News about Chris Hansen

Paedophile hunters inc: Vigilantes are gaining fame and fortune by beating and humiliating alleged sex offenders... and even driving them to suicide. Now police say they're making things WORSE

www.dailymail.co.uk, September 3, 2024
Kenneth is a 20-something man who has been chatting online to a 14-year-old girl named Courtney. They have organised a date and he turns up excitedly to an apartment in Los Angeles clutching cigarettes and several packs of condoms - only to find Courtney looking rather older than she claims online. He barely has time to get over his surprise before he receives a far worse shock when a posse of stocky men emerge from the bathroom, armed with cameras and transcripts of his sleazy online chats with the supposed underage girl. In fact, Kenneth was the latest catch of a tried-and-tested honeytrap. His persecutors? A Michigan outfit that calls itself the Predatorial Investigation Unit (PIU) - one of scores of so-called 'predator chaser' groups that in recent years have become a national phenomenon in the US.

How David Pecker's National Enquirer went to any length for a story - far beyond 'catch and kill' operations revealed at Donald Trump's trial

www.dailymail.co.uk, April 26, 2024
Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker testified in Donald Trump's hush money trial this week about the tabloid's 'catch and kill' practices. A former staffer who worked at the tabloid for more than 20 years told DailyMail.com about the lengths the tabloid would go to for a story. '[Pecker] is the biggest star f***er you've ever met,' the former employee said. 'Much like Trump, he's loyal to no one'.

After confronting two youth and accusing one of sexual assault, online defender 'Boopac Shakur', who claimed to have exposed pedophiles, was shot dead

www.dailymail.co.uk, October 2, 2023
'Boopac Shakur,' 40, whose legal name was Robert Wayne Lee, underwent extrajudicial probation for his tens of thousands of Facebook followers.' He appeared online as a 15-year-old girl, promising to lure alleged sexual predators into meetings and alert them to authorities. He posted videos of his exploits, some of which appear to show him participating in violent confrontations with some alleged robbers. After confronting two teenagers, Lee, of Pontiac, Michigan, was killed around 10.30 p.m. on Friday night at the Universal Coney Island restaurant.

Kristen Hentschel: Thousands of dollars were spent on a production of 'hit work' interviews

www.dailymail.co.uk, December 21, 2022
A Good Morning America producer, who was previously known for her affair with To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen, used her name to gain access to politicians who were opposed to the interests of a large political consultancy company she had previously worked with. Kristen Hentschel, who formerly went by the name Kristyn Caddell, had at least three times tried to 'trip up Florida legislators whose environmental laws were in conflict with Matrix LLC's interests, according to a bombshell study by NPR and Floodlight. Matrix has been accused of more recent conduct against writers and environmental campaigners. According to NPR, if she was covering these stories for ABC News, she was not allowed to cover them.' It's not clear if Hentschel is still working by ABC.