When Jason Velasquez set out to catch online child predators nearly five years ago, he didn’t expect to expose a high-ranking law enforcement official. The chief of police for a Massachusetts town was ...

The setup was always the same: An adult male would visit the home of a minor they had been communicating with online, and while they were expecting some sort of sexual encounter, they would instead be ...

“Predators,” the new documentary about the TV news program “To Catch a Predator,” comes across as painfully, almost uncomfortably conflicted in the view of its subject. Yet those NBC specials that ...

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Documentary filmmaker David Osit was going down an internet rabbit hole in the late 2010s when he stumbled upon a primitive, yet quickly addictive, message board. Sporting the archaic look of a Web ...

“Predators,” a look into the rise and fall of the pedophile-baiting series “To Catch a Predator,” has sold to MTV Documentary Films following its debut at Sundance. David Osit directed and produced ...

“My life may be crappy, but at least I’m not on TV.” That’s one explanation for the mass appeal of “To Catch a Predator” put forth by a subject in “Predators,” a new documentary about the mid-aughts ...

A new documentary delving into the cultural phenomenon of NBC’s To Catch a Predator, which debuted in the early 2000s and featured host Chris Hansen, will follow the “rise and staggering fall of the ...

Several groups have formed in recent years to carry out citizen-led sting operations targeting suspected online child predators. Sergey Zolkin via Unsplash When Jason Velasquez set out to catch online ...

They reported being inspired by the predator-catching trend seen on TikTok, according to the outlet. On Jan. 16, five students pleaded not guilty to kidnapping and conspiracy charges, the Associated ...