Paul Constantinescu

**Paul Constantinescu** is a predator who was involved in the Riverside, California edition of **To Catch a Predator**. He is most well-known for being a musician prior to the sting, and his revolting drug and sex crimes that resulted in the death of actress Satara Stratton.

## Biography

Paul Constantinescu was born on October 7, 1965, in Cleveland, Ohio. Paul decided against going to college in favor of pursuing a career in music. In April 1983, Paul, his brother Rick, and Pat Hayes formed the metal band "Saber." Eric Reeves, a singer, and Pat Pollack, a drummer, would eventually join. They became well-known in the metal scene and gave several local venues performances. At the Suma Recording facility in Painesville, Ohio, they produced their demo tape in 1984. Up to the beginning of 1985, the group continued to perform. Saber proceeded to California and continued to play there until 1990 after Reeves relocated to Phoenix. The band disbanded after failing to find a suitable successor for Reeves, with Hayes going back to Ohio and Paul and his brother remaining in Hollywood to continue to pursue a career in music.

Paul struggled with drug addiction and a variety of low-paying jobs before becoming a guitar salesperson. In January 2006, using the screen name "producerpaul2001," Paul contacted a Perverted Justice decoy who was posing as a 13-year-old girl. Paul was considered a "fast mover" because, within 150 minutes, he asked the girl whether she was sexually stimulated, if she was attractive, and if she was a virgin. He also stated he wanted to perform oral sex on her and get oral sex from her to further arouse her, and he promised to teach her "everything" and have them try "all positions." He arrived right away following the conversation with a bottle of wine, a box of condoms, and a camera.

## Confrontation with Chris Hansen and conviction

Paul was confronted by Chris Hansen as he entered through the rear door. He initially claimed he had the wrong address, after which he claimed his computer "glitched out" and that he mistakenly believed he was speaking to a 24-year-old, even though Paul had lied about his age during their chat and claimed to be that age. When Chris mentioned that he had the logs and started reading them, Paul said he was at the wrong place and fled. He was then arrested and processed by the Riverside County Sheriff's Office

Paul was charged with attempted lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 years of age and attempted oral copulation with a minor under 14 years of age by force or fear, both felonies. His bail was set at $50,000. Paul tried to fight his case for four years before ultimately pleading guilty on December 14, 2009, to both felony charges. He was sentenced to three months in jail, three years of probation, lifetime registration as a sex offender, and had to pay fees and fines. His sentence was extended through February 2010 and finished in April.

## Aftermath

Paul's conviction caused him to have paranoid delusions. He claimed to his friends and family that Perverted Justice had talked to him twice while posing as two different decoys, one of whom was 24 and the other of whom was 13, and used the two chatlogs to give the impression that he had a sexually explicit conversation with a child. He maintained that he had a sexual conversation with the 24-year-old before backing off from the child.

### Human trafficking

In 2011, Paul met an actress named Satara Stratton. Stratton was born in Tennessee in 1987. She went by "Satara Silver," graduated from New York's theatre program in 2005, and at the age of 18, relocated to Los Angeles. She was featured in several independent and small-budget movies. The two met while Stratton was working on a movie shoot and Paul was a crew member. He would usually drive her home. On November 22, 2011, Stratton's mother called and requested that she go see her grandmother, who was getting ill. Stratton was never seen or heard from again after failing to reach her grandmother's house. Later, when she couldn't reach her, her mother reported her missing to the Los Angeles Police Department. Although Stratton was registered as a "voluntarily missing adult" by Los Angeles police, her mother believed she had been kidnapped and was being imprisoned by Paul. Being the last person to have seen Stratton alive, Paul was wanted by the authorities for questioning but wasn't charged with anything.

Paul kidnapped Stratton four times and conspired with others to drug her, sexually assault her, and hold her captive. In one instance, Stratton's family put her in a rehab facility. Paul removed her from the rehab facility and took her for four and a half days. Friends helped get her back and checked her into another hospital. Paul eventually found her again and that time, she was imprisoned in his residence in Los Angeles for four and a half months. Paul lived in the back apartment of a business called Hollywood Rubber Stamp Company, a company his brother owned. She would be frequently sexually assaulted by several men, including Paul, forced to hide in a hole in the wall while receiving heroin injections, and subjected to physical violence while allegations of her being trafficked for sex in South Korea circulated.

The two were frequently running out of money and were bouncing among motels when Stratton finally persuaded Paul to allow her to go to the hospital under increasing pressure from the cops finding out of her disappearance. On March 15, 2012, Stratton was discovered alive in Beverly Hills' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where she was receiving treatment for several wounds. She had hair that had been ripped from her skull in clumps, cigarette burns on her arms and shins, and scars on her arms that appeared to be the result of fingernails being dug into them. Paul was held without bail in the Los Angeles Metro Jail on March 21, 2012, on suspicion of a drug offence and violating his probation. Although Stratton's disappearance was investigated by authorities for probable foul play and strange conditions, Paul was not criminally charged. Eventually, Paul returned to Ohio after evading his sex offender registration.

### Further activity

Paul's brother shut down his business and relocated to Tennessee. Stratton was never able to recover from her drug addiction and died on February 4, 2017, at the age of 29 from an overdose. Paul had eluded capture in Ohio and was still wanted by the Riverside County Sheriff's Office. He would eventually be found and ordered to register again. In January 2023, Paul moved out of California and is now a registered sex offender in Florida.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 https://dairystatedegenerates.blogspot.com/2021/07/the-human-trafficking-predator-is.html
2. ↑ http://www.perverted-justice.com/booking/bookingcollage.html
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 https://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/sops/flyer.jsf?personId=122687&x=1b14a0b6-e3d6-47f9-bed2-918c0e60c2cb
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 http://www.perverted-justice.com/?con=producerpaul2001
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2012/aug/19/how-a-woman-was-held-captive-drugged-and/
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/long-missing-actor-recounts-descent-into-heroin-addiction/2078985/
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 https://disappearedblog.com/satara-stratton/