To Catch a Predator

Seasons

2004

USA

8.1

To catch a predator shows us the investigations carried out using the hidden camera from Dateline NBC.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Bethpage, Long Island

The operation was set up in a home in Long Island, NY, to which 18 men came over two-and-a-half days after making a date for sex with a minor. One of the men in the investigation was a New York City firefighter, who was later fired.

S1 • E2

Fairfax County, Virginia

Chris Hansen's report on the dangers of Internet chat rooms for kids includes a hidden-camera investigation and suggestions on how to protect children from online predators.

S1 • E3

Riverside County, California

Chris Hansen offers a second update to his investigation into online predators and the hazards of Internet chat rooms for children.

S1 • E4

Greenville, Ohio: Part 1

Chris Hansen travels to Ohio to file the first in a new series of hidden-camera reports on alleged online sexual predators as part of the ongoing "To Catch a Predator" series.

S1 • E5

Greenville, Ohio: Part 2

Is this a crime that only happens in and around big cities? Or does it happen everywhere? Seventeen men are arrested over a three day period as Dateline goes to the Heartland.

S1 • E6

Fort Meyers, Florida: Part 1

Tonight: the strangest parade of suspects you've ever seen.

S1 • E7

Fort Meyers, Florida: Part 2

Part two of Chris Hansen's investigation into internet predators in Florida.

S1 • E8

Fortson, Georgia: Part 1

20 men over four and a half days were exposed by the show, arrested, prosecuted, and ultimately sentenced.

S1 • E9

Fortson, Georgia: Part 2

Potential predators continue to show up at Chris Hansen's bait house in Georgia.

S1 • E10

Petaluma, California: Part 1

29 men were netted in three days in a town outside of San Francisco famous for the murder of Polly Klass by a child predator and former residence of JonBenet Ramsey murder suspect John Mark Karr.