Have A Seat with Chris Hansen
Have A Seat with Chris Hansen is here—an all-new platform from America’s most relentless crime fighter. Every week, Hansen takes you back inside the stings that shocked the nation on Predators I’ve Caught—with never-before-heard details and new revelations. Then, pull up a chair for Have A Seat with Chris Hansen, his weekly in-depth interview series where the biggest names in law enforcement, justice, and survival tell their stories. Two shows. One mission. Have A Seat with Chris Hansen. Relentless. Uncompromising. Always watching. Sponsored by TruthFinder.com Have a question or case suggestion? Email Chris directly at Chris@PredatorPodcast.com. For advertising or sponsorship-related questions, visit RedSeatVentures.com. For more on To Catch a Predator, visit the official fan Wiki.
Episodes
November 5, 2025 • 30 mins
On this episode of Have a Seat with Chris Hansen, Chris is joined by Renée Williams, the CEO of the National Center for Victims of Crime, an organization dedicated to serving individuals, families, and communities harmed by crime. The two discuss the importance of the Center’s work as well as with victims of high profile cases such as Jeffrey Epstein and Bill Cosby. Williams explains how to navigate the media in the wake of traged...
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November 3, 2025 • 39 mins
In this jaw-dropping episode of Predators I’ve Caught with Chris Hansen, a Monroe, Michigan sting takes an unexpected twist when two predators from the same neighborhood arrive at the decoy house within hours of each other. One of them, 53-year-old Jerry Daniel Hetherington, stands out for all the wrong reasons. Claiming he was going to “make a glory hole” for himself and the decoy, Jerry’s bizarre story quickly unravels under Chri...
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October 29, 2025 • 59 mins
On this emotional, insightful and important episode, Chris Hansen has a seat with Joe Petito, father of Gabby Petito, the 22-year-old content creator who was killed by her fiancé while traveling the country. Petito shares what happened during the days Gabby was missing, to getting the unimaginable call that her body had been found. But through the darkness of tragically losing Gabby, Petito, along with his wife Tara, and Gabby’s m...
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October 27, 2025 • 31 mins
“That’s not my condom…they planted it on me!” Willie Merrill, a registered sex offender, was caught in a Polk County, Florida sting on Takedown with Chris Hansen. After chatting with a decoy posing as a mother offering her fifteen-year-old foster daughter for sex, Merrill suspected it might be a setup—but came anyway. Arrested in his car
outside the hotel, he argued with officers, demanded a lawyer, and claimed he was being harass...
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October 22, 2025 • 55 mins
Chris Hansen continues his awareness and fight to keeping children safe on-line and has a seat with 30-year veteran cyber security expert Ben Gillenwater, AKA, The Family IT Guy. The two have an eye-opening discussion about what is really happening on platforms and games that are so-called ‘safe' for children, and vital tips for parents and adults on what they can do to protect children. Gillenwater explains how social media apps ...
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October 20, 2025 • 37 mins
“I can't keep doing this... or this will be my, this is just my life." Samuel
Dennis “Sam” Zoellner, a repeat offender with a history of targeting underage girls, was caught in a Polk County, Florida sting featured on Takedown with Chris Hansen. Using the screen name “Jack_Loud,” the 26-year-old initiated contact with a decoy posing as a fifteen-year-old girl and drove to meet her. As he arrived, speaking with the decoy on the pho...
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On this weeks emotional episode, Chris Hansen has a seat with Stephen Federico, father of Logan Federico, a 22-year-old student from Waxhaw, North Carolina who was allegedly murdered by Alexander Dickey on May 23, 2025. Dickey, a habitual and repeat offender, with at least 39 arrests and 25 felonies on his record was free to walk the streets - the streets of Columbia, South Carolina where Logan was visiting friends when Dickey all...
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October 13, 2025 • 34 mins
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Adam Michael Duellman was caught in a Marquette County, Michigan investigation featured on Takedown with Chris Hansen. After contacting a decoy posing as a 15-year-old boy, Duellman’s chat quickly turned explicit, prompting Hansen’s team to rush to the sting house. With only hidden cameras in place, the crew captured Duellman arriving just minutes after leaving work—expecting to meet a teen, and instead coming face-t...
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On this special episode of Have a Seat with Chris Hansen, Chris brings you his very important and topical session from CrimeCon Denver surrounding the head-line grabbing and controversial gaming platform Roblox. Roblox is an on-line virtual universe played by millions around the world, but there are also dangerous people lurking behind avatars that are wanting to harm to your children. Hansen is joined by victim-turned advocate an...
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October 6, 2025 • 33 mins
Joshua Ralph "Josh" Cummins was caught in a Polk County, Florida sting on Takedown with Chris Hansen. Known for his unsettling phone call and desire to play “the nervous game,” the 28-year-old began chatting online with a decoy posing as a 14-year-old girl. He soon escalated, obtaining her number and talking for nearly an hour. The following night, Josh texted that he was in her area, telling the decoy how to dress and showing up ...
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October 1, 2025 • 61 mins
On this episode of Have a Seat, Chris Hansen is joined by Haywood “Woody” Talcove, CEO of LexisNexis Risk Solutions to talk the latest in fraud, scams and identity thefts putting you at risk to becoming a victim. From government to COVID fraud; to DOGE and EBT scandals; to bad actors operating on the dark web stealing your identity and sleeper-cells and cyber-terrorism group operating on U.S. soil under our noses, this episode wil...
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September 29, 2025 • 36 mins
Wesley Phillip Beehn is a predator that was caught in the 2024 Genesee
County, Michigan sting of TruBlu’s Takedown with Chris Hansen. Beehn is best known for repeatedly asking the decoy to call him "daddy" in the
chatlog. When Beehn was confronted by Chris Hansen, Chris asked if he wanted him to call him "daddy" to which Wesley responded with
"no." Chris called him it anyway. After Beehn was arrested,
Chris pointed out that Wesley...
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September 24, 2025 • 47 mins
Chris Hansen has a seat with documentary producer and director David Osit on his new film “Predators”, which dives into the cultural phenomenon of Dateline’s To Catch a Predator. Hansen and Osit discuss the series’ impact, the headline grabbing controversies, and how Hansen’s investigations into crimes against children have evolved over the years. If you’ve been a long-time viewer and fan of Chris Hansen’s, this is an episode you w...
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September 22, 2025 • 39 mins
Thomas Jerome Soetaert is a predator caught in a Marquette County, Michigan investigation of Takedown with Chris Hansen. He is notable for wanting to take the decoy into the middle of the woods to have sex with her. At the time of the sting, Thomas lived in Skandia, Michigan. He previously had a live-in girlfriend, but the relationship failed. He also had two kids who lived with their mother. Thomas began communicating with a dec...
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September 17, 2025 • 52 mins
Chris Hansen has a seat with Carly Yoost and Greg Schiller of the Child Rescue Coalition, a nonprofit organization that rescues children from sexual abuse by building technology for law enforcement, free of charge, to identify, arrest and prosecute child predators. This episode will leave audiences shocked and stunned at the amount of child sexually abusive material that is being shared and traded around the world, but will also le...
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September 15, 2025 • 39 mins
Jared Michael Weaver is a predator caught in a Genesee County, Michigan
investigation of Takedown with Chris Hansen. He is mostly known for claiming that Satan tempted him come to the sting house to sabotage his marriage. Weaver began communicating with a decoy posing as a fifteen-year-old girl. After being informed of the decoy's age, Weaver said, "Ok," then asked if there was a place he could park a medium sized truck and traile...
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September 10, 2025 • 46 mins
Chris Hansen talks with Riverside, California Sheriff Chad Bianco about his run for Governor, joining the Republican party, the drug and gang problems plaguing the state, and the two reminisce about one of the most successful child predator operations in Hansen’s career.
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September 8, 2025 • 42 mins
John Cono DeSarli Jr. is a predator caught in a Polk County, Florida investigation. He is notable for being obviously high during his interview, and for claiming that he only showed up to prove to the police that he knew it was a sting because of his dark web and tech knowledge. DeSarli Jr. began communicating with a decoy posing as a fourteen-year-old girl. The decoy was run by the Polk County Sheriff's Office as part of its Oper...
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September 3, 2025 • 33 mins
In this debut episode of "Have A Seat with Chris Hansen," legendary journalist Chris Hansen interviews the iconic rapper and actor Ice-T. Explore Ice-T's fascinating journey from the gritty streets of Los Angeles to Hollywood stardom, as he shares candid insights and untold stories that reveal the man behind the persona. Hansen delves into Ice T's diverse career, exploring resilience, creativity, and reinvention. Whether you're a l...
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September 1, 2025 • 39 mins
Larry William Hayes is an alleged predator caught in a Polk County, Florida investigation of Takedown with Chris Hansen. At the time of the sting, Hayes had been living in Plant City, Florida. Hayes had been in the Army for 20 years, but was a disabled veteran at the time of the sting. He had three children, a twenty-year-old, a seven-year-old, and a twelve-year-old. Hayes had been communicating with a decoy posing as the father to...
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