cancelled (Not What You Think)

For three years, Chris Hansen and Dateline NBC caught men on camera and drew in millions of viewers. Then in December 2007, To Catch a Predator aired its last new episode, and nobody announced it. The internet says it was a cover-up to protect powerful men. The paper trail tells a different story. It goes through a quiet Texas suburb, a prosecutor named Bill Conradt who never walked through the sting house door, and a federal judge who sat down and watched the whole episode. - The Texas DA who warned police in writing before the sting even started - The deleted MySpace page that may never have been deleted - One sentence a Dateline producer said to an off-duty detective - What Judge Denny Chin wrote about NBC and "responsible journalism" - Why Chris Hansen walked out of Robert Pattinson's Primetime with his own camera rolling #ToCatchAPredator #ChrisHansen #TrueCrime Music Provided by Epidemic Sound https://share.epidemicsound.com/zk0wpy Chapters: 0:00 To Catch a Predator Cancelled: The Real Story 1:29 How Dateline NBC Set Up To Catch a Predator 3:55 The Murphy, Texas Sting Begins 6:03 Assistant District Attorney Louis 'Bill' Conradt Jr. Appears 7:24 Bill Conradt Fails to Appear for Sting 8:03 The Decision to Arrest Bill Conradt at Home 10:06 Dateline NBC Influence on Warrants and Arrest 14:08 SWAT Team Entry and Bill Conradt's Death 16:25 Immediate Reactions to Bill Conradt's Death 26:00 Patricia Conradt Files Lawsuit Against NBC 26:42 Judge Denny Chin Rules Against NBC News 28:56 To Catch a Predator Cancellation and Settlement 31:02 Chris Hansen Launches Hansen vs Predator 32:57 Robert Pattinson Primetime Movie Controversy 35:55 Hansen's Public Fight Against Primetime Film