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Chad Bianco

> “You beg of me what?!” - Chad beginning a snark session with Stephen Coates.
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**Chad Bianco** was the detective in charge of the parallel investigation with Dateline NBC during the Riverside, California investigation of **To Catch a Predator**.

## Biography

Chad, a lieutenant at the time, headed up the law enforcement end of the Riverside investigation, arresting 51 men over the course of three days. His department was the first to arrest the suspected predators as they left the house and took a very no-nonsense against the suspected predators, taking the opportunity to call them out on their excuses and snarkily shaming them whenever they could. When Stephen Coates asked to be let go, Chad told him that since he was the first person to ask him that tonight, he was going to let him go (HA!). At one point, they had run out of space at the booking station and personnel to watch over the suspected predators, so he had them wait in a temporary holding area warning them, “You better not run”. No one did.

## Post-Predator Activities

* A 26 year veteran of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, Chad was elected to Sheriff in November 2018.
* Bianco was exposed in October of 2021 as being a member having paid dues in 2014 to the Oath Keepers, a right wing extremist organization that was one of the groups involved in the planning of the riot at the United States Capitol Building on January 6, 2021. Bianco defended against this by saying he never remembered joining and that the members that showed up for the insurrection were only a few “fringe members”.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.insider.com/riverside-county-sheriff-chad-bianco-membership-oath-keepers-2021-10
2. ↑ https://www.npr.org/2021/10/06/1043651361/oath-keepers-california-sheriff-chad-bianco-january-6-us-capitol
Ramin Sarajari

**Ramin Sarajari** is an unaired suspected predator involved in the Long Beach, California edition of **To Catch a Predator**. He is best known for looking like Joe Gatto from the television show *Impractical Jokers*.

## Biography

42-year-old Ramin Sarajari started talking with a Perverted Justice decoy who was pretending to be a thirteen-year-old girl. Because she was under 18, he informed her that they could never meet. However, a few minutes later, he starts asking the decoy explicit questions like whether or not whether or not she's ever masturbated, whether she's ever had a boyfriend and wat they did sexually, what color panties she's wearing, and whether or not she has hair in her genitalia.

## Behind the scenes

During the episode, the police can be seen seating Ramin at the booking station. It is assumed that he didn't get an interview because he is shown being arrested as Chris Hansen introduces the men who never made it into the sting house.

Ramin received the "Long Beach Special" sentencing, which included three years of probation, sixty days of caltrans community service, fines and fees, sex offender counseling and lifetime registration as a sex offender.

## 2023

As of 2023 Ramin no longer shows up on California's Megan Law or the NSOPW, it is unclear as to why.

## References

1. ↑ https://dairystatedegenerates.blogspot.com/2021/02/to-catch-predator-update-long-beach\_8.html
2. ↑ http://www.perverted-justice.com/?con=sebastian\_calif
Del Harvey

> ”If I bleed on the rug, I’m gonna get SHOT!”
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> - Excerpt from Del’s “toe on the bannister” excuse.
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**Del Harvey** (real name **Allison Shea**) was a chat decoy for Perverted-Justice and a physical decoy for NBC involved in the *To Catch a Predator* investigations. A member of the organization, she posed as children both online and in real life. Because of her appearance and her gender neutral voice, she could portray both girls and boys.

When she showed up for the Bethpage, NY sting, NBC made the decision to make her the physical decoy. She continued in this role in various capacities until the Ocean County, NJ sting, where female decoy duties were taken over by Casey Mauro, who worked in that capacity until the end of the series. She was also phased out of her male decoy duties at this time as well.

## Trivia/Post-*Predator* activities

* Shea, being an open lesbian, rallies for the empowerment of lesbian and bisexual women in the tech industry.
* Harvey left Perverted Justice shortly after the cancellation of *To Catch a Predator*. In 2008, Del became a content moderator for Twitter, and by 2014, was vice president of trust and safety. She has direct control over which accounts on the platform are suspended or terminated due to policy violations. This would prove controversial in 2020 when investigation into the suspension of various accounts that were critical of Chris Hansen uncovered communication between him and Harvey just before the blanket suspensions began. Harvey resigned from her position in 2021 and now works in a consultant role.
* Notably, she was the only decoy who wasn't an actor that Dateline hired.
* Perverted Justice was paid over $1.2 million in consultant fees over the course of the series. 82% of the money went to paying the salaries of her, Frag, and Xavier Von Erck.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfLQ2QkLZuA
2. ↑ https://www.protocol.com/del-harvey-twitter-departs
3. ↑ https://gawker.com/5789577/how-the-weirdos-behind-to-catch-a-predator-blew-12-million
Charles McAllister

**Charles McAllister** is a suspected predator caught in a KBI sting in connection with the Bowling Green, Kentucky edition of To Catch a Predator.

## Biography

41-year-old Charles McAllister, using the screen name "dave40962," started a conversation with a Perverted Justice decoy posing as "Taylor," a thirteen-year-old girl. Charles said that he could teach the decoy various sexual techniques and asked if she would like to hook up. He warns the girl not to tell anyone and tells her that he could go to jail for trying to rape a child.

## Behind the scenes

Charles enters the sting house and sits down at a table. The Kentucky Bureau of Investigation order him to put his hands in the air and tackled him to the ground. He was quickly taken into custody. They find three boxes of condoms and pornographic DVDs in his possession. During his police interrogation, Charles acknowledged to detective John Sparks that he had been married and divorced three times. He is questioned by Sparks on a variety of children's clothing they discovered in his truck. Charles claimed that they were rags that he used to clean up with and clothes for his stepdaughter's infant.

Charles was found guilty of unlawful transaction with a minor, a first-degree felony. He was given a five-year prison sentence, five years of probation, 20 years as a registered sex offender, pay $150 in costs, no contact with children under the age of eighteen, may not accept or seek employment that would give him access to minors or the chance to find new victims, may not be in possession of anything sexually explicit, restricted from computers or internet access, and restricted from romantic relationships without probation/parole consent.

## References

1. ↑ http://kspsor.state.ky.us/Home/OffenderDetails/TnIEcSpDqwsz2WifQ\_69OA?x=0fdba2f4-f49c-4444-acd4-d73ab1304023
2. ↑ http://www.perverted-justice.com/?archive=dave40962
3. ↑ https://dairystatedegenerates.blogspot.com/2021/04/to-catch-predator-update-northern.html
Chandra Nunna

**Chandrashekhar Nunna** is a potential predator caught in the Petaluma, California segment of **To Catch a Predator**. He is best known for being one of two men in the sting not to be convicted, the other being Joseph Roisman.

## Sting and arrest

Chandra Nunna, a 31-year-old computer engineer, started a chat with a decoy who was posing as a thirteen year old girl. He said many sexually explicit things, including how he wanted to have oral sex and take her virginity, He expressed reticence on coming because, in his words, he would be labeled a pedophile if he were caught. Nunna drove to the sting house, Upon arriving, he told the decoy he hoped he wouldn't be in trouble for meeting her.

When Chris Hansen confronted him, Nunna claimed he thought the girl was alone and was only going to take her out for coffee. He also asserted that he could be her "big brother." Chris contradicted his excuses because it was noted in his chat log that he was afraid of being arrested and called a pedophile if he met with a thirteen year old. Nunna acknowledged that there was sexual talk there, but claimed that the decoy initiated it. As he persisted in saying he was merely checking in on her, Chris told who he was, and exposed Nunna on national television. Nunna insisted, when questioned by police, that he had only been asking the decoy whether she was okay and that she had initiated the sex chat.

Nunna took the case to trial. The result of the trial is unknown, but it can be assumed he was acquitted as he lived in the U.S. for another five years after his appearance on the show, he is not in the California Sex Offender Registry, his chat isn’t on the Perverted Justice website, and he isn’t on their “absconded predators” list either.

### Post-Predator Activities

Nunna returned to India and started an IT firm in Hyderabad. He even lists his job in Petaluma in his job experience on his LinkedIn page.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/ruling-expected-in-televised-sex-sting-case/
2. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/FansHansenvsPredator/comments/ksa6ky/chandra\_nunna\_was\_in\_the\_us\_for\_5\_years\_after\_his/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=ios\_app&utm\_name=iossmf
Ryan McIntosh

**Ryan Douglas McIntosh** is a suspected predator featured on the Fort Myers, Florida edition of To Catch a Predator.

## Biography

Ryan, a 23 year old owner of dog boutique, started a chat with a Perverted Justice decoy who was posing as a 14 year old boy. Ryan asked the boy several explicit questions, such as the size of his penis and whether he had pubic hair. He also confirmed to to the decoy that he was masturbating while they were talking. When the decoy asked Ryan if he wouldn't tell anyone he was gay, Ryan answered that he wouldn't tell anyone if the decoy gave him oral sex. He added that if he had sex with the boy, he didn't want to go to jail.

When he arrived to the sting house, Del Harvey, pretending to be the boy, invited him inside. When confronted by Chris Hansen, Ryan claimed he wasn't going to have sex and wanted to be a "big brother" to the boy. Ryan's claims are contradicted by Chris when he reads from his chat log. According to Chris, the problem wasn't whether because of being gay or straight; rather, it was that Ryan was an adult speaking sexually to a child. When Chris identified himself, Ryan said he already knew who he was since he had watched prior episodes of *To Catch a Predator*. When Ryan exited the sting house, he calmly waited for the cops to take him into custody. They emerged and arrested him.

## Behind the scenes

While in court, Ryan told his lawyer he didn't believe his interview with Chris was real and was drunk on apple martinis at the time. Ryan asked the court to not use his interview with Chris as evidence, but the judge refused. Ryan spent 404 days in jail because he refused to enter a plea. He grew impatient and finally plead guilty to one felony count of Using the Internet to solicit/attempt solicit a child for sex/lewdness. He received time served, was given lifetime sex offender registration, and placed on probation until 2010. Ryan is now divorced.

## References

1. ↑ https://archive.naplesnews.com/news/local/dateline-host-returns-year-after-predator-roundup-ep-404602432-345523882.html/
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://dairystatedegenerates.blogspot.com/2020/12/to-catch-predator-update-fort-myers\_14.html
3. ↑ http://www.perverted-justice.com/?con=QX4Boi19
Eric Rubalcava

**Eric Rubalcava** is a potential predator featured in the Murphy, Texas edition of **To Catch A Predator**.

## Biography

31-year-old Eric Rubalcava, who used the screen name "sunsetliquid," engaged in conversation with a Perverted Justice decoy who was impersonating a thirteen-year-old girl. Although his chat log is not available online, it is known he intended to kiss and lick the girl. He also stated he wanted to give and receive oral sex. Eric admits that he could go to prison for trying to groom a child.

## Sting and operation

Eric arrives and is invited in by the decoy and offers him a choice of soft drinks. Eric asks if he could have a glass of water, but it
wasn't part of the list of drinks she was offering so the decoy makes a bad excuse saying that she drank it all. Eric then asks the decoy if he can use the restroom. The decoy, in order for him not to go deeper in the house and discover the camera crews, makes another bad excuse by claiming that the toilet is gone. Chris Hansen stops him as he tries to exit the house. Eric comes back, his hands raised. As soon as he sits down, he realizes that he is on **To Catch a Predator**. He says he initially believed the girl was eighteen. Chris Hansen challenges his lie by quoting from his chat log. Eric claims he has never met a girl underage and that he enjoys talking with people of all ages.

He comes up with a new defense, saying that instead of having intercourse with the girl, he was merely going to take pictures of her. If he touched her, he claims he wouldn't be able to live "consciously." After reading from the chat log, Chris Hansen again refutes his lies. Eric asserts that the conversation was "fantacious" and that  he became "a different person" when grooming a child. Eric continues to insist that he didn't feel guilty because he was not going to have sex with her. He admits to watching an episode of **To Catch a Predator**. After Eric is exposed on national television by Chris, he leaves the house and is arrested by police.

## Behind the scenes

Eric admitted the girl was thirteen during his police interview but claimed that she didn't appear to be underage. He asserts to have no prior convictions, never hurt anyone, and recently discovered spirituality as a means of self-improvement. Eric's charges would be dropped along with all the other men that came to the house after the suicide of Louis Conradt. He continues to live on Swinbrook Lane in Houston.

## References

1. ↑ https://dairystatedegenerates.blogspot.com/2021/02/to-catch-predator-update-murphy-texas.html
Justo Benavides

* Then
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**Justo Ezzio Benavides** is an unaired suspected predator confronted in the Ocean County, New Jersey edition of **To Catch a Predator.**

## Biography

Justo Benavides, 23, started an online conversation with a girl he believed to be fourteen years old. He says he's eighteen years old, which is a lie. Justo is informed by the decoy that his Myspace profile lists his age as 23.   Justo lies once more, now claiming to be 21. He inquires several times about her ex-boyfriend and in nearly every conversation, Justo pressed for a meeting by asking when she could hang out with him. He later proceeds by expressing his desire for oral, anal, and vaginal intercourse with her. Justo repeatedly questioned whether he was speaking to a police officer, including over the phone.

Despite the fact that his interview with Chris Hansen was never broadcasted, he can be seen approaching the residence in both episodes of the Ocean County, New Jersey sting, being interrogated, and being arrested. He is also seen in a brief appearance in Part 2 where he asks Chris, "this is the Dateline thing?"

## Behind the scenes

Justo was found guilty on a felony count of Criminal Attempt Endangering Welfare of Children. He was sentenced to lifetime parole and lifetime registration as a sex offender. Though Justo still resides in Kearny, New Jersey, he works in Pennsylvania and is a publicly registered sex offender there.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://www.pameganslaw.state.pa.us/OffenderDetails/PhysDesc/13643
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://dairystatedegenerates.blogspot.com/2021/04/to-catch-predator-update-ocean-county.html
3. ↑ http://www.perverted-justice.com/?con=MatrixJB84
Kurt Lemke

**Kurt Horst Lemke Jr.** is a suspected predator involved in the Riverside, California edition of **To Catch a Predator**.

## Biography

Kurt, a 37 year old truck driver who used the screen name "haloballfan", started a chat with a decoy named Dave, whom he believed was a 13 year old boy. He told the decoy he would give him oral sex. When Kurt arrives at the sting house, he is greeted by Chris Hansen. Chris tells Kurt to take a seat, to which Kurt says he'd "rather not". Kurt claimed he was just there to hang out and asked Chris who he was. He then stated he was "mislead" and tries to leave. Chris quickly tells Kurt who he is, and the cameras come out. Kurt runs out of the house and is arrested by police.

## Behind the scenes

Kurt pleaded guilty to two counts: Attempted Lewd or Lascivious Acts With a Child Under 14 and Attempted Harmful Matter Sent with the Intent to Seduce a Minor. He was sentenced to a year in prison and lifetime registry as a sex offender.

## Trivia

* Kurt lives in San Bernadino County and is still working as a truck driver.

* Despite being convicted, Kurt's chatlog cannot be found on Perverted Justice's website.

## References

1. ↑ https://undercover.hosting.nyu.edu/s/undercover-reporting/item/12846
2. ↑ https://meganslaw.ca.gov/OffenderDisplay.aspx?searchby=offender&ID=44609311N2850&NSOPRFlag=True&x=157d4d60-f1f4-47b4-b274-94d0f8a854e8
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 https://dairystatedegenerates.blogspot.com/2020/11/to-catch-predator-update-riverside-part.html
4. ↑ https://www.quicktransportsolutions.com/truckingcompany/california/kurt-h-lemke-usdot-2853808.php
Ken Gillingham

*Ken Gillingham* was a KBI agent featured in the Bowling Green, Kentucky edition of **To Catch a Predator**. He is best known for interrogating Lorne Armstrong in an interview where Lorne can be seen crying continuously and famously asks Gillingham if he'll be going to jail that night.

## Biography

Ken Gillingham was an agent for the Kentucky Bureau of Investigation. He would become involved with the Bowling Green, Kentucky edition of To Catch a Predator. Gillingham interviewed child sex predators Lorne Armstrong, Michael Joseph Patterson and Jeremy Todd West. His interview with Lorne begins with Gillingham entering the interview room along with a detective from Warren County where Lorne sits crying. He starts filling out paperwork while asking basic questions to Lorne such as his name, address and occupation. Gillingham then reads his rights to Lorne who asks him if he will be going to jail tonight. Gillingham confirms that Lorne will indeed be going to jail and says he expects Lorne to similarly be truthful to them. Lorne sobs and says he'd like to know why he was stupid enough to do that and asks him why the cameras are there saying that he's never had anything on his record except for a DUI to which Ken explains that he is on To Catch a Predator and the person he met was Chris Hansen from NBC. Lorne then stupidly mumbles that he never even meant to do it while sobbing. Lorne signs away his rights after which Gillingham requests permission to search his truck which Lorne gives.

Ken starts by introducing himself as a KBI agent and asks Lorne why he is here tonight to which Lorne gives the vague answer "I was on the internet with a girl" as he sobs. Throughout the interview, Lorne would continue to similarly give passive, short and vague answers that would confirm his intentions while continuing to sob. When Gillingham peers over his nudes and inquires him about transmitting photographs of him, Lorne states he never sent any photographs of himself naked and is asked if they are someone else's photographs. He is then questioned about why he identified those photographs as his back at the sting house. Lorne foolishly tries to play semantics and says he didn't send any pictures but actually only showed the decoy his webcam but confirms that those pictures are indeed of him. Lorne who is visibly embarrassed at another man looking at pictures of his penis stops responding and buries his face in his hands prompting Gillingham to tell him he'll need to talk if they are to get this out of the way. Lorne then ends the interview, possibly to stop the humiliation, by asking for an attorney. Gillingham then asks him to confirm if he wants an attorney and utters a casual "aaalrightt" after receiving a confirmatory nod in response from Lorne.

## Behind the scenes

Gillingham would later join the Kentucky State Police as a criminal investigator and eventually retire from his law enforcement career.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna22423433
2. ↑ https://personnelboard.ky.gov/Board%20Cases%20%20Orders/ParrishKathryn.PDF
Alan Chernay

> *"Hey, my back hurts! Please, please, please!"*
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**Alan Chernay** is a suspected predator caught during the Murphy, Texas investigation. He is known for whining about his aching back when he was being arrested.

## Biography

Alan Chernay was 58 years old when he tried soliciting a 14 year old girl for oral sex. While his chatlog cannot be found online, what is known is that he refused to give his real age to the decoy, only revealing that he was "over 40." He tells the decoy that he would love to get oral sex from her one day, claiming that since he is 6'2, she could give him oral sex without her having to kneel down.

## Sting and Arrest

Alan arrives at the sting house and is immediately greeted by Chris Hansen, shaking his hand and sitting on the stool. When asked how old he was, Chernay only responds with, *"I'm old."* After further questioning, Alan breaks down, saying, *"I'm out of my mind, I just can't believe it."*

Alan's interview with Chris is one of the shorter ones in the operation, as Alan gets up to leave before Chris is finished questioning him. He leaves the house, but is immediately arrested by the police. As Alan is being handcuffed, the officer kneels on his lower back, which causes Alan to yelp in pain as he begs the officer to take it easy on his back. When he is being loaded into the police car, Alan can be heard saying, *"Agh, thank you."*

At the police station, he refuses to admit his intentions. He does however admit that he has been married to his wife for 34 years, to which the interrogator exclaims, *"Oh my god."* Due to being married to his wife for nearly four decades, Chernay asks the investigators if he can be given any sort of a break, but no such break would be given at that time. He was later charged with a felony and brought before a judge. Due to the suicide of Louis Conradt, every single predator in the Murphy sting had their charges dropped, including Alan Chernay. Alan got very lucky, being given the break he so desperately wanted by sheer chance.

It is unknown what happened to Alan following his appearance on the program.]]
Fernando Bernal

**Fernando Bernal** is a potential predator caught in the Petaluma, California segment of **To Catch a Predator.**

## Biography

33-year-old Fernando Bernal used the screen name "a\_latino\_man559" to begin a chat with a decoy posing as a thirteen year old girl. He chatted with the decoy for six minutes before declaring he was bored and horny. He set up a live image of his penis and described to the decoy what he would do to her sexually.

When Bernal showed up to the sting house with hamburgers and condoms, he seemed quite excited in his interaction with the decoy. His attitude quickly changes when Chris Hansen appears to question him. Chris was informed by Bernal that he had driven a distance of three hours. He claimed that he had only intended to speak with her. After Chris grilled Bernal, he revealed that he works for Dateline NBC. Bernal declared he was a "nice person" and God was going to see him through this before departing. He walked out of the house and was arrested by police.

## Behind the scenes

Bernal acknowledged having a sex and porn addiction when questioned by a detective, but he said he would not have had intercourse with the girl. Bernal was found guilty to a felony count of attempted lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14 years of age. He was sentenced to 6 months in jail, 36 months of probation, and had to register as a sex offender for life. After completing his sentence, Bernal was deported from the United States to his native El Salvador.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 http://www.perverted-justice.com/?con=a\_latino\_man559
2. ↑ https://dairystatedegenerates.blogspot.com/2021/01/to-catch-predator-update-petaluma-part\_18.html
Daryl Medley

**Daryl Glenn Medley** is an unaired suspected predator featured in the Riverside, California edition of To Catch a Predator.

## Biography

Even though his chatlog isn't available online, it is known that 33-year-old Daryl Glenn Medley contacted a Perverted Justice decoy who was posing as a 13-year-old girl using the screen name "dzwish". Even though Medley's interview with Chris Hansen remains unaired, he could be seen in the episode getting carried off in handcuffs by Riverside police officers.

### Behind the scenes

Medley was charged with one felony count of attempted lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 years of age. The court set his bail at $25,000 dollars. In 2008, he was found guilty against the felony charge he was facing. He know lives in Victorville.

## Behind the scenes/Trivia

* Even though Medley was convicted of his crimes, his chatlog and conviction are not accessible on Perverted Justice's website.

## References

1. ↑ http://www.perverted-justice.com/booking/bookingcollage.html
2. ↑ https://meganslaw.ca.gov/OffenderDisplay.aspx?searchby=offender&ID=27008170M2147&NSOPRFlag=True&x=0d2f4568-d184-4f22-97a7-0f6bb97f44b9
Petaluma, California

**Petaluma, California** is the seventh episode in the series **To Catch a Predator**

## Plot synopsis

*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.*

## Notes & trivia

* Due to its location, the sting caught many men of Eastern Indian descent as they comprise the 2nd largest minority group in the tri-city (San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland) area.

* Also due to its location to military bases, many military men were also caught, such as Yancy Wallace, Jonathan Stemen, and Joseph Roisman. Roisman was also the only man arrested in the sting that was acquitted of his charges.
* Due to its long time to work it’s way through the legal system, Maurice Wolin became a high profile person caught in the sting.

* The episode is highly scrutinized on YouTube and footage is regularly erased on the platform as compared to other episodes. Uploaders have attempted to circumvent this censorship by adding visual filters to the video or slowing down and speeding up the audio.

## Predators and Personnel

A list of people involved in the Petaluma investigation.
Marshall Girtman

**Marshall Girtman** is a suspected predator involved in the Fortson, Georgia edition of **To Catch a Predator**.

## Biography

Marshall, a 27 year old First Lieutenant in the Illinois National Guard, started chatting with a decoy pretending to be a 15 year old girl. He sent the decoy links to porn sites and encouraged her to watch the videos. Marshall then tells the girl he wants to go skinny dipping with her. He tried to meet her vigorously and insistently, repeatedly asking to meet and for directions to her house. When he arrives at the sting house, Marshalls runs from the house when he spots NBC's crew. He is quickly apprehended by the police and arrested. When investigated by police, he apologizes for trying to meet the girl and said it was a "bad judgment call," although claims he would not want to have sex with the decoy. The police throw down his excuses and said he provided a child with pornagraphic websites.

## Behind the scenes

Marshall was charged with criminal attempt to commit statutory rape and criminal attempt to commit child molestation. Like most of the predators in Georgia, Marshall took a plea deal. Judge Bobby Peter sentenced him to 10 years in prison with a minimum of five years to serve and five years of probation. For the criminal attempt to commit statutory rape charge, Marshall was sentenced to another 10 years of probation. He also had to resign his commission with the Illinois National Guard. He was later released in 2009 and was on probation until 2015. He now lives in Illinois and is a registered sex offender there. In 2020, he was honored by the Quilts of Valor for his service in the military.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 http://www.perverted-justice.com/?con=hiexcitement
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 https://dairystatedegenerates.blogspot.com/2021/01/to-catch-predator-update-fortson-part.html
Rafiullah Ahmadi

**Rafiullah “Rafi” Sayed Ahmadi** was an unaired suspected predator involved in the Riverside, California edition of **To Catch a Predator**.

## Biography

21-year-old Rafiullah Ahmadi used the screen name "philosophyguy2003," to start an internet chat with a Perverted Justice decoy who was posing as a thirteen-year-old girl named Chloe. Right away, Ahmadi asked the girl if she could talk on the phone. He later asked the decoy if she was a virgin and if he could have sex with her. Ahmadi told the decoy he hated grown men who talked to underage girls and referred himself as an "old pervert."

## Behind the scenes

When Ahmadi arrives at the sting house, Ahmadi repeatedly says "hey" and informs the decoy that he is leaving if she didn't show herself. When Chris Hansen welcomes him instead of a real child, he becomes frightened. When asked about his plan, Ahmadi replied that he was going to meet a friend. Ahmadi claimed he went to the sting house because the girl had claimed to be by herself and that they were only going to watch a movie. He says he wasn't intending to do anything with the girl and starts breathing heavily. He repeatedly apologizes and says he didn't know what was going to happen if their was a real child.

Ahmadi exits the sting house as a result of Chris's revelation that they are doing a story on child sex predators. Police then apprehended Ahmadi and took him into custody. He tried fighting the charges for two years until ultimately, Ahmadi finally entered a guilty plea to an attempted child molestation allegation after his case had been in court up until 2008. He was given a 30-day prison term to be served on weekends, three years of probation, lifetime sex offender registration, over $2500 in fines, stringent conditions to follow such submitting to search and seizure, and refraining from accessing social networking sites.

## Aftermath and 2023 update

Ahmadi created a blog in 2008 where he published poetry and said he had discovered God.

In a podcast Hansen made in 2023, he claimed Ahmadi got married shortly after the sting and began studying electrical engineering. His wife however tragically died during that time, from a car accident. Ahmadi then started a *gofundme.com* to travel his wife remains to Afghanistan.

Hansen then stated he found court records, that Ahmadi had attempted to change his name sometime after 2008. Leading Hansen to believe that he was successful in doing so, as he does not appear on any criminal records list, sex offender lists or any public information list. Hansen was therefore not able to reach out to Ahmadi and his current where about as are unknown.

## References

1. ↑ http://www.perverted-justice.com/?con=philosophyguy2003
2. ↑ https://rsatek.wordpress.com/2008/05/17/to-those-who-find-me/
3. ↑ https://dairystatedegenerates.blogspot.com/2020/11/to-catch-predator-update-riverside-part.html
Ryan Howard

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**Ryan Howard** is a potential predator caught in the Marquette County Michigan sting on Takedown with Chris Hansen.

## Sting

Howard came to a sting house in Gwinn, Mi in August 2023. The sting was conducted by the Marquette County Sheriff's Department in conjunction with the Genesee County G.H.O.S.T team. The Sting was covered by TruBlu and featured Chris Hansen interviewing the Predators. 7 men overall were captured in 3 days.

Howard made contact with the 15 year old male decoy on Grindr. He sent nude photos and expressed a fetish for baseball Caps being worn during sex. His chat was short but memorable for mentioning how he wanted to "bounce" on the decoy. and he was at the sting house within 20 minutes from his home with his parents in Negaunee, MI.

Howard entered the sting house wearing a baseball cap, short shorts, and sandals which he removed at the door and walked in barefoot. He also had his keys and an bottle of Astroglide lubricant.

Upon sitting down on the couch he became very comfortable as he put his lubricant on the coffee table. Once Chris Hansen appeared he became very nervous and defensive. He showed no concern for what he was doing to a presumed child, he only worried about losing his job at a "financial institution" (Local Credit Union) which he ultimately did.

Once arrested, his mother posted a $1000 bond. He retained a lawyer and is being prosecuted for 4 felonies.
James Marcotte

**James David Marcotte** was a potential predator caught in the Ocean County, New Jersey edition of **To Catch a Predator**.

## Biography

James Marcotte was a 32-year-old printing press operator during the time he chatted with the decoy pretending to be a 13-year-old girl. He asked the decoy if she had ever had sex and admitted to meeting a 15 year old for sex before. James traveled an hour and a half to a beach close to the sting house to meet the decoy.

When he arrived, Casey Mauro, who was posing as the 13-year-old girl, was waiting to greet him. James acknowledged to Casey that he had brought condoms and that he wished to kiss and hold her. Chris cut him off and began to interrogate him. James claimed the girl to be 18-years-old. Chris told him that she informed him she was 13 when they first started communicating. James denied having intercourse with the 15-year-old girl when Chris inquired about her, although did admit to talking to several minors and meeting a 16 year old girl. After being told he was on Dateline, James tried to leave but was immediately arrested.

## Behind the scenes

James was charged with attempted endangering the welfare of a child. He was sentenced to 2 days in jail and lifetime registration as a sex offender. James now supposedly lives in Woodbury, New Jersey, and works in Philadelphia.

## Trivia

* James is presumably classified as a Level 1 (low risk) sex offender in the state of New Jersey. State law only allows Level 2 and 3 (medium and high risk) sex offenders' information to be public knowledge.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 http://www.perverted-justice.com/?con=jdmar74
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://dairystatedegenerates.blogspot.com/2021/03/to-catch-predator-update-ocean-county.html
Samantha Cope

> “You can come in! Hiiiiiiiiii!”
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**Samantha Cope** was the female decoy involved in the Flagler Beach, Florida edition of **To Catch A Predator.**

## Biography

An actress that would go on to have many television roles, Cope first started as a decoy on TCaP. Her interactions with the predators were not very involved as she would invite them in and then quickly announce she was going to the back to change as Chris would come out for the confrontation. A few times, she had to greet the predators on the beach with Chris emerging from behind the boardwalk after the predators made it to her. Her most memorable encounter during the Flagler Beach sting was with James “Hambubger” Wiles. She turned him on so much he began to practice his tongue action and tried rubbing himself hard over his jeans.

## Post-Predator Acting/Personal Life

A member of SAG, Samantha found a modicum of success as a television actress and has been featured in series such as HBO's "Insecure", “Private”, "NCIS:Los Angeles”, and many more. It is safe to say of all the decoys that branched out into acting after the show that Cope has found the most success.

On May 1, 2022, Cope married “Blossom” and “Brotherly Love” actor Joey Lawrence in an outdoor ceremony in Temecula, California. The two met on the set of a movie called “My Husband’s Secret Brother” whist Lawrence was in the middle of a divorce. On January 16, 2023, the couple welcomed their first child, Dylan.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2338787/?ref\_=fn\_al\_nm\_1
2. ↑ https://parade.com/1376256/alexandra-hurtado/joey-lawrence-wife-samantha-cope/#
3. ↑ https://people.com/parents/joey-lawrence-and-samantha-cope-welcome-baby/
Alvin King

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**Alvin O’Neil King** is a suspected predator involved in the Long Beach, California investigation of **To Catch a Predator**.

## Biography

Alvin, 28 at the time, was the owner and administrator of a foot fetish site called hottbarefootwomen.com. He started chatting with “Samantha”, a girl he believed to be 13. He was at first worried that the girl was law enforcement because he was a TCaP watcher. However, two minutes later, he asks the girl if she gives oral sex. He would express a desire to play out his foot fetish with the decoy as well as have oral sex.

He was too scared to meet at the house, but agreed to meet at a nearby park where he was arrested, not getting a chance to be confronted by Chris Hansen. He escaped jail time, getting three years probation, 60 hours of community service, and lifetime RSO status.

## Trivia

* King was the first conviction of the arrests in Long Beach.
* His website, a very barebones series of pages is still active today.

## References

1. ↑ http://www.perverted-justice.com/?archive=solepleaser
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 http://www.perverted-justice.com/?con=solepleaser
3. ↑ https://hottbarefootwomen.com/
Suburban Washington, D.C.

**Suburban Washington, D.C.** also known as **Fairfax County, Virginia,** was the second investigation of *To Catch a Predator,* but the first to be referred to by the title. The previous investigation was entitled **Dangerous Web.**

## Convicted predators

* David Kaye - A rabbi who wanted to have sex with a 13-year-old boy. Kaye was sentenced to six and a half years in prison, ten years of supervised release, and sex offender registration.
* John Kennelly - Was unemployed when he showed up at the house naked hoping to have sex with a 14-year-old boy. Kennelly was busted the next day at a McDonald's trying to meet a 13-year-old boy for sex. He was sentenced to a suspended two year prison sentence, three years of probation, and registration as a sex offender.
* Steven Bennof - A special-ed teacher who wanted to have sex with a 13-year-old boy. Bennof was sentenced to five years in prison, ten years of supervised release, and lifetime registration as a sex offender.
* Joe Wunderler - A man in the military who was infamous for his desire for a 14-year-old girl to engage in sexual activity with a dog. Wunderler was sentenced to five years in prison and registration as a sex offender.
* Dennis Thomas - An engineer in the military who thought he was going to have sex with a 13-year-old girl. Thomas was sentenced to five and a half years in a military prison, registration as a sex offender, got a significant loss in rank, and received a bad conduct discharge.
* Mark Baggette - A male stripper who wanted to have sex with a 13-year-old girl. He was infamous for showing up to the sting house very drunk and showing up the next day with condoms and beer. While Baggette's sentence isn't known, it is estimated that he served between five to ten years in prison, as well as registration as a sex offender. Although his registration has not been updated in over a decade because unlike all the other sex offenders he is only a tier I, and does not have to register under the offical sex offenders registry in Virginia. However he is on an unofficial registry run by the Virginia state assembly
* Harold Higley - A married father of five children who thought he was going to have sex with a 13-year-old girl. While Higley was never charged in connection with the 2005 sting, he was arrested in February 2012 for sexually exploiting real children online. In October 2012, he was sentenced to five years in prison and had to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.

## Trivia & Notes

* Nineteen men were confronted over the course of three days at the sting house.
* This was the final investigation not to feature law enforcement on-site (although predators in this investigation were arrested and tried later, but not all had charges pressed.)
* The episode showed the lengths teenagers would go to in order to be visible on social media despite the risks to themselves.

## Predators and Personnel

A list of all persons involved in the Washington sting.
James Rutherford

Rutherford speaking with Chris Hansen at the Ohio sting house.

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**James Rutherford** is a potential predator that was involved in the Greenville, Ohio edition of **To Catch a Predator**. He continued a disturbing trend of teacher suspects preying on children around the same age they educate.

## Biography

Rutherford was a 6th-grade teacher at St Margaret of York Catholic School in Loveland, Ohio. He was 26 years old at the time of the sting operation. Rutherford met and chatted up a decoy online pretending to be a 13-year-old girl named "Danika". They talked about many subjects, including sex. At one point, he even sets up a webcam session with the decoy, where he takes off his shirt and flexes his muscles. Soon after agreeing to meet up with the girl, Rutherford becomes suspicious and begins to have second thoughts about his planned visit.

## Sting and Arrest

He shows up at the house in the end and goes in search of the girl, calling on her and telling her to come to him. Chris Hansen then appears and asks Rutherford to sit down for some questions, to which he responded that he had expected it to be a set-up.

During his interview with Chris, Rutherford states that he was going through a divorce and simply wanted to 'get out of the house'. When asked what he was there to do with the girl he had been talking to, he says that there were no plans for anything sexual to take place, a very common excuse. He appears confident from the beginning that he was on national television, and states later in the interview, he is "probably on TV", to which Chris Hansen confirms, making Rutherford put his head into his hands as the camera crew walk out. Rutherford takes his leave and exits the house where he is arrested by the Darke County Sheriff's Office.

Initially, James tried to fight the charges in court but eventually pled guilty. Considering the severity of some of the things he said and did, he received a relatively tame sentence - 45 days in county jail, 36 months probation, and a ten-year stay on the Ohio Sex Offender Registry.

## Trivia/Post-Predator Activities

* Rutherford was also involved in a chat with a decoy operation in Indiana at the same time he was engaged in the chat with Danika. He had seven pending felonies in that case because he masturbated in front of the decoy, but ended up not being charged. It appears to not have affected his time on the sex offender registry as he is off of it now.
* Surprisingly, Rutherford would remarry in the years following his arrest and removal of his sex offender status. Photographs of him and his second wife can be found online.

## References

1. ↑ https://dairystatedegenerates.blogspot.com/2020/11/to-catch-predator-update-greenville.html
Timothy Gilliam

**Timothy Gilliam** was a potential predator featured in the Murphy, Texas edition of **To Catch A Predator**.

## Biography

Timothy Gilliam was born in Okinawa. He was raised in Arizona and Randolph Air Force Base, Texas. Gilliam had two children, was exceedingly rich, and shared ownership of several McDonald's franchises with his wife.

Gilliam, 32 at the time, began chatting with a Perverted Justice who was posing as a fourteen-year-old girl. Despite the fact that his chat log is not accessible online, it is known that he asked the girl if she had ever experienced oral and anal sex. He repeatedly displays his penis on a webcam and asks if he can teach her how to orgasm. Gilliam admits having watched Dateline NBC episodes where older men were arrested for attempting to meet underage children for sex.

## Sting and operation

Gilliam travels to the sting house in a Lincoln Mark LT with his children in the backseat. The decoy, played by Lindsay Faye Wagner, opens the door holding a cat. Instead of stepping inside, Gilliam came up with a scheme to equip the decoy with a webcam so he could monitor her from his home. By displaying the camera to the decoy, he tries to get her to approach his vehicle, which she refuses. The decoy then makes an attempt to persuade Gilliam to go inside the sting house for ten minutes. After Gilliam declines, the decoy decides to close the door. When Gilliam drives off, police follow him and take him into custody.

## Arrest and death

When questioned by investigators, Gilliam initially indicates he doesn't want to answer any questions. He continues by saying that he feels "embarrassed" and that he was aware of the reason for his arrest. He explains that it was his first time meeting a child for sex. He confesses that he has a wife and two kids. He claims he wants to go home and apologize to them. When the police search through his car, they discover the aforementioned webcam, additional cameras, computers, and a ring that is used for sexual enhancement.

Following his arrest, Gilliam was taken before Judge Kathy Hayden, who set his bail at $50,000. Gilliam's charges would later be dropped along with all the other predators that came to the house after the suicide of assistant district attorney Louis Conradt. While allegedly under investigation for a large-scale embezzlement scheme involving HUD and mortgage fraud, Gilliam and his wife both committed suicide on May 2, 2011.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/sanantonio/name/timothy-gilliam-obituary?id=22360395
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://dairystatedegenerates.blogspot.com/2021/02/to-catch-predator-update-murphy-texas.html
3. ↑ https://dairystatedegenerates.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-murphy-curse-how-five-predators.html
Maroof Farooq

> “i wana lick u all over....and finished u off with a slow and hard fuck,,,,,”
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**Maroof Shah Farooq** was a suspected predator that was in the Long Beach, California edition of **To Catch A Predator**. He is best known for showing up with two other males, one underage, for an apparent group sexual assault.

## Biography

Farooq, 24 at the time of his encounter, entered into a chat with a girl he believed to be twelve years old. His chat had very broken English to express some very raunchy desires that he wanted to have with a twelve year old girl, which included hard anal sex so she wouldn’t get pregnant and to “protect her virginity”. Sounded like a blossoming romance...until he showed up at the trap house with two other guys. Farooq would send in one of the guys, a fifteen year old, as a spotter in case it was a trap. And if it wasn’t a trap, an apparent gangrape was in the plans.

The fifteen year old bumped into Chris Hansen, and tried to explain that he didn’t come to have sex because he had a girlfriend. Meanwhile outside, since the spotter was taking too long, Maroof and his other friend try to cut and run, but are taken by the police. Hansen also has the other boy go out so he can get arrested too. Farooq’s partners are not charged due to a lack of evidence of intent, but Farooq is sentenced to three years probation and a year of sexual assault counseling. Farooq did end up being deported, but it is unknown if it was in connection with this charge.

## Trivia and Notes

* Though many Indians have been caught on the show in several different operations, this was the first and only time a Pakistani national had been exposed.

## Links

http://www.perverted-justice.com/?archive=spaki786