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Beauty Contestants Secretly Taped In Bathroom

GREEN LAKE - A Berlin man has been found guilty on charges that he used secret cameras to videotape beauty pageant contestants and other women as they undressed in the bathroom of his photo studio.

Some of the 10 victims in a criminal complaint were contestants in Miss Wisconsin, Miss Oshkosh and Miss Berlin pageants who agreed to photo shoots by 48-year-old Clayton Weiss, believing the photos were for advertisements.

The complaint says Weiss videotaped them with hidden cameras. But a Ripon teen noticed a camera lens in a heat vent and alerted her mother, and they called police.

Weiss changed his plea Friday from not guilty to no contest.

The charges include making a visual representation of nudity, attempting to make a visual representation of nudity and invasion of privacy.

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