John Elliott

> "I can tell you're a therapist, I know!"
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>  - BBH thinking therapists would be there to stop him from raping a child and not the police.
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## John W. Elliott

### Aliases

bald\_beaver\_hunter42025bald\_beaver\_hunter42

## Physical description

### Hair Color

Brown

**John Wesley Elliott** is a potential predator involved in the Bowling Green, Kentucky edition of **To Catch a Predator**. He is best known for his lewd screen name "*bald\_beaver\_hunter42025*," as well as wrongfully assuming Chris Hansen was a therapist.

## Biography

John was a worker at a door manufacturing company and 39 years old when he started chatting with a girl he believed to be twelve years old with the screen name "dreamin\_of\_fairies". Twelve minutes into the chat, he mentions his hobbies are computers and taking pictures of himself masturbating. He then transmits those pictures to the decoy and says he wants to stand outside her window and masturbate in front of her. They chat back and forth for over a month, with Elliott telling the decoy many times that he is naked during their chat sessions. He expresses a desire to give the decoy oral sex and sends child pornography to illustrate his desires. During his phone conversations with the decoy, he is dumbfounded and exasperated that a girl her age could be interested in him and is adamant he has never done anything like this before.

On the day of the sting, Elliott drives two and a half hours from Benton, KY by way of "some place called Dawson Springs" for the meet. Upon meeting Casey at the door, he does a potty dance and immediately asks to go to the bathroom. When he comes out, he compliments her on her looks. As Casey starts to question him about what they're going to do and about the CP he transmitted, he figures out something is wrong and starts to backpedal on his intentions. This brings out Chris Hansen. He tells Chris he wouldn't be able to go through with it because he was scared and nervous. He says he didn't bring condoms because only wanted to do oral sex and didn't think it was that bad. When asked what should happen to him, he joking replies, "Sent to an island?". When Chris takes objection to him acting like the whole situation is a joke, John says that he knows he's a therapist from the way he's talking. When Chris tells him he walked into a Dateline investigation, he's apologetic and says he loves his wife even though it don't look like it. John walks outside and is arrested by the Bowling Green Sheriff's Department and the Kentucky Bureau of Investigation, who had been running a statewide sting.

Under interrogation, John believes the investigator in charge of his case is *also* a therapist, and frequently continues to laugh and joke, not really comprehending the gravity of his situation. He eventually realizes the mess he is in, and sulks as he explains himself to the detective. At one point, John weeps while expressing how much he misses his late brother. He would go on to say, "*It should be me that's 6-feet-under, not him. And I mean that.*"

Elliott is convicted of First Degree Attempted Unlawful Transaction With a Minor and received seven years in prison with a 20 year term of sex offender registration.

## Trivia

* Even though Elliott is listed as weighing 205 on his booking sheet, he tells the decoy during a phone conversation that he is 280lbs. How he thought this would help him in scoring with a twelve year old girl is a mystery.
* Elliott was the only member of the "Bowling Green Seven" that did not cross state lines and therefore wasn't charged federally.
* John reveals during his interrogation that he and his wife have no children. His wife got pregnant once, but the baby was stillborn.
* John's wife passed on in 2012 while John was still incarcerated.

## References

1. ↑ http://www.perverted-justice.com/?archive=bald\_beaver\_hunter42025
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ByuZ7adYnw&ab\_channel=candidfellow
3. ↑ http://www.perverted-justice.com/?con=bald\_beaver\_hunter42025
4. ↑ https://www.bgdailynews.com/news/marshall-man-arrested-in-tv-sting-enters-plea/article\_3fbe8483-1628-560e-a247-539b4b07306b.html