25-year-old Leo Cintron of Lakeland, known as “the umpire predator,” was arrested after he was caught trying to meet a 13-year-old boy. When Cintron showed up, he ended up encountering Chris and detectives, and admitted to knowing that the person he was talking to was 13. This is another Hurrdat Media Production. Hurrdat Media is a podcast network and digital media production company based in Omaha, NE. Find more podcasts on the Hurrdat Media Network by going to HurrdatMedia.com or Hurrdat...

Introducing Fairies in the Attic from Black Velvet Fairies. Follow the show: Black Velvet Fairies After a strange voicemail about the death of her grandmother, Lucy Verdell travels to an isolated island she hasn’t visited since she was a child. Odd occurrences and powerful memories lead her to four black velvet paintings hidden in the attic — paintings of grim beings best described as ‘fairies’. The discovery unlocks a flood of emotions that surprises Lucy and prompts her to find out...

23-year-old Juan, using the screen name "elchiva8395020", started a chat with a girl he thought was 13 years old. Within minutes of chatting, Juan asked the decoy if he could meet her. He questioned if she was a virgin and wanted to have sex with him. While the chat progresses, Juan sends the decoy 12 pictures of his penis. Juan arrives late at the sting house. He is then greeted by the decoy. After talking with her, he is confronted by Chris. This is another Hurrdat Media...

Introducing The Power of Collaboration: How IBM Teams Up with Microsoft from Smart Talks with IBM. Follow the show: Smart Talks with IBM Entire industries are being reshaped around the new capabilities of generative AI. In this special bonus episode of Smart Talks with IBM, Tim Harford leads a conversation between two leaders in the field. Srinivasan Venkatarajan is the Director of Global Partner Business at Microsoft, focusing on Azure Data & AI and Azure OpenAI. And Chris McGuire is the...

37-year-old, Art "Artie" Carl Makepeace is an unaired predator featured on the Suburban Washington, D.C. episode of To Catch a Predator. He is best known for his creative good samaritan excuse, as well as being convicted of sexual battery before the sting. He used the screen name vamillionaire messages a decoy posing as a thirteen-year-old girl. At the beginning of the chat he claims that he did not realize the girl was only thirteen. Artie wastes no time and asks the girl if she is ok that...

Introducing Kyle MacLachlan from Dinner’s on Me with Jesse Tyler Ferguson. Follow the show: Dinner’s on Me with Jesse Tyler Ferguson Kyle MacLachlan, star of “Sex and the City,” “Twin Peaks” and “Showgirls,” joins the show. Over a tomato tartine and nicoise salad, Kyle tells me about working with surrealist filmmaker David Lynch, his friendship with ex-girlfriend Laura Dern and Elizabeth Taylor’s iconic demand during “The Flintstones.” This episode was recorded at Zinque in West Hollywood,...

Matthew “Golf Cart Matt” Daly was 41 when he was arrested in October 2022. Matt showed up riding a golf cart to the sting house. After his encounter with Chris and local law enforcement, he was charged with sexually abusive activity with a child, accosting a child for immoral purposes, and using computers to commit a crime. He made bail but in 2023 he was re-arrested for assault with a deadly weapon, carrying a concealed weapon, and driving with a revoked license and no insurance. He went...

Introducing Godzilla Minus One and Studio Ghibli Oscar wins, DAN DA DAN, and a sci-fi anime deep dive from Crunchyroll Presents: The Anime Effect. Follow the show: Crunchyroll Presents: The Anime Effect DISCLAIMER: Please note, this is an independent podcast episode not affiliated with, endorsed by, or produced in conjunction with the host podcast feed or any of its media entities. The views and opinions expressed in this episode are solely those of the creators and guests. For any concerns,...

Alan Chernay was 58 years old when he tried soliciting a 14-year-old girl for oral sex. While his chatlog cannot be found online, what is known is that he refused to give his real age to the decoy, only revealing that he was "over 40." He tells the decoy that he would love to get oral sex from her one day, claiming that since he is 6'2, she could give him oral sex without her having to kneel down. Alan arrives at the sting house and is immediately greeted by Chris Hansen, shaking his hand and...

34-year-old Abraham Anthony Koujababian made internet contact with a Perverted Justice decoy posing as a 13-year-old girl. He introduced himself as "Tony" and said he was 28. He asked what types of people she was into before going on to describe his muscular body. Twelve minutes into the conversation, Koujababian started approaching the decoy, introduced himself as her lover, and sent pictures to prove how muscular he was. According to Koujababian, he was looking for a partner online. He...

Introducing Women of Sound: Jackie Cochran from Womanica. Follow the show: Womanica DISCLAIMER: Please note, this is an independent podcast episode not affiliated with, endorsed by, or produced in conjunction with the host podcast feed or any of its media entities. The views and opinions expressed in this episode are solely those of the creators and guests. For any concerns, please reach out to [email protected].

Corye Blagg, 22 years of age at the time, began chatting with a decoy who said she was a thirteen-year-old girl. Blagg was considered a "fast mover." He transitioned from introducing himself to the decoy to requesting to meet and continuously asking for the address to the sting house in the first six minutes of the chat. Blagg suggested that he could take the decoy's virginity in the hot tub after she revealed that she was a virgin and owned said hot tub. Blagg said he would bring...

Introducing Welcome to Season 5 of Built from Built: Commercial Real Estate's Leading Voices. Follow the show: Built: Commercial Real Estate's Leading Voices DISCLAIMER: Please note, this is an independent podcast episode not affiliated with, endorsed by, or produced in conjunction with the host podcast feed or any of its media entities. The views and opinions expressed in this episode are solely those of the creators and guests. For any concerns, please reach out to [email protected].

Dallas Lee, a 40-year-old married man with children, started a chat with a decoy who was pretending to be a 14 year old boy in a AOL gay chatroom. He lied to the decoy about his age, claiming to be 20. Within minutes of talking, Lee asked the boy multiple graphic questions, including if he wanted to have oral sex. After a few hours of chatting, Lee droves to the sting house. When he entered the house, Lee was confronted by Chris. Lee even admitted to seeing Dateline NBC's previous To Catch a...

Introducing Client Success is the Real Success from Mind The Business: Small Business Success Stories. Follow the show: Mind The Business: Small Business Success Stories DISCLAIMER: Please note, this is an independent podcast episode not affiliated with, endorsed by, or produced in conjunction with the host podcast feed or any of its media entities. The views and opinions expressed in this episode are solely those of the creators and guests. For any concerns, please reach out to [email protected].

35-year-old Steven Reddington, known in the TCAP community as “suspicious Steve,” was a married man with children, using the screen name "sr82194," to hit up a Perverted Justice decoy who was impersonating a fourteen-year-old girl. Steven asked the decoy a number of explicit sexual questions, including if they could have oral and anal sex, if she was on birth control, whether she had ever shaved her genitalia, and if she had interacted with older men online. He said to the decoy that he...

Introducing Salesforce & IBM: Revolutionizing Experiences with Generative AI from Smart Talks with IBM. Follow the show: Smart Talks with IBM DISCLAIMER: Please note, this is an independent podcast episode not affiliated with, endorsed by, or produced in conjunction with the host podcast feed or any of its media entities. The views and opinions expressed in this episode are solely those of the creators and guests. For any concerns, please reach out to [email protected].

Deepak Bist was a 22-year-old college Chemistry teacher at the time he started chatting with “Jennah“, a girl he believed to be 13. He starts by acting like a guardian saying she shouldn’t be in the chat room and there are a lot of bad people there...including himself. It would sound like he was fighting the temptation, saying he was too old and he wasn’t a nice person several times, even calling himself a pervert, perhaps trying to get the decoy to stop chatting with him when he himself...

Introducing Bryan Cranston from Dinner’s on Me with Jesse Tyler Ferguson. Follow the show: Dinner’s on Me with Jesse Tyler Ferguson "Breaking Bad" and “Malcolm in the Middle” star Bryan Cranston joins the show. Over poke and salmon curry, Bryan tells me how he was briefly wanted for murder, that time an ex-lover confronted him on a soap opera set, and the CIA level secrecy that went into Walter White’s cameo on “Better Call Saul.” This episode was recorded at Great White in West Hollywood,...

Donnie Vaughn was a seventy-year-old retired engineer at the time of the sting. Through the use of an unidentified app, Donnie made contact with a police decoy posing as a father prostituting his daughter for sex. The lengthy chat consisted of Donnie telling the man he would be willing to have sex with the decoy, watch the father have sex with the girl, and then possibly have sex with the father. The police decoy also said that his 'daughter' enjoyed milkshakes, with Donnie promising to bring...

Introducing Rachel Scott Makes Crochet Sexy and Empowering from The Run-Through with Vogue. Follow the show: The Run-Through with Vogue DISCLAIMER: Please note, this is an independent podcast episode not affiliated with, endorsed by, or produced in conjunction with the host podcast feed or any of its media entities. The views and opinions expressed in this episode are solely those of the creators and guests. For any concerns, please reach out to [email protected].

Introducing Victoria Beckham Is Not Ready to Become a Grandmother (Yet.) from The Run-Through with Vogue. Follow the show: The Run-Through with Vogue Chloe talks to the one and only Victoria Beckham, aka Posh Spice, about what it's like to be a singer-turned-designer. They talk about the groundbreaking Beckham documentary, what’s on her workout playlist, and what she lets Harper borrow from her closet.  DISCLAIMER: Please note, this is an independent podcast episode not...

Introducing Beyoncé at NYFW | PLUS The Prada Vogue Cover from The Run-Through with Vogue. Follow the show: The Run-Through with Vogue Prada fanatic, and Vogue writer, Laia Garcia-Furtado talks to journalist Wendell Steavenson about Vogue’s March cover featuring the iconic Miuccia Prada; Steavenson wrote the cover story. Also, the Vogue Runway team joins the podcast to talk about their favorite NYFW moments (cough cough: Beyoncé). DISCLAIMER: Please note, this is an independent...

On March 25, 2006, twenty-three-year-old Ronnelle Stephens-Tun began chatting with "Destiny," a person who he believed was a thirteen-year-old girl. Stephens-Tun, using the screen name "come_ride_and_chill_with_me," confessed that he was single before asking the decoy to be his "little mami." He also said that he would engage in sexual activity with her if she desired it. Stephens-Tun drove two hours from Fort Wayne, Indiana to Darke County, Ohio in order to meet the decoy at a sting...