You'll see the grooming process in real time.Īlso in Kentucky we see a range of men show up, from a factory worker to a man who says he's a police detective and carries a gun. She is just as effective in this latest investigation as she was before talking to the men in person. The two-hour broadcast features new interviews, including a. It was previously the networks flagship general. Later tonight (Friday, April 15), a new Dateline episode about the case, The Real Thing About Pam, premieres on the network. You'll see in Kentucky that we employ the same online decoy, Casey, who we used in New Jersey. Dateline NBC is a weekly American television news magazine/reality legal show that is broadcast on NBC. As you will see, seven men show up over three and a half days and all seven are arrested after I talk to them and they leave the house. He had been chatting online about having sex with a decoy posing as a13-year-old girl before showing up to meet her at the undercover house.Įven after this earlier high-profile case, though, we still saw men in our investigation eager to meet a young teen home alone for sex. One of them was a 59-year old criminal justice instructor at an Ohio college who used to be an elementary school teacher. Looking back I think this at least partially because the Kentucky Attorney General's office and the Kentucky Bureau of Investigation, along with local law enforcement, have been actively pursuing online predators in the past year.īefore Dateline's investigation in Bowling Green, the Attorney General's office with the help of the online watchdog group Perverted Justice had conducted two previous sting operations without us, making 20 arrests. Within hours I am struck by the fact that fewer men are showing up at our hidden camera house than in past investigations.
It's a town of about 50,000 people an hour north of Nashville, Tennessee.Įach one of these investigations has its own rhythm and Kentucky is no different. It's our twelfth "To Catch A Predator" investigation and this time we're set up in a 6,000- square foot home in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
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