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Suicide of Bill Conradt

2006 death of American assistant district attorney

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 26, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Louis William "Bill" Conradt Jr., an American local assistant district attorney in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, died by suicide via gunshot on Sunday, November 5, 2006, when Texas police served him with search and arrest warrants stemming from a Dateline NBC – Perverted-Justice online sting of men soliciting sex with children.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Suicide of Bill Conradt” as 2006 death of American assistant district attorney. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Suicide, Bill and Conradt.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Suicide, Bill and Conradt providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Suicide of Bill Conradt”, the useful work is to connect “2006 death of American assistant district attorney” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 26, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2006.

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This entry incorporates text from “Suicide of Bill Conradt” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.