A controversial sting operation that ended with an assistant D.A.'s suicide, allegations of sexual solicitation, a high-profile lawsuit and a whistleblower's shocking revelations -- all the ingredients that one might expect of a Dateline NBC feature story.
On Nov. 5, 2006, with police knocking on the door of his home and a camera crew from "Dateline NBC: To Catch a Predator" waiting in the street, Rockwall County assistant prosecutor Louis "Bill" Conradt, Jr. shot himself rather than face accusations of soliciting sex online from a decoy posing as a 13 year-old boy.
Hurricane victims and Orange County residents Murphy and Debra Hunt will have their $75,000 lawsuit against State Farm Lloyds plucked from the county's court and placed in hands of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Beaumont Division.