What did you hope was going to happen in Terrell?

Well, I don't think I was hoping for anything.

What was the scenario you were planning for?

Well again, I'm not doing the planning. I'm reacting to what the police are doing. And what I know is that the police are going to execute a search warrant and an arrest warrant at the home of an assistant district attorney. And you know obviously that could provide an opportunity for me to ask him a couple questions about what had happened the night before. And you know that might have been the only time I would have had a chance to talk to him and get his side of it. Had the police not executed a search warrant, you know, again, would we have gone out there? I don't know. Had the search warrant been executed at a different time? We would have gone out there at a different time, perhaps. Let's put it this way, we were in no rush to do this or to put the story to bed, because the story wasn't going to air for quite some time. We were going to come back to Murphy anyhow in three or four weeks to do the law enforcement interviews. So this notion that there was some rush for us to go talk to him or do anything is not -- there's no basis in fact.

And what time did you arrive in Terrell?

It was in the morning. You know I'm guessing 8:30 or 9:00.

Did you go straight to his block?

We ultimately went to a gas station where the police were staging. And we did go near the neighborhood just to see what it looked like. But in other words we didn't have cameras openly staked out in front of his house prior to the police executing the search warrant.

You didn't have cameras trained on the house, but you went to Terrell with several crews?

Well, yeah, I had several crews with me, of course. I mean, again, at this point I'm trying to be prepared for however this plays out. I know they're going to give warrants, but does it happen quickly or does it take half the day? Do they decide to do something different or hold off? You know, I don't know how it's going to play out. So I was just trying to be prepared for whatever happened.

Was one of the things you were preparing for the possibility of Bill Conradt leaving his house and going to get a cup of coffee somewhere?

Well, I mean, you know, if that had happened and that wouldn't have interfered with getting the search warrant or maybe if they weren't going to get the search warrant, you know that's something I may have considered, but that's not what was going on. So that was not our effort. In other words, if you're asking me would we have tried to interview Bill Conradt prior to the search warrant being executed had we had the opportunity, no, that's not what we were doing out there. We were out there to capture the execution of the search warrant, and if the opportunity provided itself, to try to get a word with Bill Conradt.

How would you have gotten that word with Bill Conradt?

Well, I usually, the way it happens is that as somebody's being taken away you try to talk to him.

When you got there did you see a newspaper outside his door?

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I believe when we came, we went by just to take a look at the location, and I believe the first time there was a newspaper there, yeah.

Was there constantly somebody from Dateline outside of Conradt's house?

There wasn't constantly. Because we didn't know how this was going to unfold and we didn't want to obviously, you know, let folks know that we were in the area. I mean there was going to be a police action there, and obviously we didn't want to telegraph that.

Because police described Dateline's activity as "surveillance."