Jim Rauch

> “The bottom line is, I’m gonna find where the fuck you are, then I’m gonna take you to my house and fuck your brains out!”
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> -A drunken Jim Rauch, frustrated he can’t find the house.
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### Affiliation /Occupation

Academic Director: Criminal Justice department at University of Cincinnati

## Physical description

### Hair Color

Gray

**James Clifford Rauch** is a potential predator caught in a KBI sting in connection with the Bowling Green, Kentucky edition of To Catch a Predator. Despite never being questioned by Chris Hansen, he gained notoriety due to his tumultuous journey to the sting house and his outrageous interrogation with the police, where he jokes with detectives and goes off topic numerous times.

## Biography

Jim, a 60-year-old faculty member at the University of Cincinnati, started a webcam session with “Cheyenne”, a girl he believed to be thirteen. He literally started off by asking the decoy if she wanted to give him oral sex. Over the course of eleven days, Rauch would send naked pictures of himself (one of them in his office) as well as make plans to take her back to his place for sex. Jim would take off in his car drunk on his way to see Cheyenne. He would get lost on his way, calling her and cursing like a sailor about not being able to find the house, saying things like, “The bears are looking for my dick!”. When he arrived at the sting house, no one was there except the police to pick him up.

When being interrogated, Rauch maintains a jovial demeanor with the cops (likely due to the cops trying to give him enough rope to hang himself and him being tipsy from the alcohol he consumed earlier), consistently laughing and joking around with them throughout the course of two hours. He maintains his innocence, claiming that he was only visiting the girl because he wanted to help her cope with her parents' divorce and that he sent her a picture of his penis for educational purposes. He never takes responsibility for his actions, only blaming everyone else: the decoy for enticing him, the police for mistakenly arresting him, his wife for leaving him, and even Yahoo for letting kids into their chat rooms. His reasoning for his sexually explicit dialogue with the decoy was so she could "open up" to him. Rauch also tells the cops many unnecessary anecdotes from his personal life, detailing his past drug use, playing the keyboard at several country clubs, a friend of his who was suffering from breast cancer at the time, and participating in swingers clubs (he also uses being a swinger as a defence, claiming that if he wanted to get laid he would have a wide variety of adult women to choose from).

## Fate

On August 10, 2007, he was charged with Travel In Interstate Commerce with Intent To Engage in sexual conduct with a minor. He was sentenced to 46 months in prison and registration as a sex offender.

## 2019 update

In 2019, a fan reached out to Rauch after obtaining his phone number and proceeded to have a friendly, semi-awkward interview with him. Although tired due to his declining health and exasperated by talking about the situation, Rauch remained polite and spoke to the fan for twenty minutes (not as long as he did with the decoy), going on to talk about Rauch's reasoning for not remaining silent, how his life had been since then, if he was still in touch with his friend who had breast cancer, and is eligability to perhaps be removed from the Sex Offender Registry. Rauch acknowledged that, although his prison sentence wasn't as bad as it could've been, he became deathly sick upon leaving, with various ailments such as diabetes and prostate cancer leaving him in a very weak physical state, being on dialasis twice a week. Although Rauch tried to hang up a couple of times, the fan managed to keep him talking, with Rauch stating he didn't really like talking about the situation, as well as acknowledging that he had never actually watched the interrogation and didn't really care if people used his decoy call to make edits on YouTube. After eventually deciding to let Rauch go, the fan reiterated that he was simply fasciated and had been wanting to speak with Rauch for a long time, with Rauch jokingly stating he should probably be appreciative of the fact, but apologising the fan had to meet him that way. He then stated that the video did not represent the kind of person Rauch was now. The fan then admitted that the thing he found most fascinating about the interrogation was Rauch's inability to take accountability for what he did at the time. In a slightly sad way, Rauch admitted that he maybe wasn't a nice person back then before hanging up. The fan is not known to have called Rauch again.

## Trivia

* After his release, Rauch relocated to Illinois, where he was listed on their Sex Offender Registry as a Tier II offender. Rumors surfaced in early 2022 that Jim had passed away, although he is still alive as of 2023, having relocated to Ohio. However, he is not listed on their Sex Offender Registry, maning he likely got removed as he mentioned in his 2019 interview.
* Even though he was briefly featured in the Bowling Green edition of TCaP, he was actually caught in a sting solely operated by the Kentucky Bureau of Investigation which was running a four-city sting operation. His arrest occurred in Highland Heights, KY.
* His NSFW pics are still online if you have the stomach to search for them.
* His interrogation shows facial scars which indicate at one time he was attacked and given a “Glasgow Smile”.
* An anonymous user on the TCaP forums claimed to be Rauch's cellmate at one point, basically describing him as being the exact same in prison as he was in the interview (an incessant talker, an arrogant idiot and someone convinced he had done nothing wrong).

## Links

Phone Call Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIKGmnjYoAI&pp=ygUUamltYSByYXVjaCBpbnRlcnZpZXc%3D

## References

1. ↑ http://www.perverted-justice.com/?archive=rauch\_jim
2. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnFMOb91uK8&ab\_channel=miszbroekie
3. ↑ https://www.bailbondshq.com/illinois/ilsex-inmate-RAUCH/1543054
4. ↑ http://www.perverted-justice.com/?con=rauch\_jim