The last segment of the Petaluma investigation focused in part on the Mark Foley scandal, which broke just days before the investigation went to air. Petaluma was the hometown of kidnap and murder victim Polly Klaas, and was also a former home of John Mark Karr, who made a false confession to the murder of JonBenét Ramsey. All of the previous interviews took place in a kitchen or living room. The confrontations took place in the backyard, the first time they were taped outdoors. The resulting investigation aired on Dateline NBC on September 29 and October 6. One suspect was later released due to lack of evidence. Shortly after the first half of this investigation aired, the Georgia Governor's office announced a new Child Safety Initiative which would triple the number of special agents in the Georgia Bureau of Investigation dedicated to catching Internet predators and double the number of forensic computer specialists dedicated to helping prosecute computer crimes.įrom August 25 to August 27, Perverted-Justice and Dateline worked with law enforcement in Petaluma, California to arrest 29 men in three days. Several months later, that man was rearrested when he exposed himself to a young girl at a public pool.
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Notable arrests included a military staff sergeant who on his knees pleaded with Hansen "not to ruin my life", a devout Christian man whose MySpace page claimed "Jesus Rocks" and that God was his hero, and one man who had said that he had seen the show "about three times on TV already", and in another case a man who confessed that "he has interest in younger girls, It has just been a fantasy of mine" and also that the "cleanest best pleasure" would be to have sex with a 13-year-old girl.
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The investigation aired on Dateline NBC in two parts on September 13 and September 22, and showed a growing awareness of the television series among potential predators Dateline itself was referenced by name several times.
In August 2006, Perverted-Justice announced that the sheriff's department in Harris County, Georgia had arrested 20 men over four-and-a-half days in another sting operation. This is the individual who pulled his shirt over his head and said, "Nothing funny is going on here, dog." Another duped his sister into driving him to the sting house and waiting for him in the car while he intended to have sex with a 14-year-old girl. Another man confessed that he was "guilty of whatever's there" (referring to the transcript) and, when asked what should happen to him by Hansen, said that he should receive the death penalty. After pleading with her for over 30 minutes, he gave up and walked to his car where he was arrested. Hansen also had to go look for a bottle of water for the man when he asked for one in which case Hansen made one of his typical humorous comments: "running around naked probably dried you up."Īnother man arrived at almost 4am, but refused to enter the house, trying to talk the girl into getting in his car with him. Like the first one, Hansen gave him a towel to cover himself with. He was the second featured predator to strip naked in the house to date. He did so and was immediately confronted by Hansen. She replied that she would do so on the condition that he would strip naked after entering the house. One man, upon seeing Hansen, said that he knew that he was walking into a setup because of the way that the decoy was talking online, but came anyway "to test it." Another man had asked a decoy posing as a 14-year-old if she was willing to have oral sex with a cat and perform sex acts involving Cool Whip. Hansen told him immediately that he was on Dateline without attempting to interview him, and police had the difficult task of arresting the father and removing the child without exposing him to the arrest.
Among the more notable moments in the investigation was the arrest of a man who had brought along his five-year-old son to the house, creating a challenge for arresting officers as well as Hansen who did not want to traumatize the boy. The operation was based in Fort Myers, Florida and saw 24 men arrested in three days. As with the Ohio investigation, the fifth investigation was aired in two one-hour-long parts in May 2006, forming the second half of the month-long series of To Catch a Predator specials.
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