Have A Seat with Chris Hansen

On this exclusive episode of Have a Seat, Chris Hansen is joined by Diana, the American Airlines passenger that exposed Wheel of Fortune announcer Jim Thornton for engaging in a chatroom intended for discussions surrounding crimes against children and CSAM (child sexually abusive material) while on his laptop aboard a cross-country flight. Diana, who has never come forward publicly until now,...

Second-grade teacher. Children's book author. A polished bio built on a climb out of poverty in Jamaica.  And on June 2, 2026, Ashay Shakes was on a hookup app, telling a "15-year-old boy" he was 29 and asking him to get in an Uber. In this episode of Predators I've Caught, Chris Hansen returns to a six-day sting in Marion County, Florida, where 58 men surfaced. Shakes was told the boy's age...

Kratom—dubbed the legal opioid, gas station heroin, or herbal speedball—is available at your local gas station or mini-mart. More than 5 million Americans have used it at least once in their life...and it can kill you. This episode of Have a Seat with Chris Hansen is a must-watch as he is joined by Jonny Schoen—a longtime family friend, musician and former Kratom addict turned recovery advoca...

He's 72, with a bad heart, a wife of 30 years, and a granddaughter older than the girl he's driving to meet. Charles "Bad Grandpa Chuck" Schmidt even did the math himself, telling the "14-year-old" in the chat he was 58 years older. Then he kept typing. In this episode of Predators I've Caught, Chris revisits one of his first stings with the Harford County Sheriff's Office in Maryland. Chuck stopp...

Florida attorney Patrick Reilly has a seat with Chris Hasen to discuss Gabby Petito's murder five years later and the Petito & Schmidt family's civil suit in a quest for justice and answers.  Reilly takes you inside the depositions of Brian's parents Roberta and Christopher Laundrie,  what it was like sitting across the table from them and what those testimonies did and did not reve...

He could have been anyone in a Walmart aisle. A 27-year-old Louisiana mason who laid brick floors for a living. But in September 2025, Hunter Easterling drove ten minutes to a house where he believed a 15-year-old girl was home alone.  He knew her age. He knew the risks. He knew the registry was waiting. He came anyway, and he took his shoes off at the door. Then Chris told him to have a seat...

On this special episode of Have a Seat, Fox News Host Jesse Watters takes over and interviews Chris Hansen about his thoughts on Primetime, the new film based on the life and work of Hansen and To Catch a Predator.  Having watched in the theater like the rest of the world, Hansen gives Watters his unfiltered reaction and opinions on the un-authorized and dramatized Hollywood take. Also, here...

On this episode of Have a Seat, Chris Hansen is joined by content creator and animator Mathieo to talk about his recent demonstration against Roblox and the platform's lack of safety for children.  At Roblox's recent RDC (Roblox Developers Conference) Mathieo stormed the stage in protest as it's CEO David Baszucki welcomed the crowd. Hansen and "Matt" dive into the issues plaguing t...

A Friday night in Davenport, Florida. Bharat Baichan, 33, drops his two young kids at his mother's house and races his black Mustang to meet a 14-year-old girl. She told him her age. He showed up anyway, with condoms in his pocket. But "Abby" was a Polk County detective, and Chris was waiting inside. His excuses: a movie, a park, he'd check her ID. His sentence: five years in a Florida prison, fiv...

On this episode of Have a Seat, Chris Hansen is joined by Titania Jordan, Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Parent Officer at Bark, a leader in consumer technology that keeps children safe both online and in real life. The two discuss how Bark technology works, the types of activity it monitors and blocks, and how kids should be able to use technology to grow safely without becoming...

Chris asks every predator the same question: what would have happened if we weren't here? This case answers it. March 31, 2025. Livingston Parish, Louisiana. By day, 30-year-old Kleider Enrique Garcia Ochoa washes dishes at a local restaurant. Online, he's sending explicit photos to a boy he believes is 15, pressing for nudes, and asking one telling question: are your parents home? Minutes later h...

There is a frightening new form of human trafficking taking place in nightclubs across North America targeting young women. For this episode of Have a Seat, Chris Hansen is joined by victim-turned-advocate Jayden Posen for a startling and eye-opening conversation surrounding this underground epidemic. Women are being targeted and recruited in popular nightclubs, bars, and restaurants with the...

Michael Rhodes did seventeen years in the Louisiana prison system for dealing meth. Hard labor, hard time, the kind that's supposed to take. A year out and working a forklift, he spent two days sending explicit messages to someone who told him she was fifteen - then drove up to a sting house on the river in Livingston Parish in shorts and a tank top for the date. The decoy who let him in works at...

On this special episode of Have a Seat, Chris talks with Aaron Spencer, an Arkansas man who fatally shot the man that sexually assaulted his daughter in which he was charged with 2nd degree murder. In his first podcast interview, Spencer recounts the harrowing details of the night Michael Foster abducted his daughter, the legal battles that ensued and why, now that he’s been acquitted, is running...

He ran presidential motorcades. He escorted foreign heads of state through the streets of Washington. And for a month and a day, Lieutenant Matthew Mahl of the D.C. Metropolitan Police — 47 years old, 23 years on the job — groomed a boy he believed was fifteen. He talked about soccer games and homework. He talked about Italy, about schools over there, about a life together after he retired. He sen...

On this exclusive episode of Have a Seat, Chris Hansen brings his full interview with Bryant Moreland, the disgraced content creator and social media personality better known as EDP445. Moreland candidly relives his 2021 actions, when he was caught having an inappropriate text exchange with someone he was told was a 13-year-old girl. Moreland was caught on camera by "predator catchers" when h...

Edmundo Da Silva wore a TSA badge. He was trusted at the front line of American aviation security — until February 2024, when he got in his car in North Carolina, kids' birthday presents in the back seat, and spent the drive to Florida trolling Reddit for something else entirely. What he found was a "father" offering up his 15-year-old daughter in a Polk County hotel room. What was actually waitin...

On this episode of Have a Seat, Chris Hansen is joined by filmmaker Mike Clum for a behind the scenes discussion of his newest film, The Sick Mind of EDP445. EDP445, (Bryant Moreland) rose to YouTube fame for his outlandish videos, but it all came crashing down when he was caught in a sting attempting to meet an underaged girl. Clum tells Hansen how he got Moreland to open up about...

He knew she was 15. He came anyway.  Titus Miles thought he was careful. The 34-year-old Baton Rouge mechanic circled his target slowly - no talk of school, no small talk, just a man "sniffing around" a girl he believed was 15. He hesitated. He second-guessed. He even admitted, "I should have trusted how I felt earlier." Then he drove to the sting house anyway. In this episode, Chris breaks d...

On this special episode of Have a Seat with Chris Hansen, Hansen sits down for an in-depth conversation with politician and attorney, Willie Brown Jr.  As the first African American to hold the office of mayor of San Francisco, Brown has solidified himself as one of politics greatest advisors and shares with Hansen a look back at his storied career. From his time as mayor, to the Democratic S...

A respected Department of Defense contractor. A security clearance. A wife and children. And a secret life that finally caught up with him. This week, Chris confronts Ivan Walters, a 43-year-old government employee who drove to meet someone he believed was a 14-year-old boy for sex. But the sting uncovers far more than disturbing online chats—it reveals a man who had already been investigated for...

Two of the greatest forces in protecting children come together for this episode of Have a Seat; Chris Hansen and Executive Director of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) Callahan Walsh talk all things child safety.  From Sextortion to Roblox, 764 and AI generated CSAM, Walsh & Hansen give you the knowledge and tools every parent or adult needs to keep children saf...

For 30 years, Derman Kenneth Thomas clocked in at a Georgia zipper plant. Clean record. Wife. Grown kid. Then one night in Ocala, Florida - bored in a motel off the interstate - he opened a hookup app. The girl said she was 14. She told him five times.  He didn't log off. He asked where her parents were.  Chris takes you inside the Marion County sting that put the 55-year-old face-down a...

On this special episode of Have a Seat, Chris Hansen Chris brings you the Roblox session from CrimeCon Las Vegas. There, Hansen was joined by victim turned online safety advocate, Schlep; Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill and sexual assault attorney Martin Gould to educate attendees of the dangers lurking on the gaming platform Roblox.  Dangerous Games: A Chris Hansen Inve...

He bought two Happy Meals. He wasn't meeting an adult. 62-year-old John Coughlin walked up a quiet driveway in Iron Mountain, Michigan carrying kids' meals and a jar of marijuana for what he believed was a 14-year-old girl. What he found instead was Chris and the Dickinson County Sheriff's Office.  In this episode, Chris takes you inside his sting operation in Michigan's Upper Peninsula that...