With Prime time comes out, and Hollywood’s busiest man, Robert Pattinson, portrays an intense host to capture a PredatorChris Hansen is firmly placed back in the limelight.
To catch a Predator aired from 2004 – 2007. During that time, 12 hidden camera operations were reportedly used to expose 300 men targeting minors on the Internet.
As Prime time Representing, the show went a step further, and it could be seen that it crossed a line in the highest case ever. The manhunt for Bill Conradt Jr., a local assistant district attorney, ended when Conradt, the suspected predator, shot himself as SWAT team members, followed by an NBC camera crew, entered his house.
After her brother’s death, Conradt’s sister, Patricia, sued NBC for more than $100 million. She said the network urged law enforcement to make pre-aggressive arrests to get more dramatic footage. The lawsuit was settled in 2008 and the terms were not disclosed.
Despite the show’s sudden and violent ending, Chris Hansen has remained steadfast in his belief that the show was right in what it did, and how it did it. “At the end of the day, we had proven our point.” Hansen said in an interview with THE MUSIC MAN. Chris also told David Osit that they were “serving a greater purpose.”
But Chris Hansen wasn’t done catching people in the act. In 2007 Hansen published his book, To catch a predator: Protecting your children from online enemies already in your homeand appeared in spinoffs of the original concept for NBC, To catch a Dog Man and To catch an ID Thief. In 2013, NBC and Chris Hansen parted ways.
It was clear that finding predators was still a priority for Hansen though, and in 2015 he launched a Kickstarter campaign to help fund a return to his original form, called this time Hansen vs Predator, says “There is pent-up demand from viewers for another survey, and from a technology standpoint, the landscape has changed a lot since we did the last one.”
Chris quickly raised nearly $100,000, from over a thousand donors, with donations receiving prizes for their offerings, such as coffee mugs, t-shirts, signed books, credits on display, and personalized videos.
With money secured, in 2015 Hansen and his team conducted the first crowd-funded sex drive, in which they caught 10 alleged predators. However, a year after the Kickstarter campaign, donors received nothing, and there was no film either.
Finally, in 2016, Hansen vs Predator published on the Crime Watch Daily website, with episodes available on the True Crime News YouTube channel and local news channels.
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10 years on from the Kickstarter campaign, the comments on the website suggest that donors have still not received any of the items they pledged to help support. Hansen vs Predator…
Recently, Chris Hansen has expressed his displeasure with the film Prime timesays, in an interview with USA TODAY“They wanted to take advantage of the brand I’ve built over the last 45 years. You can decide whether that’s ethical or legal or identity theft or whatever you want to look at it. But it seems a little lucrative, as Hollywood often is.”
Hansen now runs a streaming network called TruBlu. The description on their website reads: Led by Chris Hansen, we investigate scams, catch predators and bring you a fresh supply of crime shows and documentaries..
Hansen allegedly bought advertising spots for TruBlu before all screens are displayed Prime time.