To Catch a Predator is an American reality television series that features hidden camera investigations by the television news magazine program Dateline NBC. It was devoted to impersonating underage people (generally ages 13–15) and detaining male adults who contacted them over the Internet for sexual liaisons. People were lured to meet with a decoy under the pretense of sexual contact and then confronted.
In the premiere episode of To Catch A Predator, a New York City Fireman transmits sexually graphic video of himself to a Perverted Justice decoy posing as an underage teenager.
A man who shows up at our undercover house strips naked before entering. Things get interesting when an E.R. doctor appears trying to meet an underage teen. And in another shocking turn, a Rabbi, trying to meet a male teenager for sex, tussles with our crew when he learns he's been caught.
For the first time in our investigations, a public school teacher shows up after chatting sexually on line with what he believed was an underage teenager.
In the first hour of a two part investigation, we travel to America's "heartland" to see if the problem of on-line predators is prevalent. Shockingly, an elementary school teacher shows up looking to meet an underage teen.
In the second hour of a two part investigation in Ohio, America's heartland, a man with a prior criminal record as a sex offender shows up at our undercover house to meet an underage teen for sex.
An unusual (and somewhat comic) meeting with a predator who realizes he's been caught and improvises a novel disguise to elude our cameras. It doesn't work.
The second hour of the Ft. Myers investigation. For a second time, a man strips naked at our undercover house. He comes equipped with whipped cream apparently hoping for a meeting with an underage teenager.
A man married for twenty years shows up at the house looking for sex with an underage teen. Another man insists sex with a minor is the "cleanest" and most desirable kind.
Hour two of the Georgia investigation. For the first time, a military man shows up after chatting sexually on-line with a Perverted Justice Decoy. He falls to his knees and begs for forgiveness.
A man on a motorcycle shows up at the undercover house looking for sex with an underage teen. Amazingly, he tells us he expected to be caught—and confesses that he's been fighting his on-line computer sex fantasy problem for years.
The second part of the Petaluma investigation. We are shocked when a respected cancer doctor appears at the house after graphically chatting with a Perverted Justice decoy.
Hour one of the Long Beach investigation. For the first time, a man attempts to lure what he thinks is an underage teenager outside our undercover house. He shows up at a park where Chris Hansen is waiting for him.
Hour two of the Long Beach investigation. For the first time, a man attempts to lure what he thinks is an underage teenager outside our undercover house. He shows up at a park where Chris Hansen is waiting for him.
Our investigation moves to the beach! A resort community is the setting for this investigation as a volunteer fireman and a real estate salesman show up looking to meet an underage teen for sex.
In the second part of our investigation at Flagler Beach, a police officer shows up at the house after chatting explicitly about sex with what he thought was an underage teen. Shockingly his car was filled with weapons, including a loaded assault rifle on the front seat!
Our investigation moves to the beach! A resort community is the setting for this investigation as a volunteer fireman and a real estate salesman show up looking to meet an underage teen for sex.
In the second part of our investigation at Flagler Beach, a police officer shows up at the house after chatting explicitly about sex with what he thought was an underage teen. Shockingly his car was filled with weapons, including a loaded assault rifle on the front seat!
Another undercover investigation on the beach. Lounge chairs are set up outside on the shore as men come to the house after chatting with what they believe are underage teens. After bringing condoms and telling a decoy he prefers young girls, one suspected predator uses his religion as evidence he's not such a bad person.
In the second part of our investigation in New Jersey, things get so busy two suspected predators who don't know each other come inside the house at the same time. Later, another suspected predator is so overcome, he collapses.
One man arrested claimed to be a police officer in Indiana, although he was only a cadet and was fired before he graduated from the police academy. Kentucky police attempted to taser him when he ran, screaming, back into the house as police confronted him.
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