Michael Wilusz

Wilusz's Fort Myers mugshot

*"Is this some kind of set-up or something? I was just on my way to the beach."*

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**Michael Wilusz**, sometimes erroneously called Wilsuz, otherwise known as *"Genericwhitemale,"* was a potential predator featured on the Fort Myers, Florida edition of To Catch a Predator. He is most known for his iconic quotes and noticeable glass eye, making him one of the most well-known suspects caught on the show. He was one of the three men in the Fort Myers sting (the other two being Thomas Moffitt and Brian Gosselin) who took their cases to trial and were acquitted.

## Biography

49-year-old Michael Wilusz, using the screen name "Genericwhitemale", made contact online with a Perverted Justice decoy who was posing as a fifteen-year-old girl named "Jolanda." He lied to her about his age, claiming to be 30 years old. He stated that although she probably wouldn't want him near her, he was "cute tho, built good." He added that due to the age difference, they would have to keep their relationship a secret. Wilusz then said, "younger girls like you don't come along often, I'd want you again and again." Wilusz then sent the decoy a picture of his penis.

### Confrontation

Wilusz enters the sting house in search of the decoy. Instead of a real child, Chris Hansen welcomes him and invites him to take a seat as he steps into the living room. Chris asks him if he's hungry, and Wilusz grabs a chocolate chip cookie off the table and begins munching. When Chris inquires about the food's taste, Wilusz replies that it's fantastic and wonders if they were home-baked. Wilusz then denied Chris' proposal for time to finish his cookie, which led Chris to question. When he was asked what his intention was at the house,  Wilusz questioned whether he got caught in "some kind of set-up or something" and said that he was simply heading to the beach. Wilusz confesses that he met her online when Chris inquired about how he met her. Chris claimed that he behaved as though he should have known. Wilusz responds that it was "a common thing now" to meet "any women online."

Wilusz was then informed by Chris that the girl had claimed to be fifteen. Wilusz pretends to be surprised, saying, "What! No way." Chris revealed that he has the chatlogs between him and the decoy. The chatlogs between Chris and the decoy are in Chris' possession, he revealed. Wilusz then gets up, declares he no longer wants the cookie and throws it on the table. He then leaves the house, indicating that all he wants to do is get to the beach. Chris makes an unsuccessful attempt to stop him. Wilusz exits the house and falls right off the porch. Because obtaining a permit for a hidden handgun at the time in Florida was easy, Fort Myers police took Wilusz to the ground as soon as he left the residence. Wilusz was forced to wait handcuffed in an unmarked police vehicle. The police did not have time to process him as Thomas Coffen, another child sex predator, was being arrested. Afterwards, Wilusz is put into a marked police vehicle and put in jail.

### Behind the scenes

Wilusz admits to everything he sent and wrote to the decoy throughout his police interview. Police discovered a six-pack of Smirnoff Black Berry beer, a pack of Trojan condoms, sunscreen, and other items that show the decoy's address when searching his car. After being brought before a judge, the latter placed his bail at $40,000. Wilusz was charged with Attempted Lewd or Lascivious Battery and Solicit Child via Computer/Internet, both felonies.

Not much is known about Wilusz aside from being a long-time resident of Lakeland, Florida. His case would be one of the few cases outside of the Murphy, Texas debacle where an arrested predator ended up either not being charged or acquitted of his crimes. His lawyer, a public defender who was also representing two accused child sex predators caught in the sting, Thomas Moffitt and Brian Gosselin, attacked Perverted Justice's methods of gathering evidence and requested the chatlogs direct from their hard drives. Perverted Justice refused to hand them over and after a court order for them to turn the hard drives over, Perverted Justice founder Xavier von Erck said the drives had crashed and were destroyed. Due to this, the three defendants were acquitted.

## Trivia

* It is presumed he had a glass left eye, which gave him noticeable twitches as a result during his confrontation. Rumors claim that he might have served in the Vietnam War, hence his supposed glass eye, although his age makes service in Vietnam highly unlikely.
* Despite being lost for years, there are multiple readings of Wilusz's recovered chat with "jo\_jo\_4\_sho\_sho" available on YouTube. Because they weren't destroyed as previously believed, many have questioned the shadiness around Perverted Justice refusing to hand them over in the first place.
* On his “Predators I Have Caught” podcast, Chris Hansen would downplay Wilusz’s acquittal due to Perverted Justice’s refusal to hand over crucial evidence as being a “technicality”.

## Notable Quotes

**Chris Hansen:** Hungry?

(Michael nods)

**Chris Hansen:** How's it taste?

**Michael Wilusz:** Great! Wow, these are home-baked!

**Chris Hansen:** You want time to finish your cookie?

**Michael Wilusz:** No...Not really.

**Michael Wilusz:** I'm just on my way to the beach!

**Chris Hansen:** (V.O) Then I remind "genericwhitemale" that Jolanda told him that she was fifteen.

**Michael Wilusz:** What!? No way...!

**Michael Wilusz:** You know what? I don't want this cookie, I just want to get to the beach.

## Gallery

One of Wilusz's many odd facial expressions because of his glass eye