The Murphy Texas Sex Sting: Who benefits? - Perverted Justice, NBC’s Dateline & the Murphy P.D.
Folks, I have brought you the awesome reporting of Mr. Byron Harris of WFAA-TV before, WFAA is the ABC affiliate here in the D/FW area and Mr. Harris is likely the best investigative reporter I have ever seen. Kudos to Mr. Harris for his stunning report concerning Perverted Justice, NBC’s To Catch a Predator and the aftermath of their less than ideal *sting* in Murphy, TX recently.
By BYRON HARRIS WFAA-TV
NEWS 8 INVESTIGATES
E-mail: [email protected]
NBC News faces a potential $100 million lawsuit over its TV show To Catch A Predator shot in the Collin County town of Murphy last fall.
The network was served with a warning letter on Tuesday, charging NBC with negligence in the sex sting.
The sting ended when former Kaufman County district attorney Louis ‘Bill’ Conradt Jr. killed himself as police initiated a search of his house. Conradt’s constitutional rights were violated, his sister charged in her legal action.
Collin County District Attorney John Roach was concerned about civil rights in the case, too. News 8 broke the story that he would not prosecute the 23 men arrested in the sting.
Another of his worries was the business relationship between NBC and the group Perverted Justice and their impact on Murphy.
Read the Full Story Here:
Murphy sex sting: Who benefits? – WFAA.com
Unedited interview with Perverted Justice founder
More Information from Recent Stories:
05/08: Validity of stings under scrutiny
05/31: Video triggers more criticism
06/08: Murphy to re-file sex sting cases
06/22: DA: Sex sting cases may not reach court
From my blog: Validity of Murphy predator stings under scrutiny
I am not nearly as nice as Mr. Byron Harris and I am going to insert my own opinion into this fray concerning Xavier Von Erck, the 27-year-old founder of Perverted Justice; you young man, are an arrogant, rude and self centered ASSHOLE, I watched this interview with Von Erck and I was seriously taken back by the rudeness exhibited by the founder of Perverted Justice.
I have been criticized for even posting this continuing saga in the past, so much so that I had told SueS of Warriors For Innocence, my main source of criticism, that I wasn’t going to post anything in support of her or her site again, well, as the old saying goes, NEVER say NEVER, and for what it’s worth, this isn’t necessarily support, but they are linked, so, fair is fair, as I have said in past articles and comments, someone, and I am NOT saying WHO, someone dropped the ball on this operation, and I stand beside that observation NOW as much as I did the day I posted it.
The CAUSE itself, removing perverts from our society, is a great thing, but the motivation of the players, Perverted Justice, NBC Dateline, and the Murphy Texas Police Dept., has been the subject of much scrutiny lately, I am 100% convinced that SueS is doing the right thing and that HER heart is in the right place, but to criticize ME for posting some viable and documented opposition to Perverted Justice is not helping HER cause, SueS claims Perverted Justice has a 100% conviction rate for the work that they have done, at least that’s the statement she made in comments to THIS thread, I asked for some proof of that claim and have yet to receive any.
I’m not saying the 100% conviction rate claim is NOT true, but some links to that claim, and NOT links from Perverted Justice or their own PR page, would go a long ways towards legitimizing statements that were made in the recent past, and that arrest and conviction record, whatever the REAL percentage may be, does nothing to change the fact that the Op that went down in Murphy was anything other than a debacle and an embarrassment to ALL concerned.
And just for the record, I didn’t write the piece from News 8 and WFAA-TV, Byron Harris did, I just happen to agree with Byron and his take in this wonderful piece of investigative reporting, if you don’t like this story, let Byron know, leave a comment here, or send HIM an email, he’s just calling it like HE sees it, as do I.
OCEAN COUNTY, N.J. - We’ve been catching suspected Internet sex predators for more than three years, exposing men on the hunt for sex with young teens. More than 200 men have been arrested.
After 11 investigations in eight different states, a 117 men have either pleaded guilty or been found guilty by a judge or jury.
Ranando, that’s all well and good, but someone screwed up this attempt here in Texas, NO convictions, no prosecutions… And Texas is where my concern lies on this particular matter…
Fred,
I understand, I was just showing that Sue had her percents mixed up.
100% have not been convicted, I wish they had.
Oh, OK.. I gotcha.. Sorry if I misunderstood…
The whole Murphy sting seemed like a cluster to me. I scratched my head wondering what in the world happened there with the whole thing.
They nab so many on their show and there are no convictions but one person committed suicide??
That’s the problem when you are using civilians instead of law enforcement personnel.
The DA got cold feet because of that.
And the conviction rate is NOWHERE near 100%, even using their figures.
Notice you won’t see anything about the $100 million lawsuit from NBC.
Wonder if Chris Hanson will be named personally on that one?
We have been following, archiving, reporting and publicizing the gross miscarriages of justice committed by perverted-justice.com since April 2004. In one of the very first postings in our forums, it was noted by an astute observer that, while it might take some time, the general public (with a little assistance from concerned citizens) would eventually get to see the side of perverted-justice that Xavier Von Erck has worked so diligently to hide. Those revealing images are just now starting to surface.
Our members and staff have endured continuous false accusations of “pedophile” and “pedophile enabler” from Von Erck and his followers simply because we have DARED to publicly criticize their vigilante operation. The latest unedited video from WFAA in which Von Erck displays his true snot-nosed-brat colors is simply the first time it has been caught on film. This video has captured Von Erck in his natural state - This is the “true”, unvarnished Phillip Eide (Von Erck’s real name) that we have been dealing with for almost four years.
Since the beginning, we have been warning that it was inevitable that a suicide would result from their vigilante games - What most people don’t realize is that this is the SECOND suicide resulting from a perverted-justice “bust” gone wrong… (For more details on that topic, please visit the Corrupted-Justice.com forums…) It is unfortunate that Von Erck has been so successful in sucking in a gullible public for this long and that it took the suicide of a respected law enforcement official to act as a catalyst for folks to begin asking serious questions about the legitimacy of this vigilante group.
To truly understand what perverted-justice is about, one must take the time to learn the full accurate history of the group and their activities. Unfortunately, Von Erck has gone to extraordinary means to ensure their embarrassing screw-ups, incorrect accusations, evidence of severe harassment, etc. have all been expunged from the PJ site - He’s gone so far as actually having all history of PJ erased from The “Wayback Machine” at http://www.archive.org to ensure their many past foibles are no longer accessible to the public. Most people believe that what they see on “Dateline” is indicative of how perverted-justice has always done business when nothing could be further from reality. Again, for a more accurate picture of the REAL perverted-justice, please feel free to visit us at http://www.corrupted-justice.com.
Scott Morrow
Site Administrator
Thanks for the great piece, TexasFred! We at Corrupted-Justice.com have been exposing Xavier Von Erck and Perverted-Justice for a little over 3 years now, archiving our research and posting in our forums all the information that the public needs to know about the real PJ, not the fancy-smancy fluff hero crap that they show on Dateline.
As a friend declared on to me in IM: TexasFred…HE GETS IT!
Thanks again,
CJ Black Widow
[email protected]
The founder of PJ does come across every bit of the way you described him…
What’s up with the Gothic d-k head look??
Looks like some kind of Columbine reject to me… And I know this is gonna piss off JJ and Sues but if THIS is the guy they look up to, I am sorry to say but it makes me seriously question their knowledge OF the guy…
The man would be better served if he didn’t come across the way he did in that video, if you’ve got nothing to hide then why all the drama?
Should of, could of, would of; but I don’t see why the Guy didn’t just tell this investigative reporter “Give me your contact card, I’ll talk to you all you want later, as you can see I’m kinda busy at the moment.”
And actually follow up on it.
To me there is an issue of professionalism here with NBC, PJ, and those cops. I think the $$$ involved definitely went to their heads.
I’d like to know what the money was used for, down to the last cent, because if they’re going on personalized spending sprees it becomes about benefiting them and not society first.
Personally I’d like to see all child molesters castrated and/or gassed but you gotta use your noodle and don’t undermine the legitimacy of it.
Their priorities are all wrong. Cha ching $$$.
Gunny and Sues work hard to do the right thing and can certainly get things done. We both know that as you eluded to it in your post.
Because Xavier Icky is, deep down inside, a little PRICK…
You saw, from what I am gathering, the real true side of this Xavier Von Icky, and it’s not a good picture that I am seeing painted, I have had a ton of info dumped on me in regards to this person and some of his MAJOR screw ups, but none of it can be actually documented because he has somehow had the records expunged from the ‘net, or so I have been told…
And Gunz, you know me, no proof, no post, if folks want to state their opinion about this arrogant little asshole, and preface their comments as being THEIR opinion, that’s fine, but it has to be stated AS opinion, at least until such time as the folks at Corrupted Justice or someone connected to them can produce the actual transcripts of Xavier Von Icky saying the things I was told he said, until then, he’s just some ignorant little chump that HAS been caught on tape being an ignorant little chump…
And I am in no way attempting to denigrate JJ or Sues, but I am totally fed up with HER half-assed attempts to blast ME and Byron Harris for speaking the truth about the operation here in TEXAS, not against PJ in general, just this f**ked up Op they pulled HERE…
We can back up what we say at corrupted-justice with screenshots. The same thing that PJ claims that the courts accept as evidence in a case. Many of our screenshots were deleted in our “Just The Facts” forum because many PJ supporters didnt want that proof shown to the public. We now host those screenshots on our server so they cant be deleted. So many were deleted (it takes a simple fraudulous email claiming it is damaging to a individual) that it will take some time to get them back up.
CJ Black Widow
CJ Black Widow, and that is exactly WHY I don’t want it here, I don’t need those assholes harassing me, Von Icky has been publicly outed for exactly what he is, on film, and film doesn’t lie…