according to perverted-justice's logs, conradt, posing as a 19-year-old university student, engaged in sexually charged online chats with a person using the alias of a fictional 13-year-old named luke. conradt solicited pictures of "luke's" penis and sent him photos purporting to be of himself. after two weeks of these exchanges perverted-justice and nbc brought in an actor to play luke over the phone. for reasons that are still not known, conradt stopped responding to phone calls and instant messages. it was then that police decided to bring the operation to conradt's home in terrell.