The voice of a 37-year-old man salivates on the phone. “I’m thinking… I’m wishing I was there with you. If I was, I’d be naked,” he says, towards whom he assumes is a 13-year-old girl he’s groomed ...

Warning: The following post contains discussions of suicide. From 2004 to 2007, To Catch a Predator aired on NBC as part of a Dateline program. The series featured hidden cameras capturing adult men ...

As the opening credits roll in the new documentary “Predators,” a young girl speaks with a much older man on the phone. In a tiny, high-pitched voice, she says she’s nervous about talking to him; the ...

Warning: The following post contains discussions of suicide. From 2004 to 2007, To Catch a Predator aired on NBC as part of a Dateline program. The series featured hidden cameras capturing adult men ...

The year 2004, situated after 9/11 and before the election of Barack Obama, might have been the one that best summed up the excesses and cruelties of the George W. Bush era, particularly on television ...

Back in the early-to-mid 2000s, around the time I was finishing high school and starting college, I would watch To Catch a Predator for hours on end. At the time, I saw it as nothing more than an ...

Despite its popularity, To Catch a Predator was also controversial, with critics noting that the series thrived on making news, more so than achieving justice. The show was canceled in 2008 after a ...