...As Dan Schrack leaned against a folding table and talked on the phone, a number of Perverted Justice employees sat at nearby desks, working on computers. At some point, after Schrack hung up, some of these people ran the screen name and e-mail address and phone number of the man known as Wil through a variety of Internet search engines. They made certain discoveries, among them Wil’s real name and occupation.
A cameraman recorded a scene shortly thereafter, when one of the Perverted Justice employees informed Chris Hansen. He told Chris Hansen that the man they thought was nineteen was actually fifty-six, that his name was Bill Conradt, that he was not a college student but rather an assistant district attorney of a neighboring county, the county’s chief felony prosecutor.
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Through a group called perverted justice, that according to some things I have read was sending his friends letters he was a want a bee pervert. And as they will not give anyone the unedited transcripts or the original saved disks no one knows what he said to anyone on line. After so many months of harassment he probably was real close to that point when they showed up with cameras.