20/20 Investigation Preys on Dateline's Predator
Chris Hansen by Virginia Sherwood/NBC
Hot off an
Esquire article as well as
a lawsuit positing that NBC's Chris Hansen-hosted
Dateline: To Catch a Predator series went above and beyond the call of journalism in the name of exposing Louis Conradt, a former Murphy, Texas, DA who
took his own life as a camera-toting policeman breached his home, ABC's own newsmagazine is getting in on the action. In a rare instance of a program acknowledging the existence of a rival,
20/20 is working on a story about
To Catch a Predator's four-day sting operation, to determine whether Conradt was the victim of questionable or compromised law-enforcement tactics.
