Gone from the NBC website but no forgotten. I'm glad that sites like youtube and jossip keep this story alive. Maybe NBC will stop trying to play moral policeman games for ratings. An entrapped man took his own life out of desperation. Whatever they paid out to his sister won't be enough to bring him back nor is it going to buy back the respect of its viewers who don't get off on that sort of programming.

To Keith: Spoken like a true pedophile. Be careful out there.

Typical family cant believe there Loved one aculy did this but they found tons of child porn on his pc and he was formating the pc as well go figure people like this need to be shot or given 25 yrs top fo rlaying hands on a child or even being caught online by orginizations like this. For him taking his own life Ummm I dont think I would have done it if I did nothing wrong Hmmm easy way out shall we say or maybe even COWARD Peace out

He is innocent until proven guilty. EdED and Yahoo sound just a bit presumptive of his guilt.

The perverts can once again go after poor innocent kids. I think every one of the sicko's BUSTED should kill themselves! The loser did the world a favor by topping himself and now he made his greedy sister rich. Nice touch! She can remember the complete pervert her brother was each time she spends a dollar. SHAME ON HER.

I think that program was very wrong to start out with, they named the people that were arrested in the program. But failed to arrest the parants of the minors who allowed access to the adult sites, they forget children today learn to use the internet from schools and they can figure out how to change the parental control blocks today.
The kids also sign into MySpace.com with false pictures and claim to be at legal age and they are not 18 yrs of age, I think parants also should be arrested for allowing their children to be on websites of adult content and should state their real age with their photos and have a real photo not a picture of an adult and claim they are 18 or 98 yrs ols and get adults to talk to them. Parants should also be charged for allowing their children online and not doing their home work for school. the kids hurry up and signout of adult websites when mom and dad pull in the driveway or walk in the door and claim to be doing their home work and they weren't, and yet mom and dad beleive their children, We as parants should not buy the kids computers and or lap tops unless they are controled by the school or only accessible while parants are home with the child to watch the websites where the kids go and keep the computed locked down until parants are home watching their children

There is nothing wrong with that program yes they gave out names on the tv show but the local paper would have given them out anyway…and another thing parents do watch their children and yes there are some parents who don't which they should have some consequences but there are alot that do but u cannot monitor your child 24/7 the schools are not monitoring kids as much as you would like to think they are…you do not have to be 18 to be on myspace and if you know someone who is on there that is doing that report them and myspace will remove their profile…the point here is this man knowing right from wrong still contacted this supposed little boy and no matter what that was wrong he made very graphic conversations with the boy and when he didn't show up they still had enough evidence that the police decided there was more than enough evidence to arrest him and to me and i am sure many others with the fact that he was the DA he would have known that they had no case but him taking his life showed many people just how guilty he truely was and i am sorry for the sisters loss but do not think she deserved that kind of money

And lay people are not hired by police, for a very good reason: THE CONSTITUTION.
Chris Hansen is not interested in the Constitution, he's interested in RATINGS. He therefore shamelessly mounts a high horse, rides to the top of the mountain and declares a hyopcritical crusade, panic-mongering by painting a picture of leering perverts and boogy-men behind every dark corner; he then has his cyber-thugs lure very unstable, abused, and socially vulnerable persons into deliberate traps, so he can stare them down with his well-practiced sneer of self-righteous disgust, contempt and arrogance as a self-appointed vigilante of such "innocent" 15-year old girls.
Hansen then sneers again, while he has his waiting thugs with badges storm in and proceed to beat, bind and otherwise humiliate and crucify the oh-so-dangerous "monster" whom he had just been talking with and offering cookies 5 seconds earlier– inevitably a harmless-looking social outcast of little education, intelligence or voice; basically he's framing half-wits, and acting like a knight slaying dragons.
So if Hansen really wants to catch a predator, he should really start by looking in the mirror– there he'll find a SOCIAL predator of the worst kind.

One more thing: 15-year old girls are offering PUSSY on-line, MEN ARE ACCEPTING EVEN THOUGH THE LAW HAS DECIDED THAT IT'S SOCIALLY TABOO!

Oh HEAVENS, WHAT A WORLD WE LIVE IN!

Ok, 15 years old is not "pedophilia," it's JAIL BAIT.
IT's called JAIL BAIT for a reason– i.e. ALL men want to have sex with them, because they're HOT at that age– and older sagging grannies just act all high and mighty and outraged and protective about it about it, because they're freakign JEALOUS at the smooth skin, the perky breasts, and the firm buttocks of YOUNG women!

So Chris Hansen is not "catching predators," he using JAIL BAIT to TROLL for men who simply don't make enough money to get laid by women who havent' yet learned to WHORE themselves.

Well, I dont think NBC should have paid this woman. OKAY the man was a criminal they found kiddie porn on his computer that in itself is a crime. Cops routinely pretend to be kids in chatrooms even as of now to catch pedophiles. I saw a man arrested out of a chatroom on Yahoo! by the police over last weekened. His face was on the news he was shown in handcuffs on tv. This is no different from what the police themselves did and still do. If you rule this is entrapment by Dateline, then you must rule that all operations even those done by the Police alone themselves is entrapment. Well, it's not. They dont contact the men first. The men are blantantly sexual. They're criminals, period. If he had been caught by the police like this other man over the weekend, he'd still been on jail in the news. He'd still probably would have killed himself anyways because the point was that he couldnt live with being exposed for the pervert he was either way. With or without NBC. Sooner or later he'd been caught.

These gentlemen clearly had many constitutional rights violated its not even funny. Unfortunately , most Americans are led by emotions not logic and can fail to be objective. Were these men stupid yes. Stupidity is not a crime. We live in a nation of innocent until proven guilty BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT. These men cybered with and came to meet ADULTS. Can you say roleplay. Arresting and convicting based on intent, is not a road we need to go. Throw in that when they were interrogated , they had cameras and audio. Clear violation of RIGHT TO PRIVACY. Murphy Tx was right to drop every case.