To Catch a Predator

- Season 1

(2005)

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Chris Hansen's hidden-camera investigation into alleged Internet predators continues in Petaluma, CA.