Josiah Walker

**Josiah Eli Walker** is a suspected predator involved in the Long Beach, California edition of **To Catch a Predator**. He is best known for being the first and only predator in the show's history to successfully get a hug from the decoy.

## Biography

Josiah Walker, a 27-year-old Costco worker and was taken college classes part time, when he began a chat with a decoy pretending to be a thirteen-year-old girl. Walker asked the girl several graphic questions, including if she was a virgin, if she has tried either oral or anal sex, what her favorite positions were, and if she wanted to try having sex with multiple people. He worried about being caught a few times during the conversation.

Walker drives 100 miles from San Deigo to the sting house in a Cobra Mustang. When he knocks on the front door, the decoy answers from another door. Walker rushes to the decoy with excitement. When he goes into the house, he approaches the decoy and hugs her. Chris Hansen then emerges and motions for him to sit down. Walker brought a change of clothes, a camera, and condoms and confessed he planned to stay the night. He enquired as to Chris's affiliation: police or private eye. Walker maintains it was a "slip of judgment" when questioned why he wanted to have sex with a minor. After Chris reveals who he is, Walker is asked to leave from the back door. He is then taken into custody by Long Beach police, since there was another predator already at the door and Hansen did not want anyone to see him besides his crew and the police.

## Aftermath and Behind the scenes

Shortly after getting caught in the sting, Walker tried to sell his Cobra Mustang on a forum to cover legal fees for an attorney. For a total of 12,500 USD , he was later banned from that forum, subsequently because fans of the show recognised him and began spamming him asking if he would make it come with a thirteen year old. It is unknown if he ever got the money for it. Walker pleaded guilty to a felony charge of attempted lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 years of age. He was sentenced to five years of probation, lifetime registration as a sex offender, and 60 days of Caltrans cleanup. Walker later moved to Montana and is a registered sex offender there.

## 2023 update

In a Podcast Predators I've caught Chris managed to find a number associate with Josiah, he actually did answer the phone and the brief conversation went as so;

*Walker: Hello?*

*Hansen: Josiah?*

*Walker: Yes*

*Hansen: It is Chris Hansen, how are you?*

*Walker: Fine*

*Hansen: I wanted to talk to you if you had a moment, and I'm on a recorded line here, about your arrest in the predator sting we did serval years ago in Long Beach California*

Walker swiftly hung up the phone, and Hansen took that as a message he did not want to talk, and he did not attempt to reach out anymore.

## *References*

1. ↑ https://dairystatedegenerates.blogspot.com/2021/01/to-catch-predator-update-long-beach.html
2. ↑ http://www.perverted-justice.com/?con=hot95cobraguy
3. ↑ https://app.doj.mt.gov/apps/SVOW/offenderDetail.html?SID=MT19511796&x=499622e1-e0b5-4ea0-a918-d0803a8fc416
4. ↑ https://www.icrimewatch.net/offenderdetails.php?OfndrID=2141939&AgencyID=55438&x=41c37527-2ac4-4630-ae80-6ff51a147cc9