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Tyler Devault had a University of Maryland criminal justice degree, a government-contractor job, and a clean record. He also had a 14-year-old girl's number. He was 33. When the "girl" told him her age, he balked: "That's way too young." Then he kept talking. He asked three separate times whether Chris Hansen would be there. He joked about being "set up" and about getting "caught." Then he picked up a pizza, half pepperoni and half cheese, and drove to a house in Harford County, Maryland.  He walked in, asked if he should take his shoes off, set the pizza down, a...

On this episode of Have a Seat, Chris Hansen is joined by journalist, media personality, and Pulitzer Prize recipient Charlie LeDuff to discuss the upcoming Michigan elections and controversies surrounding the state’s leaders and candidates. Known for his polarizing reporting, LeDuff takes Hansen into his investigation into ActBlue, the digital platform that collects donations for Democratic campaigns, regarding questionable donations and possible money laundering. @NoBSNewshour @michiganenjoyer https://www.facebook.com/LeDuffCharlie Sponsors: Smalls: Invest in your cat’s health with Smalls’ get 60% off your first order plus free shipping and free treats for life at https://Smalls.com/HANSEN...

Tyler Daigle told his wife he was running to Walmart for work supplies and supper ingredients. Instead, he drove to a house in the Louisiana countryside to meet a “15-year-old girl.” He was married, with kids aged nine and two. He barged through the door before the decoy could finish opening it, then asked if he should take his shoes off. Then Chris told him to have a seat.  Daigle couldn’t remember her name, only her age. He said he came to “hang out” and that he “wasn’t going to go that far.” When the lies ran out, he admitted...

On this episode of Have a Seat, Chris Hansen is joined by John Manly, an attorney specializing in representing victims of sexual abuse and assault.  The two weigh in on the allegations against seven Cornell University students accused of sexual assault of a female undergraduate who claimed she was pressured into consuming ketamine, marijuana, and alcohol during the hours long assault in 2024. The scandal has rocked the New York campus and created intense public scrutiny over how campus police handled the investigation and subsequent punishment of the accused.  In September of 2026, the Jane Doe filed a civil lawsuit against th...

Aquatica water park with the wife, the kids, and his parents. Then Roland Jr. Jean got in a car with his cousin and drove to meet a "14-year-old girl." He was a 26-year-old seafood chef from Vero Beach. He had two kids under four, a wife who thought he was hanging out with his "homeboys," and $100 in cash for a "quick visit." In the chat he asked if she was a cop, then came anyway.  In this episode of Predators I've Caught, Chris takes you inside a May 2026 sting with the Martin County, Florida Sheriff's Office. Jean walked into t...

On this exclusive episode of Have a Seat, Chris Hansen is joined by Diana, the American Airlines passenger that exposed Wheel of Fortune announcer Jim Thornton for engaging in a chatroom intended for discussions surrounding crimes against children and CSAM (child sexually abusive material) while on his laptop aboard a cross-country flight. Diana, who has never come forward publicly until now, takes Hansen through her “undercover” operation at 35,000 feet, the photos and videos she covertly obtained and what they said and showed, and how her instincts should be a message to all that ‘if you see something, say something’! 

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Second-grade teacher. Children's book author. A polished bio built on a climb out of poverty in Jamaica.  And on June 2, 2026, Ashay Shakes was on a hookup app, telling a "15-year-old boy" he was 29 and asking him to get in an Uber. In this episode of Predators I've Caught, Chris Hansen returns to a six-day sting in Marion County, Florida, where 58 men surfaced. Shakes was told the boy's age twice. He sent a picture of himself in his underwear, gave his address, and pressed the "boy" to come right away. When he walked outside to meet the Uber, detectives were w...

Kratom—dubbed the legal opioid, gas station heroin, or herbal speedball—is available at your local gas station or mini-mart. More than 5 million Americans have used it at least once in their life...and it can kill you. This episode of Have a Seat with Chris Hansen is a must-watch as he is joined by Jonny Schoen—a longtime family friend, musician and former Kratom addict turned recovery advocate—to shed light on this growing epidemic.

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He's 72, with a bad heart, a wife of 30 years, and a granddaughter older than the girl he's driving to meet. Charles "Bad Grandpa Chuck" Schmidt even did the math himself, telling the "14-year-old" in the chat he was 58 years older. Then he kept typing. In this episode of Predators I've Caught, Chris revisits one of his first stings with the Harford County Sheriff's Office in Maryland. Chuck stopped for beer, took a pill on the way, and brought condoms. When he walked through the door, he went straight in for the kiss. Then Chris walked in.  Chuck claims he "w...

Florida attorney Patrick Reilly has a seat with Chris Hasen to discuss Gabby Petito's murder five years later and the Petito & Schmidt family's civil suit in a quest for justice and answers.  Reilly takes you inside the depositions of Brian's parents Roberta and Christopher Laundrie,  what it was like sitting across the table from them and what those testimonies did and did not reveal. 

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He could have been anyone in a Walmart aisle. A 27-year-old Louisiana mason who laid brick floors for a living. But in September 2025, Hunter Easterling drove ten minutes to a house where he believed a 15-year-old girl was home alone.  He knew her age. He knew the risks. He knew the registry was waiting. He came anyway, and he took his shoes off at the door. Then Chris told him to have a seat.  What follows is a familiar routine of fading memory, shifting ages, and blame aimed at a child who never existed. Asked what should happen to a...

On this special episode of Have a Seat, Fox News Host Jesse Watters takes over and interviews Chris Hansen about his thoughts on Primetime, the new film based on the life and work of Hansen and To Catch a Predator. 

Having watched in the theater like the rest of the world, Hansen gives Watters his unfiltered reaction and opinions on the un-authorized and dramatized Hollywood take. Also, here from fellow movie-goers and Hansen fans on their thoughts surrounding the Pattinson-led film. Have you seen the movie? If so, drop your thoughts in the comments! 

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On this episode of Have a Seat, Chris Hansen is joined by content creator and animator Mathieo to talk about his recent demonstration against Roblox and the platform's lack of safety for children.  At Roblox's recent RDC (Roblox Developers Conference) Mathieo stormed the stage in protest as it's CEO David Baszucki welcomed the crowd. Hansen and "Matt" dive into the issues plaguing the on-line game and what he hopes his viral "guest appearance" will accomplish. 

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A Friday night in Davenport, Florida. Bharat Baichan, 33, drops his two young kids at his mother's house and races his black Mustang to meet a 14-year-old girl. She told him her age. He showed up anyway, with condoms in his pocket. But "Abby" was a Polk County detective, and Chris was waiting inside. His excuses: a movie, a park, he'd check her ID. His sentence: five years in a Florida prison, five years of probation, and a lifetime on the sex offender registry. Plus, Chris answers listener questions and sets the record straight on the new film Primetime.

On this episode of Have a Seat, Chris Hansen is joined by Titania Jordan, Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Parent Officer at Bark, a leader in consumer technology that keeps children safe both online and in real life. The two discuss how Bark technology works, the types of activity it monitors and blocks, and how kids should be able to use technology to grow safely without becoming potential victims, because you cannot outsource your child's safety. 

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Chris asks every predator the same question: what would have happened if we weren't here? This case answers it. March 31, 2025. Livingston Parish, Louisiana. By day, 30-year-old Kleider Enrique Garcia Ochoa washes dishes at a local restaurant. Online, he's sending explicit photos to a boy he believes is 15, pressing for nudes, and asking one telling question: are your parents home? Minutes later he walks into the sting house carrying a bag with condoms, car keys, and a Venezuelan passport. Through a translation app, Chris gets lie after lie. He's 25. No, 27. He has a green card. The boy was an adult...

There is a frightening new form of human trafficking taking place in nightclubs across North America targeting young women. For this episode of Have a Seat, Chris Hansen is joined by victim-turned-advocate Jayden Posen for a startling and eye-opening conversation surrounding this underground epidemic. Women are being targeted and recruited in popular nightclubs, bars, and restaurants with the promise of modeling or acting jobs only to be the victims of sexual assaults. Join Chris and Jayden to learn about this growing problem plaguing females and how to avoid becoming a victim. 

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Michael Rhodes did seventeen years in the Louisiana prison system for dealing meth. Hard labor, hard time, the kind that's supposed to take. A year out and working a forklift, he spent two days sending explicit messages to someone who told him she was fifteen - then drove up to a sting house on the river in Livingston Parish in shorts and a tank top for the date. The decoy who let him in works at the parish jail by day. She had him talking about his own record before Chris ever came through the door. Rhodes says he...

On this special episode of Have a Seat, Chris talks with Aaron Spencer, an Arkansas man who fatally shot the man that sexually assaulted his daughter in which he was charged with 2nd degree murder. In his first podcast interview, Spencer recounts the harrowing details of the night Michael Foster abducted his daughter, the legal battles that ensued and why, now that he’s been acquitted, is running for Lonoke County Sheriff. Thanks to our sponsors:

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He ran presidential motorcades. He escorted foreign heads of state through the streets of Washington. And for a month and a day, Lieutenant Matthew Mahl of the D.C. Metropolitan Police — 47 years old, 23 years on the job — groomed a boy he believed was fifteen. He talked about soccer games and homework. He talked about Italy, about schools over there, about a life together after he retired. He sent photos of himself in uniform. He sent photos from the fold-out couch in his office at police headquarters. He knew the age of consent in Maryland was sixteen, and he admitted to t...

On this exclusive episode of Have a Seat, Chris Hansen brings his full interview with Bryant Moreland, the disgraced content creator and social media personality better known as EDP445. Moreland candidly relives his 2021 actions, when he was caught having an inappropriate text exchange with someone he was told was a 13-year-old girl. Moreland was caught on camera by "predator catchers" when he showed up at an apartment complex to meet the alleged girl. It's an explosive and shocking face-to-face conversation between Hansen and Moreland!        

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Edmundo Da Silva wore a TSA badge. He was trusted at the front line of American aviation security — until February 2024, when he got in his car in North Carolina, kids' birthday presents in the back seat, and spent the drive to Florida trolling Reddit for something else entirely. What he found was a "father" offering up his 15-year-old daughter in a Polk County hotel room. What was actually waiting for him was the Polk County Sheriff's Office - and Chris’s cameras.  In this episode, Chris walks you through the chat logs, the takedown, and the courtroom collapse: the fake...

On this episode of Have a Seat, Chris Hansen is joined by filmmaker Mike Clum for a behind the scenes discussion of his newest film, The Sick Mind of EDP445. EDP445, (Bryant Moreland) rose to YouTube fame for his outlandish videos, but it all came crashing down when he was caught in a sting attempting to meet an underaged girl. Clum tells Hansen how he got Moreland to open up about his past, his actions that lead to his downfall, and what the future holds for the once famous content creator. 

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He knew she was 15. He came anyway.  Titus Miles thought he was careful. The 34-year-old Baton Rouge mechanic circled his target slowly - no talk of school, no small talk, just a man "sniffing around" a girl he believed was 15. He hesitated. He second-guessed. He even admitted, "I should have trusted how I felt earlier." Then he drove to the sting house anyway. In this episode, Chris breaks down the Livingston Parish sting that ended with Miles sentenced to two years in prison and a lifetime on the sex offender registry - from the detective who ran the chats t...

On this special episode of Have a Seat with Chris Hansen, Hansen sits down for an in-depth conversation with politician and attorney, Willie Brown Jr.  As the first African American to hold the office of mayor of San Francisco, Brown has solidified himself as one of politics greatest advisors and shares with Hansen a look back at his storied career. From his time as mayor, to the Democratic Socialist Party movement, to his thoughts on immigration and healthcare, no topic is off limits. Brown lends his opinion of Zohran Mamdani as the mayor of New York City,  invaluable advice fo...

A respected Department of Defense contractor. A security clearance. A wife and children. And a secret life that finally caught up with him. This week, Chris confronts Ivan Walters, a 43-year-old government employee who drove to meet someone he believed was a 14-year-old boy for sex. But the sting uncovers far more than disturbing online chats—it reveals a man who had already been investigated for sending explicit images to a minor, undergone therapy, and still returned to the same dangerous behavior. As Walters tries to explain the unexplainable, Chris presses him on the devastating consequences of the choices he...

Two of the greatest forces in protecting children come together for this episode of Have a Seat; Chris Hansen and Executive Director of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) Callahan Walsh talk all things child safety.  From Sextortion to Roblox, 764 and AI generated CSAM, Walsh & Hansen give you the knowledge and tools every parent or adult needs to keep children safe. 

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For 30 years, Derman Kenneth Thomas clocked in at a Georgia zipper plant. Clean record. Wife. Grown kid. Then one night in Ocala, Florida - bored in a motel off the interstate - he opened a hookup app. The girl said she was 14. She told him five times.  He didn't log off. He asked where her parents were.  Chris takes you inside the Marion County sting that put the 55-year-old face-down at midnight, surrounded by tasers and drawn guns just two hours after his first text. The chat logs. The "proof of life" photos. The phone call where Thomas said ex...

On this special episode of Have a Seat, Chris Hansen Chris brings you the Roblox session from CrimeCon Las Vegas. There, Hansen was joined by victim turned online safety advocate, Schlep; Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill and sexual assault attorney Martin Gould to educate attendees of the dangers lurking on the gaming platform Roblox. 

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He bought two Happy Meals. He wasn't meeting an adult. 62-year-old John Coughlin walked up a quiet driveway in Iron Mountain, Michigan carrying kids' meals and a jar of marijuana for what he believed was a 14-year-old girl. What he found instead was Chris and the Dickinson County Sheriff's Office.  In this episode, Chris takes you inside his sting operation in Michigan's Upper Peninsula that netted seven predators, and Coughlin's case is the one that rattled him. A laundromat manager and one-time country club cook, Coughlin sent explicit videos to the decoy, asked if she was "420 friendly," and showed u...

On this episode of Have a Seat, Chris Hansen is joined by Polk County, Florida Sheriff Grady Judd to discuss a recent arrest that will shock you! It involves a Wal-Mart, a man with a lengthy criminal history of sexual deviancy and his brother, who is known for playing the local Santa Claus. You're not going to believe what you hear! Footage Courtesy of : Takedown with Chris Hansen Www.watchtrublu.com Polk County Sheriff's Office https://www.polksheriff.org SPONSORS: Home Title Lock: Go to https://hometitlelock.com/chrishansen and use promo code HANSEN to get a FREE title...

He took an oath to do no harm. Then he drove to a house where he believed a 15-year-old girl was waiting alone.  Dr. Mansoor Ahmed spent his days as a trusted nephrologist in New Orleans. But when Chris's team set up a sting in Livingston Parish, Louisiana, a very different man walked through the door. The chat logs were explicit. The intent was unmistakable. And when confronted, Ahmed reached for an excuse Chris had never heard in decades of these investigations: he claimed a child had bullied him into coming.  In this episode, Hansen walks through the decoy co...

On this special and emotional episode of Have a Seat, Chris Hansen and three victims-turned-survivors of Jeffery Epstein take the stage together for CrimeCon 2026 from Las Vegas, Nevada.  Hear from Courtney Wild, Jena-Lisa Jones and Haley Robson on how they came to meet Epstein, become his target, and how they have, and still must, fight for truth and justice.  To support the victims of Epstein and victims of sexual assault and human trafficking, please visit www.theSurvivorsinc.org

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Iron Mountain, Michigan. The Upper Peninsula. Postcard country: pine trees, quiet streets, the kind of place where nothing bad is supposed to happen. But in three days, seven men came knocking at one unassuming sting house. This is the story of one of them.  Kelsey Burbank is 29. He coordinates online orders at the local Walmart. By day, he's just another face in a small town. By night, he's "Two Googly Eyes" on Grindr, and he's been messaging someone he believes is a 15-year-old boy. He knows the age. He says he wishes he didn't. He keeps typing anyway. On t...

Have a Seat with Chris Hansen for a rapid-fire conversation on a multitude of hot topics with Florida Representative Anna Luna. From the Take It Down Act and seeking the death penalty for those who commit crimes against children to UFO’s and the new JFK report coming out that there were two shooters, no headline is off limits!  

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A sting operation in Florida. A man with nothing left to lose.  Given three to six months to live with the terminal diagnosis. Most people spend that time saying goodbye, making amends, telling the people they love what they mean to them.  58-year-old Darrel Rockwell spent one of those precious days online, searching for sex with a 13- or 14-year-old girl.  In this episode, Chris walks through how Rockwell's online conversations led him directly into the sting operation in Marion County, Florida — and how the encounter ended with Rockwell trying to flee the scene...

Satanic Accelerationism…Nihilistic Violent Extremism…Sextortion Manipulation….these are the disturbing topics on this episode of Have a Seat where Chris Hansen is joined by ‘demon hunter’ Becca Spinks. Spinks’ on-line investigation into the dangerous underground community known as 764 has uncovered an alarming number of abhorrent crimes that exploit children and vulnerable people around the world. The violent on-line network, and members of fractions and incels around the world , are striving to facilitate the destruction of society by manipulating at-risk people to commit self-harm, animal torture, and create child sexually abuse material (CSAM). The extremists use coercive control to get their victi...

In this disturbing episode of Predators I've Caught, Chris examines the case of Jonathan Mitchell, a 37-year-old former U.S. Navy serviceman who thought he was communicating with a 13-year old girl online. The chat conversation quickly escalated into explicit exchanges that caught the attention of investigators in Marion County, Florida. Chris reveals how Mitchell allegedly pursued what he believed was an underage victim. Mitchell's military background and standing in the community make the allegations all the more disturbing.

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Chris Hansen is joined by Connecticut Attorney General William Tong who is following suit with his AG colleagues and opening an investigation into Roblox over harm to children.  Hansen and Tong have a robust conversation that breaks down the latest claims against Roblox, how the on-line annihilation group 764 is finding receptive victims on the platform, the evolving pathology of these predators, and the other social media platforms that have found themselves now having a glaring responsibility to help keep kids safe on-line. 

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Chris revisits a disturbing case from Iron Mountain, Michigan, where Nicholas Krakenberger believed he was meeting a 15-year old boy for a sexual encounter. Through revealing chat logs and a carefully orchestrated sting operation, Chris uncovers Krakenberger’s intentions and the events that led to his arrest. Joined by Deputy Sheriff Ryan Herring, Chris explores the investigation.

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