“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 ...
"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 ...
"I didn't realize at the time how taxing it was emotionally and mentally," Casey Mauro says in the new documentary "Predators." A performer who pretended to be a child on To Catch a Predator is ...
When NBC’s To Catch a Predator premiered in the mid-2000s, it became a cultural sensation — drawing huge audiences as host Chris Hansen confronted men accused of soliciting minors, then watched police ...
A new documentary looks at the true crime TV program "To Catch A Predator" and its copycats. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with filmmaker David Osit about some of the uncomfortable questions "Predators" ...
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 ...
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 ...
A new documentary explores how the show turned troubled individuals’ actions into a quasi-pornographic exhibit meant for an ...
To Catch a Predator decoy Dan Schrack said that he has "blocked out" the death of investigation subject Bill Conradt. Conradt died by suicide as investigators from the Dateline segment entered his ...
“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 ...
Casey Mauro acted as a decoy in numerous child molester stings on To Catch a Predator as a young adult in the 2000s. She says that she wanted to warn the show's unwitting subjects to "Go home" on ...