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Editor's note: In our Behind the Scenes series, CNN correspondents share their experiences in covering news and analyze the stories behind the events. Here, CNN's Matthew Chance describes seeing a pedophile suspect in police custody.
Canadian teacher Christopher Paul Neil is brought before the media by Thai police Friday.
BANGKOK, Thailand (CNN) -- Handcuffed, his head covered with an old blue T-shirt to hide his face from the cameras, Christopher Paul Neil, a 32-year-old Canadian English teacher, was escorted through the throngs of waiting news media outside Thailand's national police headquarters.
The world's newspaper and television reporters jostled for position to catch a first glimpse of a man described by police as a predator -- a suspected pedophile accused of abusing a dozen underage Asian boys in Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia.
As the Thai police, who had arrested him just a few hours earlier in northeastern Thailand, pushed the photographers back, reporters shouted questions: Did you abuse the boys? What message do you have for your family, anxious and ashamed at home?
There were no answers. Neil kept silent throughout his exhibition to the world. Even when he was forced to sit in a police press conference -- his face now uncovered -- he chose not to speak. He just sat there, motionless, peering out at the audience and the flashbulbs through mirrored sunglasses.
His arrest was remarkably swift. He was in Thailand for just eight days before being tracked down in a manhunt that saw his image plastered on newspaper front pages and Thai television screens, accused of sex crimes.
In the end it was the publicity, police said, that led them to their man, ending the international manhunt that involved law enforcement agencies in Germany, South Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Canada and Thailand.
Watch how technology unmasked suspect »
Police say they were tipped off by locals in the Thai town of Korat, about 130 miles from Bangkok, that a foreigner fitting Neil's description was living in a house there. An arrest warrant was obtained and officers moved in.
Earlier in the week, there had been searches across the country, with Thai police scouring bars and hostels Neil is known to have visited in the past. In the seedy Thai coastal resort town of Pattaya, police questioned owners of bars where underage boys, they said, could be procured for sex. At least one bar owner told them he recognized Neil's face. He had been a regular, the owner said, according to police.
Thailand seems to attract Western pedophiles in droves. At a police station in Pattaya, CNN was shown a file of 50 suspected foreign sex offenders believed to be in the Pattaya area. The officer in charge of the district said Neil was their highest priority because of the international attention surrounding him.
But he wasn't really a big fish, this officer said. He said there are many other foreign pedophiles in Pattaya who do much worse.
Why then the focus on just one man?
One reason may be the remarkable way in which Neil's identity was uncovered. For years, German police said they had been observing pictures posted on the Internet of a man abusing young Asian boys, but that his face had been electronically manipulated with a computerized swirl effect, hiding his features.
But computer experts working with German police cracked the code, finding a way to reverse the swirl, unscrambling the abuser's features and producing an identifiable image.
It was posted on the Web site of Interpol, the international police agency, and provoked an astonishing reaction. Interpol says more than 350 people contacted them with information. Within days, the mystery man with a swirling face had been identified -- passport number, date of birth, nationality -- all uncovered, sparking the manhunt.

As the dragnet closed, Neil boarded a plane for Thailand from South Korea, and was pictured arriving on October 11, police said. That most recent image was circulated in Thailand and the arrest was soon made.
He now faces days of intense questioning about his alleged crimes. Already police say at least three underage Thai boys have stepped forward, identifying Neil as a man who paid them for sex. If found guilty in Thailand, he faces a sentence of up to 20 years. E-mail to a friend(CNN) -- Authorities are investigating a Seattle woman's allegation that she was sexually assaulted by illusionist David Copperfield, two law enforcement sources told CNN on Friday.

David Copperfield's Las Vegas warehouse was raided by FBI agents earlier this week.
An attorney for the magician "categorically denied" the accusation.
But the probe led FBI agents Wednesday to raid a warehouse Copperfield owns in Las Vegas and to search the Las Vegas hotel where he frequently performs.
Attorney David Chesnoff said Seattle police have not given him the name of the woman making the accusation, but he told CNN that the name "wouldn't matter really ... because it's categorically denied as a false accusation, an impossible kind of claim."
"Mr. Copperfield's reputation precedes him as an impeccable gentleman," Chesnoff said.
"So we're obviously disturbed that those kind of allegations are being made, but we believe that that's a common event now, unfortunately, for celebrated people to be to be falsely accused," he said.
"Certainly no one he's ever had a relationship with could ever say that about him," he said.
Watch a report on the raid and investigation »
Earlier Friday, Seattle police said the FBI raid on the warehouse stemmed from an accusation in a police report filed by a Seattle woman over the summer concerning an incident that allegedly took place in the Bahamas.
They did not specify the type of allegation made against Copperfield.
Glenn Miller, chief superintendent in charge of the detective unit of the Royal Bahamas Police force, told CNN he had no official reports of any incident involving Copperfield.
Agents were investigating a case based in Seattle when they entered the warehouse Wednesday night, an FBI spokesman said.
No other information could be made public about the probe, FBI Special Agent Robbie Burroughs said.
A dozen FBI agents stormed the warehouse and took a computer hard drive and a memory chip from a digital camera system, as well as $2 million in cash that was inside a safe, reported CNN affiliate KLAS in Las Vegas, citing a source close to the investigation.
CNN could not immediately confirm these details.
FBI agents also searched the Hollywood Theater at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, where Copperfield performs, said Yvette Monet, a spokeswoman for the hotel's parent company, MGM Mirage.
"We are fully cooperating with the investigation as best we can," she said.
Copperfield earned $57 million in 2005 and the same amount the year before, according to Forbes magazine.
The 51-year-old performs in Las Vegas and around the world, has starred in TV specials, and was named a "living legend" by the Library of Congress.

He was once engaged to model Claudia Schiffer.
According to his Web site, Copperfield began performing professionally at age 12 "and became the youngest person ever to be admitted to the Society of American Magicians. By 16, he was teaching a course in magic at New York University." E-mail to a friend(CNN) -- Authorities are investigating a Seattle woman's allegation that she was sexually assaulted by illusionist David Copperfield, two law enforcement sources told CNN on Friday.

David Copperfield's Las Vegas warehouse was raided by FBI agents earlier this week.
An attorney for the magician "categorically denied" the accusation.
But the probe led FBI agents Wednesday to raid a warehouse Copperfield owns in Las Vegas and to search the Las Vegas hotel where he frequently performs.
Attorney David Chesnoff said Seattle police have not given him the name of the woman making the accusation, but he told CNN that the name "wouldn't matter really ... because it's categorically denied as a false accusation, an impossible kind of claim."
"Mr. Copperfield's reputation precedes him as an impeccable gentleman," Chesnoff said.
"So we're obviously disturbed that those kind of allegations are being made, but we believe that that's a common event now, unfortunately, for celebrated people to be to be falsely accused," he said.
"Certainly no one he's ever had a relationship with could ever say that about him," he said.
Watch a report on the raid and investigation »
Earlier Friday, Seattle police said the FBI raid on the warehouse stemmed from an accusation in a police report filed by a Seattle woman over the summer concerning an incident that allegedly took place in the Bahamas.
They did not specify the type of allegation made against Copperfield.
Glenn Miller, chief superintendent in charge of the detective unit of the Royal Bahamas Police force, told CNN he had no official reports of any incident involving Copperfield.
Agents were investigating a case based in Seattle when they entered the warehouse Wednesday night, an FBI spokesman said.
No other information could be made public about the probe, FBI Special Agent Robbie Burroughs said.
A dozen FBI agents stormed the warehouse and took a computer hard drive and a memory chip from a digital camera system, as well as $2 million in cash that was inside a safe, reported CNN affiliate KLAS in Las Vegas, citing a source close to the investigation.
CNN could not immediately confirm these details.
FBI agents also searched the Hollywood Theater at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, where Copperfield performs, said Yvette Monet, a spokeswoman for the hotel's parent company, MGM Mirage.
"We are fully cooperating with the investigation as best we can," she said.
Copperfield earned $57 million in 2005 and the same amount the year before, according to Forbes magazine.
The 51-year-old performs in Las Vegas and around the world, has starred in TV specials, and was named a "living legend" by the Library of Congress.

He was once engaged to model Claudia Schiffer.
According to his Web site, Copperfield began performing professionally at age 12 "and became the youngest person ever to be admitted to the Society of American Magicians. By 16, he was teaching a course in magic at New York University." E-mail to a friend The missiles were mounted on the wings of a B-52 bomber |
Three colonels, a lieutenant colonel and 66 other personnel were punished following the incident at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, on 29 August.
Maj Gen Richard Newton said ground crews had failed to follow procedures.
The incident has been described as one of the worst known breaches of nuclear weapons procedures in decades.
Six cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads were mounted on the bomber's wings before it was flown to Louisiana.
The missiles were supposed to have been taken to Barksdale Air Force Base, but the warheads should have been removed beforehand.
'Procedural errors'
Announcing the results of his six-week investigation, Gen Newton said there had been an "erosion of adherence to weapons-handing standards".
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They did not follow the formal scheduling processes that would have allowed them to do the proper maintenance and handling of those weapons ![]()
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"In the countless times our dedicated airmen have transferred weapons in our nation's arsenal, nothing like this has ever occurred," the Air Force deputy chief of staff for operations said.
Gen Newton said the "unprecedented string of procedural errors" had begun with a failure by airmen to conduct a required inspection of the missiles before they were loaded onto the wing of the B-52 at Minot.
The crew flying the plane were unaware it was carrying nuclear warheads, he said.
Experts have said that if the B-52 had crashed, there would not have been a nuclear explosion. However, there could have been a threat from plutonium leakage from the W80-1 warheads, which have a yield of five to 150 kilotons.
"This was an unacceptable mistake and a clear deviation from our exacting standards," Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne said.
"We hold ourselves accountable to the American people and want to ensure proper corrective action has been taken."
Both Mr Wynne and Gen Newton insisted the case was an isolated incident and that the current procedures for handling nuclear weapons were sound. (More) The missiles were mounted on the wings of a B-52 bomber |
Three colonels, a lieutenant colonel and 66 other personnel were punished following the incident at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, on 29 August.
Maj Gen Richard Newton said ground crews had failed to follow procedures.
The incident has been described as one of the worst known breaches of nuclear weapons procedures in decades.
Six cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads were mounted on the bomber's wings before it was flown to Louisiana.
The missiles were supposed to have been taken to Barksdale Air Force Base, but the warheads should have been removed beforehand.
'Procedural errors'
Announcing the results of his six-week investigation, Gen Newton said there had been an "erosion of adherence to weapons-handing standards".
![]()
They did not follow the formal scheduling processes that would have allowed them to do the proper maintenance and handling of those weapons ![]()
Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff![]()
"In the countless times our dedicated airmen have transferred weapons in our nation's arsenal, nothing like this has ever occurred," the Air Force deputy chief of staff for operations said.
Gen Newton said the "unprecedented string of procedural errors" had begun with a failure by airmen to conduct a required inspection of the missiles before they were loaded onto the wing of the B-52 at Minot.
The crew flying the plane were unaware it was carrying nuclear warheads, he said.
Experts have said that if the B-52 had crashed, there would not have been a nuclear explosion. However, there could have been a threat from plutonium leakage from the W80-1 warheads, which have a yield of five to 150 kilotons.
"This was an unacceptable mistake and a clear deviation from our exacting standards," Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne said.
"We hold ourselves accountable to the American people and want to ensure proper corrective action has been taken."
Both Mr Wynne and Gen Newton insisted the case was an isolated incident and that the current procedures for handling nuclear weapons were sound. (More)Today's Top 10 hits on Fropki.com
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