Chris Hansen Exposes Dark Secret Behind Copycat Predator Sting Streamers—What They Don’t Want You to Know!
So, Chris Hansen is back in the limelight—19 years after To Catch a Predator called it quits—and guess who’s suiting up to play him? None other than Robert Pattinson, starring in the upcoming flick Primetime. Now, before the film even hits the screens, fans are already whispering Oscar noms for Pattinson, which got me wondering: can a man’s legacy truly be captured in a movie, especially one as controversial as Hansen’s? To Catch a Predator had its share of dark moments—remember the tragic 2007 incident with the Texas attorney? Yeah, not your typical TV drama. But Hansen’s not just a relic; his style morphed into a whole new breed of internet vigilantes, Twitch and Kick streamers turning predator busts into real-time spectacles. But here’s the kicker—Hansen isn’t exactly thrilled about it. In a fresh interview, he calls out these “content creators” for botching investigations and chasing clicks over justice. It’s like the Wild West out there, with amateur hour meets courtroom drama—or lack thereof. So, is this new wave of predator catching just a messy reboot or a dangerous detour? Dive in and you might find yourself questioning not just the hunters, but the hunted…
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Chris Hansen is once again in the spotlight 19 years after To Catch a Predator ended as Robert Pattinson is set to play the TV host in the upcoming film Primetime.
The recent trailer has had fans calling for Pattinson to be nominated for an Oscar for the role before they even see the film, and this has led to many re-examining Chris Hansen’s controversial career of catching paedophiles in the act.
To Catch a Predator was cancelled in 2007 when a Texas attorney killed himself as Hansen’s team tried to confront him, with a SWAT team breaching the house leading him to commit suicide.
Despite this Hansen has continued with two separate spin-off shows, but arguably his influence has been more prominent in the copycats who have taken his style of confronting paedophiles and turned them into ‘content’ for Twitch and Kick live streams, something Hansen has decried in a new interview.
Hansen speaks out in a new interview on streamers who confront paedophiles for content
Hansen appeared in a newly released YouTube documentary about EDP445 by Mike Clum. EDP, whose real name is Bryant Moreland, was caught on two separate occasions attempting to meet up with a minor for sex.
Despite this, he is not in jail, in part due to the way in which the groups that arranged the operation carried out their sting. During the documentary Clum is trying to figure out why Moreland is not in jail when he decides to call Chris Hansen, who ends up interviewing the disgraced YouTuber about his attempts to meet up with children.
Chris Hansen interviewing EDP (YouTube/Mike Clum)
In this he admits that he had sent sexually explicit pictures to a 13-year-old and had been meeting up with her with the intention of having sex.
Hansen, speaking to camera, states that Alex Rosen who runs a group called ‘Predator Poachers’ who organised the sting ‘botched the investigation’ by messaging EDP first, making it ‘un-prosecutable’. He also said that if he had been running the investigation the YouTuber would be in jail right now.
The famous ‘Predator Catcher’ continued, suggesting that the video likely made Rosen money but that ‘it looks amateurish and sloppy’. Rosen admits in the documentary that he could’ve done a better job with the specific case.
This is not however the first time that Hansen has hit out at YouTubers who carry out ‘paedo stings’, despite them arguably being a direct legacy of To Catch a Predator.
Hansen said vigilantes online have the wrong motives in catching predators
Hansen slammed ‘vigilantes’ online who often will confront the predators in a public place and in many occasions attack them physically.
Speaking to Howie Mandel he said what he does is ‘very different’ to what streamers do because his cases are prosecutable and they often have the ‘wrong motives’.
He explained: “It’s a it’s a very important topic there are a lot of vigilante online people who will bait these guys, get them out in public and shoot them with a smoke Cannon or embarrass them or physically abuse them.
“The problem with that is first of all the motive which is usually for clicks and profit. I understand that we get paid to do a show too but our cases are prosecuted.
“Most of these cases [involving streamers] can’t be prosecuted because they’re so messy, there’s no chain of evidence, they expose the guy, they put him on their YouTube channel, the police can’t then get a warrant to get their electronic devices, their computers or their phones, they can’t retrieve any evidence.”
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